This is part of the List of years in poetry
Years in poetry:	1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975
Years in literature:	1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975
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Centuries:	19th century · 20th century · 21st century
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Years:	1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975

Contents 1 Events 2 Works published in English 2.1 Australia 2.2 Canada 2.3 New Zealand 2.4 United Kingdom 2.4.1 Anthologies in the United Kingdom 2.5 United States 2.6 Other in English 3 Works published in other languages 3.1 French language 3.1.1 Canada 3.1.2 France 3.2 Germany 3.3 Hebrew 3.4 Italy 3.5 Norway 3.6 Russia 3.7 Spanish poetry 3.7.1 Spain 3.7.2 Latin America 3.8 Yiddish language 3.9 Other 4 Awards and honors 4.1 Canada 4.2 United Kingdom 4.3 United States 5 Births 6 Deaths 7 See also 8 References

Events

• John Betjeman becomes Poet Laureate
• The Belfast Group, a discussion group of poets in Northern Ireland, went out of existence this year. This page gives a chronological list of years in poetry (descending order Events FIELD magazine founded at Oberlin College Charles Bukowski quits his day job as a Post Office clerk in Los Angeles to Events release of Tomfoolery, an animated film directed by Joy Batchelor and John Halas, based on the nonsense verse of Edward Lear Events This Magazine founded by Robert Grenier and Barrett Watten The Canterbury Tales, Events Canadian poet and author Michael Ondaatje adapts his 1970 book of poetry The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, into a play which Events The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics is founded by Allen Ginsberg and Anne Waldman. Events With the 1974, fall of the dictatorship in Greece, poets authors and intellectuals who had fled after the coup of 1967 returned The year 1969 in literature involved some significant events and new books The year 1970 in literature involved some significant events and new books The year 1971 in literature involved some significant events and new books The year 1972 in literature involved some significant events and new books The year 1973 in literature involved some significant events and new books The year 1974 in literature involved some significant events and new books The year 1975 in literature involved some significant events and new books Decades and years Decades and years Decades and years A century (from the Latin centum, meaning one hundred is One hundred consecutive Years Centuries are numbered ordinally (e The 19th century of the Common Era began on January 1, 1801 and ended on December 31, 1900, according to the Gregorian calendar The twentieth century of the Common Era began on The 21st century is the current century of the Christian Era or Common Era in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. See also List of centuries, History This is a list of Decades in history including links to corresponding articles with more information about them The 1940s decade ran from 1940 to 1949 Events and trends The 1940s was a period between the radical 1930s and the conservative 1950s which also leads the period to be The 1950s Decade refers to the years of 1950 to 1959 inclusive The 1960s decade refers to the years from the beginning of 1960 to the end of 1969 This article is about the Decade 1970-1979 For the Year 1970 see 1970. The 1980s was the decade spanning from January 1 1980 to December 31 1989. The 1990s collectively refers to the years between and including 1990 and 1999 This page indexes the individual Years pages Twenty-first century Year 1969 ( MCMLXIX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1970 ( MCMLXX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link shows full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1971 ( MCMLXXI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1971 Gregorian calendar. Year 1972 ( MCMLXXII) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1973 ( MCMLXXIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the 1973 Gregorian calendar. Year 1974 ( MCMLXXIV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the 1974 Gregorian calendar. Year 1975 ( MCMLXXV) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Robert Creeley ( May 21, 1926 &ndash March 30 2005) was an American Poet and Author of more than sixty books Sir John Betjeman, CBE ( 28 August 1906 &ndash 19 May 1984 was an English poet writer and broadcaster who described himself in Who's Who A Poet Laureate is a Poet officially appointed by a government and is often expected to compose poems for State occasions and other government events The Belfast Group was a poets' workshop which was organized by Philip Hobsbaum when he moved to Belfast in October 1963 to lecture in English at Queen's The group was started by Philip Hobsbaum when he moved to Belfast in 1963 and which included Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, James Simmons, Paul Muldoon, Ciaran Carson, Stewart Parker, Bernard MacLaverty and the critics Edna Longley and Michael Allen. Philip Dennis Hobsbaum ( 29 June 1932 &ndash 28 June 2005) was a British teacher Poet and critic Events Bob Dylan releases his The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, album with his most influential early songwriting Michael Longley (born 27 July, 1939 in Belfast, Northern Ireland) is a Northern Irish Poet. James Simmons (1933 - 2001 was a Poet, Literary critic and Songwriter from Northern Ireland. Paul Muldoon (born 20 June 1951 is a writer academic and educator as well as Pulitzer Prize -winning poet from County Armagh, Northern Ireland Ciarán Carson (born 1948 Belfast, Northern Ireland) is a Poet and Novelist. James Stewart Parker ( 20 October 1941 - 2 November 1988) was a Northern Irish poet and playwright Bernard MacLaverty is a writer He was born in Belfast on 14 September 1942 and lived there until 1975 when he moved to Scotland with his wife Madeline and four children (Ciara
• The American Poetry Review founded by Stephen Berg in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The American Poetry Review (APR is an American Poetry Magazine printed every other month and printed on tabloid-sized newsprint Philadelphia (ˌfɪləˈdɛlfiə
• May — Joseph Brodsky is expelled from the Soviet Union. Joseph Brodsky ( May 24, 1940 — January 28, 1996) born Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky (Иосиф Александрович Бродский
• W. H. Auden, now a U. Wystan Hugh Auden (21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973 ˈwɪstən ˈhjuː ˈɔːdən who signed his works W S. citizen, declares his New York neighborhood is too dangerous and returns to Oxford from the United States.
• James K. Baxter, one of New Zealand's best-known poets, writes two original poems on the wallpaper of a room in the home of painter Michael Illingworth and his wife Dene. James Keir Baxter ( June 29, 1926 &mdash October 22, 1972) was a Poet, and a controversial figure in New Zealand society New Zealand claims as its own many writers even those immigrants born overseas like South African-born Robin Hyde, or those emigrants who went into Exile but Soon after, Baxter died. In 1973, after Baxter's death, the Illingworths removed the sections of wallpaper containing the poems and sent them to the Hocken Library to be stored with Baxter’s other papers. ^[1]

Works published in English

• Zulfikar Ghose, The Violent West, a Pakistani poet, lecturing in Texas
• Wole Soyinka, A Shuttle in the Crypt

Australia

• A.D. Hope, Collected Poems
• Les Murray, Poems Against Economics^[2]

Canada

• Earle Birney, Judith Copithorne, Andrew Suknaski, Bill Bissett, Four Parts Sand a selection of works by these concrete poets
• Leonard Cohen, The Engergy of Slaves
• David Helwig, The Best Name of Silence
• George Johnston, Happy Enough: Poems 1935-1972
• Gwendolyn MacEwen, The Armies of the Moon
• Don McKay, Moccasins on Concrete: Poems (Canada)

New Zealand

• James K. Baxter:
  • Autumn Testament, not posthumous
  • Stonegut Sugar Works, Junkies and the Fuzz, Ode to Auckland, and Other Poems, posthumous
• Alistair Campbell, Kapiti : Selected Poems 1947-71. Zulfikar Ghose (b March 13, 1935, Sialkot, India (now Pakistan) is a Pakistani American English language writer Australian literature began soon after the settlement of the country by Europeans Common themes include indigenous and settler identity alienation exile and relationship Alec Derwent Hope (21 July 1907 &ndash 13 July 2000 was an Australian Poet and Essayist known for his satirical slant Leslie Allan Murray, AO (born 17 October 1938) known as Les Murray, is an Australian Poet, anthologist and critic Canadian poetry is Poetry written in Canada, by Canadians There are three distinct branches of Canadian poetry French-Canadian poetry (mostly written Bushed Earle Alfred Birney OC, PhD, FRSC ( 13 May 1904 &ndash 3 September 1995) was a distinguished bill bissett (born William Frederick Bissett, November 23, 1939) is a Canadian poet famous for his anti-conventional style Leonard Norman Cohen CC GOQ (born September 21, 1934 in Westmount, Quebec) is a Canadian Singer-songwriter David Helwig (born April 15, 1938) is a Canadian poet novelist and essayist George Johnston may refer to George Johnston (New South Wales, Lieutenant-Governor of New South Wales George Johnston (novelist, Australian Gwendolyn Margaret MacEwen ( 1 September 1941 - 29 November 1987) was a Canadian Novelist and Poet. Don McKay (born 1942 is an award-winning Canadian Poet, editor, and Educator. Criticism of Canadian literature has focused on nationalistic and regional themes New Zealand claims as its own many writers even those immigrants born overseas like South African-born Robin Hyde, or those emigrants who went into Exile but James Keir Baxter ( June 29, 1926 &mdash October 22, 1972) was a Poet, and a controversial figure in New Zealand society Alistair Te Ariki Campbell, ONZM, (born 25 June, 1925) is an award-winning New Zealand poet playwright and novelist Christchurch : Pegasus Press
• Allen Curnow, Trees, Effigies, Moving Objects^[3]
• Bill Manhire, The Elaboration
• Kendrick Smithyman, Earthquake Weather

United Kingdom

• James Aitchison, Sounds Before Sleep
• Anne Beresford, Footsteps
• Martin Booth, The Crying Embers
• Florence Bull, Saint David's Day
• Kevin Crossley-Holland, The Rain-Giver
• Douglas Dunn, The Happier Life
• Elaine Feinstien, At the Edge, Sceptre Press
• James Fenton, Terminal Moraine ^[4]
• Seamus Heaney, Wintering Out, Faber & Faber
• Michael Horovitz, The Wolverhampton Wanderer
• George MacBeth, Collected Poems 1958-70
• Derek Mahon, Lives. Thomas Allen Munro Curnow ONZ CBE ( June 17, 1911 – September 23, 2001) was a New Zealand Poet and Bill Manhire CNZM, (born in Invercargill in 1946 is an award-winning New Zealand poet short story writer and professor William Kendrick Smithyman ( October 9, 1922 &ndash December 28, 1995) was an award-winning New Zealand poet and one of the most prolific The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day For the Canadian politican see James H Aitchison. Martin Booth ( September 7, 1944, Lancashire - February 12, 2004, Devon) was a prolific British Novelist and Kevin John William Crossley-Holland (born 7 February 1941 is an English Children's author and Poet. Douglas Eaglesham Dunn, OBE (born October 23, 1942) is a Scottish Poet, academic and critic James Fenton (born April 25, 1949, Lincoln England) has been at various times a Journalist, Poet, literary critic Wintering Out ( 1972) is a collection of poems written by Irish Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney. Michael Horovitz (born 1935 is an English poet artist and translator George Mann MacBeth ( 19 January 1932 &ndash 16 February 1992) was a Scottish poet and novelist Derek Mahon (born 23 November 1941) is a Northern Irish poet He was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Oxford University Press
• Adrian Mitchell, Ride the Nightmare
• Mervyn Peake, A Book of Nonsense
• Sally Purcell, The Holly Queen
• R.S. Thomas, H'm
• Norman Nicholson, A Local Habitation
• Kathleen Raine, the Lost Country
• W.R. Rodgers, Collected Poems, posthumous
• Vernon Scannell, Selected Poems
• Peter Scupham, the Snowing Globe
• Stevie Smith, Scorpion (posthumous)

Anthologies in the United Kingdom

• Helen Gardner, The New Oxford Book of English Verse, replaced the 1939 revised selection by Quiller and Couch. Adrian Mitchell (born 24 October 1932, Haywards Heath, West Sussex) is an English Poet and Dramatist. Biography Mervyn Peake was born of British parents in Kuling ( Lushan) in Jiangxi Province of central China in 1911 only three months before the revolution Sally Purcell was born in Bromsgrove Worcs in 1944 She studied Mediaeval and Modern French at Lady Margaret Hall Oxford and continued to live and work in Oxford (as typist barmaid researcher Ronald Stuart Thomas (29 March 1913 – 25 September 2000 (published as R Norman Cornthwaite Nicholson OBE, ( January 8 1914 – May 30 1987) was an English poet known for his association with the Cumberland Kathleen Jessie Raine ( June 14 1908 – July 6 2003) was a British poet critic and Independent scholar writing in particular William Robert Rodgers (1909 &ndash 1969 known as Bertie, was a poet writer broadcaster academic and Presbyterian minister from Northern Ireland Vernon Scannell ( 23 January 1922 &ndash 16 November 2007) was a British Poet and Author. Stevie Smith ( September 20, 1902 – March 7, 1971) was a British Poet and Novelist Life Born Professor Dame Helen Louise Gardner DBE (13 February 1908 - 4 June 1986 was an English literary critic and academic whose work mainly concerned the poets T 1972
• John Heath-Stubbs, co-editor, Penguin Modern Poets 20

United States

• A.R. Ammons:
  • Briefings: Poems Small and Easy
  • Collected Poems: 1951-1971, winner of the National Book Award in 1973
• John Ashbery, Three Poems
• W. H. Auden, Epistle to a Godson
• Ted Berrigan, Ron Padgett, and Tom Clark, Back In Boston Again
• John Berryman, Delusions, Etc. John Francis Alexander Heath-Stubbs OBE ( 9 July 1918 - 26 December[[ 006]] was an English Poet and Translator, known The poetry of the United States arose first during its beginnings as the constitutionally unified Thirteen colonies (although before this a strong A R Ammons, or Archie Randolph Ammons, ( February 18, 1926 &ndash February 25, 2001) was an award-winning major American The National Book Awards are among the most eminent literary prizes in the United States. Events Canadian poet and author Michael Ondaatje adapts his 1970 book of poetry The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, into a play which John Ashbery (born July 28, 1927) is Wystan Hugh Auden (21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973 ˈwɪstən ˈhjuː ˈɔːdən who signed his works W Ted Berrigan ( 15 November, 1934 - 4 July, 1983) was an American poet. Ron Padgett (born June 17, 1942) is an American Poet, Essayist fiction writer and Translator, and a member of the Tom Clark (born March 1, 1941) is an American poet, editor and Biographer. John Allyn Berryman (originally John Allyn Smith) ( October 25, 1914 – January 7, 1972) was an American (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux) posthumous
• Elizabeth Bishop and Emanuel Brasil, editors, An Anthology of Twentieth Century Brazilian Poetry (Wesleyan University Press)
• Harold Bloom, Yeats (criticism)^[5]
• Joseph Brodsky: Poems, Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ardis^[6], Russian-American
• Gwendolyn Brooks, Aurora
• Robert Creeley, A Day Book^[7]
• Stephen Dobyns, Concurring Beasts
• Hilda Doolittle (H. Elizabeth Bishop ( February 8, 1911 &ndash October 6, 1979) was an American Poet and Writer from Worcester Harold Bloom' (born July 11, 1930) is a Literary critic. Bloom defended 19th-century Romantic poets at a time when their reputations Joseph Brodsky ( May 24, 1940 — January 28, 1996) born Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky (Иосиф Александрович Бродский This article is about literature from Russia For the song by Maxïmo Park, see Our Earthly Pleasures. The poetry of the United States arose first during its beginnings as the constitutionally unified Thirteen colonies (although before this a strong Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks ( June 7, 1917 – December 3, 2000) was an Pulitzer Prize- winning African-American Poet Robert Creeley ( May 21, 1926 &ndash March 30 2005) was an American Poet and Author of more than sixty books Stephen J Dobyns (born February 19, 1941) is an American Poet and Novelist born in Orange New Jersey, and residing in HD (September 10 1886 – September 27 1961 born Hilda Doolittle, was an American poet, Novelist and Memoirist She is best known D. ), Hermetic Definition
• Ed Dorn:
  • The Hamadryas Baboon at the Lincoln Park Zoo, Wine Press^[8]
  • Gunslinger, Book III: The Winterbook, Prologue to the Great Book IV Kornerstone, Frontier Press^[8]
• Michael S. Harper, Song: "I want a Witness"^[9]
• LeRoi Jones as Amiri Baraka, Spirit Reach
• Philip Levine, They Feed They Lion
• Archibald MacLeish, The Human Season: Selected Poems, 1926-1972, selected poems
• James Merrill, Braving the Elements
• Ned O'Gorman, The Flag the Hawk Flies
• Mary Oliver, The River Styx, Ohio, and Other Poems
• George Oppen, Collected Poems (only in Great Britain) and Seascape: Needle's Eye
• Michael Palmer, Blake's Newton (Black Sparrow Press)
• Kenneth Rexroth:
  • 100 Poems from the French, (translator)
  • Orchard Boat, (translator)
• Theodore Roethke, Straw for Fire, posthumous selections made by David Wagoner from the poet's notebooks
• Louis Simpson, Adventures of the Letter I, including "American Dreams" and "Doubting"
• Patti Smith, Seventh Heaven
• James Tate, Absences
• Rosmarie Waldrop, The Aggressive Ways of the Casual Stranger (Random House)
• Juan Rodolfo Wilcock (Argentine), La sinagoga degli iconoclasti, translated into English as The Temple of Iconoclasts

Other in English

• Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Acts and Monuments, Dublin: The Gallery Press, Ireland^[10]

Works published in other languages

French language

Canada

• Fernand Ouellette, complete works
• Gilles Hénault, complete works
• Rina Lasnier, complete works
• Gustave Lamarche, complete works
• Pierre Trottier, Sainte-Mémoire
• Suzanne Paradis, Il y eut un matin
• Paul Chamberland, Éclats de la pierre noire d'oû rejaillit ma vie
• Félix A. Edward Merton Dorn ( April 2, 1929 — December 10, 1999) was an American poet and teacher often Gunslinger is the title of a long poem in four parts by Ed Dorn. Michael Steven Harper (born March 18, 1938) is an American poet from Brooklyn who has published ten books of poetry Amiri Baraka (born October 7 1934 is an American Writer of Poetry, Drama, essays and Music criticism. Amiri Baraka (born October 7 1934 is an American Writer of Poetry, Drama, essays and Music criticism. Philip Levine may refer to Philip Levine (poet (b 1928 American anarchist poet & professor of English Philip Levine (physician (1900-1987 Archibald MacLeish ( May 7, 1892 – April 20, 1982) was an American Poet, Writer and the Librarian James Ingram Merrill ( March 3, 1926 &ndash February 6, 1995) was a Pulitzer Prize winning Ned O'Gorman (born September 26, 1929) is an American poet and educator Mary Oliver (b September 10, 1935) is an American Poet. Life Oliver was born to Edward William and Helen M George Oppen ( April 24, 1908 - July 7, 1984) was an American poet best known as one of the members of the Objectivist Michael Palmer (born May 11, 1943 in Manhattan, New York is a contemporary American poet and Translator. Kenneth Rexroth ( December 22[[ 905]] &ndash June 6[[ 982]] was an American Poet, Translator and critical Essayist He was among the Theodore Huebner Roethke (ˈrɛtkə RET-keh) May 25]] 1908 &ndash August 1 1963) was an American Poet, who published several volumes Louis Aston Marantz Simpson (born March 27, 1923 in Jamaica) is a Jamaican poet. Patricia Lee Smith ( born December 30 1946 is an American Singer-songwriter and poet Seventh Heaven is a Poetry collection by Patti Smith, published in 1972 James Tate is a human name and may refer to James "Honest Dick" Tate (born 1831 State Treasurer of Kentucky James Hugh Joseph Rosmarie Waldrop (born August 24, 1935) is a contemporary American poet, Translator and publisher Juan Rodolfo Wilcock. Author poet critic and translator Born on April 17, 1919 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Argentina topics. Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin (born 1942 is an Irish poet born in Cork (city. The history of Irish poetry includes the poetries of two languages one in Irish and the other in English. Canadian poetry is Poetry written in Canada, by Canadians There are three distinct branches of Canadian poetry French-Canadian poetry (mostly written Rina Lasnier ( 6 August 1915 &ndash 9 May 1997) was a Québécoise poet Savard, Le Bouscueil
• Gemma Tremblay, Souffles du midi

France

• Marc Alyn, Infini au delà
• Philippe Chabaneix, Musiques d'avant la nuit
• Maurice Courant, Soliel de ma mémoire
• Micheline Dupray, L'Herbe est trop douce
• Eugène Guillevic, Encoches
• Pierre Loubière, Mémoire buisonnière
• Pierre Moussaric, Chansons du temps présent
• Marie Noël, Chants des quatre temps (posthumous)
• Hélène Parmelin, De Songe et de silence
• Claire de Soujeole, Pas dans la rosée

Germany

• Heinrich Böll, Gedichte, nine poems
• Andreas Okopenko, Orte wechselnden Unbehagens
• Reiner Kunze, Zimmerlautstärke
• Peter Huchel, Neue Gedichte
• Günter Kunert, Offenere Ausgang
• Beat Brechbühl, Der gechlagene Hund pisst an die Saüle des Tempels
• Heiner Bastian, Tod im Leben, a long poem

Hebrew

• Abraham Shlonsky, Ketavim
• David Fogel, Kol ha-Shirim, collected by Dan Pagis, edited by Y. French poetry is a category of French literature. It may include Francophone poetry composed outside France and poetry written in other Languages of Eugène Guillevic ( Carnac, Morbihan, France, August 5, 1907 &ndash Paris, March 19, 1997) (øʒen German literature comprises those literary texts written in the German language. Heinrich Theodor Böll ( December 21, 1917 — July 16, 1985) was one of Germany 's foremost post- World War II writers Andreas Okopenko (Born March 15 1930 in Košice ( Slovakia) is an Austrian writer Reiner Kunze (born August 16, 1933, in Oelsnitz Erzgebirge) is a German writer and GDR dissident Peter Huchel ( April 3, 1903 &ndash April 30, 1981) born Hellmut Huchel, was a German Poet. Günter Kunert (born March 6, 1929 in Berlin) is a German writer who left the German Democratic Republic (East Germany to live in the Federal See also Israeli literature. Hebrew literature consists of ancient medieval and modern writings in the Hebrew language. Avraham Shlonsky ( March 6, 1900 &ndash May 18, 1973) אברהם שלונסקי, Аврам Шлёнский, was a significant Dan Pagis (1930 – 1986 was an Israeli Poet and lecturer Born in Bukovina in Eastern Europe as a child he was imprisoned in a concentration camp Cohen
• E. Zussman, Atzai Tamid
• T. Ribner, Ain Lehashiv
• Yair Hurvitz, Narkisim le-Malhut Madmena
• Abba Kovner, Lahakat ha-Katzav

Italy

• Riccardo Bacchelli, La stella del mattino
• Marino Moretti, Tre anni e un giorno
• Aldo Palazzeschi, Via dalle cento stelle
• Tommaso Landolfi, Viola di morte, winner of the Fiuggi Prize
• Edoardo Sanguineti, Wirrwarr
• Giorgio Manganelli, Agli Dei ulteriori
• Ferdinando Camon, La vita eterna

Norway

• Hans Børli, Kyndelsmesse
• Per Arneberg, Oktobernetter
• Ernst Orvil, Nok sagt

Russia

• Konstantin Simonov, Vietnam. Yair Hurvitz (1941-1988 was an Israeli Poet who began publishing Poetry in the 1960's Abba Kovner (1918–1987 was a Lithuanian Jewish Hebrew Poet, Writer, and partisan leader Italian poetry is a category of Italian literature. Important Italian poets Giacomo da Lentini a 13th Century poet who is believed to Riccardo Bacchelli, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI ( Bologna, 19 April 1891 &ndash Monza, 8 October 1985) Aldo Palazzeschi ( 2 February, 1885, Florence - 17 August, 1974, Rome) was the Pen name of Aldo Giurlani Tommaso Landolfi ( August 9 1908 - 1979 was an Italian author and translator Edoardo Sanguineti (born December 9, 1930) is an Italian writer born in Genoa. Giorgio Manganelli ( November 11 1922 - May 28 1990) was an Italian journalist Avant-garde novelist and literary critic Ferdinando Camon (born in Montagnana 1935 is a contemporary Italian writer Norwegian literature is literature composed in Norway or by Norwegian people. Hans Børli ( December 8, 1918 &ndash August 25, 1989) was a Norwegian poet and writer who besides his writings worked as a Lumberjack This article is about literature from Russia For the song by Maxïmo Park, see Our Earthly Pleasures. Konstantin Simonov (Константин Михайлович Симонов in Petrograd - August 28 1979 in Moscow) was a Soviet Summer 1970
• Aleksandr Bezymenski, The Law of the Heart, collected poems
• David Kugultinov, Kalmyk poet, Revolt of the Intellect

Spanish poetry

Spain

• Matilde Camus, Manantial de amor (Love Spring)
• Pedro Salinas, Poesía, selected by Julio Cortázar
• Angel González, Palabra sobre palabra
• Saul Yukievich, Fundadores de la nueva poesía latinoamericana, a collection of studies published in Spain by an Argentinian
• Darie Novaceanu and J. Spanish poetry is the poetic tradition of Spain. It may include elements of Spanish literature, and literatures written in languages of Spain other than Matilde Camus (born 26 September, 1919 in Santander) is a Spanish Poet who has written research works Pedro Salinas y Serrano ( November 27, 1891, Madrid &ndash December 4, 1951, Boston) was a Spanish Poet Julio Cortázar, born Jules Florencio Cortázar ( August 26, 1914 &ndash February 12, 1984) was an Argentine Author Ángel González Muñiz ( September 3, 1925 &ndash January 12, 2008) was a major Spanish poet of the twentieth century M. Caballero Bonald, translators and editors, Poesía rumana contemporánea, a bilingual edition of Romanian poems translated into Spanish. Romanian literature is Literature written by Romanian authors although the term may also be used to refer to all literature written in the Romanian language.

Latin America

• Aída Vitale, Oidor andante
• Idea Vilariño, Poemas de amor
• Hugo Achugar, Con bigote triste

Yiddish language

• Asya, Quiver of Boughs
• Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman, Footpaths Between Walls
• Zyameh Telesin, Cries of Memory
• Rachel Baumwoll, Longed For
• Israel's President Shazer:
  • During a Mission
  • For Myself
• Rivkah Bassman, Bright Stones
• Malkah Chefetz-Tuzman, Leaves Do Not Fall
• Rachel H. Latin American literature rose to particular prominence during the second half of the 20th century largely thanks to the international success of the style known as Magical realism Hugo Achugar (born 1944 in Montevideo) is a Uruguayan Poet, essayist and researcher Yiddish literature encompasses all belles lettres written in Yiddish the language of Ashkenazic Jewry which is related to Middle High German Beyle (or Bella) Schaechter-Gottesman (born August 7, 1920) is a Yiddish poet and songwriter Korn, On the Edge of a Moment
• Joshuah Rivin, Rainbow of Song
• Saul Maltz, With Joy and Song (for younger readers)

Other

• Jørgen Gustava Brandt, Upraktiske digte. Udvalg, selected poems from 1953 to 1971 (Denmark)
• Odysseus Elytis, The Light Tree And The Fourteenth Beauty (Το φωτόδεντρο και η δέκατη τέταρτη ομορφιά) and The Monogram (Το Μονόγραμμα) (Greek)
• Johannes Wulff, Udvalgte digte. Danish literature is for the purposes of this article the subset of Scandinavian literature composed in Denmark or by Danish people Odysseas Elytis (Οδυσσέας Ελύτης (November 2 1911—March 18 1996 is a legendary Greek poet,regarded as one of the most important representatives Modern Greek literature refers to Literature written in the Greek language from the 11th century with texts written in a language that is more familiar to the ears Vi som er hinanden, collected poems from 1928 to 1970 (Denmark)
• Wisława Szymborska: Wszelki wypadek ("Could Have"), Poland

Awards and honors

• Nobel Prize in Literature: Heinrich Böll, West Germany

Canada

• See 1979 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards. Danish literature is for the purposes of this article the subset of Scandinavian literature composed in Denmark or by Danish people Wisława Szymborska (vʲisˈwava ʃɨmˈbɔrska born July 2, 1923 in Kórnik, Poland) is a Polish poet, Essayist Polish literature is the literary tradition of Poland. The majority of Polish literature was written in the Polish language, though other languages used in Poland The Nobel Prize in Literature (Nobelpriset i litteratur is awarded annually since 1901 to an author from any country who has in the words from the will of Alfred Heinrich Theodor Böll ( December 21, 1917 — July 16, 1985) was one of Germany 's foremost post- World War II writers German literature comprises those literary texts written in the German language. Canadian poetry is Poetry written in Canada, by Canadians There are three distinct branches of Canadian poetry French-Canadian poetry (mostly written Each winner of the 1979 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit was selected by a panel of judges administered by the Canada Council for the Arts.

United Kingdom

• Cholmondeley Award: Molly Holden, Tom Raworth, Patricia Whittaker
• Eric Gregory Award: Tony Curtis, Richard Burns, Brian Oxley, Andrew Greig, Robin Lee, Paul Muldoon

United States

• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: James Wright, Collected Poems
• National Book Award for Poetry: Frank O'Hara, The Collected Works of Frank O'Hara
• Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: W. D. Snodgrass

Births

• Shimon Adaf, Israeli poet and author

Deaths

• January 7 — John Berryman, 57 , American poet, from suicide
• January 8 — Kenneth Patchen, 60, American poet and painter, of a heart attack
• January 11 — Padraic Colum, 90, Irish-American poet
• February 5 — Marianne Moore, 84, American poet
• March 4 — Richard Church, 78, English poet, critic and novelist
• May 22 — Cecil Day-Lewis, 68 English poet
• August 21 — A.M. Klein, 61, Ukrainian-Canadian poet and writer
• October 3 — Gladys Schmitt, 63
• October 22 — James K. Baxter, 46, New Zealand poet
• November 1 — Ezra Pound, 87, an American poet, critic and the driving force behind several Modernist movements, notably Imagism and Vorticism, from an intestinal blockage
• November 20 — Robert Fletcher (poet), 87, poet of "Don't Fence Me In"
• December 10 — Mark Van Doren, 78, American poet, academic and critic
• December 20 — Günter Eich (born 1907) German poet, dramatist, and author
• Date not known:
  • Eileen Duggan
  • Paul Goodman, American poet, of a heart attack
  • Andrew John Young

See also

• Poetry
• List of poetry awards
• List of years in poetry

References

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Richard Burns ( January 17 1971, Reading Berkshire, England &ndash November 25 2005) was a British rally Andrew Greig (born 23 September 1951 in Bannockburn, Scotland) is a Scottish writer Robin Lee (born December 2, 1919; died October 8, 1997 in Minneapolis) was an American Figure skater. Paul Muldoon (born 20 June 1951 is a writer academic and educator as well as Pulitzer Prize -winning poet from County Armagh, Northern Ireland The poetry of the United States arose first during its beginnings as the constitutionally unified Thirteen colonies (although before this a strong The Pulitzer Prize in Poetry has been presented since 1922 for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author James or Jim Wright is the name of James Wright (governor (1715-1785 British colonial governor of the U The National Book Award for Poetry has been given since 1950 and is part of the National Book Awards, which are given annually for outstanding literary works by American citizens Francis Russell O'Hara ( June 27, 1926 – July 25, 1966) was an American poet who along with John Ashbery, James Schuyler The Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets, or "Academy Fellowship" was the first award of its kind in the United States William De Witt Snodgrass (born January 5 1926 in Wilkinsburg Pennsylvania) pseudonym S Shimon Adaf (1972 -) is an Israeli poet and author born in Sderot. Ezra Weston Loomis Pound ( Hailey, Idaho Territory, United States October 30 1885 – Venice, Italy November 1 1972 was an American Expatriate Events 1325 - Alfonso IV becomes King of Portugal. 1558 - France takes Calais, the last continental John Allyn Berryman (originally John Allyn Smith) ( October 25, 1914 – January 7, 1972) was an American The poetry of the United States arose first during its beginnings as the constitutionally unified Thirteen colonies (although before this a strong Events 871 - Battle of Ashdown - Ethelred of Wessex defeats a Danish invasion army Kenneth Patchen ( December 13 1911 &ndash January 8 1972) was an American Poet and Novelist. The poetry of the United States arose first during its beginnings as the constitutionally unified Thirteen colonies (although before this a strong Events 1055 - Theodora is crowned Empress of the Byzantine Empire. 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Günter Eich ( 1907 February 1 - 1972 December 20) was a German lyricist dramatist and author Events Works published James Elroy Flecker, The Bridge of Fire Robert W German literature comprises those literary texts written in the German language. Paul Goodman ( 9 September 1911 New York City – 2 August 1972) was an American Sociologist The poetry of the United States arose first during its beginnings as the constitutionally unified Thirteen colonies (although before this a strong This is a list of awards that are or have been given out to writers of Poetry, either for a specific poem collection of poems or body of work This page gives a chronological list of years in poetry (descending order Baxter" at the "Best New Zealand Poems" Web site, accessed October 11, 2007
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