1979 in poetry

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

List of years in poetry (table)
In literature
1976
1977
1978
1979
1980
1981
1982

Events

  • The Kenyon Review is restarted by Kenyon College in the United States 10 years after the original publication was closed.
  • Jahrbuch der Lyrik ("Poetry Yearbook"), an annual poetry anthology, is launched in Germany, nine years before the similar series The Best American Poetry is begun. Each year's edition, containing 100 poems, is published in the spring by Beck, and is edited by Christoph Buchwald along with a guest editor.[1]
  • Poetry Canada Review founded by Clifton Whiten in order to publish and review poetry from across Canada; the publication folds in 1994.[2]

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

Canada

  • Dionne Brand, Earth Magic
  • Paul Dutton, Right Hemisphere, Left Ear
  • Candice James, "A Split In The Water" Fiddlehead Poetry Books
  • Michael Ondaatje, There's a Trick with a Knife I'm Learning to Do
  • Irving Layton, Droppings from Heaven. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart.[4]
  • Irving Layton, The Tamed Puma. Toronto: Virgo Press.[4]
  • Irving Layton, There Were No Signs. Toronto: Madison Gallery.[4]
  • Dennis Lee.The Gods. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart.[5]
  • Steven McCaffery and B.P. Nichol, In England Now That Spring
  • Susan Musgrave, A Man to Bury, A Man to Marry
  • Michael Ondaatje (also see "Anthologies in Canada" section below):
    • There's a Trick with a Knife I'm Learning to Do: Poems, 1963-1978, New York: W. W. Norton (New York, NY), 1979[6] ISBN 0-393-01191-7, ISBN 978-0-393-01191-3 (published as Rat Jelly, and Other Poems, 1963-1978, London, United Kingdom: Marion Boyars, 1980)[6]
    • Claude Glass (literary criticism), Toronto: Coach House Press[6]
  • Charles Sangster, Hesperus and other poems and lyrics (revised edition), edited by Frank M. Tierney (Tecumseh) [7]
  • Raymond Souster, Hanging In: New Poems. Ottawa: Oberon Press.[8]
  • James Wreford Watson, Countryside Canada.[9]

Anthologies in Canada

  • Michael Ondaatje:
    • Editor, A Book of Beasts, animal verse; Ottawa: Oberon; revision of The Broken Ark, 1971[6]
    • Editor, The Long Poem Anthology, Toronto: Coach House[6] ISBN 0-88910-177-9

India, in English

Ireland

  • Harry Clifton, Office of the Salt Merchant, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, ISBN 978-0-902996-84-7 Ireland
  • Seamus Heaney, Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom:
    • Field Work,[14] Faber & Faber
    • Hedge School, Janus Press
    • Ugolino, Carpenter Press
    • Gravities, Charlotte Press
    • A Family Album, Byron Press
  • Thomas Kinsella, One and Other Poems, including "Anniversaries"[15]
  • Michael Longley, The Echo Gate.[14] Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom
  • Derek Mahon, Poems 1962-1978, including "A Dying Art", "Ecclesiastes", "An Image from Beckett", "Lives", "The Snow Party", "A Refusal to Mourn" and "A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford", Oxford University Press, Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom[15]

New Zealand

  • Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963):
    • The Inner Harbour, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963)[16]
    • Below Loughrigg, Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books [16]
  • Allen Curnow, An Incorrigible Music[17]
  • Bill Manhire, Dawn/Water
  • Bob Orr, Poems for Moira[18]

Anthologies

  • John Jessop, editor, International Anthology of Concrete Poetry, vol. i
  • George Swede, editor, The Canadian Haiku Anthology

United Kingdom

United States

Works published in other languages

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

Denmark

Canada, in French

France

India

Listed in alphabetical order by first name:

Poland

  • Stanisław Barańczak, Etyka i poetyka ("Ethics and Poetics"), criticism; Paris: Instytut Literacki[32]
  • Ewa Lipska:
    • Dom spokojnej młodości ("A Home for Youth"), selected poems, Kraków: Wydawnictwo literackie[33]
    • Zywa smierc, ("Living Death"); Kraków: Wydawnictwo literackie[33]

Spain

Other

  • Christoph Buchwald, general editor, and Harald Hartung, guest editor, Jahrbuch der Lyrik 1: Am Rand der Zeit ("Poetry Yearbook 1: On the Edge of Time"), publisher: Claassen; anthology; Germany[34]
  • Haim Gouri, Ayuma, Israeli writing in Hebrew[35]
  • Nizar Qabbani, I Testify That There Is No Woman But You, Syrian poet writing in Arabic

Awards and honors

Canada

United Kingdom

United States

Births

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

Notes

  1. Archived 2007-09-28 at the Wayback Machine Sofer, Dalia, ""Best" Anthologies: A Global Trend", an article in Poets & Writers magazine, March 2003, accessed April 14, 2007
  2. Web page titled "Literary Archives / Poetry Canada Review", at the Library and Archives Canada website, retrieved January 3, 2009
  3. 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
  4. "Irving Layton: Publications," Canadian Poetry Online, Web, May 7, 2011.
  5. "Dennis Lee: Publications," Canadian Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, Apr. 19, 2011.
  6. Web page titled "Archive: Michael Ondaatje (1943- )" at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed May 7, 2008
  7. Frank M. Tierney, "Sangster, Charles," Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online. Web., Oct. 15 2010.
  8. "Notes on Life and Works Archived 2011-08-17 at the Wayback Machine," Selected Poetry of Raymond Souster, Representative Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 7, 2011.
  9. "J(ames) Wreford Watson," Dictionary of Literary Biography, Bookrags. com,Web, Apr. 21, 2011.
  10. Naik, M. K., Perspectives on Indian poetry in English, p. 230, (published by Abhinav Publications, 1984, ISBN 0-391-03286-0, ISBN 978-0-391-03286-6), retrieved via Google Books, June 12, 2009
  11. Niranjan Mohanty, "Trends in Indian Poetry in English", p 18 ("Works Cited"), Footnote 7, in Indian English Poetry: Critical Perspectives, edited by Jaydipsinh Dodiya, 2000, Delhi: Prabhat Kumar Sharma for Sarup & Sons, ISBN 81-7625-111-9, retrieved via Google Books on July 17, 2010
  12. Web page titled "Eunice de Souza" Archived September 19, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, Poetry International website, retrieved July 8, 2010
  13. Purnima Mehta, "16. Jayanta Mahapatra: A Silence-bound Pilgrim", pp 184-185, in Indian English Poetry: Critical Perspectives, edited by Jaydipsinh Dodiya, 2000, Delhi: Prabhat Kumar Sharma for Sarup & Sons, ISBN 81-7625-111-9, retrieved via Google Books on July 17, 2010
  14. Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
  15. Crotty, Patrick, Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology, Belfast, The Blackstaff Press Ltd., 1995, ISBN 0-85640-561-2
  16. Web page titled "Fleur Adcock: New Zealand Literature File" Archived 2006-12-21 at the Wayback Machine at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, 2008
  17. Allen Curnow Web page at the New Zealand Book Council website, accessed April 21, 2008
  18. Web page titled "Bob Orr" at Best of New Zealand Poems 2001 website, accessed April 23, 2008
  19. Salter, Miles, "Pete Morgan obituary: Elegant, original poet much admired by his contemporaries", July 15, The Guardian, retrieved August 7, 2010
  20. Everett, Nicholas, "Robert Creeley's Life and Career" at the Modern American Poetry website, accessed May 1, 2008
  21. Liukkonen, Petri. "Inger Christensen". Books and Writers (kirjasto.sci.fi). Finland: Kuusankoski Public Library. Archived from the original on 23 January 2009.
  22. Web page titled "Bibliography of Klaus Høeck", website of the Danish Arts Agency / Literature Centre, retrieved January 1, 2010
  23. Web page titled "Jean Royer" Archived 2011-07-06 at the Wayback Machine at L’Académie des lettres du Québec website (in French), retrieved October 20, 2010
  24. Sellin, Eric (1980). "Gazelle après minuit by Noureddine Aba". World Literature Today. 54 (4): 684–685. JSTOR 40135559.
  25. Auster, Paul, editor, The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets, New York: Random House, 1982 ISBN 0-394-52197-8
  26. Web page titled at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 6, 2010
  27. 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, ISBN 978-0-313-28778-7, retrieved December 10, 2008
  28. Web page titled "K. Satchidanandan" Archived 2011-07-21 at the Wayback Machine, Poetry International website, retrieved July 11, 2010
  29. Web page titled "Kunwar Narain" at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 12, 2010
  30. Web page titled "Malika Amar Sheikh", Poetry International website, retrieved July 6, 2010
  31. Web page titled "Rajendra Bhandari" at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 25, 2010
  32. Web page titled "Rymkiewicz Jaroslaw Marek" Archived 2011-09-16 at the Wayback Machine, at the Institute Ksiazki website (in Polish), "Bibliography: Poetry" section, retrieved February 24, 2010
  33. Web pages titled "Lipska Ewa" (in English Archived 2011-09-16 at the Wayback Machine and Polish Archived 2011-07-18 at the Wayback Machine), at the Instytut Książki ("Books Institute") website , "Bibliography" sections, retrieved March 1, 2010
  34. Web page titled "Übersicht erschienener Jahrbücher" at Fischerverlage website, retrieved February 21, 2010
  35. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-09-30. Retrieved 2007-10-06.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) Web page titled "Haim Gouri" at the Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature Web site, accessed October 6, 2007
  36. Hofmann, Michael, ed. (2006). Twentieth-Century German Poetry: An Anthology. Macmillan/Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
  • Britannica Book of the Year 1980 ("for events of 1979"), published by Encyclopædia Britannica 1980 (source of many items in "Works published" section and rarely in other sections)

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