1979 in poetry

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Contents

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.[1]

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)[2]
  • 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), 1979[3] ISBN 0393011917, ISBN 039302100X (published as Rat Jelly, and Other Poems, 1963-1978, London, United Kingdom: Marion Boyars, 1980)[3]
    • Claude Glass (literary criticism), Toronto: Coach House Press[3]

Anthologies in Canada

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)[4]
    • Below Loughrigg, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Bloodaxe Books [4]
  • Allen Curnow, An Incorrigible Music[5]
  • Bill Manhire, Dawn/Water
  • Bob Orr, Poems for Moira[6]


Anthologies

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

United Kingdom

United States

Other in English

Works published in other languages

Spain

French

France


Denmark

Other

Awards and honors

Canada

United Kingdom

United States

Deaths

Notes

  1. ^ [1]Sofer, Dalia, ""Best" Anthologies: A Global Trend", an article in Poets & Writers magazine, March 2003, accessed April 14, 2007
  2. ^ 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
  3. ^ a b c d e Web page titled "Archive: Michael Ondaatje (1943- )" at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed May 7, 2008
  4. ^ a b c d Web page titled "Fleur Adcock: New Zealand Literature File" at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, 2008
  5. ^ Allen Curnow Web page at the New Zealand Book Council website, accessed April 21, 2008
  6. ^ Web page titled "Bob Orr" at Best of New Zealand Poems 2001 website, accessed April 23, 2008
  7. ^ Everett, Nicholas, "Robert Creeley's Life and Career" at the Modern American Poetry website, accessed May 1, 2008
  8. ^ [2]Jayata Mahapatra Web page at the Orissa Gateway Web site, accessed October 16, 2007
  9. ^ [3]Web page titled "Haim Gouri" at the Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature Web site, accessed October 6, 2007
  10. ^ Hofmann, Michael, editor, Twentieth-Century German Poetry: An Anthology, Macmillan/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006
  • 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)

See also

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