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Irish
Irish may refer to:
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* 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 ...
or
France
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).
Events
* April – The dictatorship in
Portugal
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falls; in the six months prior, with increasing repression and a discouraging atmosphere, little new work has been published; yet later in the year, not much new poetry is published either as "writers who had based their style on censor-proof allusiveness and their themes on protest would now have to do some retooling".
* July 23 – The dictatorial Greek junta falls; start of the ''
Metapolitefsi
The Metapolitefsi ( el, Μεταπολίτευση, , " regime change") was a period in modern Greek history
The history of Greece encompasses the history of the territory of the modern nation-state of Greece as well as that of the Greek peop ...
'': exiled poets, authors and intellectuals return to the country to publish there.
* October 4 – While Ann Sexton is having lunch with her friend, fellow poet and collaborator
Maxine Kumin
Maxine Kumin (June 6, 1925 – February 6, 2014) was an American poet and author. She was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1981–1982.
Biography Early years
Maxine Kumin was born Maxine Winokur on June ...
to review Sexton's most recent book, ''The Awful Rowing Toward God'', without a note or any warning, Sexton goes into her garage, starts the ignition of her car and dies of carbon monoxide poisoning.
* The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics is founded by
Allen Ginsberg
Irwin Allen Ginsberg (; June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet and writer. As a student at Columbia University in the 1940s, he began friendships with William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, forming the core of the Beat Gener ...
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 ...
.
Works published in English
Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:
* Robert Gray, ''Creekwater Journal'' Australia
*
* Les Murray, ''Lunch and Counter Lunch'', Australia Les Murray page at The Poetry Archive, accessed October 15, 2007
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 ...
, ''In the Flesh''
* Matt Cohen, ''Peach Melba''
* A.M. Klein, ''The Collected Poems of A.M. Klein''.Toronto; New York: McGraw-Hill Ryerson."A.M. Klein: Publications," Canadian Poetry Online, UToronto, Web, May 7, 2011.
* Patrick Lane, ''Beware the Months of Fire''
* Irving Layton, ''The Pole-Vaulter''. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart.Irving Layton: Publications " Canadian Poetry Online, Web, May 7, 2011.
* Irving Layton, ''Seventy-five Greek Poems, 1951-1974''. Athens: Hermias Publications.
* Dennis Lee, ''Not Abstract Harmonies But.'' Vancouver: Kanchenjunga Press
*
Gwendolyn MacEwen
Gwendolyn Margaret MacEwen (1 September 1941 – 29 November 1987) was a Canadian poet and novelist.Gwendoly ...
, ''Magic Animals: Selected Poems Old and New''. Toronto: Macmillan.Gwendolyn MacEwen ," Canadian Women Poets, BrockU.ca, Web, Apr. 22, 2001.
*
Jay Macpherson
Jean Jay Macpherson (June 13, 1931 – March 21, 2012) was a Canadian lyric poet and scholar. '' The Encyclopædia Britannica'' calls her "a member of 'the mythopoeic school of poetry,' who expressed serious religious and philosophical themes in ...
, ''Welcoming Disaster: Poems, 1970-74.'' Toronto: Saannes Publications.Jay Macpherson, 1931- , Canadian Women Poets," BrockU.ca, Web, Apr. 10, 2011
* P. K. Page, ''Poems Selected and New'', selected and edited by Margaret AtwoodRoberts, Neil, editor ''A Companion to Twentieth-century Poetry'' Part III, Chapter 3, "Canadian Poetry", by Cynthia Messenger, Blackwell Publishing, 2003, ; retrieved January 3, 2009
* Joe Rosenblatt, ''Blind Photographer''. Press Porcepic.
*
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 ...
, ''Change-Up: New Poems''. Ottawa: Oberon Press.Notes on Life and Works ," Selected Poetry of Raymond Souster, Representative Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 7, 2011.
*
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 ...
and
Douglas Lochhead
Douglas Grant Lochhead (pronounced ''Lock''-heed) FRSC (March 25, 1922 – March 15, 2011) was a Canadian poet, academic librarian, bibliographer and university professor who published more than 30 collections of poetry over five decades, from 19 ...
, eds. ''100 Poems of Nineteenth Century Canada''. Toronto: Macmillan.
*
Annie Szumigalski
Annie may refer to:
People and fictional characters
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* Annie (actress) (born 1975), Indian actress
* Annie (singer) (born 1977), Norwegian singer
The ...
, ''Woman Reading in the Bath''
*
George Woodcock
George Woodcock (; May 8, 1912 – January 28, 1995) was a Canadian writer of political biography and history, an anarchist thinker, a philosopher, an essayist and literary critic. He was also a poet and published several volumes of travel wri ...
, editor, ''Poets and Critics: Essays from Canadian Literature 1966-1974'', Toronto:
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, scholarship
India
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English
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* English language
* English people
English may also refer to:
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* ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England
** English national ide ...
Sahitya Akademi
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, ; retrieved December 23, 2008
* Keki N. Daruwalla:
** ''Apparition in April'' ( Poetry in
English
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),
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:
Writers Workshop
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,
India
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.
** ''Crossing of Rivers'' ( Poetry in
English
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),
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English
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Peoples, culture, and language
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), Hippopotamus Press
* Syed Ameeruddin, ''The Dreadful Doom to Come and Other Poems'', Madras: Poet Press
India
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Ireland
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* Austin Clarke, ''Collected Poems'', including "The Lost Heifer", "The Young Woman of Beare", "The Planter's Daughter", "Celibacy", "Martha Blake", "The Straying Student", "Penal Law", "St Christopher", "Early Unfinished Sketch", "Martha Blake at Fifty-One", and "Tiresias" (died this year)Crotty, Patrick, ''Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology'', Belfast, The Blackstaff Press Ltd., 1995,
* Padraic Fallon, ''Poems'' (see also ''Poems and Versions'' 1983, ''Collected Poems''
1990
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) Irish poet published in the
United Kingdom
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United Kingdom
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* Richard Murphy, ''High Island'', including "Seals at High Island" and "Stormpetrel", Irish poet published in the
United Kingdom
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* Richard Ryan, ''Ravenswood'' Irish poet published in the
United Kingdom
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New Zealand
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*
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 ...
, ''The Scenic Route'', London and New York: Oxford University Press (New Zealand poet who moved to England in
1963
Events January
* January 1 – Bogle–Chandler case: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation scientist Dr. Gilbert Bogle and Mrs. Margaret Chandler are found dead (presumed poisoned), in bushland near the Lane Co ...
Charles Brasch
Charles Orwell Brasch (27 July 1909 – 20 May 1973) was a New Zealand poet, literary editor and arts patron. He was the founding editor of the literary journal ''Landfall'', and through his 20 years of editing the journal, had a significant im ...
: ''Home Ground: Poems'', Christchurch: Caxton Press (published posthumously)"Charles Brasch: New Zealand Literature File" at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, 2008
* Allen Curnow, ''Collected Poems 1933–73''
* Kendrick Smithyman, ''The Seal in the Dolphin Pool'', Auckland: Auckland University Press and Oxford University Press
*
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 ...
, ''Made Over''
United Kingdom
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*
Dannie Abse
Daniel Abse CBE FRSL (22 September 1923 – 28 September 2014) was a Welsh poet and physician. His poetry won him many awards. As a medic, he worked in a chest clinic for over 30 years.
Early years
Abse was born in Cardiff, Wales, as the young ...
, ''A Poet in the Family''Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004,
*
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 ...
, ''The Scenic Route'',
New Zealand
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native living in and published in the United Kingdom
* Sir John Betjeman, ''A Nip in the Air''
*
W. H. Auden
Wystan Hugh Auden (; 21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973) was a British-American poet. Auden's poetry was noted for its stylistic and technical achievement, its engagement with politics, morals, love, and religion, and its variety in ...
, ''Thank You, Fog'' (posthumous)
*
Alasdair Clayre
Alasdair George S. Clayre (9 October 1935 – 10 January 1984) was a British author, broadcaster, singer-songwriter, and academic.
Early life and career
Clayre was born in Southampton, Hampshire on 9 October 1935. He won a scholarship to Win ...
, ''A Fire by the Sea''
*
Donald Davie
Donald Alfred Davie, FBA (17 July 1922 – 18 September 1995) was an English Movement poet, and literary critic. His poems in general are philosophical and abstract, but often evoke various landscapes.
Biography
Davie was born in Barnsley, ...
, ''The Shires''
*
Carol Ann Duffy
Dame Carol Ann Duffy (born 23 December 1955) is a Scottish poet and playwright. She is a professor of contemporary poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University, and was appointed Poet Laureate in May 2009, resigning in 2019. She was the first ...
, ''Fleshweathercock and Other Poems'' OutpostsMichelis, Angelica "Carol Ann Duffy (1955-)" article in ''The Literary Encyclopedia'' website, retrieved May 4, 2009
*
Douglas Dunn
Douglas Eaglesham Dunn, OBE (born 23 October 1942) is a Scottish poet, academic, and critic. He is Professor of English and Director of St Andrew's Scottish Studies Institute at St Andrew's University.
Background
Dunn was born in Inchinnan, Re ...
, ''Love or Nothing''
*
Odysseas 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 ...
, two English translations: ''The Axion Esti'' (trans. Edmund Keeley and G. Savidis) and ''The Sovereign Sun'' (trans. Kinom Friar)
* Padraic Fallon, ''Poems'' (see also ''Poems and Versions 1983, ''Collected Poems''
1990
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)
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Flora Garry
Flora Garry (30 September 1900 – 16 June 2000) was a Scottish poet who mostly wrote in the Scots dialect of Aberdeenshire.
Well known for her poetry, she played an important role along with Charles Murray and John C. Milne in validating t ...
John Heath-Stubbs
John Francis Alexander Heath-Stubbs (9 July 1918 – 26 December 2006) was an English poet and translator. He is known for verse influenced by classical myths, and for a long Arthurian poem, ''Artorius'' (1972).
Biography and works
Heath-Stub ...
, ''Artorius: A Heroic Poem in Four Books and Eight Episodes''
* Tom Holt, ''Poems by Tom Holt''
*
Linton Kwesi Johnson
Linton Kwesi Johnson (born 24 August 1952), also known as LKJ, is a Jamaica-born, British-based dub poet and activist. In 2002 he became the second living poet, and the only black one, to be published in the Penguin Modern Classics series. His p ...
, ''Voices of the Living and the Dead''
* David Jones, ''The Sleeping Lord and Other Fragments''
* Jenny Joseph, ''Rose in the afternoon, and Other Poems''
* Susanne Knowles, ''The Sea-Bell and Other Poems''
*
Philip Larkin
Philip Arthur Larkin (9 August 1922 – 2 December 1985) was an English poet, novelist, and librarian. His first book of poetry, ''The North Ship'', was published in 1945, followed by two novels, ''Jill'' (1946) and ''A Girl in Winter'' (1947 ...
, ''High Windows''
* Laurence Lerner, ''A.R.T.H.U.R.'' (see also ''A.R.T.H.U.R. & M.A.R.T.H.A.'' 1980)
*
Edward Lucie-Smith
John Edward McKenzie Lucie-Smith (born 27 February 1933), known as Edward Lucie-Smith, is a Jamaican-born English writer, poet, art critic, curator and broadcaster. He has been highly prolific in these fields, writing or editing over a hundred ...
John Pudney
John Sleigh Pudney (19 January 1909 – 10 November 1977) was a British poet, journalist and author. He was known especially for his popular poetry written during the Second World War, but he also wrote novels, short stories and children's fict ...
, ''Selected Poems, 1967-1973''
*
Peter Reading
Peter Reading (27 July 1946 – 17 November 2011) was an English poet and the author of 26 collections of poetry. He is known for his deep interest for the nature and use of classical metres. ''The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry'' de ...
, ''For the Municipality's Elderly''
* Richard Ryan, ''Ravenswood''
*
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 ...
, ''The Principle of Water''
*
Alan Sillitoe
Alan Sillitoe FRSL (4 March 192825 April 2010) was an English writer and one of the so-called "angry young men" of the 1950s. He disliked the label, as did most of the other writers to whom it was applied. He is best known for his debut novel ...
, ''Storm: New Poems'', London: W.H. Allen,
* Joan Murray Simpson, ''In High Places''
* C. H. Sisson, ''In the Trojan Ditch'', collected poems and selected translations
*
Iain Crichton Smith
Iain Crichton Smith, (Gaelic: ''Iain Mac a' Ghobhainn''; 1 January 1928 – 15 October 1998) was a Scottish poet and novelist, who wrote in both English and Gaelic.
He was born in Glasgow, but moved to the Isle of Lewis at the age of two, ...
, ''Notebooks of Robinson Crusoe''
* John Stallworthy, ''The Apple Barrel''
* R. S. Thomas:
** ''Selected Poems, 1946-1968''
** ''What is a Welshman?''
* Anthony Thwaite, ''New Confessions''
*
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 ...
, ''Complete Poems'' (posthumous)
United States
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A.R. Ammons
Archibald Randolph Ammons (February 18, 1926 – February 25, 2001) was an American poet who won the annual National Book Award for Poetry in 1973 and 1993.
Poetic themes
Ammons wrote about humanity's relationship to nature in alternately comic ...
, ''Sphere: The Form of a Motion''
* Ted Berrigan, ''The Drunken Boat''
*
Joseph Payne Brennan
Joseph Payne Brennan (December 20, 1918 – January 28, 1990) was an American writer of fantasy and horror fiction, and also a poet. Of Irish ancestry, he was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut and he lived most of his life in New Haven, Connect ...
:
** ''Death Poems''
** ''Edges of Night''
*
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. ...
:
** ''Recollections of Gran Apacheria'', Turtle Island"Archive / Edward Dorn (1929-1999)" Poetry Foundation; retrieved May 8, 2008
** ''Slinger'' (contains ''
Gunslinger
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'', Books I-IV and "The Cycle"), Wingbow Press
* Jill Hoffman, ''Mink Coat''
*
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 Avenue Bearing the Initial of Christ into the New World''
* Judith Kroll, ''In the Temperate Zone''
*
James Merrill
James Ingram Merrill (March 3, 1926 – February 6, 1995) was an American poet. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1977 for ''Divine Comedies.'' His poetry falls into two distinct bodies of work: the polished and formalist lyri ...
: " Lost in Translation", one of the most studied and celebrated of his shorter works, was originally published in
The New Yorker
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magazine on April 8, and published in his 1976 book ''Divine Comedies''.
* Michael Palmer, ''The Circular Gates'' (Black Sparrow Press)
*
George Quasha
George Quasha (born 1942) is an American artist and poet who works across media, exploring language, sculpture, drawing, video art, sound and music, installation, and performance. He lives and works in Barrytown, New York.
Early life
Quasha wa ...
Ecco Press
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* Charles Reznikoff, ''By the Well of Living & Seeing: New & Selected Poems 1918-1973''
* Michael Ryan, ''Threats Instead of Trees'' (
Yale University Press
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, Yale Universi ...
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*
Anne Sexton
Anne Sexton (born Anne Gray Harvey; November 9, 1928 – October 4, 1974) was an American poet known for her highly personal, confessional verse. She won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1967 for her book '' Live or Die''. Her poetry details ...
Reed Whittemore
Edward Reed Whittemore, Jr. (September 11, 1919 – April 6, 2012) was an American poet, biographer, critic, literary journalist and college professor. He was appointed the sixteenth and later the twenty-eighth Poet Laureate Consultant in P ...
, ''The Mother's Breast and the Father's House''
Anthologies
*
George Quasha
George Quasha (born 1942) is an American artist and poet who works across media, exploring language, sculpture, drawing, video art, sound and music, installation, and performance. He lives and works in Barrytown, New York.
Early life
Quasha wa ...
(with Susan Quasha), ''An Active Anthology'' (Sumac Press)
Translations in the United States
*
Ernesto Cardenal
Ernesto Cardenal Martínez (20 January 1925 – 1 March 2020) was a Nicaraguan Catholic priest, poet, and politician. He was a liberation theologian and the founder of the primitivist art community in the Solentiname Islands, where he lived fo ...
, translated from Spanish, ''Homage to the American Indians''
*
W. S. Merwin
William Stanley Merwin (September 30, 1927 – March 15, 2019) was an American poet who wrote more than fifty books of poetry and prose, and produced many works in translation. During the 1960s anti-war movement, Merwin's unique craft was thema ...
and Clarence Brown, translation, ''
Osip Mandelstam
Osip Emilyevich Mandelstam ( rus, Осип Эмильевич Мандельштам, p=ˈosʲɪp ɨˈmʲilʲjɪvʲɪtɕ mənʲdʲɪlʲˈʂtam; – 27 December 1938) was a Russian and Soviet poet. He was one of the foremost members of the A ...
: Selected Poems'', New York: Oxford University Press (reprinted in 2004 as ''The Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam'', New York: New York Review of Books)"W. S. Merwin (1927- )" at the Poetry Foundation Web site, retrieved June 8, 2010
* Michael Smith, translator, ''Trilice'', from the original Spanish of
César Vallejo
César Abraham Vallejo Mendoza (March 16, 1892 – April 15, 1938) was a Peruvian poet, writer, playwright, and journalist. Although he published only two books of poetry during his lifetime, he is considered one of the great poetic innovators ...
* J. M. Cohen, translator, ''Sent off the Field'' from the original Spanish of ''Fuera del juego'' by Heberto Padilla
South Africa
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Works published in other languages
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Poul Borum
Poul Villiam Borum (15 October 1934 – 10 May 1996) was a Danish writer, poet and critic. He was editor of the influential Danish literary magazine '' Hvedekorn'' from 1968 to his death in 1996. He also initiated the Danish ''writers school'' ( ...
Henrik Nordbrandt
Henrik Nordbrandt (21 March 1945 – 31 January 2023) was a Danish poet, novelist, and essayist. He made his literary debut in 1966 with the poetry collection ''Digte''. He was awarded the Nordic Council's Literature Prize in 2000 for the poetry c ...
, ''Opbrud og ankomster'' ("Departures and Arrivals"), Copenhagen: Gylandal, 72 pages"Henrik Nordbrandt" at the Literatur.siden website, retrieved January 29, 2010
* Vagn Steen, ''Fuglens flugt i halvkrystal''
* Rémi-Paul Forgue, ''Poèmes du vent et des ombres''
* Michel Garneau, ''Moments''
* Jean Royer, ''La parole me vient de ton corps suivi de Nos corps habitables: Poèmes, 1969-1973'', Montréal: Nouvelles éditions de l'Arc
France
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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 ...
, ''"HII" linéaires''Auster, Paul, editor, ''The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets'', New York: Random House, 1982
* Michel Béguey, ''Par des chemins secrets''
*
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*Maurice (emperor) or Flavius Mauricius Tiberius Augustus (539–602), Byzantine emperor
*Maurice (bishop of London) (died 1107), Lord Chancellor and Lo ...
, ''O toi que le vent glace''
* Philippe Denis, ''Cabier d'ombres''
*
Pierre Emmanuel
Noël Mathieu (3 May 1916, Gan, Pyrénées-Atlantiques – 22 September 1984, Paris) better known under his pseudonym Pierre Emmanuel, was a French poet of Christian inspiration.
Biography
He was the third member elected to occupy seat 4 of the ...
Roger Giroux
Roger Giroux (1925–1974) was a French poet and transtator.
Giroux's only book published when he was alive was ''L’arbre le temps'', Mercure de France, 1964 ; it won the Max-Jacob' Prize that same year.
Giroux translated texts of W.B. Yeats, ...
, ''Voici'', published posthumously (died
1973
Events January
* January 1 - The United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and Denmark 1973 enlargement of the European Communities, enter the European Economic Community, which later becomes the European Union.
* January 15 – Vietnam War: ...
Philippe Jaccottet
Philippe Jaccottet (; 30 June 1925 – 24 February 2021) was a Swiss Francophone poet and translator.
Life and work
After completing his studies in Lausanne, he lived for several years in Paris. In 1953, he moved to the town of Grignan in ...
, ''Chant d'en bas''
*
Patrice de La Tour du Pin
Patrice de La Tour du Pin (16 March 1911, Paris – 28 October 1975, ibid) was a French writer and poet. He was the winner of the Grand prix catholique de littérature in 1971 for ''Une Lutte pour la vie''.Jean Lebrau, ''Singles''
* Jean-Claude Renard, ''Le Dieu de nuit''
*
Robert Mallet
Robert Mallet (3 June 1810 – 5 November 1881) was an Irish geophysicist, civil engineer, and inventor who distinguished himself in research on earthquakes and is sometimes called the father of seismology. His son, Frederick Richard Mallet was ...
, ''Quand le mirior s'etonne''
* Pierre Menanteau, ''Capitale du souvenir''
*
Alain Veinstein
Alain Veinstein (born 17 August 1942, in Cannes) is a poet and writer, winner of the Mallarmé prize and a host and producer of radio.
Biography
Since 1978, Alain Veinstein is also the voice of the nights of ''France Culture'' with interviews on ...
Belgium
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)
German language
West Germany
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Hebrew
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* N. Alterman, ''Regayim'' (posthumous)
* T. Carmi, ''Hitnatzlut ha-Mechaber''
* Haim Gouri, ''Mar`ot Gihazi'' ("Gehazi Visions"),
Israel
Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...
Hungary
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*
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 ...
, ''Körülírt zuhanás''
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 ...
In each section, listed in alphabetical order by first name:
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 ...
Indian
Indian or Indians may refer to:
Peoples South Asia
* Indian people, people of Indian nationality, or people who have an Indian ancestor
** Non-resident Indian, a citizen of India who has temporarily emigrated to another country
* South Asia ...
, Bengali-language:
** ''Andha Skoole Ghanta Baje''. Kolkata: SatarupaWeb page titl "Debarati Mitra" , at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 8, 2010
** ''Amar Putul,'' Kolkata: Satarupa
*
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 ...
, ''Khola Muthi'', Kolkata: Aruna Prokashoni;
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
Other in India
*
Jayant Kaikini
Jayanth Kaikini (born 24 January 1955) is a poet, short story writer, playwright, columnist in Kannada and a lyricist in Kannada Cinema. He has so far published six anthologies of short stories, four books of poetry, three plays and a collecti ...
Indian
Indian or Indians may refer to:
Peoples South Asia
* Indian people, people of Indian nationality, or people who have an Indian ancestor
** Non-resident Indian, a citizen of India who has temporarily emigrated to another country
* South Asia ...
,
Kannada
Kannada (; ಕನ್ನಡ, ), originally romanised Canarese, is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by the people of Karnataka in southwestern India, with minorities in all neighbouring states. It has around 47 million native s ...
-language poet, short-story writer, and screen writer
* K. Satchidanandan, ''Atmagita'' ("The Song of the Self");
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
*
Niranjan Bhagat
Niranjan Narhari Bhagat (18 May 1926 – 1 February 2018) was an Indian Gujarati language poet and commentator who won the 1999 Sahitya Akademi Award for Gujarati language for his critical work ''Gujarati Sahiyta – Purvardha Uttarardha''. He ...
, ''Yantravijnan and Mentrakavita'', criticism;
Gujarati
Gujarati may refer to:
* something of, from, or related to Gujarat, a state of India
* Gujarati people, the major ethnic group of Gujarat
* Gujarati language, the Indo-Aryan language spoken by them
* Gujarati languages, the Western Indo-Aryan sub ...
-languageMohan, Sarala Jag Chapter 4: "Twentieth-Century Gujarati Literature" in Natarajan, Nalini, and Emanuel Sampath Nelson (eds), ''Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India'', Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, , retrieved December 10, 2008
* Sitanshu Yashaschandra, ''Odysseusnu-n Halesu'', Mumbai and Ahmedabad: R R Sheth & Co.;
Gujarati
Gujarati may refer to:
* something of, from, or related to Gujarat, a state of India
* Gujarati people, the major ethnic group of Gujarat
* Gujarati language, the Indo-Aryan language spoken by them
* Gujarati languages, the Western Indo-Aryan sub ...
Meitei language
Meitei (), also known as Manipuri (, ), is a Tibeto-Burman language of north-eastern India. It is spoken by around 1.8 million people, predominantly in the state of Manipur, but also by smaller communities in the rest of the country and in p ...
Portuguese language
Brazil
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Ariano Suassuna
Ariano Vilar Suassuna (; 16 June 1927 – 23 July 2014) was a Brazilian playwright and author. He was the driving force behind the creation of the ''Movimento Armorial''. He founded the Student Theater at Federal University of Pernambuco.
Fo ...
, ''A Farsa da Boa Preguiça''
Portugal
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* Ruy de Moura Belo, ''A margem da alegria'' ("The Riverbank of Happiness")da Silva, Jaime H. "BELO, Ruy de Moura" article, p. 185, Bleiberg, Germán, ''Dictionary of the literature of the Iberian peninsula, Volume 1''; retrieved September 6, 2011
* Fiama Brandão, collected verse, with additions
* Fernando Echevarria, ''A Base e o Timbre''
* Egito Gonçalves, ''Destruição: Dois Pontos''
* Herberto Helder, collected poems to dateStephen Reckert, "Portugal" subsection (page 464) of "Portuguese" section of "Literature" article in ''The Britannica Book of the Year 1975'' (for events of 1974), published by ''The Encyclopædia Britannica''; this was as much information as was given in the article
*
Jorge de Sena
Jorge Cândido Alves Rodrigues Telles Grilo Raposo de Abreu de Sena (2 November 1919 – 4 June 1978) was a Portuguese-born poet, critic, essayist, novelist, dramatist, translator and university professor who spent the latter portion of his life ...
, ''Conheço o Sal''
* Pedro Támen, ''Os 42 Sonetos''
Russian
Russian(s) refers to anything related to Russia, including:
*Russians (, ''russkiye''), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries
*Rossiyane (), Russian language term for all citizens and peo ...
* M. Kanoatov, ''The Voice of Stalingrad'' (translated into Russian from Tajik), 1973
* M. Lukonin, ''Frontline Verse''
*
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn. (11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008) was a Russian novelist. One of the most famous Soviet dissidents, Solzhenitsyn was an outspoken critic of communism and helped to raise global awareness of political repres ...
'' Prussian Nights'' (finished in 1951), published in the original Russian in Paris
* L. Tatyanichev, ''The Honey Season''
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 ...
, ''Det möjiliga''
*
Gunnar Harding
Karl Gunnar Harding (born 11 June 1940) is a Swedish poet, novelist, essayist and translator, considered 'one of Sweden's foremost poets'. Among his other poetry collections is ''Starnberger See'' from 1977. Among his novels is ''Luffaren Svarta ...
and Rolf Aggestam, editors, ''Tjugo unga poeter'', an anthology of modern poetry
* Lars Norén, ''Dagliga och nattliga dikter''
*
Tomas Tranströmer
Tomas Gösta Tranströmer (; 15 April 1931 – 26 March 2015) was a Swedish poet, psychologist and translator. His poems captured the long Swedish winters, the rhythm of the seasons and the palpable, atmospheric beauty of nature. Tranströmer's ...
, ''
Baltics
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'' (''Östersjöar'')
Yiddish
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Spain
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, national_motto = ''Plus ultra'' (Latin)(English: "Further Beyond")
, national_anthem = (English: "Royal March")
, i ...
*
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 ...
, ''Diálogos del conocimiento''
*
Matilde Camus
Aurora Matilde Gómez Camus (26 September 1919 – 28 April 2012) was a Spanish poet from Cantabria who also wrote non-fiction.
Life and career
Aurora Matilde Gómez Camus was born in Santander, Cantabria
Santander () is the capital of t ...
, ''Templo del Alba'' ("Temple of Dawn")
Latin America
Latin America or
* french: Amérique Latine, link=no
* ht, Amerik Latin, link=no
* pt, América Latina, link=no, name=a, sometimes referred to as LatAm is a large cultural region in the Americas where Romance languages — languages derived f ...
* Pablo Neruda:
** ''La rosa separada''
** ''Jardín de invierno''
** ''Defectos escogidos''
** ''2000 El corazón amarillo''
** ''Libro de las preguntas''
** ''Elegía''
** ''El mar y las campanas''
*
Efraín Huerta
Efraín Huerta (June 18, 1914 – February 3, 1982) was a Mexican poet and journalist. Born and raised in the state of Guanajuato, he moved to Mexico City initially to start a career in art. Unable to enter the Academy of San Carlos, he attend ...
, ''Los eróticos y otros poemas'' (Mexico)
*
Elvio Romero
Elvio Romero (1926-2004) was a Paraguayan poet, active in the 1940s and 1950s.
Early life
Elvio Romero was born in Yegros, Paraguay in 1926. At a young age he became associated with fellow Paraguayan literary figures Hérib Campos Cervera, Jo ...
, ''Antología poética 1947-73'', second edition (Paraguay)
* Luis Cardoza y Aragón, ''Quinta estación''
Other
*
Odysseas 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 ...
, ''Τα Ετεροθαλή'' ("Step-Poems")
Greece
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Chinese
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* Something related to China
* Chinese people, people of Chinese nationality, citizenship, and/or ethnicity
**''Zhonghua minzu'', the supra-ethnic concept of the Chinese nation
** List of ethnic groups in China, people of ...
(Taiwan)Balcom, John "Lo Fu" , article on Poetry International website, retrieved November 22, 2008
United Kingdom
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*
Cholmondeley Award
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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 ...
,
Alasdair Maclean
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Roger Garfitt
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Frank Ormsby
Francis Arthur Ormsby (born 1947) is a Northern Irish author and poet.
Life
Frank Ormsby was born in Irvinestown, County Fermanagh. He was educated at St Michael's College, Enniskillen and then Queen's University Belfast.
From 1976 until his r ...
Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry
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:
Ted Hughes
Edward James "Ted" Hughes (17 August 1930 – 28 October 1998) was an English poet, translator, and children's writer. Critics frequently rank him as one of the best poets of his generation and one of the twentieth century's greatest wri ...
United States
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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 ...
appointed this year.
*
Frost Medal
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National Book Award for Poetry
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,
Allen Ginsberg
Irwin Allen Ginsberg (; June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet and writer. As a student at Columbia University in the 1940s, he began friendships with William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, forming the core of the Beat Gener ...
, ''The Fall of America: Poems of these States, 1965-1971'' and
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 ...
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
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Léonie Adams
Léonie Fuller Adams (December 9, 1899 – June 27, 1988) was an American poet. She was appointed the seventh Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1948.
Biography
Adams was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in ...
French language
France
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* French Academy: Grand Prix de la Poésie:
Philippe Soupault
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Births
* September 20 –
Owen Sheers
Owen Sheers (born 20 September 1974) is a Welsh poet, author, playwright and television presenter. He was the first writer in residence to be appointed by any national rugby union team.
Early life
Owen Sheers was born in Suva, Fiji in 1974, and b ...
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** English national ide ...
Kurdish
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*Kurdish alphabets
*Kurdistan, the land of the Kurdish people which includes:
**Southern Kurdistan
**Eastern Kurdistan
**Northern Kurdistan
**Western Kurdistan
See also
* Kurd (dis ...
poet, translator and painter
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "
ear
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in poetry" article:
* January 20 –
Edmund Blunden
Edmund Charles Blunden (1 November 1896 – 20 January 1974) was an English poet, author, and critic. Like his friend Siegfried Sassoon, he wrote of his experiences in World War I in both verse and prose. For most of his career, Blunden was a ...
(born
1896
Events
January–March
* January 2 – The Jameson Raid comes to an end, as Jameson surrenders to the Boers.
* January 4 – Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state.
* January 5 – An Austrian newspaper reports that ...
),
English
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* English language
* English people
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Peoples, culture, and language
* ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England
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poet, author and critic
* February 4 – Ozaki Kihachi 尾崎喜八 (born
1892
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* January 1 – Ellis Island begins accommodating immigrants to the United States.
* February 1 - The historic Enterprise Bar and Grill was established in Rico, Colorado.
* February 27 – Rudolf Diesel applies fo ...
),
Japanese
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,
Shōwa period
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* Hirohito (1901–1989), the 124th Emperor of Japan, known posthumously as Emperor Shōwa
* Showa Corporation, a Japanese suspension and shock manufacturer, affiliated with the Honda keiretsu
Japanese eras
* Jōwa (Heian ...
poet
* February 20 –
Matilde Hidalgo
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(born
1889
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* January 1
** The total solar eclipse of January 1, 1889 is seen over parts of California and Nevada.
** Paiute spiritual leader Wovoka experiences a vision, leading to the start of the Ghost Dance movement in t ...
),
Ecuadorian
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physician, poet and women's rights activist
* March 19 – Austin Clarke,
Irish
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***Éire, Irish language name for the isle
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poet, novelist and playwright
* April 18 – Eric Roach (born
1915
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January
* January – British physicist Sir Joseph Larmor publishes his observations on "The Influence of Local Atmospheric Cooling on Astronomical Refraction".
* January ...
Miguel Ángel Asturias
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, 74, Guatemalan poet, author, writer, journalist and diplomat
* July 5 – John Crowe Ransom, 86, American poet, editor and academic critic
* July 11 –
Pär Lagerkvist
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Lagerkvist wrote poetry, plays, novels, short stories, and essays of considerable expressive power and influence from his ...
, 83,
Swedish
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1951
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January
* January 4 – Korean War: Third Battle of Seoul – Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time (having lost the Second Battle of Seoul in September 1950).
* January 9 – The Government of the United ...
Jacob Bronowski
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, 66, Polish-born
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pen-name
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(together with ''Utosei'' and then ''Jugatsutei'') of Arishima Mibuma (born
1882
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* January 2
** The Standard Oil Trust is secretly created in the United States to control multiple corporations set up by John D. Rockefeller and his associates.
** Irish-born author Oscar Wilde arrives in t ...
),
Japanese
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novelist, poet and painter; member of the Shirakaba literary circle
* October 4 –
Anne Sexton
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Irish
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***Éire, Irish language name for the isle
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(see "Works published in English" section, above)
* October 16 –
Edasseri Govindan Nair
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(born
1906
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* January 12 – Persian Constitutional Revolution: A nationalistic coalition of merchants, religious leaders and intellectuals in Persia forces the shah Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar to grant a constitution, ...
),
Indian
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* South Asia ...
,
Malayalam
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1899
Events January 1899
* January 1
** Spanish rule ends in Cuba, concluding 400 years of the Spanish Empire in the Americas.
** Queens and Staten Island become administratively part of New York City.
* January 2 –
**Bolivia sets up a c ...
)
Japanese
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Buddhadeb Bosu
Buddhadeva Bose (; 1908–1974), also spelt Buddhadeb Bosu, was an Indian Bengali writer of the 20th century. Frequently referred to as a poet, he was a versatile writer who wrote novels, short stories, plays and essays in addition to poetry. ...
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Poetry
Poetry (derived from the Greek ''poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings i ...
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List of poetry awards
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* Bridges of Struga (for a debuting author at Struga Poetry Evenings)
* Griffin Poetry Prize (The international prize)
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List of years in poetry
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21st century in poetry
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Notes
* ''Britannica Book of the Year 1975'' ("for events of 1974"), published by ''Encyclopædia Britannica'' 1975 (source of many items in "Works published" section and rarely in other sections)
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Poetry
Poetry (derived from the Greek ''poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings i ...