1970 in poetry

none Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). 1970 poetry literature Events May – "La nuit de la poésie", a poetry reading in Montreal bringing together poets from French Canada to recite before an audience of more than 2,000 in the Théâtre du Gesu, lasting until 7 a.m.1971 Britannica Book of the Year, covering events of 1970, published by The Encyclopædia Britannica (1971), "Literature" article, "Canada" section, "French Language" subsection, page 457 Release of Tomfoolery, an animated film directed by Joy Batchelor and John Halas, based on the nonsense verse of Edward Lear (especially "The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo") and Lewis Carroll First issue of Tapia (later named the Trinidad & Tobago Review) published"Selected Timeline of Anglophone Caribbean Poetry" in Williams, Emily Allen, Anglophone Caribbean Poetry, 1970–2001: An Annotated Bibliography, page xvii and following pages, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002, 978-0-313-31747-7, retrieved via Google Books, February 7, 2009 In the United Kingdom, "My Enemies Have Sweet Voices", a poem by Pete Morgan, is set to music by Al Stewart and included in his "Zero She Flies" album this year.Salter, Miles, "Pete Morgan obituary: Elegant, original poet much admired by his contemporaries", July 15, The Guardian, retrieved August 7, 2010 Works published in English Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately: Australia Robert Adamson Canticles on the Skin B. Elliott and A. Mitchell, Bards in the Wilderness: Australian Colonial Poetry to 1920, anthologyPreminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "Australian Poetry" article, Anthologies section, p 108 John Tranter, Parallax, South Head Press Canada Earle Birney, Rag & Bone Shop. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart)."Earle Birney: Published Works https://web.archive.org/web/20110313081519/http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/birney/pub.htm 2011-03-13 ", Canadian Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 3, 2011. Joan Finnigan, It Was Warm and Sunny When We Set Out Gail Fox, Dangerous Season R.A.D. Ford, The Solitary City, his poems and translations from Russian and Portuguese John Glassco, Memoirs of Montparnasse Michael Ondaatje: The Collected Works of Billy the Kid: Left-handed Poems (adapted by Ondaatje into a play of the same name in 1973), Toronto: AnansiWeb page titled "Archive: Michael Ondaatje (1943–)" at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed May 7, 2008 0-88784-018-3 ; New York: Berkeley, 1975 Leonard Cohen (literary criticism), Toronto: McClelland & Stewart Joe Rosenblatt, Bumblebee Dithyramb."Joe Rosenblatt: Publications https://web.archive.org/web/20110814050155/http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/rosenblatt/pub.htm 2011-08-14 ", Canadian Poetry Online. Web, Mar. 22, 2011. Anthologies in Canada Robert Evans, editor, Song to a Seagull, collected Canadian songs and poems John Glassco, editor, The Poetry of French Canada in Translation, translated by English-speaking poets, including E. J. Pratt, Al Purdy, Leonard Cohen; and poetic lyrics from recent songs Raymond Souster and Douglas Lochhead, eds. New Poems of the Seventies. Ottawa: Oberon Press."Notes on Life and Works https://web.archive.org/web/20110817195614/http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/513.html August 17, 2011 ", Selected Poetry of Raymond Souster, Representative Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 7, 2011. Raymond Souster and Douglas Lochhead, eds. Made in Canada. Ottawa: Oberon Press, 1970. Raymond Souster and Richard Woollatt, eds. Generation Now. Longman Canada. India in English Shiv Kumar, Articulate Silences ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India .P. Lal (1971), p 658 Keki N. Daruwalla, Under Orion ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India . also New Delhi: Harper Collins Publishers India Pvt Ltd.;Web page titled "Keki Daruwalla" https://web.archive.org/web/20100131210510/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=2725 January 31, 2010 , Poetry International website, retrieved July 12, 2010 Sukanta Chaudhuri, The Glass King and Other Poems ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India . Gauri Deshpande, Lost Love ( Poetry in English ), Suniti Namjoshi, More Poems( Poetry in English ),P. Lal (1971), p 366 Roshen Alkazi, Seventeen More Poems ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India . (see also Seventeen Poems 1965)Naik, M. K., Perspectives on Indian poetry in English, p. 230, (published by Abhinav Publications, 1984, 0-391-03286-0, 978-0-391-03286-6), retrieved via Google Books, June 12, 2009 Margaret Chatterjee, Towards the Sun ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India . Mary Ann Das Gupta, The Peacock Smiles ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India . N. Prasad, Iconography of Time, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India .P. Lal (1971), p 408 Monika Varma, Green Leaves & Gold ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India .P. Lal (1971), p 560 Ireland Leland Bardwell, The Mad Cyclist Seamus Heaney, Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom: Night Drive, Gilbertson A Boy Driving His Father to Confession, Sceptre Press Derek Mahon, Beyond Howth Head, Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom New Zealand James K. Baxter, Jerusalem Sonnets Bill Manhire, Malady F. McKay, New Zealand Poetry, scholarshipPreminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "New Zealand Poetry" article, "History and Criticism" section, p 837 Vincent O'Sullivan, editor, An Anthology of Twentieth Century New Zealand Verse J. E. Weir, The Poetry of James K. Baxter, a critical study United Kingdom thumb|right|150px|Seamus Heaney in 1970 Dannie Abse, Selected Poems Margaret Atwood, The Journals of Susanna Moodie George Barker, At Thurgarton Church R. H. Bowden, Poems from Italy Frederick Broadie, My Findings Michael Dennis Browne, The Wife of Winter Charles Causley, Figgie Hobbin Donald Davie, Six Epistles to Eva Hesse C. Day-Lewis, The Whispering RootsCox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, 0-19-860634-6 Patric Dickinson, More Than Time Clifford Dyment, Collected Poems D.J. Enright, Selected Poems W.S. Graham, Malcolm Mooney's Land Ian Hamilton, The Visit Tony Harrison, The Loiners Seamus Heaney, Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom: Night Drive, Gilbertson A Boy Driving His Father to Confession, Sceptre Press Glyn Hughes, Neighbours Ted Hughes, Crow C. Day-Lewis, The Whispering Roots George MacBeth, The Burning Cone Norman MacCaig, A Man in My Position Hugh MacDiarmid, Selected Poems Sorley MacLean, George Campbell Hay, William Neill and Stuart MacGregor, Four Points of a Saltire (includes some poems in Scottish Gaelic) Derek Mahon, Beyond Howth Head Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom Walter de la Mare, The Complete Poems of Walter de la Mare Stuart Montgomery, Circe Brian Patten, The Homecoming Christopher Pilling, Snakes and Girls, won the new Poets Award sponsored by Leeds university and the Yorkshire Post Peter Porter, The Last of England Burns Singer, Collected Poems (posthumous) Iain Crichton Smith, Selected Poems Charles Tomlinson, The Way of a World John Wain, Letters to Five Artists Ted Walker, The Night Bathers Hugo Williams, Sugar Daddy Mary Wilson (wife of Prime Minister Harold Wilson), Selected Poems, "easily the 'best selling'" poetry book of the year.1971 Britannica Book of the Year (covering events of 1970), 1971, published by the Encyclopædia Britannica, "Literature" article, "English" section, "Poetry" subsection, page 460 Clive Young, Ashdragons, Flowerdeath and Sun Anthologies in the United Kingdom Alan Bold, editor, The Penguin Book of Socialist Verse Peter Robins, editor, Doves for the Seventies Edward Lucie-Smith, editor, British Poetry since 1945, Penguin (2nd edition 1985) F.E.S. Finn, editor, Poems of the Sixties Howard Sergeant, editor, Poetry of the 1940s United States A.R. Ammons, Uplands John Ashbery, The Double Dream of Spring Paul Blackburn: The Assassination of President McKinley Three Dreams and an Old Poem Gin: Four Journal Pieces Louise Bogan, A Poet's Alphabet Philip Booth, Margins Stanley Burnshaw, The Seamless Web Gwendolyn Brooks, Family Pictures Raymond Carver, Winter Insomnia J. P. Clark, Casualties: Poems 1966–68, Nigerian poet published in the United States Clark Coolidge, Space, Harper & Row L. Sprague de Camp, Demons and Dinosaurs James Dickey, The Eye-Beaters, Blood, Victory, Madness, Buckhead and Mercy Ed Dorn: Gunslinger I & II, Fulcrum PressWeb page titled "Archive / Edward Dorn (1929–1999)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved May 8, 2008 Songs Set Two: a Short Count, Frontier Press, 978-0-686-05052-0 Michael S. Harper, Dear John, Dear Coultrane,Web page titled "Michael S. Harper" at the Academy of American poets website, accessed April 23, 2008 nominated for the National Book Award John Hollander, Images of Voice, criticism David Ignatow, Poems: 1934-1969 LeRoi Jones, It's Nation Time Shirley Kaufman, the Floor Keeps Turning Denise Levertov, Relearning the Alphabet William Meredith, Earth Walk W. S. Merwin: The Carrier of Ladders, New York: Atheneum (awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1971) Signs, with graphics by A. D. Moore; Iowa City, Iowa: Stone Wall PressWeb page titled "W. S. Merwin (1927–)" at the Poetry Foundation Web site, retrieved June 8, 2010 Lorine Niedecker, My Life by Water: Collected Poems, 1936-1968 (Fulcrum Press) Michael Ondaatje, The Collected Works of Billy the Kid Ezra Pound's Drafts and Fragments of Cantos CX to CXVII Mark Strand, Darker, Canadian native living in and published in the United States May Swenson, Iconographs Mona Van Duyn, To See, To Take Reed Whittemore, Fifty Poems Fifty William Carlos Williams, Imaginations (posthumous) Other in English J. P. Clark, Casualties: Poems 1966–68, Nigerian poet published in the United States Works published in other languages Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately: Arabic language Nizar Qabbani, Syrian: Savage Poems Book of Love 100 Love Letters Denmark Thorkild Bjørnvig, a book of "collected or selected works"1971 Britannica Book of the Year (covering events of 1970), 1971, published by the Encyclopædia Britannica, this is as much information about the book as is given in the "Literature" article, "Danish" subsection, page 456 Regin Dahl, Ærinde uden betydning Ivan Malinovski, a book of "collected or selected works" Jess Ørnsbo, a book of "collected or selected works" Klaus Rifbjerg, Mytologi, Denmark"Danish Poetry" article, pp 270-274, in Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications French language Canada Gaston Miron, L'Homme Rapaillé Yves Préfontaine: Débâcle À l'Orée des travaux Fernand Dumont, Parler de septembre Raoul Duguay, Manifeste de l'Infonie Nicole Brossard, Suite logique Louis-Philippe Hébert, Les Mangeurs de terre France M. Béalu, La Nuit nous garde Alain Bosquet and Pierre Seghers, Poèmes de l'année L. Brauquier, Feux d'épaves Mohammed Dib, FormulairesBrée, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983 Emily Dickinson, Poésies complètes, translated from the original English by Guy Jean Forgue; Aubier-Flammarion Pierre Emmanuel, pen name of Noël Mathieu, Jacob Andre Frenaud, Depuis toujours déjaAuster, Paul, editor, The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets, New York: Random House, 1982 0-394-52197-8 Eugene Guilleveic, Paroi Michel Leiris, Mots sans mémoire C. Le Quintrec, La Marche des arbres M. Manoll, Incarnada J.L. Moreau, Sous le masque des mots J. Tardieu, Poèmes à jouer Vandercammen, Horizon de la vigie Germany Paul Celan, Lightduress (Lichtzwang, Romanian, writing in German) Hebrew M. Temkin, Shirai Yerushalayim A. Broides, Tahana ve-Derech Z. Gilead, Or Hozer Dan Pagis, Gilgul ("Transformations")Carmi, T., The Penguin Book of Hebrew Verse, p 142, Penguin, 1981, 978-0-14-042197-2 I. Shalev, Naar Shav Min ha-Tzava Abba Kovner, Hupahba-Midbar T. Carmi, Davar Ahed Avot Yeshurun, Ze Shaim ha-Sefere Italy Carmelo Bene, L'orecchio mancante Dino Buzzati, Poema a fumetti Alfredo Giuliani, Il tautofono Sandro Penna, Tutte le poesie Nelo Risi, Di certe cose Maria Luisa Spaziani, L'occhio del ciclone Giovanni Testori, Erodiade Norway Rolf Jacobsen, Headlines Stein Mehren, Aurora Ragnvald Skrede, Lauvfall Simen Skjønsberg, Flyttedag Tarjei Vesaas, Liv ved straumen (posthumous) Portuguese language Brazil Augusto de Campos, Equivocábulos, collection of "semantic-visual texts, photo-poems, and 'Viagem via linguagem', a collapsible environment-poem resembling an architect's model"1971 Britannica Book of the Year, covering events of 1970 (1970), "Literature" article, "Latin American" section, page 466 Affonso Avila, Código de Minas Silviano Santiago, Salto Russian Andrei Voznesenski, The Shadow of Sound Y. Smelyakov, December Boris Slutski, Tales for Today Evgeni Vinokurov, Shows Leonid Martynov, Peoples' Names Leonid Vasilyev, Ognevistsa Evgeni Yevtushenko, a collection, including some new poems and omitting some "controversial earlier ones"1971 Britannica Book of the Year, covering events of 1970, published by the Encyclopædia Britannica (1971), "Literature" article, "Soviet" section, page 469, the exact name of the book, even in translation, was not given Spanish language Spain Jorge Guillén, Obra poética José Caballero Bonald, Vivar para contarlo ("Live to Tell It"), including "Zauberlehrling" Peru Washington Delgado, Un mundo dividado C.G. Belli, Sextinas J.G. Rose, Informe al rey M. Martos, Cuaderno de quejas y contentamientos C. Bustamante, El nombre de las cosas Elsewhere in Latin America Julio Cortázar, Último round, miscellany of stories, poems, essays and collage games (Argentina) Alaíde Foppa, Elogio de mi cuerpo ("Praise of my body") (Guatemalan poet published in Mexico)Cocco Elisa Alaíde Foppa: una vita da dissidente Alaíde Foppa: a dissident's life Cuadernos del Hipogrifo 2023 20 11–25 https://www.revistaelhipogrifo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/11-25.pdf 2025-05-27 it 2420-918X Alberto Girri, Antología temática (Argentina) Alberto Vanasco, Canto rodado (Argentina) I. López Vallecillo, Puro asombro (El Salvador) Ernesto Cardenal, Salmos (Nicaragua) R. Fernández Retamar, Que veremos arder (Cuba) Nicanor Parra, Obra gruesa (Chile) Enrique Lihn, La musiquilla de las pobres esferas (Chile) Sweden Werner Aspenström, Inre ("Inner") Gören Sonnevi, Det Måste gå ("It Must Be Possible") Maja Ekelöf, Rapport från en skurhink ("Report from a Scrub Bucket") Henry Olsson, Vinlövsranka och hagtornskrans, a study of the poet Gustaf Fröding (died 1911) Yiddish Israel Abraham Sutzkever, Ripened Faces Jacob Shargel, Sunny Doorsteps Arye Shamri he אריה שמרי, Song in the Barn Dovid Rodin, Young and Younger, for young readers Leyzer Aykhenrand de Lajzer Ajchenrand, Thirst for Duration United States Joseph Rubinstein, Exodus from Europe, third volume of a narrative trilogy Wolf Pasmanik, My Poems Kadia Molodowsky, Marzipans, for children and adults Moshe Shifris, Under One Roof Elsewhere Melech Ravitch, Post Scriptus (Canada) Jacob Sternberg, Poem and Ballad on the Carpathians (France) Izi Kharik ru Харик, Изи, With Body and Life (Russia) Other languages Luo Fu, River Without Banks, Chinese (Taiwan)Balcom, John, "Lo Fu" https://web.archive.org/web/20110101081326/http://china.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=9223 January 1, 2011 , article on Poetry International website, retrieved November 22, 2008 Rituraj, Kitna Thora Waqt; India, Hindi-languageWeb page titled "Rituraj" https://web.archive.org/web/20120406234851/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=12940 April 6, 2012 at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 12, 2010 Nirmalendu Goon, Huliya; Pakistan (Now Bangladesh), Bengali-language Awards and honors Canada See 1970 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards. United Kingdom Cholmondeley Award: Kathleen Raine, Douglas Livingstone, Edward Brathwaite Eric Gregory Award: Helen Frye, Paul Mills, John Mole, Brian Morse, Alan Perry, Richard Tibbitts Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Roy Fuller United States Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (later the post would be called "Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress"): William Stafford appointed this year. Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Richard Howard, Untitled Subjects National Book Award for Poetry: Elizabeth Bishop, The Complete Poems Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Howard Nemerov France Prix Max Jacob: Daniel Boulanger for Tchadiennes and Retouches French Academy's Grand Prix de Poèsie: Jean Follain Soviet Union Lenin Prize: Nikolai Tikhonov Births June 14 – Brian Bilston, born Paul Millicheap, English writer, "the poet laureate of Twitter"Gilmartin Sarah Brian Bilston: the Poet Laureate of Twitter https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/brian-bilston-the-poet-laureate-of-twitter-1.2600316 2023-12-17 Irish Times 2016-04-06'Poet laureate of Twitter' Brian Bilston: 'I'm still pretty shy and mostly unconfident' https://inews.co.uk/culture/books/brian-bilston-alexa-what-is-there-to-know-about-love-interview-825075 2023-12-17 iNews Nick Duerden 2021-01-11 February 27 – Rachel Mann, English trans woman poet and Anglican priest September 10 – Phaswane Mpe (died 2004), South African novelist and poet September 16 – Nick Sagan, American poet, novelist and screenwriter September 24 – Gemma Moraleja Paz, Spanish poet and novelist Also: Malika Booker, British poet Victoria Chang, American poet"Victoria Chang (1970–)" at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed April 24, 2008 Tim Kendall, English poet, editor, critic and academic David Roderick, American poet Faruk Šehić, Bosnian poet and fiction writer Brenda Shaughnessy, Japanese-born American poet Deaths thumb|The grave of Paul Celan at the Thiais cemetery near Paris Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January 10 – Charles Olson, 59 (born 1910), American poet, of cancer January 15 – Leah Goldberg, 58 (born 1911), Israeli poet who wrote in Hebrew January 24 – Caresse Crosby, also known as "Mary Phelps Jacob", 78 (born 1891), American poet and New York socialite, who, in 1927, founded Black Sun Press with her husband Harry Crosby (also a poet) and who in 1910Caresse Crosby Photograph Collection, Morris Library, Southern Illinois University Carbondale http://www.lib.siu.edu/Plonetest/departments/speccoll/pinv2/Ph049 2007-12-18October 2010 H3llBot yes invented the first modern bra to receive a patent and gain wide acceptance February 4 – Louise Bogan, 72 (born 1897), American poet, United States Poet Laureate February 19 – Edsel Ford, 41 (born 1928), American poet March 26 – Rosa Zagnoni Marinoni, 82 (born 1888), American poet March 28 – Nathan Alterman, 59 (born 1910), Israeli poet, journalist and translator March 29 – Vera Brittain, 76 (born 1893) English novelist and poet about April 20 – Paul Celan, 49 (born 1920), Romanian-born poet who wrote in German and became a French citizen, suicide May 12 – Nelly Sachs, 78 (born 1891), German-Swedish poet and dramatist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1966 June 2 – Giuseppe Ungaretti, 82 (born 1888), Italian modernist poet, journalist, essayist, critic and academic June 18 – N. P. van Wyk Louw, 64 (born 1906), South African Afrikaans poet and critic September 23 – John Gawsworth, 58 (born 1912), English poet, anthologist, Fitzrovian and King Juan I of Redonda September 28 – John Dos Passos, 74 (born 1896), American novelist, poet and artist November 25 – Yukio Mishima 三島 由紀夫, pen name of Kimitake Hiraoka 平岡 公威, 45 (born 1925), Japanese author, poet and playwright, by public ritual suicide December 11 – Arthur Nortje, 27 (born 1942), South African poet, of a drug overdose December 31 – Lorine Niedecker, 67 (born 1903), American Objectivist poet Notes and references 1971 Britannica Book of the Year (covering events of 1970), "Literature" article and "Obituaries of 1970" article; source of many of the books in the "Works published" list and some deaths. Lal, P., Modern Indian Poetry in English: An Anthology & a Credo, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, second edition, 1971 (however, on page 597 an "editor's note" states contents "on the following pages are a supplement to the first edition" and is dated "1972"); hereafter: "P. Lal (1971)" See also Poetry Poetry List of poetry awards List of years in poetry Category:20th-century poetry *