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 ...

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Events

* March 1 – Dylan Thomas posthumously honoured by a floor plaque in Poets' Corner,

Westminster Abbey Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter at Westminster, is an historic, mainly Gothic church in the City of Westminster, London, England, just to the west of the Palace of Westminster. It is one of the Unite ...

* September – ''

The New Criterion ''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the m ...

'' founded in

New York City New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the most densely populated major city in the Un ...

* October – Canadian documentary film '' Poetry in Motion'' released * Final edition of ''

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 published in

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 ...

Works published in English

Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:

Australia

* M. Duwell, editor, ''A Possible Contemporary Poetry'' (scholarship)Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, ''The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics'', 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "Australian Poetry" article, Anthologies section, p 108 * Chris Mansell, ''Head, Heart & Stone'' (Fling Publishers) * Les Murray: ** ''Equanimities'' ** ''The Vernacular Republic: Poems 1961-1981'', Angus & Robertson; Edinburgh, Canongate; New York, Persea Books, 1982 and (enlarged and revised edition) Angus & Robertson, 1988
Les Murray Web page at The Poetry Archive Web site, accessed October 15, 2007 * A. Paolucci and L. Dobrez, editors, ''Review of National Literatures: Australia'' (scholarship)

Canadian literature, Canada

* Margaret Atwood, ''The New Oxford Book of Canadian Verse in English'' (anthology) *

Margaret Avison Margaret Avison, (April 23, 1918 – July 31, 2007) was a Canadian poet who twice won Canada's Governor General's Award and has also won its Griffin Poetry Prize.Michael Gnarowski,Avison, Margaret" ''Canadian Encyclopedia'' (Edmonton: Hurtig ...

, ''Winter Sun /The Dumbfounding: Poems 1940-66'' *

Dionne Brand Dionne Brand (born 7 January 1953) is a Canadian poet, novelist, essayist and documentarian. She was Toronto's third Poet Laureate from September 2009 to November 2012. She was admitted to the Order of Canada in 2017

, ''Primitive Offensive'' *

Don Domanski Don Domanski (April 29, 1950 – September 7, 2020) was a Canadian poet. Biography Domanski was born and raised in Sydney, Nova Scotia, and lived briefly in Toronto, Vancouver and Wolfville, before settling in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he lived ...

, ''War in an Empty House'' * Robert Finch, ''Twelve for Christmas''."Robert Finch"
Online Guide to Writing in Canada. Web, Mar. 17, 2011. *

Diane Keating Diane Keating is a Canadian writer. She is most noted for her poetry collection ''No Birds or Flowers'', which was a shortlisted nominee for the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry at the 1982 Governor General's Awards. She publ ...

, ''No Birds or Flowers'' * Irving Layton, ''A Wild Peculiar Joy: Selected Poems, 1945-82'' Toronto: McClelland and Stewart.Irving Layton: Publications
" Canadian Poetry Online, Web, May 7, 2011. *

Gwendolyn MacEwen Gwendolyn Margaret MacEwen (1 September 1941 – 29 November 1987) was a Canadian poet and novelist.Gwendoly ...

: ** ''The Fire Eaters''.Gwendolyn MacEwen
" Canadian Women Poets, BrockU.ca, Web, Apr. 22, 2001. ** ''The T. E. Lawrence Poems''Roberts, Neil, editor
''A Companion to Twentieth-century Poetry''
Part III, Chapter 3, "Canadian Poetry", by Cynthia Messenger, Blackwell Publishing, 2003, , retrieved via Google Books, January 3, 2009 ** ''Earth-Light: Selected Poetry 1963-1982''. Toronto: General Publishing. *

Elizabeth Smart Elizabeth Ann Gilmour (née Smart; born November 3, 1987) is an American child safety activist and commentator for ABC News. She gained national attention at age 14 when she was abducted from her home in Salt Lake City by Brian David Mitchell. ...

, ''Eleven Poems'' *

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 ...

, '' Running in the Family'', memoir, New York: W. W. Norton,Web page title
"Archive: Michael Ondaatje (1943- )"
at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed May 7, 2008 , *

Wilfred Watson Wilfred Watson (May 1, 1911 – March 25, 1998) was professor emeritus of English at Canada's University of Alberta for many years. He was also an experimental Canadian poet and dramatist, whose innovative plays had a considerable influence i ...

, ''Mass on Cowback''. *

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 ...

, ''The Vision Tree: Selected Poems''

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 English

Keki Daruwalla Keki N. Daruwalla (born 24 January 1937English 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 ...

), winner of the Central

Sahitya Academy The Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, is an organisation dedicated to the promotion of literature in the languages of India. Founded on 12 March 1954, it is supported by, though independent of, the Indian government. Its of ...

Award in 1984; Delhi: Oxford University Press *

Nissim Ezekiel Nissim Ezekiel (16 December 1924 – 9 January 2004) was an Indian Jewish poet, actor, playwright, editor and art critic. He was a foundational figure in postcolonial India's literary history, specifically for Indian Poetry in English. He ...

, ''Latter-Day Psalms'' ( Poetry in

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 ...

), *

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 ...

, ''Distance in Statute Miles'' ( Poetry in

), *

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 ...

, ''The Authentic Lie'' ( Poetry in

), Fredericton,

New Brunswick New Brunswick (french: Nouveau-Brunswick, , locally ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is one of the three Maritime provinces and one of the four Atlantic provinces. It is the only province with both English and ...

: Fiddlehead,

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 ...

Dermot Bolger Dermot Bolger (born 1959) is an Irish novelist, playwright, poet and editor from Dublin, Ireland. Born in the Finglas suburb of Dublin in 1959, his older sister is the writer June Considine. Bolger's novels include ''Night Shift'' (1982), ''Th ...

, ''No Waiting America'' * Harry Clifton, ''Comparative Lives'', Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, *

Pearse Hutchinson Pearse Hutchinson (16 February 1927 – 14 January 2012) was an Irish poet, broadcaster and translator. Childhood and education Hutchinson was born in Glasgow. His father, Harry Hutchinson, a Scottish printer whose own father had left Dublin to ...

, ''Selected Poems'', including "Malaga" and "Gaeltacht", Oldcastle: The Gallery PressCrotty, Patrick, ''Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology'', Belfast, The Blackstaff Press Ltd., 1995, *

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 ...

, ''Out of Siberia'', Northern Ireland native published in the

United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the European mainland, continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotlan ...

Seamus Heaney Seamus Justin Heaney (; 13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.

: ''Poems and a Memoir'', Limited Editions Club, Northern Ireland native living at this time 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 ...

Derek Mahon Derek Mahon (23 November 1941 – 1 October 2020) was an Irish poet. He was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland but lived in a number of cities around the world. At his death it was noted that his, "influence in the Irish poetry community, lit ...

: ** ''The Hunt by Night'', including "Courtyards in Delft", "Rathlin" and "Tractatus", Oxford University Press, Irish poet published in the

** Translator, ''The Chimeras'', Gallery Press, translation from the French of '' Les Chimères'' by Nerval * John Montague, ''Selected Poems'', including "A Drink of Milk", "Family Conference" and "The Cave of Night"

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

), editor, ''Oxford Book of Contemporary New Zealand Poetry'', Auckland: Oxford University PressWeb page titled "Fleur Adcock: New Zealand Literature File"
at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, 2008 *

Allen Curnow Thomas Allen Monro Curnow (17 June 1911 – 23 September 2001) was a New Zealand poet and journalist. Life Curnow was born in Timaru, New Zealand, the son of a fourth generation New Zealander, an Anglican clergyman, and he grew up in a relig ...

, ''You Will Know When You Get There: Poems 1979–81'' * W. Ihimaera and D. S. Long, ''Into the World of Light: An Anthology of Maori Writing''Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, ''The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics'', 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "New Zealand Poetry" article, "Anthologies" section, p 837 *

Bill Manhire William Manhire (born 27 December 1946) is a New Zealand poet, short story writer, emeritus professor, and New Zealand's inaugural Poet Laureate (1997–1998). He founded New Zealand's first creative writing course at Victoria University of Well ...

, ''Good Looks'',

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 ...

Cilla McQueen Priscilla Muriel McQueen (born 22 January 1949 in Birmingham, England) is a poet and three-time winner of the ''New Zealand Book Award'' for Poetry. Early years and education McQueen's family moved to New Zealand when she was four. She was educ ...

, ''Homing In'', winner of the New Zealand Book Award for Poetry and the 1983 Jessie MacKay Award * W. H. Oliver, ''Poor Richard: Poems'', Wellington: Port Nicholson Press,

United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the European mainland, continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotlan ...

Peter Ackroyd Peter Ackroyd (born 5 October 1949) is an English biographer, novelist and critic with a specialist interest in the history and culture of London. For his novels about English history and culture and his biographies of, among others, William ...

, ''The Great Fire of London''Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, * James Berry, ''Lucy's Letters and Loving'' * Sir John Betjeman, ''Uncollected Poems'' * Roald Dahl, ''Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymes'' *

Patric Dickinson Patric Thomas Dickinson (26 December 1914 – 28 January 1994) was a British poet, translator from the Greek and Latin classics, and playwright. He also worked for the BBC, from 1942 to 1948. His verse play ''Theseus and the Minotaur'' was broad ...

, ''A Rift in Time'' *

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 ...

, ''Fifth Last Song'', HeadlandMichelis, Angelica
"Carol Ann Duffy (1955-)"
article in ''The Literary Encyclopedia'' website, retrieved May 4, 2009
Archived
2009-05-07. *

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 ...

, ''Europa's Lover'' *

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 ...

, ''More Little Ones'' (see ''All My Little Ones'', 1978) *

U. A. Fanthorpe Ursula Askham Fanthorpe, Commander of the British Empire, CBE, Royal Society of Literature, FRSL (22 July 1929 – 28 April 2009) was an English poet, who published as U. A. Fanthorpe. Her poetry comments mainly on social issues. Life and work ...

, ''Standing To'' *

James Fenton James is a common English language surname and given name: *James (name), the typically masculine first name James * James (surname), various people with the last name James James or James City may also refer to: People * King James (disambiguat ...

, ''The Memory of War: Poems 1968-1982'', Salamander Press,
Web page titled "Books by Fenton" at the James Fenton Web site, accessed October 11, 2007 *

Geoffrey Grigson Geoffrey Edward Harvey Grigson (2 March 1905 – 25 November 1985) was a British poet, writer, editor, critic, exhibition curator, anthologist and naturalist. In the 1930s he was editor of the influential magazine ''New Verse'', and went on to p ...

: ** ''Collected Poems, 1963–1980'' ** ''The Cornish Dancer, 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, ...

, ''The Passages of Joy'' *

Seamus Heaney Seamus Justin Heaney (; 13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.

: ''Poems and a Memoir'', Limited Editions Club, Northern

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 ...

native living at this time in the

* Seamus Heaney and

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 ...

, editors, ''The Rattle Bag'', Faber, anthology *

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 ...

, ''Naming the Beasts'' *

Alan Hollinghurst Alan James Hollinghurst (born 26 May 1954) is an English novelist, poet, short story writer and translator. He won the 1989 Somerset Maugham Award, the 1994 James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the 2004 Booker Prize. Early life and education H ...

, ''Confidential Chats with Boy'' *

, ''Selected Poems 1957–1981'' *

Kathleen Jamie Kathleen Jamie FRSL (born 13 May 1962) is a Scottish poet and essayist. In 2021 she became Scotland's fourth Makar. Life and work Kathleen Jamie is a poet and essayist. Raised in Currie, near Edinburgh, she studied philosophy at the University ...

, ''Black Spiders'' *

Roger McGough Roger Joseph McGough (; born 9 November 1937) is an English poet, performance poet, broadcaster, children's author and playwright. He presents the BBC Radio 4 programme '' Poetry Please'', as well as performing his own poetry. McGough was one ...

, ''Waving at Trains'' *

, ''The Hunt By Night.'' Oxford University Press *

, ''Out of Siberia'', Northern

native published in the United Kingdom * Nerval, ''The Chimeras'', a version of ''Les Chimères'', translated from French by

, Gallery Press *

Norman Nicholson Norman Cornthwaite Nicholson (8 January 1914 – 30 May 1987) was an English poet associated with the Cumbrian town of Millom. His poetry is noted for local concerns, straightforward language, and elements of common speech. Although known chief ...

, ''Selected Poems 1940–82'' * Tom Rawling, ''Ghosts At My Back'' *

Jeremy Reed Jeremy Thomas Reed (born June 15, 1981) is an American former professional baseball outfielder in Major League Baseball (MLB). Early life Reed graduated from Bonita High School in La Verne, California in 1999, and went on to play college basebal ...

, ''A Man Afraid'' * E. J. Scovell, ''The Space Between'' *

Muriel Spark Dame Muriel Sarah Spark (née Camberg; 1 February 1918 – 13 April 2006). was a Scottish novelist, short story writer, poet and essayist. Life Muriel Camberg was born in the Bruntsfield area of Edinburgh, the daughter of Bernard Camberg, an ...

, ''Going Up to Sotheby's and Other Poems''

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 ...

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 comi ...

, ''Worldly Hopes''Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., ''Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983'', 1986, New York: Oxford University Press ("If the title page is one year later than the copyright date, we used the latter since publishers frequently postdate books published near the end of the calendar year." — from the Preface, p vi) * Louise Simone Bennett, ''Selected Poems'' *

Hayden Carruth Hayden Carruth (August 3, 1921 – September 29, 2008) was an American poet, literary critic and anthologist. He taught at Syracuse University. Life Hayden Carruth was born in Waterbury, Connecticut and grew up in Woodbury, Connecticut. He gra ...

, ''The Sleeping Beauty'' * Nicholas Christopher, ''On Tour with Rita'' *

Robert Creeley Robert White Creeley (May 21, 1926 – March 30, 2005) was an American poet and author of more than sixty books. He is usually associated with the Black Mountain poets, though his verse aesthetic diverged from that school. He was close with Char ...

: **''Echoes''Everett, Nicholas
"Robert Creeley's Life and Career"
at the ''Modern American Poetry'' website, accessed May 1, 2008 **''The Collected Poems, 1945–1975'' *

James Dickey James Lafayette Dickey (February 2, 1923 January 19, 1997) was an American poet and novelist. He was appointed the eighteenth United States Poet Laureate in 1966. He also received the Order of the South award. Dickey is best known for his n ...

, ''Puella'' *

Hilda Doolittle Hilda Doolittle (September 10, 1886 – September 27, 1961) was an American modernist poet, novelist, and memoirist who wrote under the name H.D. throughout her life. Her career began in 1911 after she moved to London and co-founded the ...

("H.D.", died

1961 Events January * January 3 ** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba (Cuba–United States relations are restored in 2015). ** Aero Flight 311 (K ...

), ''Notes on Thought and Vision'' (written in

1919 Events January * January 1 ** The Czechoslovak Legions occupy much of the self-proclaimed "free city" of Pressburg (now Bratislava), enforcing its incorporation into the new republic of Czechoslovakia. ** HMY ''Iolaire'' sinks off the ...

) *

Jack Gilbert Jack Gilbert (February 18, 1925 – November 13, 2012) was an American poet. Gilbert was acquainted with Jack Spicer and Allen Ginsberg, both prominent figureheads of the Beat Movement, but is not considered a Beat Poet; he described himself as ...

, Monolithos *

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 ...

, ''Plutonian Ode: Poems 1977–1980'' *

Seamus Heaney Seamus Justin Heaney (; 13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.

: ''Poems and a Memoir'', Limited Editions Club, Northern

native living at this time in the United States *

Jane Hirshfield Jane Hirshfield (born February 24, 1953) is an American poet, essayist, and translator, known as 'one of American poetry's central spokespersons for the biosphere' and recognized as 'among the modern masters,' 'writing some of the most important ...

, ''Alaya'' * Phyllis Janowitz, ''Visiting Rites'' *

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 ...

, ''Selected Poems'' *

Denise Levertov Priscilla Denise Levertov (24 October 1923 – 20 December 1997) was a British-born naturalised American poet. She was a recipient of the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry. Early life and influences Levertov was born and grew up in Ilford, Ess ...

, ''Candles in Babylon'' * William Logan, ''Sad-faced Men'' *

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 ...

: ** ''

The Changing Light at Sandover ''The Changing Light at Sandover'' is a 560-page epic poem by James Merrill (1926–1995). Sometimes described as a postmodern apocalyptic epic, the poem was published in three volumes from 1976 to 1980, and as one volume "with a new cod ...

'', an epic poem ** ''From the First Nine Poems'' *

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 ...

, ''Finding the Islands'', San Francisco: North Point PressWeb page title
"W. S. Merwin (1927- )"
at the Poetry Foundation Web site, retrieved June 8, 2010 *

Reynolds Price Edward Reynolds Price (February 1, 1933 – January 20, 2011) was an American poet, novelist, dramatist, essayist and James B. Duke Professor of English at Duke University. Apart from English literature, Price had a lifelong interest in Biblical ...

, ''Vital Provisions'' *

Peter Seaton Peter Seaton (December 16, 1942 – May 18, 2010) was an American poet associated with the first wave of Language poetry in the 1970s. During the opening and middle years of Language poetry many of his long prose poems were published, widely re ...

, ''The Son Master'' (New York: Roof Books, The Segue Foundation) *

Gjertrud Schnackenberg Gjertrud Schnackenberg (; born August 27, 1953, in Tacoma, Washington) is an American poet. Life Schnackenberg graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1975. She lectured at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Washington University, and w ...

, ''Portraits and Elegies'' *

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 ...

, ''Letters from a Father and Other Poems'' * Theodore Weiss, ''Recoveries'' * James Wright, ''This Journey''

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States

* William Meredith, ''Reasons for Poetry, and The Reason for Criticism''

Other in English

* Edward Brathwaite, ''Sun Poem'', Caribbean poet living and publishing in the

"Selected Timeline of Anglophone Caribbean Poetry"
in Williams, Emily Allen, ''Anglophone Caribbean Poetry, 1970–2001: An Annotated Bibliography'', page xvii and following pages, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002, , retrieved via Google Books, February 7, 2009. * Mafika Gwala, ''No More Lullabies'',

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 ...

* Dennis Scott, ''Dreadwalk'',

Jamaica Jamaica (; ) is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea. Spanning in area, it is the third-largest island of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean (after Cuba and Hispaniola). Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, and west of His ...

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:

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 ...

Aimé Césaire Aimé Fernand David Césaire (; ; 26 June 1913 – 17 April 2008) was a French poet, author, and politician. He was "one of the founders of the Négritude movement in Francophone literature" and coined the word in French. He founded the Par ...

, ''Moi, laminaire'', Martinique author published in France; Paris: Editions du Seuil *

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 ...

, ''Marie de Brumes'' translated by Xavier Bordes into French from the original Greek *

Abdellatif Laabi Abdellatif Laâbi is a Moroccan poet, journalist, novelist, playwright, translator and political activist, born in 1942 in Fes, Morocco. Laâbi, then teaching French, founded with other poets the artistic journal Souffles, an important literar ...

, translator, ''Rires de l' arbre à palabre'' from the original

Arabic Arabic (, ' ; , ' or ) is a Semitic language spoken primarily across the Arab world.Semitic languages: an international handbook / edited by Stefan Weninger; in collaboration with Geoffrey Khan, Michael P. Streck, Janet C. E.Watson; Walter ...

of Abdallah Zrika into French; Paris:

L'Harmattan Éditions L'Harmattan, usually known simply as L'Harmattan (), is one of the largest French book publishers. It specialises in non-fiction books with a particular focus on Sub-Saharan Africa. It is named after the Harmattan, a trade wind in ...

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 ...

Listed in alphabetical order by first name: *

Faiz Ahmad Faiz Faiz Ahmad ''Faiz'' (13 February 1911 – 20 November 1984; Urdu, Punjabi: فیض احمد فیض) was a Pakistani poet, and author of Urdu and Punjabi literature. Faiz was one of the most celebrated Pakistani Urdu writers of his time. Outsi ...

, ''Sare Sukhan Hamare'',

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 ...

Urdu Urdu (;"Urdu"
'' ''History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956: struggle for freedom: triumph and tragedy, Volume 2''
1995, published by

Sahitya Akademi The Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, is an organisation dedicated to the promotion of literature in the languages of India. Founded on 12 March 1954, it is supported by, though independent of, the Indian government. Its of ...

, , retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008 * Gitaujali Badruddin, ''Poems of Gitaujali'' (posthumously published) *

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 ...

, ''Kotitirtha'', Sagar, Karnataka: Akshara Prakashana,

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 screenwriter * 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: ** ''Janatayum Kavitayum'', ("Poetry and the People"); criticismResume for K. Satchidanandan title
"K. Satchidanandan/Bio data: Highlights"
at the National Translation Mission website, retrieved July 11, 2010 ** ''Venal Mazha'', ("The Summer Rain") * Rajendra Kishore Panda, ''Shailakalpa'' ("Mountainesque"), Cuttack: Grantha Mandir, Oraya-language *

Mehr Lal Soni Zia Fatehabadi Mehr or Mihr may refer to: Persian names * Mehr, an alternative name for Mithra, a Zoroastrian divinity * Mehr (month), the seventh month of the year and the sixteenth day of the month of the Iranian and Zoroastrian calendars * Mehr's day, or ...

, ''Soch ka Safar'' (The Journey of Thought) - published by R.K.Sehgal, Bazm-e-Seemab, J 5/21, Rajouri Garden, New Delhi in 1982.

Urdu Urdu (;"Urdu"
'' Saroop Dhruv Saroop Dhruv (born 19 June 1948) is an educator, poet and activist from Gujarat, India. Life She was born in Ahmedabad on 19 June 1948. She completed B. A. in Gujarati and Sanskrit from St. Xavier's College, Ahmedabad in 1969 and M. A. from Sch ...

, ''Mara Hathni Vat'', Ahmedabad: Nakshatra Trust, Ahmedabad;

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 ...

-language

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populou ...

Ryszard Krynicki Ryszard Krynicki (Polish: ; born 28 June 1943) is a Polish poet and translator, member of the Polish "New Wave" Movement. He is regarded as one of the most prominent post-war contemporary Polish poets. In 2015, he was awarded the Zbigniew Herber ...

, ''Jeżeli w jakimś kraju'' ("If in Some Country). Underground publisher S.i.s.n.Web pages titled "Krynicki Ryszard" (bot
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), at the Institute Ksiazki ("Book Institute") website, "Bibliography: Poetry" section, retrieved February 26, 2010 *

Ewa Lipska Ewa Lipska (born 8 October 1945 in Kraków), is a Polish poet from the generation of the Polish "New Wave." Collections of her verse have been translated into English, Italian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, German and Hungarian. She lives in Vienna and ...

, ''Nie o śmierć tutaj chodzi, lecz o biały kordonek'' ("Death Is Not at Stake, But the White Cord"), selected poems, Kraków: Wydawnictwo literackieWeb pages titled "Lipska Ewa" (i
English
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Polish
), at the Instytut Książki ("Books Institute") website , "Bibliography" sections, retrieved March 1, 2010 *

Czesław Miłosz Czesław Miłosz (, also , ; 30 June 1911 – 14 August 2004) was a Polish-American poet, prose writer, translator, and diplomat. Regarded as one of the great poets of the 20th century, he won the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature. In its citation, ...

, ''Hymn o Perle'' ("The Poem of the Pearl"); Paris: Instytut LiterackiWeb pages titled "Miłosz Czesław" (bot
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or translated titlesan
Polish version

or diacritical marks Or or OR may refer to: Arts and entertainment Film and television * "O.R.", a 1974 episode of List of M*A*S*H episodes (Season 3), M*A*S*H * Or (My Treasure), a 2004 movie from Israel (''Or'' means "light" in Hebrew) Music * Or (album), ''Or ...

, at the Institute Ksiazki ("Book Institute") website, "Bibliography: Poetry" section, retrieved February 26, 2010 *

Tadeusz Różewicz Tadeusz Różewicz (9 October 1921 – 24 April 2014) was a Polish poet, playwright, writer, and translator. Różewicz was in the first generation of Polish writers born after Poland regained its independence in 1918, following the century of f ...

, ''Pułapka'' ("The Trap"), Warszawa: CzytelnikWeb pages titled "Tadeusz Rozewicz" (i
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), at the Instytut Książki ("Books Institute") website , "Bibliography" sections, retrieved February 28, 2010 *

Adam Zagajewski Adam Zagajewski (21 June 1945 – 21 March 2021) was a Polish poet, novelist, translator, and essayist. He was awarded the 2004 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, the 2016 Griffin Poetry Prize Lifetime Recognition Award, the 2017 P ...

, ''List - Oda do wielosci'' ("Letter - An Ode to Quantity"), Kraków: Pólka Poetów, (republished in

1983 The year 1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call. Events January * January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to TCP/IP is officially completed (this is considered to be the beginning ...

, Paris: Instytut literacki)Web page titled "Some information about Adam Zagajewski

, cached page from the University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts website, cached on February 24, 2005 by the "Info-Poland" website, retrieved February 25, 2010

Spanish poetry, Spain

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 ...

: ** ''Testimonio'' ("Testimony") ** ''La preocupación de Miguel Ángel'' ("The concern of Miguel Angel")

Other

Arturo Corcuera Daniel Arturo Corcuera Osores (September 30, 1935 – August 21, 2017) was a Peruvian poet. Notable works include ''Noé delirante'' (1963), ''Primavera triunfante'' (1964), ''Las sirenas y las estaciones'' (1976), ''Los Amantes'' (1978) and ''Puen ...

, ''Puente de los Suspiros'', Peruvian poetry, Peru *

, ''Three Poems under a Flag of Convenience (Τρία ποιήματα με σημαία ευκαιρίας)'', Modern Greek literature, Greece * Ndoc Gjetja, ''E përditshme'' ("The Daily"), Albanian poetry, Albania"Ndoc Gjetja, hera e fundit në bibliotekën publike"
June 8, 2010, ''Telegrafi'' of Pristina
Google translation of Web page
, retrieved June 10, 2010 * Klaus Høeck, ''Eno Zebra'', with Asger Schnack, Danish poetry, DenmarkWeb page title
"Bibliography of Klaus Høeck"
website of the Danish Arts Agency / Literature Centre, retrieved January 1, 2010 * Alexander Mezhirov, ''Проза в стихах'' ("Prose in Verse") (winner of the USSR State Prize, 1986 in poetry, 1986), Russian poetry, Russia, Soviet UnionShrayer, Maxim
"Aleksandr Mezhirov"
p 879, ''An Anthology of Jewish-Russian Literature: Two Centuries of Dual Identity in Prose and Poetry'', publisher: M.E. Sharpe, 2007, , , retrieved via Google Books on May 27, 2009 * Nizar Qabbani, ''A Poem For Balqis'', Syrian poetry, Syrian poet writing in

* Rajendra Shah (author), Rajendra Shah, ''Prasang-Spatak'',

, writing in

Mohan, Sarala Jag
Chapter 4: "Twentieth-Century Gujarati Literature"
(Google books link), in Natarajan, Nalini, and Emanuel Sampath Nelson, editors, ''Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India'', Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, , retrieved December 10, 2008 * Søren Ulrik Thomsen, ''Ukendt under den samme måne'' ("Unknown Under the Same Moon"), Danish poetry, Denmark * Marie Uguay, ''Autoportraits'', French-Canadian poetry, Canadian (posthumous) * Silvia Volckmann, ''Zeit der Kirschen? Das Naturbild in der deutschen Gegenwartslyrik'' (scholarship), German literature, West GermanyPreminger, 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, "Criticism in German" section, p 474

Awards and honors

Australian poetry, Australia

* Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Fay Zwicky, ''Kaddish and Other Poems''

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 ...

* Gerald Lampert Award: Abraham Boyarsky, ''Schielber'' and Edna Alford, ''A Sleep Full of Dreams'' * 1982 Governor General's Awards:

, ''The Vision Tree: Selected Poems'' (English); Michel Savard, ''Forages'' (French) * Pat Lowther Award: Rona Murray, ''Journey'' * Prix Émile-Nelligan: Jocelyne Felx, ''Orpailleuse'' and Philippe Haeck - ''La Parole verte''

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* Cholmondeley Award: Basil Bunting, Herbert Lomas (poet), Herbert Lomas, William Scammell * Eric Gregory Award: Steve Ellis (poet), Steve Ellis,

, Alison Brackenbury, Neil Astley, Chris O'Neill (poet), Chris O'Neill, Joseph Bristow (literary scholar), Joseph Bristow, John Gibbens, James Lasdun

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 ...

* Academy of American Poets Fellowship: John Ashbery and John Frederick Nims * Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Lawrence Joseph, ''Shouting at No One'' * National Book Award: William Bronk for ''Life Supports'' (April 27) * Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry: Gerald Stern, "Father Guzman" * Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (later the post would be called "Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress"): Anthony Hecht appointed this year. * Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Sylvia Plath: ''The Collected Poems'' * Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: John Frederick Nims and John Ashbery * North Carolina Poet Laureate: Sam Ragan appointed.

Births

* January 14 – Luke Wright (poet), Luke Wright, English poetry, English performance poet * April 27 – Patricia Lockwood, American poetry, American poet * Paul-Henri Campbell, German American poetry, American poet * Roger Robinson (poet), Roger Robinson, English poetry, British Dub poetry, dub poet * Chris Tse (New Zealand writer), Chris Tse, New Zealand poetry, New Zealand poet, short story writer and editor

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: * January 19 – Marya Zaturenska, 80 (born 1902 in poetry, 1902), American poetry, American lyric poet, of heart failure * March 11 – Horace Gregory, 83 (born 1898 in poetry, 1898), American poetry, American poet * March 15 – Edgell Rickword, 83 (born 1898 in poetry, 1898), English poetry, English poet, critic, journalist and literary editor, a leading communist intellectual active in the 1930s * March 18 – Yao Kitabatake 北畠八穂, 78 (born 1903 in poetry, 1903), Japanese poetry, Japanese, Shōwa period poet and children's fiction writer * April 20 ** Archibald MacLeish, 89 (born 1892 in poetry, 1892), American poetry, American poet ** Aco Šopov, 59 (born 1923 in poetry, 1923), Macedonian literature, Macedonian poet * June 5 – Junzaburō Nishiwaki 西脇順三郎, 88 (born 1894 in poetry, 1894), Japanese poetry, Japanese, Shōwa period poet and literary critic * June 6 – Kenneth Rexroth, 76 (born 1905 in poetry, 1905), American poetry, American poet, of a heart ailment * June 18 – Djuna Barnes, 90 (born 1892 in poetry, 1892), American poetry, American writer and poet * July 20 – Okot p'Bitek, 51 (born 1931 in poetry, 1931), Poetry in Africa, Ugandan poet * October 22 – Richard Hugo, 58 (born 1923 in poetry, 1923), American poetry, American poet, of leukemia * November 13 – Babette Deutsch, 87 (born 1895 in poetry, 1895), American poetry, American poet * December 3 – Bishnu Dey, 73 (born 1909 in poetry, 1909), Bengali poetry, Bengali poet, prose writer and movie critic

Notes

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Events

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Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States

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Spanish poetry, Spain

Other

Awards and honors

Australian poetry, Australia

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 ...

United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the European mainland, continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotlan ...

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 ...

Births

Deaths

See also

Notes

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, in English