Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance,

Irish Irish may refer to: Common meanings * Someone or something of, from, or related to: ** Ireland, an island situated off the north-western coast of continental Europe ***Éire, Irish language name for the isle ** Northern Ireland, a constituent unit ...

France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its metropolitan area ...

Events

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This This may refer to: * ''This'', the singular proximal demonstrative pronoun Places * This, or ''Thinis'', an ancient city in Upper Egypt * This, Ardennes, a commune in France People with the surname * Hervé This, French culinary chemist Arts, ...

'' magazine founded in the

United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territori ...

by Robert Grenier and

Barrett Watten Barrett Watten (born October 3, 1948) is an American poet, editor, and educator often associated with the Language poets. He is a professor of English at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan where he has taught modernism and cultural studie ...

* March – Cuban poet Herberto Padilla is arrested in Havana and released only after signing a confession stating he is a "vicious character" who took part in counterrevolutionary activities. A letter to Fidel Castro published May 20 in Paris from 60 leftist intellectuals, all supporters of the Cuban revolution, protests Padilla's treatment and accuses Castro of imposing Stalinism on Cuba. Among the 60:

Jean-Paul Sartre Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (, ; ; 21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980) was one of the key figures in the philosophy of existentialism (and phenomenology), a French playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and lit ...

, Simone de Beauvoir, Susan Sontag,

Alberto Moravia Alberto Moravia ( , ; born Alberto Pincherle ; 28 November 1907 – 26 September 1990) was an Italian novelist and journalist. His novels explored matters of modern sexuality, social alienation and existentialism. Moravia is best known for his de ...

Carlos Fuentes Carlos Fuentes Macías (; ; November 11, 1928 – May 15, 2012) was a Mexican novelist and essayist. Among his works are ''The Death of Artemio Cruz'' (1962), ''Aura'' (1962), '' Terra Nostra'' (1975), ''The Old Gringo'' (1985) and ''Christopher ...

, and

Mario Vargas Llosa Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquess of Vargas Llosa (born 28 March 1936), more commonly known as Mario Vargas Llosa (, ), is a Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist and former politician, who also holds Spanish citizenship. Vargas Ll ...

(who saya he continues to support the Cuban revolution). Julio Cortázar of Argentina says he stands by Castro in a verse manifesto, ''Policrítica en la hora de los chacales'' * April 8 – Release of ''Right On!'', a film directed by Herbert Danska, of poetry recitations with bongo accompaniments on New York City streets * April 21 – The 13th century ''

Codex Regius Codex Regius ( la, Cōdex Rēgius, "Royal Book" or "King's Book"; is, Konungsbók) or GKS 2365 4º is an Icelandic codex in which many Old Norse poems from the ''Poetic Edda'' are preserved. Thought to have been written during the 1270s, it ...

'' is returned from

Denmark ) , song = ( en, "King Christian stood by the lofty mast") , song_type = National and royal anthem , image_map = EU-Denmark.svg , map_caption = , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , subdivision_name = Kingdom of Denmark , establish ...

Iceland Iceland ( is, Ísland; ) is a Nordic island country in the North Atlantic Ocean and in the Arctic Ocean. Iceland is the most sparsely populated country in Europe. Iceland's capital and largest city is Reykjavík, which (along with its s ...

under naval escort. * July 2 – Release of '' The Canterbury Tales'', a film directed by Pier Paulo Pasolini, providing a soft-pornographic, controversial version of four tales by Geoffrey Chaucer * ''Counter/measures'' magazine is founded in the

by X. J. Kennedy and his wife, Dorothy. The magazine champions poetry written in traditional patterns and is an influence in the later creation of the

New Formalism New Formalism is a late 20th- and early 21st-century movement in American poetry that has promoted a return to metrical, rhymed verse and narrative poetry on the grounds that all three are necessary if American poetry is to compete with novels an ...

movement.

Works published in English

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Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tot ...

* Margaret Atwood, ''Power Politics'' * bill bissett, ''Nobody Owns the Earth'' *

George Bowering George Harry Bowering, (born December 1, 1935) is a prolific Canadian novelist, poet, historian, and biographer. He was the first Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate. He was born in Penticton, British Columbia, and raised in the nearby town o ...

, ''Touch: Selected Poems 1960–1970'' *

Louis Dudek Louis Dudek, (February 6, 1918 – March 23, 2001) was a Canadian poet, academic, and publisher known for his role in defining Modernism in poetry, and for his literary criticism. He was the author of over two dozen books. In ''A Digital Hist ...

, ''Collected Poetry''. Montréal: Delta Canada.Louis Dudek: Publications
," Canadian Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 6, 2011. *

Northrop Frye Herman Northrop Frye (July 14, 1912 – January 23, 1991) was a Canadian literary critic and literary theorist, considered one of the most influential of the 20th century. Frye gained international fame with his first book, '' Fearful Symm ...

, ''The Bush Garden'' (scholarship) *

John Glassco John Glassco (December 15, 1909 – January 29, 1981) was a Canadian poet, memoirist and novelist. According to Stephen Scobie, "Glassco will be remembered for his brilliant autobiography, his elegant, classical poems, and for his translations."S ...

, ''Selected Poems''. Toronto:

Oxford University Press Oxford University Press (OUP) is the university press of the University of Oxford. It is the largest university press in the world, and its printing history dates back to the 1480s. Having been officially granted the legal right to print books ...

. * Bill Howell, ''The Red Fox'' * Irving Layton, ''The Collected Poems of Irving Layton''. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart.Irving Layton: Publications
" Canadian Poetry Online, Web, May 7, 2011. * Irving Layton, ''Nailpolish''. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart. *

Kenneth Leslie Kenneth Leslie (1892–1974) was a Canadian poet and songwriter, and an influential political activist in the United States during the 1930s and 1940s. He was the founder and editor of ''The Protestant Digest'' (later ''The Protestant''), which ...

, ''The Poems of Kenneth Leslie'' d. Sean Haldane.Ladysmith, Quebec: Ladysmith Press.Burris Devanney, Sandra Campbell and Domenico Di Nardo.
Kenneth Leslie: A Preliminary Bibliography
." ''Canadian Poetry: Studies/Documents/Reviews'' No.05 (Fall/Winter 1979), UWO, Web, April 15, 2011. *

Richard Lewis Richard, Rich, Richie, Rick, Ricky or Dick Lewis may refer to: Arts and entertainment * Richard Field Lewis Jr. (1907–1957), American radio network owner * Dick "Rocko" Lewis (Richard Henry Lewis III, 1908–1966), American entertainer * Rich ...

, editor, ''I Breathe a New Song'' anthology of poems by Eskimos *

Dorothy Livesay Dorothy Kathleen May Livesay, (October 12, 1909 – December 29, 1996) was a Canadian poet who twice won the Governor General's Award in the 1940s, and was "senior woman writer in Canada" during the 1970s and 1980s.Mathews, R.D.. "Dorothy L ...

: ** ''Plainsongs.'' Fredericton, NB: Fiddlehead Poetry Books. ** ''Plainsongs Extended''. Fredericton, NB: Fiddlehead Poetry Books. ** ''Disasters of the Sun''. Burnaby, BC: Blackfish Press. * Anne Marriott, ''Countries'', Fredericton, NB: Fiddlehead Poetry Books.Anne Marriott (1913–1997)
", Canadian Woman Poets, BrockU.ca, Web, April 21, 2011. *

George McWhirter George McWhirter (born September 26, 1939 in Belfast, Northern Ireland) is an Irish-Canadian writer, translator, editor, teacher and Vancouver's first Poet Laureate. The son of a shipyard worker, George McWhirter was raised in a large extended f ...

, ''Catalan Poems'' (winner of the 1972

Commonwealth Poetry Prize The Commonwealth Poetry Prize was an annual poetry prize established in 1972, for a first published book of English poetry from a country other than the United Kingdom. It was initially administered jointly by the Commonwealth Institute and the Nat ...

) *

Alden Nowlan Alden Albert Nowlan (; January 25, 1933 – June 27, 1983) was a Canadian poet, novelist, and playwright. History Alden Nowlan was born into rural poverty in Stanley, Nova Scotia, adjacent to Mosherville, and close to the small town of Windsor ...

, ''Between Tears and Laughter'' *

Michael Ondaatje Philip Michael Ondaatje (; born 12 September 1943) is a Sri Lankan-born Canadian poet, fiction writer, essayist, novelist, editor, and filmmaker. He is the recipient of multiple literary awards such as the Governor General's Award, the Giller P ...

, editor, ''The Broken Ark'', animal verse; Ottawa: Oberon; revised as ''A Book of Beasts'', 1979 (anthology)Web page title
"Archive: Michael Ondaatje (1943– )"
at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed May 7, 2008. *

Andreas Schroeder Andreas Schroeder (b. , West Germany 26 November 1946) is a German-born Canadian poet, novelist, and nonfiction writer who lives in the small town of Roberts Creek, British Columbia. Career Schroeder is the author of some 23 books, including ...

, ''File of Uncertainties'', a chapbook (Sono Nis Press) *

Raymond Souster Raymond Holmes Souster (January 15, 1921 – October 19, 2012) was a Canadian poet whose writing career spanned over 70 years. More than 50 volumes of his own poetry were published during his lifetime, and he edited or co-edited a dozen volumes ...

, ''The Years''.Ottawa: Oberon Press.Notes on Life and Works
," Selected Poetry of Raymond Souster, Representative Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 7, 2011. *

Phyllis Webb Phyllis Webb (April 8, 1927 – November 11, 2021) was a Canadian poet and broadcaster. Webb's poetry had diverse influences, ranging from neo-Confucianism to the field theory of composition developed by the Black Mountain poets. Critics have ...

, ''Selected Poems 1954–65'' * Dale Zieroth and four other poets, ''Mindscapes''

India, in English

Jayanta Mahapatra Jayanta Mahapatra (born 22 October 1928) is an Indian English poet. He is the first Indian poet to win a Sahitya Akademi award for English poetry. He is the author of poems such as "Indian Summer" and "Hunger", which are regarded as classic ...

: ** ''Close the Sky, Ten by Ten'' ( Poetry in English ),

Calcutta Kolkata (, or , ; also known as Calcutta , List of renamed places in India#West Bengal, the official name until 2001) is the Capital city, capital of the Indian States and union territories of India, state of West Bengal, on the eastern ba ...

: Dialogue PublicationsPurnima Mehta
"16. Jayanta Mahapatra: A Silence-bound Pilgrim"
pp 184–185, in ''Indian English Poetry: Critical Perspectives'', edited by Jaydipsinh Dodiya, 2000, Delhi: Prabhat Kumar Sharma for Sarup & Sons, , retrieved via Google Books on July 17, 2010. ** ''Svayamvara and Other Poems'' ( Poetry in English ),

Writers Workshop Writers Workshop is a Kolkata-based literary publisher founded by the Indian poet and scholar Purushottama Lal in 1958. It has published many new Indian authors of post-independence urban literature. Many of these authors later became widely k ...

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

. *

Arvind Krishna Mehrotra Arvind Krishna Mehrotra (born 1947) is an Indian poet, anthologist, literary critic and translator. Biography Arvind Krishna Mehrotra was born in Lahore in 1947. He has published six collections of poetry in English and two of translati ...

, ''Pomes / Poemes / Poemas'' ( Poetry in English ), * G. S. Sharat Chandra, ''April in Nanjangud'' ( Poetry in English ), London: London MagazineNaik, M. K.
''Perspectives on Indian poetry in English''
p. 230, (published by Abhinav Publications, 1984, ), retrieved via Google Books, June 12, 2009. * Michael Chacko Daniels, ''Split into Two'' ( Poetry in English ),

. * Keki N. Daruwalla, ''Apparition in April'' ( Poetry in English ),

. *

Amaresh Datta Amaresh Datta ( – 6 August 2020) was an Indian scholar of English literature. He was the chief editor of the ''Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature'' published by Sahitya Akademi. Biography Datta began teaching at the Sagar University in Madhy ...

, ''Captive Moments'' ( Poetry in English ),

* Subhoranjan Das Gupta, ''Bodhisattva and Other Poems'' ( Poetry in English ),

. * Gopal R. Honnalgere, ''A Wad of Poems'',

Suniti Namjoshi Suniti Namjoshi (born 1941 in Mumbai, India) is a poet and a fabulist. She grew up in India, worked in Canada and at present lives in the southwest of England with English writer Gillian Hanscombe. Her work is playful, inventive and often chall ...

: ** ''More Poems'' ( Poetry in English ),

, India.Web page title
"Suniti Namjoshi"
, Poetry International website, retrieved July 28, 2010 ** ''Cyclone in Pakistan'' ( Poetry in English ),

. *

Nolini Kanta Gupta Nolini Kanta Gupta (13 January 1889 – 7 February 1984) was a revolutionary, linguist, scholar, critic, poet, philosopher and yogi, and the most senior of Sri Aurobindo's disciples. He was born in Faridpur, East Bengal, to a cultured and pr ...

, ''Collected Works'', five volumes, published this year through 1976; Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Book Distribution Agency * Subhas Chandra Saha, editor, ''Modern Indo-Anglian Love Poetry'', anthology;

New Zealand

Fleur Adcock Fleur Adcock (born 10 February 1934) is a New Zealand poet and editor, of English and Northern Irish ancestry, who has lived much of her life in England. She is well-represented in New Zealand poetry anthologies, was awarded an honorary doc ...

, ''High Tide in the Garden'', London: Oxford University Press (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963)Web page titled "Fleur Adcock: New Zealand Literature File"
at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, 2008. * James K. Baxter, ''Jerusalem Daybook'' * Bob Orr, ''Blue Footpaths'' *

Ian Wedde Ian Curtis Wedde (born 17 October 1946) is a New Zealand poet, fiction writer, critic, and art curator. Biography Born in Blenheim, New Zealand, Wedde lived in East Pakistan and England as a child before returning to New Zealand. He attended ...

, ''Homage to Matisse''

United Kingdom

, ''High Tide in the Garden'',

New Zealand New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count ...

native living in and published in the United Kingdom * George Barker, ''Poems of Places and People'' * Frances Bellerby, ''Selected Poems'' *

George Mackay Brown George Mackay Brown (17 October 1921 – 13 April 1996) was a Scottish poet, author and dramatist with a distinctly Orcadian character. He is widely regarded as one of the great Scottish poets of the 20th century. Biography Early life and caree ...

** ''Fishermen with Ploughs''Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, . ** ''Poems New and Selected'' * Tony Connor, ''In the Happy Valley'' * John Cotton, ''Old Movies'' * Maureen Duffy, ''Love Child'' * Michael Ffinch, ''Voices Round a Star'' * Veronica Forrest-Thomson, ''Language-Games'' *

Elaine Feinstein Elaine Feinstein FRSL (born Elaine Cooklin; 24 October 1930 – 23 September 2019) was an English poet, novelist, short-story writer, playwright, biographer and translator. She joined the Council of the Royal Society of Literature in 2007. Earl ...

, ''The Magic Apple Tree'', Hutchinson * Robert Garioch, pen name of Robert Garioch Sutherland, ''The Big Music, and Other Poems'' *

Thom Gunn Thomson William "Thom" Gunn (29 August 1929 – 25 April 2004) was an English poet who was praised for his early verses in England, where he was associated with The Movement, and his later poetry in America, even after moving towards a looser, ...

, ''Moly'', with some poems written under the influence of LSD; others described the experience of taking it *

Adrian Henri Adrian Henri (10 April 1932 – 20 December 2000) was a British poet and painter best remembered as the founder of poetry-rock group the Liverpool Scene and as one of three poets in the best-selling anthology '' The Mersey Sound'', along with ...

, ''Autobiography'' *

Geoffrey Hill Sir Geoffrey William Hill, FRSL (18 June 1932 – 30 June 2016) was an English poet, professor emeritus of English literature and religion, and former co-director of the Editorial Institute, at Boston University. Hill has been considered to be ...

, ''Mercian Hymns'', prose poems *

James Kirkup James Harold Kirkup, FRSL (23 April 1918 – 10 May 2009) was an English poet, translator and travel writer. He wrote over 45 books, including autobiographies, novels and plays. He wrote under many pen-names including James Falconer, Aditya Jha ...

, ''The Body Servant'' *

Paul Muldoon Paul Muldoon (born 20 June 1951) is an Irish poet. He has published more than thirty collections and won a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the T. S. Eliot Prize. At Princeton University he is currently both the Howard G. B. Clark '21 University P ...

, ''Knowing My Place'', Northern Ireland native published in the United Kingdom *

Sylvia Plath Sylvia Plath (; October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for two of her published collections, '' Th ...

, American poet published in the United Kingdom (posthumous): ** ''Crossing the Water'', published this year but containing poems written in 1960 and 1961 ** ''Winter Trees'' * Jeremy Robson, editor, ''The Young British Poets'' anthology *

Vernon Scannell Vernon Scannell (23 January 1922 – 16 November 2007) was a British poet and author. He was at one time a professional boxer, and wrote novels about the sport. Personal life Vernon Scannell, whose birth name was John Vernon Bain, was born i ...

, ''Selected Poems'' *

Jon Silkin Jon Silkin (2 December 1930 – 25 November 1997) was a British poet. Early life Jon Silkin was born in London, in a Litvak Jewish family, his parents were Joseph Silkin and Doris Rubenstein. His grandparents were all from the Lithuanian- par ...

, ''Amana Grass'' *

Stephen Spender Sir Stephen Harold Spender (28 February 1909 – 16 July 1995) was an English poet, novelist and essayist whose work concentrated on themes of social injustice and the class struggle. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry by th ...

, ''The Generous Days'' *

Donald Ward Donald Ward (born – death unknown) was an English professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1930s and 1940s, and Coach (sport), coached in the 1950s. He played at club level for Dewsbury Rams, Dewsbury, Bradford Bulls, Bradford ...

, ''The Dead Snake'' * Patricia Whittaker (poet), ''The Flying Men''

United States

Dick Allen Richard Anthony Allen (March 8, 1942 – December 7, 2020) was an American professional baseball player. During his fifteen-year-long Major League Baseball (MLB) career, he played as a first baseman, third baseman, and outfielder, most notably ...

, '' Anon and Various Time Machine Poems'' * Maya Angelou, '' Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie'' * Gwendolyn Brooks: ** ''Black Steel: Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali'' ** ''The World of Gwendolyn Brooks'' ** ''Aloneness'' * Ted Berrigan and

Anne Waldman Anne Waldman (born April 2, 1945) is an American poet. Since the 1960s, Waldman has been an active member of the Outrider experimental poetry community as a writer, performer, collaborator, professor, editor, scholar, and cultural/political activ ...

, ''Memorial Day'' * Ted Berrigan, ''Train Ride'' * Paul Blackburn, ''The Journals: Blue Mounds Entries'' *

John Ciardi John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second ...

, ''Lives of X'' * Cid Corman, ''Sun Rock Man'' (New Directions) *

Ed Dorn Edward Merton Dorn (April 2, 1929 – December 10, 1999, aged 70) was an American poet and teacher often associated with the Black Mountain poets. His most famous work is '' ''Gunslinger'. Overview Dorn was born in Villa Grove, Illinois. ...

: ** ''Spectrum Breakdown: A Microbook'', Athanor BooksWeb page title
"Archive / Edward Dorn (1929–1999)"
at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved May 8, 2008. ** ''By the Sound, Frontier Press''; republished with a new preface by the author, Black Sparrow Press, 1991 ** ''A Poem Called Alexander Hamilton'', Tansy/Peg Leg Press *

Lawrence Ferlinghetti Lawrence Monsanto Ferlinghetti (March 24, 1919 – February 22, 2021) was an American poet, painter, social activist, and co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers. The author of poetry, translations, fiction, theatre, art criticism, an ...

, ''Back Roads to Far Places'' (New Directions) *

Robert Fitzgerald Robert Stuart Fitzgerald (; 12 October 1910 – 16 January 1985) was an American poet, literary critic and translator whose renderings of the Greek classics "became standard works for a generation of scholars and students".Mitgang, Herbert (Janua ...

, ''Spring Shade'', collected poems and translations, 1931–1970 (New Directions) * Donald S. Fryer, '' Songs and Sonnets Atlantean'' *

Michael S. Harper Michael Steven Harper (March 18, 1938 – May 7, 2016) was an American poet and English professor at Brown University, who was the Poet Laureate of Rhode Island from 1988 to 1993. His poetry was influenced by jazz and history. Among the infl ...

, ''History Is Your Own Heartbeat'', won the Black Academy of Arts & Letters Award for poetryWeb page titled "Michael S. Harper"
at the Academy of American Poets website, accessed April 23, 2008. *

John Hollander John Hollander (October 28, 1929 – August 17, 2013) was an American poet and literary critic. At the time of his death, he was Sterling Professor Emeritus of English at Yale University, having previously taught at Connecticut College, Hunter ...

, ''The Night Mirror'' * Hugh Kenner, ''The Pound Era'' (University of California Press), Canadian writing and published in the United States; criticism *

Galway Kinnell Galway Mills Kinnell (February 1, 1927 – October 28, 2014) was an American poet. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his 1982 collection, ''Selected Poems'' and split the National Book Award for Poetry with Charles Wright. From 1989 to 1 ...

, ''The Book of Nightmares'' *

Stanley Kunitz Stanley Jasspon Kunitz (; July 29, 1905May 14, 2006) was an American poet. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress twice, first in 1974 and then again in 2000. Biography Kunitz was born in Worcester, Massach ...

, ''The Testing Tree'' * James McMichael, ''Against the Falling Evil'' * Carl Rakosi, ''Ere-Voice'' *

Adrienne Rich Adrienne Cecile Rich ( ; May 16, 1929 – March 27, 2012) was an American poet, essayist and feminist. She was called "one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century", and was credited with bringing "the ...

, ''The Will to Change'' * Richard Shelton, ''The Tattooed Desert'' *

Charles Simic Dušan Simić ( sr-cyr, Душан Симић, ; born May 9, 1938), known as Charles Simic, is a Serbian American poet and former co-poetry editor of the ''Paris Review''. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1990 for ''The World Doesn' ...

, ''Dismantling the Silence'' * Clark Ashton Smith, '' Selected Poems'' *

Richard Wilbur Richard Purdy Wilbur (March 1, 1921 – October 14, 2017) was an American poet and literary translator. One of the foremost poets of his generation, Wilbur's work, composed primarily in traditional forms, was marked by its wit, charm, and gentle ...

, translator, ''

The School for Wives ''The School for Wives'' (french: L'école des femmes; ) is a theatrical comedy written by the seventeenth century French playwright Molière and considered by some critics to be one of his finest achievements. It was first staged at the Palai ...

'' by

Molière Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (, ; 15 January 1622 (baptised) – 17 February 1673), known by his stage name Molière (, , ), was a French playwright, actor, and poet, widely regarded as one of the greatest writers in the French language and worl ...

(in verse) * James Wright, ''Collected Poems'', including 30 new poems

Other in English

Kofi Awoonor Kofi Awoonor (born George Kofi Nyidevu Awoonor-Williams; 13 March 1935 – 21 September 2013) was a Ghanaian poet and author whose work combined the poetic traditions of his native Ewe people and contemporary and religious symbolism to depict A ...

, ''Night of My Blood'',

Ghana Ghana (; tw, Gaana, ee, Gana), officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It abuts the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, sharing borders with Ivory Coast in the west, Burkina Faso in the north, and To ...

* John Figueroa, editor, ''Caribbean Voices'', anthology, Evans Brothers, Caribbean * Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali, ''Sounds of a Cowhide Drum'',

South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the Atlantic Ocean, South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the ...

* Geoff Page and Philip Roberts, ''Two Poets'', St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, Australia * Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Australia: ** Editor: ''Australian Poetry 1971'', anthology, Sydney: Angus & Robertson ** ''Where the Wind Came'', Sydney: Angus and Robertson

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:

Denmark ) , song = ( en, "King Christian stood by the lofty mast") , song_type = National and royal anthem , image_map = EU-Denmark.svg , map_caption = , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , subdivision_name = Kingdom of Denmark , establish ...

Jørgen Leth Jørgen Leth (; born 14 June 1937) is a Danish poet and film director who is considered a leading figure in experimental documentary film making. Most notable are his documentary ''A Sunday in Hell'' (1977) and his surrealistic short film '' Th ...

, ''Eventyret om den sædvanlige udsigt'' *

Klaus Rifbjerg Klaus Rifbjerg (15 December 1931 – 4 April 2015) was a Danish writer. He authored more than 170 novels, books and essays. In 1965 he co-produced the film '' 4x4'' which was entered into the 4th Moscow International Film Festival. Biography Ri ...

, ''Mytologi''

French language

Canada, in French

* Jacques Brault, ''La Poésie ce matin'' (published in Paris) * Raoul Duguay, ''L'Apokalypso'' *

Paul-Marie Lapointe Paul-Marie is a French masculine given name, and may refer to: * Paul-Marie Boulanger (born 1950), Belgian sociologist * Paul-Marie Coûteaux (born 1956), French politician * Paul-Marie Delaunay (1878–1958), French physician and historian * Paul- ...

, ''Le Réel absolu'' (Editions de l'Hexagone) *

Gilbert Langevin Gilbert may refer to: People and fictional characters *Gilbert (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters *Gilbert (surname), including a list of people Places Australia * Gilbert River (Queensland) * Gilbert River (South ...

: ** ''Ouvrir le feu'' ** ''Stress'' * Rina Lasnier, ''La Salle des rêves'' * Olivier Marchand, ''Par Détresse et tendresse'' (Editions de l'Hexagone) *

Pierre Nepveu Pierre Nepveu (born 16 September 1946 in Montreal, Quebec) is a French Canadian poet, novelist and essayist. As a scholar, he specializes in modern Quebec poetry, in particular the work of Gaston Miron. He taught at the French Studies Departm ...

, ''Voies rapides'', Montréal: HMH *

Claude Péloquin Claude Péloquin (1942 – 25 November 2018) was a Québécois poet, writer, singer, songwriter, screenwriter, and director. Péloquin published more than twenty books of poetry. He was also the author of many popular songs, including Robert C ...

, ''Pour la Grandeur de l'Homme''

France

Anne-Marie Albiach Anne-Marie Albiach (9 August 1937 – 4 November 2012) was a contemporary French poet and translator. Overview Anne-Marie Albiach's was a renowned French poet and writer born in Saint -Nazaire, France on 9 August 1937. Anne- Marie Albiach ...

, ''Etat''Auster, Paul, editor, ''The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets'', New York: Random House, 1982 * M. Bataille, ''Le Cri dans le mur'' * L. Bérimont, ''L'Évidence même'' *

Yves Bonnefoy Yves Jean Bonnefoy (24 June 1923, Tours – 1 July 2016 Paris) was a French poet and art historian. He also published a number of translations, most notably the plays of William Shakespeare which are considered among the best in French. He was pr ...

, ' 'Traité du pianiste '' * René Char: ** ''L'Honneur devant Dieu'' ** ''Le nu perdu'' ("Nakedness Lost") * P. Damarix, ''L'Expérience magique'' * Alain Delahaye, ''L'Eveil des traversees'' * Jean Follain, ''Éspaces d'instants'', the poet was killed in an accident days after publication * Robert Marteau, ''Sibylles'' * Francis Ponge, ''La Fabrique du Pré'' *

Jacques Roubaud Jacques Roubaud (; born 5 December 1932 in Caluire-et-Cuire, Rhône) is a French poet, writer and mathematician Life and career Jacques Roubaud taught Mathematics at University of Paris X Nanterre and Poetry at EHESS. A member of the Oulipo gr ...

Octavio Paz Octavio Paz Lozano (March 31, 1914 – April 19, 1998) was a Mexican poet and diplomat. For his body of work, he was awarded the 1977 Jerusalem Prize, the 1981 Miguel de Cervantes Prize, the 1982 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, and ...

Charles Tomlinson Alfred Charles Tomlinson, CBE (8 January 1927 – 22 August 2015) was an English poet, translator, academic, and illustrator. He was born in Penkhull, and grew up in Basford, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. Life After attending Longton High Sc ...

and

Edoardo Sanguineti Edoardo Sanguineti (9 December 1930 – 18 May 2010) was a Genoese poet, writer and academic, universally considered one of the major Italian authors of the second half of the twentieth century. Biography During the 1960s he was a leader of th ...

, ''Renga''

=Anthologies

= * J. L. Bédouin, editor, ''La Poésie Surréaliste'' * Pierre Seghers, editor, ''La Poésie symboliste''

Hebrew

Leah Goldberg Leah Goldberg or Lea Goldberg ( he, לאה גולדברג; May 29, 1911, Königsberg – January 15, 1970, Jerusalem) was a prolific Hebrew-language poet, author, playwright, literary translator, and comparative literary researcher. Her writ ...

, ' (posthumous) * I. Efros, ', collected poems * D. Avidan, ' * Y. Amichai, ' * N. Yonatan, ' * D. Pagis, ' * R. Adi, ' * A. Eldon, ' * R. Shani, ' * M. Meir, ' * M. Oren, ' * M. Megged, editor, ', anthology of modern Hebrew poetry * E. Silberschlag, ' * R. Avinoam, ' * R. Lee, '

Hungary

György Petri György Petri (22 December 1943 – 16 July 2000) was a Hungarian poet. Childhood and youth He was born in 1943 to a multi-ethnic family in Budapest. After his father's death he was raised by his mother, grandparents and aunts. According to his ...

, ''Magyarázatok M. számára''

India

In each section, listed in alphabetical order by first name:

Assamese

* Hiren Bhattacharya, ''Mor Des Mor Premar Kavita'' ("Poems of My Country and of My Love"); Assamese languageGeorge, K. M., editor
''Modern Indian Literature, an Anthology: An Anthology: Surveys and Poems''
p. 65, published by Sahitya Akademi, 1992, , retrieved January 8, 2009. *

Nilmani Phookan Nilmani Phookan (born 10 September 1933) is an Indian poet in Assamese language and an academic. His work, replete with symbolism, is inspired by French symbolism and is representative of the genre in Assamese poetry. His notable works includ ...

; Assamese language: ** ''Japani Kavita'', Guwahati, Assam: Barua Book Agency, Assamese-language ** ''Phuli Thaka Suryamukhi Phultor Pine'' ("Towards the Blooming Sunflower")

Other languages in India

* K. Satchidanandan,

Malayalam Malayalam (; , ) is a Dravidian languages, Dravidian language spoken in the Indian state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry (union territory), Puducherry (Mahé district) by the Malayali people. It is one of 2 ...

-language: ** ''Anchu Sooryan'', ("Five Suns") ** ''Kurukshetram'', ("Studies in Modern Poetry"); scholarshipResume for K. Satchidanandan title
"K. Satchidanandan/Bio data: Highlights"
at the National Translation Mission website, retrieved July 11, 2010 *

Nirendranath Chakravarti Nirendranath Chakravarty (19 October 1924 – 25 December 2018) was a contemporary Bengali poet, Translator, Novelist. He lived in Bangur Avenue, Kolkata. Biography He was born in Faridpur district of undivided Bengal in 1924. After graduati ...

, ''Ulongo Raja'', Kolkata: Ananda Publishers;

Bengali Bengali or Bengalee, or Bengalese may refer to: *something of, from, or related to Bengal, a large region in South Asia * Bengalis, an ethnic and linguistic group of the region * Bengali language, the language they speak ** Bengali alphabet, the w ...

-language * Udaya Narayana Singh, ''Amrtasya Putraah'', Calcutta: Lok Sahitya Parishad, Maithili-language * Vinod Kumar Shukla, ''Lagbhag Jai Hind'', Sindhi: Ashok Vajpeyi;

Hindi Hindi ( Devanāgarī: or , ), or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: ), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in the Hindi Belt region encompassing parts of northern, central, eastern, and western India. Hindi has been ...

-language

Italy

Attilio Bertolucci Attilio Bertolucci (18 November 1911 – 14 June 2000) was an Italian poet and writer. He was father to film directors Bernardo and Giuseppe Bertolucci. Biography Bertolucci was born at San Lazzaro ( province of Parma), to a family of agricult ...

, ''Viaggio d'inverno'' ("Winter Voyage"), marking a change of style in the author's poetry * Libero De Libero, ''Di brace in brace'' *

Eugenio Montale Eugenio Montale (; 12 October 1896 – 12 September 1981) was an Italian poet, prose writer, editor and translator, and recipient of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Literature. Life and works Early years Montale was born in Genoa. His family were che ...

: ** ''Satura (1962–1970)'' (published in January);

Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical ...

Eugenio Montale, ''Collected Poems 1920–1954'', translated and edited by Jonathan Galassi, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998, ** ''Diario del '71 e del '72'' (poetry) a private edition of 100 copies; a second, nonprivate edition was published in 1973;

Norway

* Hans Borli, ''Isfuglen'' * Alfred Hauge, ''Det evige sekund'' *

Peter R. Holm Peter Røwde Holm (born 5 April 1931) is a Norwegian poet, author and translator. Holm has also worked as an observer at the United Nations' arms control and disarmament conferences. Ever since his writing debut in 1955, he has held an important p ...

, ''Synslinjer'' *

Ernst Orvil Ernst Orvil (née Ernst Richard Nilsen; 12 April 1898 – 16 June 1985) was a Norwegian novelist, short story writer, poet and playwright. Biography Ernst Richard Orvil was born in Kristiania (now Oslo), Norway. His parents Johan Nilsen (Rev ...

, ''Dikt i utvalg'' *

Sigmund Skard Sigmund Skard (31 July 1903 – 26 May 1995) was a Norwegian poet, essayist and professor of American literature. Biography Skard was born in Kristiansand, Norway. He was a son of educators Matias Skard (1846–1927) and Gyda Christensen (1868� ...

, ''Popel ved flypass''

Portuguese language

Brazil

* Joaquim Cardozo, * Murilo Mendes, * Henriqueta Lisboa, *

Manuel Bandeira Manuel Carneiro de Sousa Bandeira Filho (April 19, 1886 – October 13, 1968) was a Brazilian poet, literary critic, and translator, who wrote over 20 books of poetry and prose. Life and career Bandeira was born in Recife, Pernambuco. In 190 ...

, , a selection from previous books * Foed Castro Chamma, * Anderson Braga Horta,

Spanish language

Latin America

Delmira Agustini Delmira Agustini (October 24, 1886 – July 6, 1914) was an Uruguayan poet of the early 20th century. Biography Born in Montevideo, Uruguay, she began writing when she was ten and had her first book of poems published when she was still a tee ...

, ''Poesías completas'', prólogue and notes by Manuel Alvar, posthumously published (died 1914), Barcelona: Editorial Labor,

Uruguayan Uruguay (; ), officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay ( es, República Oriental del Uruguay), is a country in South America. It shares borders with Argentina to its west and southwest and Brazil to its north and northeast; while bordering ...

poet published in

Spain , image_flag = Bandera de España.svg , image_coat = Escudo de España (mazonado).svg , national_motto = ''Plus ultra'' (Latin)(English: "Further Beyond") , national_anthem = (English: "Royal March") , i ...

Web page title
"Delmira Agustini"
at the Universitat Jaume's "Modernismo en España e Hispanoamérica" website, retrieved September 1, 2011 * Herberto Padilla, ', published before his arrest in Cuba (see Events above) *

Roberto Fernández Retamar Roberto Fernández Retamar (9 June 1930 – 20 July 2019, Havana) was a Cuban poet, essayist, literary critic and President of the Casa de las Américas. In his role as President of the organization, Fernández also served on the Council of State o ...

, ' (Cuba) *

José Lezama Lima José María Andrés Fernando Lezama Lima (December 19, 1910 – August 9, 1976) was a Cuban writer, poet and essayist. He is considered one of the most influential figures in Cuban and Latin American literature. His novel ''Paradiso'' is one of ...

, ' (Cuba) * Ernesto Mejía Sánchez, ' (Nicaragua) * Carlos Solórzano, ' (Guatemala) * Five authors, including Agustín del Rosario, ' * M.L. Mendoza, '

Spain

, ''Poesías completas'', prólogue and notes by Manuel Alvar, posthumously published (died 1914), Barcelona: Editorial Labor,

poet published in

Vicente Aleixandre Vicente Pío Marcelino Cirilo Aleixandre y Merlo (; 26 April 1898 – 14 December 1984) was a Spanish poet who was born in Seville. Aleixandre received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1977 "for a creative poetic writing which illuminates ma ...

, ' * Justo Jorge Padrón, ''Los oscuros fuegos'' * José Angel Valente, ', essays * José María Valverde, '

Sweden

* Ylva Eggehorn, ''Ska vi dela'' * Bo Setterlind, ''Himlen har landat'' *

Karl Vennberg Karl Vennberg (11 April 1910 – 12 May 1995) was a Swedish poet, writer and translator. Born in Blädinge, Alvesta Municipality, Kronoberg County as the son of a farmer, Vennberg studied at Lund University and in Stockholm and worked as a tea ...

, ''Sju ord pa tunnelbanan'' *

Lars Forssell Lars Hans Carl Abraham Forssell (14 January 192826 July 2007) was a Swedish writer and member of the Swedish Academy. Forssell was a versatile writer who worked within many genres, including poetry, drama and songwriting. He was married from 1951 ...

, ''Oktober dikter'' ("October Poems") * Gören Palm, ''Varför har nätterna inga namn?'' *

Kerstin Thorvall Kerstin Thorvall (12 August 1925 in Eskilstuna – 9 April 2010) was an influential Swedish novelist.O'Mahony, Paul. (10 April 2010)Outspoken author Kerstin Thorvall dies '' The Local'' Thorvall was born in Eskilstuna on 12 August 1925. She work ...

, ''Följetong i skärt och svart''

Yiddish

* Brakha Coodley, ''Not on Bread Alone'' * Leo Kussman, ''Ballads of a Generation'' * Berl Siegal, ''Poems for Children'' * Mier Shtiker, ''Jewish Landscape'', Volume 2 * M. M. Saffir, ''Creator of Various Dreams'' * Menakhem Stern, ''Songs at Midnight'' * Rochelle Weprinski, ''The Only Star'' *

Aaron Zeitlin Aaron Zeitlin (3 June 1898 – 28 September 1973) was a Jewish American educator and writer. He authored several books on Yiddish literature, poetry and parapsychology. Biography Zeitlin was born in Uvarovichi, Russia (now Belarus) to Hillel Z ...

, ''Poems of Destruction and Faith'' * Joseph Kerler, ''Song Between Teeth'' * Jacob Sternberg, ''The Circle of Years''

Other

* Simin Behbahani, ''Rastakhiz'' ("Resurrection"),

Persia Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

* Paul Celan, '' Snow Part'' (''Schneepart''), German *

Odysseus Elytis Odysseas Elytis ( el, Οδυσσέας Ελύτης , pen name of Odysseas Alepoudellis, el, Οδυσσέας Αλεπουδέλλης; 2 November 1911 – 18 March 1996) was a Greek poet, man of letters, essayist and translator, regarded as th ...

, ''Ο ήλιος ο ηλιάτορας'' ("The Sovereign Sun"),

Greece Greece,, or , romanized: ', officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the southern tip of the Balkans, and is located at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Greece shares land borders ...

Alan Llwyd Alan Llwyd (born 1948), original name Alan Lloyd Roberts, is a Welsh poet, literary critic and editor. He is one of the most prolific Welsh-language poets in the last quarter of the 20th century. He is also known under the Bardic name Meilir Emr ...

, ''Y March Hud'' ("The Magic Horse"), Welsh * F. Pratz, ''Deutsche Gedichte von 1900 bis zur Gegenwart'', anthology,

German German(s) may refer to: * Germany (of or related to) ** Germania (historical use) * Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language ** For citizens of Germany, see also German nationality law **Ge ...

Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., editors, ''The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics'', 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "German Poetry" article, "Anthologies in German" section, pp. 473–474. * Ndoc Gjetja, ''Rrezatim'' ("Radiation"), his first book of poetry;

Albania Albania ( ; sq, Shqipëri or ), or , also or . officially the Republic of Albania ( sq, Republika e Shqipërisë), is a country in Southeastern Europe. It is located on the Adriatic and Ionian Seas within the Mediterranean Sea and shares ...

Seán Ó Ríordáin Seán Pádraig Ó Ríordáin (3 December 1916 – 21 February 1977), sometimes referred to as an Ríordánach, was an Irish language poet and later a newspaper columnist. He is credited with introducing European themes to Irish poetry, and is wi ...

, ''Línte Liombó'' (Limbo Lines),

Irish language Irish ( Standard Irish: ), also known as Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the Insular Celtic branch of the Celtic language family, which is a part of the Indo-European language family. Irish is indigenous to the island of Ireland and was ...

Ireland Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe, north-western Europe. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel (Grea ...

* Siegbert Prawer, editor, ''Seventeen Modern German Poets'', anthology published by Oxford University Press in the United Kingdom, poems in

* Hans Verhagen, ''Duizenden zonsondergangen'' ("Thousands of sunsets"),

Netherlands ) , anthem = ( en, "William of Nassau") , image_map = , map_caption = , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , subdivision_name = Kingdom of the Netherlands , established_title = Before independence , established_date = Spanish Netherl ...

Awards and honors

* Nobel Prize in Literature: Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet and diplomat

Canada

* See

1971 Governor General's Awards Each winner of the 1971 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit was selected by a panel of judges administered by the Canada Council for the Arts. Winners English Language *Fiction: Mordecai Richler, ''St. Urbain's Horseman''. *Poetry or Dr ...

for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

United Kingdom

Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize The Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize was awarded by the Poetry Society of London for a collection of poetry. It is named after Alice Hunt Bartlett who was the American editor of the society's '' Poetry Review'' from 1923 to 1949. The prize was establis ...

, ''Mercian Hymns'' *

Cholmondeley Award The Cholmondeley Awards () are annual awards for poetry given by the Society of Authors in the United Kingdom. Awards honour distinguished poets, from a fund endowed by the Dowager Marchioness of Cholmondeley in 1966. Since 1991 the award has be ...

Charles Causley Charles Stanley Causley CBE FRSL (24 August 1917 – 4 November 2003) was a British poet, school teacher and writer. His work is often noted for its simplicity and directness as well as its associations with folklore, legends and magic, espec ...

Gavin Ewart Gavin Buchanan Ewart FRSL (4 February 1916 – 23 October 1995) was a British poet who contributed to Geoffrey Grigson's ''New Verse'' at the age of seventeen. Life Ewart was born in London and educated at Wellington College, before entering ...

Hugo Williams Hugo Williams (born Hugh Anthony Mordaunt Vyner Williams) is an English poet, journalist and travel writer. He received the T. S. Eliot Prize in 1999 and Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2004. Family and early life Williams was born in 1942 in ...

* Eric Gregory Award:

Martin Booth Martin Booth (7 September 1944 – 12 February 2004) was an English novelist and poet. He also worked as a teacher and screenwriter, and was the founder of the Sceptre Press. Early life Martin Booth was born in Lancashire England, the son of ...

, Florence Bull, John Pook, D. M. Warman, John Welch *

Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry The Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry is awarded for a book of verse published by someone in any of the Commonwealth realms. Originally the award was open only to British subjects living in the United Kingdom, but in 1985 the scope was extended to in ...

* First Whitbread Award for Poetry:

, ''Mercian Hymns''

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"): Josephine Jacobsen appointed this year. *

Bollingen Prize The Bollingen Prize for Poetry is a literary honor bestowed on an American poet in recognition of the best book of new verse within the last two years, or for lifetime achievement.

and

Mona Van Duyn Mona Jane Van Duyn (May 9, 1921 – December 2, 2004) was an American poet. She was appointed United States Poet Laureate in 1992. Biography Early years Van Duyn was born May 9, 1921 in Waterloo, Iowa."Van Duyn, Mona (1921–2004)." '' Dictio ...

Frost Medal The Poetry Society of America is a literary organization founded in 1910 by poets, editors, and artists. It is the oldest poetry organization in the United States. Past members of the society have included such renowned poets as Witter Bynner, Ro ...

Melville Cane Melville Henry Cane (April 15, 1879 – March 10, 1980) was an American poet and lawyer. He studied at Columbia University, and was the author of the influential book, ''Making a Poem'' (1953). Early life and education As a Columbia Universi ...

National Book Award for Poetry The National Book Award for Poetry is one of five annual National Book Awards, which are given by the National Book Foundation to recognize outstanding literary work by US citizens. They are awards "by writers to writers".

, ''To See, To Take'' *

Pulitzer Prize for Poetry The Pulitzer Prize for Poetry is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes awarded annually for Letters, Drama, and Music. It was first presented in 1922, and is given for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author, published ...

: William S. Merwin, ''The Carrier of Ladders'' * Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: James Wright

Elsewhere

* Goodman Fielder Wattie Book Award for Poetry: Rosemary Rolleston, ''William & Mary Rolleston''

Births

* June 28 –

Sophie Hannah Sophie Hannah (born 1971) is a British poet and novelist. From 1997 to 1999 she was Fellow Commoner in Creative Arts at Trinity College, Cambridge, and between 1999 and 2001 a junior research fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford. She lives with h ...

English English usually refers to: * English language * English people English may also refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England ** English national ide ...

poet and novelist * September 27 – Petrus Akkordeon,

poet * October 18 – Jan Wagner,

poet * November 18 –

Terrance Hayes Terrance Hayes (born November 18, 1971) is an American poet and educator who has published seven poetry collections. His 2010 collection, ''Lighthead'', won the National Book Award for Poetry in 2010. In September 2014, he was one of 21 recipient ...

, American poet * Jason Walford Davies, Welsh poet and academic * Matthew Hollis,

poet,

literary biographer When studying literature, biography and its relationship to literature is often a subject of literary criticism, and is treated in several different forms. Two scholarly approaches use biography or biographical approaches to the past as a tool for ...

and editor

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "

ear An ear is the organ that enables hearing and, in mammals, body balance using the vestibular system. In mammals, the ear is usually described as having three parts—the outer ear, the middle ear and the inner ear. The outer ear consists of ...

in poetry" article: * January 2 –

E. V. Knox Edmund George Valpy Knox (10 May 1881 – 2 January 1971) was a poet and satirist who wrote under the pseudonym Evoe. He was editor of ''Punch'' 1932–1949, having been a regular contributor in verse and prose for many years. Life Knox was ...

(born 1881),

poet and satirist * May 9 –

Ogden Nash Frederic Ogden Nash (August 19, 1902 – May 19, 1971) was an American poet well known for his light verse, of which he wrote over 500 pieces. With his unconventional rhyming schemes, he was declared by ''The New York Times'' the country's bes ...

, 68, American poet best known for writing pithy and funny

light verse Light poetry or light verse is poetry that attempts to be humorous. Light poems are usually brief, can be on a frivolous or serious subject, and often feature word play including puns, adventurous rhyme, and heavy alliteration. Typically, light ...

* March 7 –

Stevie Smith Florence Margaret Smith, known as Stevie Smith (20 September 1902 – 7 March 1971), was an English poet and novelist. She won the Cholmondeley Award and was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. A play, '' Stevie'' by Hugh Whitemore, ba ...

, 67,

British British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies. ** Britishness, the British identity and common culture * British English, ...

poet and novelist, of a brain tumor * March 9 – Jean Follain, French poet * March 17 – Hiraide Shū 平出修 (born 1878),

Japanese Japanese may refer to: * Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia * Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan * Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture ** Japanese diaspor ...

, late

Meiji period The is an era of Japanese history that extended from October 23, 1868 to July 30, 1912. The Meiji era was the first half of the Empire of Japan, when the Japanese people moved from being an isolated feudal society at risk of colonization ...

novelist, poet, and lawyer; represented defendant in the

High Treason Incident The , also known as the , was a socialist- anarchist plot to assassinate the Japanese Emperor Meiji in 1910, leading to a mass arrest of leftists, and the execution of 12 alleged conspirators in 1911. Investigation On 20 May 1910, the police se ...

; a co-founder of the literary journal ''Subaru'' * June 5 –

Clifford Dyment Clifford Henry Dyment FRSL (20 January 1914 – 5 June 1971) was a British poet, literary critic, editor and journalist, best known for his poems on countryside topics. Born to Welsh parents, his mother was widowed when Dyment was four years old.P ...

(born 1914),

poet, literary critic and editor, and journalist * June 6 –

Edward Andrade Edward Neville da Costa Andrade FRS (27 December 1887 – 6 June 1971) was an English physicist, writer, and poet. He told ''The Literary Digest'' his name was pronounced "as written, i.e., like ''air raid'', with ''and'' substituted for ''air' ...

(born 1887),

physicist and poet. * June 13 – Hinatsu Kōnosuke 日夏耿之介, a pen-name of Higuchi Kunito (born 1890),

, poet, editor and academic known for romantic and gothic poetry patterned after English literature; fervent

Roman Catholic Roman or Romans most often refers to: *Rome, the capital city of Italy * Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD * Roman people, the people of ancient Rome *'' Epistle to the Romans'', shortened to ''Romans'', a let ...

, co-founder, with Horiguchi Daigaku and Saijo Yaso, of ''Shijin'' ("Poets") magazine * June 25 –

Charles Vildrac Charles Vildrac (November 22, 1882 – June 25, 1971), born "Charles Messager",''1971 Britannica Book of the Year'' (for events of 1971), "Obituaries 1971" article, page 532, "Vildrac, Charles" item was a French libertarian playwright, poet a ...

, French poet and playwright * July 3 –

Jim Morrison James Douglas Morrison (December 8, 1943 – July 3, 1971) was an American singer, poet and songwriter who was the lead vocalist of the rock band the Doors. Due to his wild personality, poetic lyrics, distinctive voice, unpredictable and err ...

, 27, American singer, songwriter, poet; best known as the lead singer and lyricist of

The Doors The Doors were an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1965, with vocalist Jim Morrison, keyboardist Ray Manzarek, guitarist Robby Krieger, and drummer John Densmore. They were among the most controversial and influential rock acts ...

* July 13 – R. A. K. Mason (born 1905),

* September (exact date not known) — Paul Blackburn, 44, American poet and translator, from esophageal cancer * September 9 – Lenore G. Marshall, 72 * September 20 or September 21 (sources differ) –

Giorgos Seferis Giorgos or George Seferis (; gr, Γιώργος Σεφέρης ), the pen name of Georgios Seferiades (Γεώργιος Σεφεριάδης; March 13 – September 20, 1971), was a Greek poet and diplomat. He was one of the most important G ...

Greek Greek may refer to: Greece Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe: *Greeks, an ethnic group. *Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family. **Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...

poet and winner of a

Nobel Prize for Literature ) , image = Nobel Prize.png , caption = , awarded_for = Outstanding contributions in literature , presenter = Swedish Academy , holder = Annie Ernaux (2022) , location = Stockholm, Sweden , year = 1901 , ...

* October 10 – J. C. Beaglehole (born 1901),

historian and poet * November 14 –

Kyōsuke Kindaichi was a Japanese linguist, chiefly known for his dictations of yukar, or sagas of the Ainu people, as well as his study of the Matagi dialect. He is the author of the dictionary '' Meikai Kokugo Jiten''. Biography Kindaichi was born in Morioka, ...

金田一京助 (born 1882),

linguist and poet, father of linguist Haruhiko Kindaichi * November 19 –

Jacob Glatstein Jacob Glatstein (1896–1971) yiddish יעקב גלאטשטיין was a Poland, Polish-born United States, American poet and literary critic who wrote in the Yiddish language. His name is also spelled Yankev Glatshteyn or Jacob Glatshteyn. Early ...

, 75, American

Yiddish Yiddish (, or , ''yidish'' or ''idish'', , ; , ''Yidish-Taytsh'', ) is a West Germanic language historically spoken by Ashkenazi Jews. It originated during the 9th century in Central Europe, providing the nascent Ashkenazi community with a ve ...

poet and critic * November 25 –

Andrew Young Andrew Jackson Young Jr. (born March 12, 1932) is an American politician, diplomat, and activist. Beginning his career as a pastor, Young was an early leader in the civil rights movement, serving as executive director of the Southern Christian L ...

(born 1885), Scottish-born poet and clergyman * December 14 – Munir Chowdhury also "Munier Chowdhury" (born 1925),

educator, playwright, literary critic and political dissident * December 18 –

Aleksandr Tvardovsky Aleksandr Trifonovich Tvardovsky ( rus, links=no, Александр Трифонович Твардовский, p=ɐlʲɪkˈsandr ˈtrʲifənəvʲɪtɕ tvɐrˈdofskʲɪj; – 18 December 1971) was a Soviet poet and writer and chief editor of ' ...

, 61, Russian poet, editor of the official Soviet literary journal '' Novy Mir'' who fought hard to maintain its independence

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