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- Source: 1970 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
May ā "La nuit de la poĆ©sie", a poetry reading in Montreal bringing together poets from French Canada to recite before an audience of more than 2,000 in the ThĆ©Ć¢tre du Gesu, lasting until 7 a.m.
Release of Tomfoolery, an animated film directed by Joy Batchelor and John Halas, based on the nonsense verse of Edward Lear (especially "The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo") and Lewis Carroll
First issue of Tapia (later named the Trinidad & Tobago Review) published
In the United Kingdom, "My Enemies Have Sweet Voices", a poem by Pete Morgan, is set to music by Al Stewart and included in his "Zero She Flies" album this year.
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 Canticles on the Skin
B. Elliott and A. Mitchell, Bards in the Wilderness: Australian Colonial Poetry to 1920, anthology
John Tranter, Parallax, South Head Press
= Canada
=
Earle Birney, Rag & Bone Shop. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart).
Joan Finnigan, It Was Warm and Sunny When We Set Out
Gail Fox, Dangerous Season
R.A.D. Ford, The Solitary City, his poems and translations from Russian and Portuguese
John Glassco, Memoirs of Montparnasse
Michael Ondaatje:
The Collected Works of Billy the Kid: Left-handed Poems (adapted by Ondaatje into a play of the same name in 1973), Toronto: Anansi ISBN 0-88784-018-3 ; New York: Berkeley, 1975
Leonard Cohen (literary criticism), Toronto: McClelland & Stewart
Joe Rosenblatt, Bumblebee Dithyramb.
Anthologies in Canada
Robert Evans, editor, Song to a Seagull, collected Canadian songs and poems
John Glassco, editor, The Poetry of French Canada in Translation, translated by English-speaking poets, including E. J. Pratt, Al Purdy, Leonard Cohen; and poetic lyrics from recent songs
Raymond Souster and Douglas Lochhead, eds. New Poems of the Seventies. Ottawa: Oberon Press.
Raymond Souster and Douglas Lochhead, eds. Made in Canada. Ottawa: Oberon Press, 1970.
Raymond Souster and Richard Woollatt, eds. Generation Now. Longman Canada.
= India in English
=
Shiv Kumar, Articulate Silences ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India .
Keki N. Daruwalla, Under Orion ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India . also New Delhi: Harper Collins Publishers India Pvt Ltd.;
Sukanta Chaudhuri, The Glass King and Other Poems ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India .
Gauri Deshpande, Lost Love ( Poetry in English ),
Suniti Namjoshi, More Poems( Poetry in English ),
Roshen Alkazi, Seventeen More Poems ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India . (see also Seventeen Poems 1965)
Margaret Chatterjee, Towards the Sun ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India .
Mary Ann Das Gupta, The Peacock Smiles ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India .
N. Prasad, Iconography of Time, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India .
Monika Varma, Green Leaves & Gold ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India .
= Ireland
=
Leland Bardwell, The Mad Cyclist
Seamus Heaney, Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom:
Night Drive, Gilbertson
A Boy Driving His Father to Confession, Sceptre Press
Derek Mahon, Beyond Howth Head, Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom
= New Zealand
=
James K. Baxter, Jerusalem Sonnets
Bill Manhire, Malady
F. McKay, New Zealand Poetry, scholarship
Vincent O'Sullivan, editor, An Anthology of Twentieth Century New Zealand Verse
J. E. Weir, The Poetry of James K. Baxter, a critical study
= United Kingdom
=
Dannie Abse, Selected Poems
Margaret Atwood, The Journals of Susanna Moodie
George Barker, At Thurgarton Church
R. H. Bowden, Poems from Italy
Frederick Broadie, My Findings
Michael Dennis Browne, The Wife of Winter
Charles Causley, Figgie Hobbin
Donald Davie, Six Epistles to Eva Hesse
C. Day-Lewis, The Whispering Roots
Patric Dickinson, More Than Time
Clifford Dyment, Collected Poems
D.J. Enright, Selected Poems
W.S. Graham, Malcolm Mooney's Land
Ian Hamilton, The Visit
Tony Harrison, The Loiners
Seamus Heaney, Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom:
Night Drive, Gilbertson
A Boy Driving His Father to Confession, Sceptre Press
Glyn Hughes, Neighbours
Ted Hughes, Crow
C. Day-Lewis, The Whispering Roots
George MacBeth, The Burning Cone
Norman MacCaig, A Man in My Position
Hugh MacDiarmid, Selected Poems
Sorley MacLean, George Campbell Hay, William Neill and Stuart MacGregor, Four Points of a Saltire (includes some poems in Scottish Gaelic)
Derek Mahon, Beyond Howth Head Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom
Walter de la Mare, The Complete Poems of Walter de la Mare
Stuart Montgomery, Circe
Brian Patten, The Homecoming
Christopher Pilling, Snakes and Girls, won the new Poets Award sponsored by Leeds university and the Yorkshire Post
Peter Porter, The Last of England
Burns Singer, Collected Poems (posthumous)
Iain Crichton Smith, Selected Poems
Charles Tomlinson, The Way of a World
John Wain, Letters to Five Artists
Ted Walker, The Night Bathers
Hugo Williams, Sugar Daddy
Mary Wilson (wife of Prime Minister Harold Wilson), Selected Poems, "easily the 'best selling'" poetry book of the year.
Clive Young, Ashdragons, Flowerdeath and Sun
Anthologies in the United Kingdom
Alan Bold, editor, The Penguin Book of Socialist Verse
Peter Robins, editor, Doves for the Seventies
Edward Lucie-Smith, editor, British Poetry since 1945, Penguin (2nd edition 1985)
F.E.S. Finn, editor, Poems of the Sixties
Howard Sergeant, editor, Poetry of the 1940s
= United States
=
A.R. Ammons, Uplands
John Ashbery, The Double Dream of Spring
Paul Blackburn:
The Assassination of President McKinley
Three Dreams and an Old Poem
Gin: Four Journal Pieces
Louise Bogan, A Poet's Alphabet
Philip Booth, Margins
Stanley Burnshaw, The Seamless Web
Gwendolyn Brooks, Family Pictures
Raymond Carver, Winter Insomnia
J. P. Clark, Casualties: Poems 1966ā68, Nigerian poet published in the United States
Clark Coolidge, Space, Harper & Row
L. Sprague de Camp, Demons and Dinosaurs
James Dickey, The Eye-Beaters, Blood, Victory, Madness, Buckhead and Mercy
Ed Dorn:
Gunslinger I & II, Fulcrum Press
Songs Set Two: a Short Count, Frontier Press, ISBN 978-0-686-05052-0
Michael S. Harper, Dear John, Dear Coultrane, nominated for the National Book Award
John Hollander, Images of Voice, criticism
David Ignatow, Poems: 1934-1969
LeRoi Jones, It's Nation Time
Shirley Kaufman, the Floor Keeps Turning
Denise Levertov, Relearning the Alphabet
William Meredith, Earth Walk
W. S. Merwin:
The Carrier of Ladders, New York: Atheneum (awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1971)
Signs, with graphics by A. D. Moore; Iowa City, Iowa: Stone Wall Press
Lorine Niedecker, My Life by Water: Collected Poems, 1936-1968 (Fulcrum Press)
Michael Ondaatje, The Collected Works of Billy the Kid
Ezra Pound's Drafts and Fragments of Cantos CX to CXVII
Mark Strand, Darker, Canadian native living in and published in the United States
May Swenson, Iconographs
Mona Van Duyn, To See, To Take
Reed Whittemore, Fifty Poems Fifty
William Carlos Williams, Imaginations (posthumous)
= Other in English
=
J. P. Clark, Casualties: Poems 1966ā68, Nigerian poet published in the United States
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:
= Arabic language
=
Nizar Qabbani, Syrian:
Savage Poems
Book of Love
100 Love Letters
= Denmark
=
Thorkild BjĆørnvig, a book of "collected or selected works"
Regin Dahl, Ćrinde uden betydning
Ivan Malinovski, a book of "collected or selected works"
Jess Ćrnsbo, a book of "collected or selected works"
Klaus Rifbjerg, Mytologi, Denmark
= French language
=
Canada
Gaston Miron, L'Homme RapaillƩ
Yves PrƩfontaine:
DĆ©bĆ¢cle
Ć l'OrĆ©e des travaux
Fernand Dumont, Parler de septembre
Raoul Duguay, Manifeste de l'Infonie
Nicole Brossard, Suite logique
Louis-Philippe HĆ©bert, Les Mangeurs de terre
France
M. BĆ©alu, La Nuit nous garde
Alain Bosquet and Pierre Seghers, PoĆØmes de l'annĆ©e
L. Brauquier, Feux d'Ć©paves
Mohammed Dib, Formulaires
Emily Dickinson, PoĆ©sies complĆØtes, translated from the original English by Guy Jean Forgue; Aubier-Flammarion
Pierre Emmanuel, pen name of Noƫl Mathieu, Jacob
Andre Frenaud, Depuis toujours dƩja
Eugene Guilleveic, Paroi
Michel Leiris, Mots sans mƩmoire
C. Le Quintrec, La Marche des arbres
M. Manoll, Incarnada
J.L. Moreau, Sous le masque des mots
J. Tardieu, PoĆØmes Ć jouer
Vandercammen, Horizon de la vigie
= Germany
=
Paul Celan, Lightduress (Lichtzwang, Romanian, writing in German)
= Hebrew
=
M. Temkin, Shirai Yerushalayim
A. Broides, Tahana ve-Derech
Z. Gilead, Or Hozer
Dan Pagis, Gilgul ("Transformations")
I. Shalev, Naar Shav Min ha-Tzava
Abba Kovner, Hupahba-Midbar
T. Carmi, Davar Ahed
Avot Yeshurun, Ze Shaim ha-Sefere
= Italy
=
Carmelo Bene, L'orecchio mancante
Dino Buzzati, Poema a fumetti
Alfredo Giuliani, Il tautofono
Sandro Penna, Tutte le poesie
Nelo Risi, Di certe cose
Maria Luisa Spaziani, L'occhio del ciclone
Giovanni Testori, Erodiade
= Norway
=
Rolf Jacobsen, Headlines
Stein Mehren, Aurora
Ragnvald Skrede, Lauvfall
Simen SkjĆønsberg, Flyttedag
Tarjei Vesaas, Liv ved straumen (posthumous)
= Portuguese language
=
Brazil
Augusto de Campos, EquivocƔbulos, collection of "semantic-visual texts, photo-poems, and 'Viagem via linguagem', a collapsible environment-poem resembling an architect's model"
Affonso Avila, CĆ³digo de Minas
Silviano Santiago, Salto
= Russian
=
Andrei Voznesenski, The Shadow of Sound
Y. Smelyakov, December
Boris Slutski, Tales for Today
Evgeni Vinokurov, Shows
Leonid Martynov, Peoples' Names
Leonid Vasilyev, Ognevistsa
Evgeni Yevtushenko, a collection, including some new poems and omitting some "controversial earlier ones"
= Spanish language
=
Spain
Jorge GuillƩn, Obra poƩtica
JosƩ Caballero Bonald, Vivar para contarlo ("Live to Tell It"), including "Zauberlehrling"
Peru
Washington Delgado, Un mundo dividado
C.G. Belli, Sextinas
J.G. Rose, Informe al rey
M. Martos, Cuaderno de quejas y contentamientos
C. Bustamante, El nombre de las cosas
Elsewhere in Latin America
Julio CortĆ”zar, Ćltimo round, miscellany of stories, poems, essays and collage games (Argentina)
Alberto Girri, AntologĆa temĆ”tica (Argentina)
Alberto Vanasco, Canto rodado (Argentina)
I. LĆ³pez Vallecillo, Puro asombro (El Salvador)
Ernesto Cardenal, Salmos (Nicaragua)
R. FernƔndez Retamar, Que veremos arder (Cuba)
Nicanor Parra, Obra gruesa (Chile)
Enrique Lihn, La musiquilla de las pobres esferas (Chile)
= Sweden
=
Werner Aspenstrƶm, Inre ("Inner")
Gƶren Sonnevi, Det MƄste gƄ ("It Must Be Possible")
Maja Ekelƶf, Rapport frƄn en skurhink ("Report from a Scrub Bucket")
Henry Olsson, Vinlƶvsranka och hagtornskrans, a study of the poet Gustaf Frƶding (died 1911)
= Yiddish
=
Israel
Abraham Sutzkever, Ripened Faces
Yaakov Zvi Shargel, Sunny Doorsteps
Aryeh Shamri, Song in the Barn
David Rodin, Young and Younger, for young readers
Leizer Eichenrand, Thirst for Duration
United States
Joseph Rubeinstein, Exodus from Europe, third volume of a narrative trilogy
Wolf Pasmanik, My Poems
Kadya Molodovsky, Marzipans, for children and adults
Moshe Shifris, Under One Roof
Elsewhere
Melekh Ravitch, Post Scriptus (Canada)
Jacob Sternberg, Poem and Ballad on the Carpathians (France)
Izzy Kharik, With Body and Life (Russia)
= Other languages
=
Luo Fu, River Without Banks, Chinese (Taiwan)
Rituraj, Kitna Thora Waqt; India, Hindi-language
Nirmalendu Goon, Huliya; Pakistan (Now Bangladesh), Bengali-language
Awards and honors
= Canada
=
See 1970 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
= United Kingdom
=
Cholmondeley Award: Kathleen Raine, Douglas Livingstone, Edward Brathwaite
Eric Gregory Award: Helen Frye, Paul Mills, John Mole, Brian Morse, Alan Perry, Richard Tibbitts
Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Roy Fuller
= United States
=
Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (later the post would be called "Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress"): William Stafford appointed this year.
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Richard Howard, Untitled Subjects
National Book Award for Poetry: Elizabeth Bishop, The Complete Poems
Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Howard Nemerov
= France
=
Prix Max Jacob: Daniel Boulanger for Tchadiennes and Retouches
French Academy's Grand Prix de PoĆØsie: Jean Follain
= Soviet Union
=
Lenin Prize: Nikolai Tikhonov
Births
February 27 ā Rachel Mann, English trans woman poet and Anglican priest
September 10 ā Phaswane Mpe (died 2004), South African novelist and poet
September 16 ā Nick Sagan, American poet, novelist and screenwriter
September 24 ā Gemma Moraleja Paz, Spanish poet and novelist
Also:
Malika Booker, British poet
Victoria Chang, American poet
Tim Kendall, English poet, editor, critic and academic
David Roderick, American poet
Faruk Å ehiÄ, Bosnian poet and fiction writer
Brenda Shaughnessy, Japanese-born American poet
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 10 ā Charles Olson, 59 (born 1910), American poet, of cancer
January 15 ā Leah Goldberg, 58 (born 1911), Israeli poet who wrote in Hebrew
January 24 ā Caresse Crosby, also known as "Mary Phelps Jacob", 78 (born 1891), American poet and New York socialite, who, in 1927, founded Black Sun Press with her husband Harry Crosby (also a poet) and who in 1910 invented the first modern bra to receive a patent and gain wide acceptance
February 4 ā Louise Bogan, 72 (born 1897), American poet, United States Poet Laureate
February 19 ā Edsel Ford, 41 (born 1928), American poet
March 26 ā Rosa Zagnoni Marinoni, 82 (born 1888), American poet
March 28 ā Nathan Alterman, 59 (born 1910), Israeli poet, journalist and translator
March 29 ā Vera Brittain, 76 (born 1893) English novelist and poet
about April 20 ā Paul Celan, 49 (born 1920), Romanian-born poet who wrote in German and became a French citizen, suicide
May 12 ā Nelly Sachs, 78 (born 1891), German-Swedish poet and dramatist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1966
June 2 ā Giuseppe Ungaretti, 82 (born 1888), Italian modernist poet, journalist, essayist, critic and academic
June 18 ā N. P. van Wyk Louw, 64 (born 1906), South African Afrikaans poet and critic
September 23 ā John Gawsworth, 58 (born 1912), English poet, anthologist, Fitzrovian and King Juan I of Redonda
September 28 ā John Dos Passos, 74 (born 1896), American novelist, poet and artist
November 25 ā Yukio Mishima äø島 ē±ē“夫, pen name of Kimitake Hiraoka 平岔 å
¬åØ, 45 (born 1925), Japanese author, poet and playwright, by public ritual suicide
December 11 ā Arthur Nortje, 27 (born 1942), South African poet, of a drug overdose
December 31 ā Lorine Niedecker, 67 (born 1903), American Objectivist poet
Notes and references
1971 Britannica Book of the Year (covering events of 1970), "Literature" article and "Obituaries of 1970" article; source of many of the books in the "Works published" list and some deaths.
Lal, P., Modern Indian Poetry in English: An Anthology & a Credo, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, second edition, 1971 (however, on page 597 an "editor's note" states contents "on the following pages are a supplement to the first edition" and is dated "1972"); hereafter: "P. Lal (1971)"
See also
Poetry
List of poetry awards
List of years in poetry
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