1979 in poetry

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Events

* The Kenyon Review is restarted by Kenyon College 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 Best American Poetry series 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. [ [http://www.pw.org/mag/0303/newssofer.htm] Sofer, Dalia, ""Best" Anthologies: A Global Trend", an article in "Poets & Writers" magazine, March 2003, accessed April 14, 2007]

Works published in English

=Australia=

* Robert Adamson "Where I Come From"
* Robert Gray, "Grass script"
* Les Murray, "The Boys Who Stole the Funeral", Angus & Robertson, 1979, 1980 and Manchester, Carcanet, 1989
* John Tranter:
** "Dazed in the Ladies Lounge", Island Press
** Editor, "The New Australian Poetry" (anthology) [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 Wallace-Crabbe:
** "The Emotions Are Not Skilled Workers", Sydney: Angus & Robertson
** "Toil and Spin: Two Directions in Modern Poetry" (scholarship), Melbourne: Hutchinson

=Canada=

* Paul Dutton, "Right Hemisphere, Left Ear"
* Michael Ondaatje, "There's a Trick with a Knife I'm Learning to Do"
* Irving Layton, "Droppings from Heaven"
* Dennis Lee, "The Gods"
* 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), 1979Web page titled [http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=5142 "Archive: Michael Ondaatje (1943- )"] at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed May 7, 2008] ISBN 0393011917, ISBN 039302100X (published as "Rat Jelly, and Other Poems, 1963-1978", London, United Kingdom: Marion Boyars, 1980)
** "Claude Glass" (literary criticism), Toronto: Coach House Press

Anthologies in Canada

* Michael Ondaatje:
** Editor, "A Book of Beasts", animal verse; Ottawa: Oberon; revision of "The Broken Ark", 1971
** Editor, "The Long Poem Anthology", Toronto: Coach House ISBN 0889101779

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) [http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/subjects/nzp/nzlit2/adcock.htm Web page titled "Fleur Adcock: New Zealand Literature File"] at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, 2008]
** "Below Loughrigg", Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Bloodaxe Books
* Allen Curnow, "An Incorrigible Music" [ [http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/writers/curnowa.html Allen Curnow Web page] at the New Zealand Book Council website, accessed April 21, 2008]
* Bill Manhire, "Dawn/Water"
* Bob Orr, "Poems for Moira" [ [http://www.victoria.ac.nz/modernletters/bnzp/2001/orrnote.html Web page titled "Bob Orr"] at Best of New Zealand Poems 2001 website, accessed April 23, 2008]

Anthologies

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

=United Kingdom=

* 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) [http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/subjects/nzp/nzlit2/adcock.htm Web page titled "Fleur Adcock: New Zealand Literature File"] at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, 2008]
** "Below Loughrigg", Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Bloodaxe Books
* Kingsley Amis, "Collected Poems"
* Robert Conquest, "Forays"
* Duglas Dunn
* D.J. Enright, "A Faust Book"
* Omar Khayyám, "The Rubaiyat", translated by John Heath-Stubbs and Peter Avery
* Derek Mahon, "Poems 1962-1978." Oxford University Press
* Craig Raine, "A Martian Sends a Postcard Home"
* Seamus Heaney
** "Field Work", Faber & Faber
** "Hedge School", Janus Press
** "Ugolino", Carpenter Press
** "Gravities", Charlotte Press
** "A Family Album", Byron Press
* Ted Hughes:
** "Moortown"
** "Remains of Elmet"
* P.J. Kavanagh
* Terence Tiller

United States

* John Ashbery, "As We Know"
* Ted Berrigan and Harris Schiff, "Yo-Yo's With Money"
* Maxine Chernoff, "Utopia TV Store" (The Yellow Press)
* Robert Creeley, "Was That a Real Poem and Other Essays", edited by Donald Allen (Bolinas, California), criticism [Everett, Nicholas, [http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/creeley/life.htm "Robert Creeley's Life and Career"] at the "Modern American Poetry" website, accessed May 1, 2008]
* Federico Garcia Lorca (posthumous), translated by Paul Blackburn, "Lorca/Blackburn: Poems of Federico Garcia Lorca Chosen by Paul Blackburn"
* John Hollander, "Blue Wine"
* Paul Hoover, "Letter to Einstein Beginning Dear Albert" (The Yellow Press)
* Stanley Kunitz, "The Poems of Stanley Kunitz"
* Denise Levertov, "Collected Earlier Poems"
* F. A. Nettelbeck, "Bug Death"
* Mary Oliver, "Sleeping in the Forest" (chapbook)
* Robert Penn Warren, "Brother to Dragons"

Other in English

* Jayanta Mahapatra, "Waiting", India [http://www.orissagateway.com/features/Arts_and_Architecture/Art/Literature/Poets/Jayanta_Mohapatra/] Jayata Mahapatra Web page at the Orissa Gateway Web site, accessed October 16, 2007]

Works published in other languages

=Spain=

* Matilde Camus, "Corcel en el tiempo" ("Steed of the time")

=French=

France

* Alain Bosquet, "Poémes, un", his collected works up to 1967
* Pierre Emmanuel, "Una, ou la mort, la vie"
* Guillevic, "Etier"
* André Pieyre de Mandiargues, "L'ivre Oeil"
* Patrick Reumaux, "Repérages du vif"

=Denmark=

* Henrik Nordbrandt, "Spøgelseslege"

Other

* Haim Gouri, "Ayuma", Israeli writing in Hebrew [ [http://www.ithl.org.il/author_info.asp?id=101] Web page titled "Haim Gouri" at the Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature Web site, accessed October 6, 2007]

Awards and honors

* Nobel Prize in Literature: Odysseus Elytis, Greek

=Canada=

* See 1979 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

=United Kingdom=

* Cholmondeley Award: Alan Brownjohn, Andrew Motion, Charles Tomlinson
* Eric Gregory Award: Stuart Henson, Michael Jenkins, Alan Hollinghurst, Sean O'Brien, Peter Thabit Jones, James Lindesay, Walter Perrie, Brian Moses

United States

* Bollingen Prize: W.S. Merwin
* American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in Poetry, Archibald MacLeish
* Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Robert Penn Warren: "Now and Then"
* Walt Whitman Award: David Bottoms, "Shooting Rats at the Bibb County Dump"
* Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: May Swenson and Mark Strand

Deaths

* February 9 - Allen Tate, 79, American poet, of emphysema
* October 6 - Elizabeth Bishop, 68, American poet, from an aneurism
* December 7 — Nicolas Born, (born 1937), German
* Dates not known:
** I. A. Richards, influential literary critic and rhetorician.
** Ernst Meister (born 1911), German [Hofmann, Michael, editor, "Twentieth-Century German Poetry: An Anthology", Macmillan/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006]

Notes

* "Britannica Book of the Year 1980" ("for events of 1979"), published by "Encyclopaedia Britannica" 1980 (source of many items in "Works published" section and rarely in other sections)

ee also

* Poetry
* List of poetry awards
* List of years in poetry