Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events January – James Dickey, composes a poem he reads at new United States President Jimmy Carter’s inaugural gala (although not at the inauguration itself).Garner, Dwight, "The Intersection of Poetry and Politics", article, The New York Times, December 25, 2008, retrieved same day July 11 – The English magazine Gay News is found guilty of blasphemous libel for publishing a homoerotic poem The Love That Dares to Speak Its Name by James Kirkup in a case (Whitehouse v. Lemon) brought by Mary Whitehouse's National Viewers and Listeners Association at the Old Bailey in London. Poet Sarah Kirsch leaves her native East Germany for the West. In Israeli the literary journal Keshet goes defunct, while Itton and Proza are founded.
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 Robert Adamson Cross The Border Jennifer Maiden, Mortal Details, Rigmarole Les Murray, Ethnic Radio, Angus & Robertson Les Murray Web page at The Poetry Archive Web site, accessed October 15, 2007 John Tranter, Crying in Early Infancy: 100 Sonnets, Makar Press
Canada Earle Birney: The Damnation of Vancouver. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart. A satire on the modern city. Ghost in the Wheels: selected poems. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart."Earle Birney: Published Works ," Canadian Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 3, 2011. Roo Borson, Landfall, American-Canadian Leonard Cohen, Death of a Ladies' Man Isabella Valancy Crawford, Hugh and Ion, Glenn Clever ed. (Ottawa: Borealis). Irving Layton, The Poems of Irving Layton. Eli Mandel ed. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart. Also published, with an introduction by Hugh Kenner, as The Selected Poems of Irving Layton. New York: New Directions, 1977."Irving Layton: Publications ," Canadian Poetry Online, Web, May 7, 2011. Irving Layton, The Covenant. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart. Dorothy Livesay, Right Hand Left Hand. Erin, ON: Porcepic."Dorothy Livesay (1909-1996): Works" , Canadian Women Poets, Brock University. Web, Mar. 18, 2011. Pat Lowther, A Stone Diary Miriam Mandel, Station 14. Edmonton: NeWest Press."Books by former English Department Students ," USask.ca, Web, Apr. 25, 2011. Charles Sangster, The Angel Guest and Other Poems and Lyrics, edited by Frank M. Tierney (Tecumseh)Frank M. Tierney, "Sangster, Charles," Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online. Web., Oct. 15 2010. F. R. Scott, Poems of French Canada. Translated by F. R. Scott. Burnaby, B.C.: Blackfish Press."F.R. Scott: Publications ," Canadian Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 7, 2011. Raymond Souster, Extra Innings. Ottawa. Oberon Press."Notes on Life and Works ," Selected Poetry of Raymond Souster, Representative Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 7, 2011. George Woodcock, Anima, or, Swann Grown Old. A Cycle of Poems by George Woodcock, Windsor, Ontario: Black Moss Press, Canada"The Works of George Woodcock" at Anarchy Archives: "This list is based on The Record of George Woodcock (issued for his eightieth birthday) and Ivan Avakumovic's bibliography in A Political Art: Essays and Images in Honour of George Woodcock, edited by W.H. New, 1978, with additions to bring it up to date"; accessed April 24, 2008
India, in English R. Parthasarathy, Rough Passage, Delhi: Oxford University PressNiranjan 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, , retrieved July 17, 2010 Meena Alexander, I Root My Name, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India.Naik, M. K., Perspectives on Indian poetry in English, p. 230 (published by Abhinav Publications, 1984, , ), retrieved June 12, 2009
Ireland Samuel Beckett, Collected Poems in English and French,Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, Irish native living in France and published in the United Kingdom Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin: The Second Voyage, including "Deaths and Engines",Crotty, Patrick, Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology, Belfast, The Blackstaff Press Ltd., 1995, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press"Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin" at The Gallery Press website, accessed May 4, 2008 Harry Clifton, The Walls of Carthage Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, Paul Muldoon, Mules, Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom Frank Ormsby, A Store of Candles, including "Passing the Crematorium", Oldcastle: Gallery Press Tom Paulin, A State of Justice, Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom
New Zealand Bill Manhire, How to Take Off Your Clothes at the Picnic Lauris Edmond, The Pear Tree: Poems Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, "Lauris Edmond" article R. Ensing, editor, Private Gardens, anthology of New Zealand women poetsPreminger, 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 Kendrick Smithyman, Dwarf with a Billiard Cue, Auckland: Auckland University Press and Oxford University Press Ian Wedde, Spells for Coming Out, New Zealand
South Africa Mafika Gwala, Jol'iinkomo
United Kingdom Samuel Beckett, Collected Poems in English and French, Irish native living in France and published in the United Kingdom Kamau Brathwaite, Mother Poem Joseph Brodsky: Poems and Translations, Keele: University of Keele"Joseph Brodsky / Nobel Prize in Literature 1987 / Bibliography" at Official Web Site of the Nobel Foundation, accessed October 18, 2007 Russian-American (but published in the United Kingdom; see United States section for a book published there) Donald Davies, To Scorch or Freeze Carol Ann Duffy and Adrian Henri, Beauty and the BeastMichelis, Angelica, "Carol Ann Duffy (1955-)", The Literary Encyclopedia; retrieved May 4, 2009. Archived 2009-05-07. Elaine Feinstein: Some Unease and Angels, Hutchinson Selected Poems, University Center, Michigan, Green River Press W. S. Graham, Implements in their Places Michael Hamburger, Real Estate Adrian Henri, City Hedges Ted Hughes, Gaudete, derived from an abandoned film scenario, the book has elements of a poetic novel, narrative poem and verse play Elizabeth Jennings, Consequently I Rejoice Norman MacCaig, Tree of Strings Sorley MacLean, pen name of Somhairle MacGill-Eain, Spring Tide and Neap Tide [Reothairt is Contraigh], in Gaelic and English Paul Muldoon, Mules, Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom Tom Paulin, A State of Justice, Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom Kathleen Raine, The Oval Portrait, and Other Poems Peter Scupham, The Hinterland R. S. Thomas, The Way of It Anthony Thwaite, A Portion for Foxes
United States A. R. Ammons: Highgate Road The Selected Poems: 1951-1977 The Snow Poems John Ashbery, Houseboat Days Ted Berrigan: Clear The Range Nothing For You John Berryman, Henry's Fate and Other Poems, 1967-1972, with 45 previously unpublished "Dream Songs" (posthumous) Joseph Payne Brennan, The Riddle (Fantome Press) Frank Bidart, The Book of the Body Elizabeth Bishop, Geography III, which includes "In the Waiting Room," "The Moose," and the villanelle, "One Art" Joseph Brodsky: A Part of Speech McFadden, Robert D., "Joseph Brodsky, Exiled Poet Who Won Nobel, Dies at 55", obituary, The New York Times, January 29, 1996, accessed October 18, 2007 Russian-American (see United Kingdom section for a book published there) Robert Bly, This Body is Made of Camphor and Gopherwood Billy Collins, Pokerface Frank Belknap Long, In Mayan Splendor Michael S. Harper, Images of Kin (1977), won the Melville-Cane Award from the Poetry Society of America; nominated for the National Book Award"Michael S. Harper", Academy of American Poets, accessed April 23, 2008 Robert Lowell, Day by Day W. S. Merwin: The Compass Flower, New York: Atheneum"W. S. Merwin (1927- )", Poetry Foundation; retrieved June 8, 2010 Translator, Vertical Poetry, poems by Roberto Juarroz; San Francisco: Kayak (reprinted in 1988; San Francisco: North Point Press) W. S. Merwin and J. Moussaieff Mason, translators, Sanskrit Love Poetry, New York: Columbia University Press (published in 1981 as Peacock's Egg: Love Poems from Ancient India, San Francisco: North Point Press) Michael Palmer, Without Music (Black Sparrow Press) Carl Rakosi, My Experience in Parnassus Charles Reznikoff, Poems 1937-1975 (published posthumously) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Prussian Nights, translated into English from the original Russian by Robert Conquest; first written in 1951; first published in 1974 Gary Soto, The Elements of San JoaquinPorter, Joy, and Kenneth M. Roemer, The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature, p. 29, Cambridge University Press, 2005, , retrieved February 9, 2009
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 Vita Andersen, Tryghedsnarkomaner Jørgen Gustava Brandt, Ophold Klaus Høeck: Projekt Perseus, publisher: Gyldendal"Bibliography of Klaus Høeck", website of the Danish Arts Agency / Literature Centre, retrieved January 1, 2010 Ulrike Marie Meinhof, publisher: Gyldendal Vagn Lundbye, Digte 1977 Jess Ornsbo, Digte uden arbejde Charlotte Strandgaard, Naesten kun om kaerlighed
French language Canada, in French Denise Boucher and Madeleine Gagnon, Retailles Claude Gavreau, Ouvres créatrices complètes (posthumous) Michel Leclerc, La Traversée du réel Pierre Nepveu, Épisodes, Montréal: l'Hexagone"Pierre Nepveu" at L’Académie des lettres du Québec website (in French), retrieved October 20, 2010
France Samuel Beckett, Collected Poems in English and French, Irish native living in France and published in the United Kingdom Yves Bonnefoy, Rue Traversière André du Bouchet, Air (1950–1953)Auster, Paul (ed.), The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets, New York: Random House, 1982. Alain Delahaye, L'etre perdu Philippe Denis, Malgré la bouche Roger Giroux, published posthumously (died 1973): S L'arbre le Temps suivi le Lieu-Je et de Lettre Eugene Guilleveic, Du domaine Emmanuel Hocquard, Album d'images de la Villa Harris Georges Perec, Alphabets Jacques Roubaud, Autobiographie chapitre dix Alain Veinstein, Recherche des dispositions anciennes
German language East Germany Sarah Kirsch, Rückenwind, love poems Paul Günter Krohn, Alle meine Namen
West Germany , Jokers Farewell Gotthard de Beauclair, Zeit, Überzeit Rolf Haufs, Die Geschwindigkeit eines einzigen Tages Karl Krowlow, Der Einfachheit halber Norbert Mecklenburg, Naturlyrik und Gesellschaft Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta (scholarship)Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al. (eds), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "German Poetry" article, "Criticism in German" section, p. 474.
Hebrew Nathan Alterman, a posthumous book of poemsThis is as specific as The Britannica Book of the Year 1978, the source, gets; the book, published in 1978, covers events in 1977, "Literature" article, p. 511. O. Bernstein, a book of poems Simon Halkin, a book of the collected poems and works Hurvitz, a book of poems Shimshon Meltzer, a book of the collected poems and works Gabriel Preil, a book of poems Dalia Ravikovitch, a book of poems Yonatan Ratosh, a book of poems Shin Shalom, a book of poems Y. Wallach, a book of collected poems Meir Wieseltier, a book of poems Avot Yeshurun, a book of poems