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    • Source: 1970 in poetry
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      Events


      May – "La nuit de la poésie", a poetry reading in Montreal bringing together poets from French Canada to recite before an audience of more than 2,000 in the Théâtre 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 1966–68, 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 1966–68, 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 Bjørnvig, a book of "collected or selected works"
      Regin Dahl, Ærinde uden betydning
      Ivan Malinovski, a book of "collected or selected works"
      Jess Ørnsbo, a book of "collected or selected works"
      Klaus Rifbjerg, Mytologi, Denmark


      = French language

      =


      Canada


      Gaston Miron, L'Homme Rapaillé
      Yves Préfontaine:
      Débâcle
      À l'Orée des travaux
      Fernand Dumont, Parler de septembre
      Raoul Duguay, Manifeste de l'Infonie
      Nicole Brossard, Suite logique
      Louis-Philippe Hébert, Les Mangeurs de terre


      France


      M. Béalu, La Nuit nous garde
      Alain Bosquet and Pierre Seghers, Poèmes de l'année
      L. Brauquier, Feux d'épaves
      Mohammed Dib, Formulaires
      Emily Dickinson, Poésies complètes, translated from the original English by Guy Jean Forgue; Aubier-Flammarion
      Pierre Emmanuel, pen name of Noël Mathieu, Jacob
      Andre Frenaud, Depuis toujours déja
      Eugene Guilleveic, Paroi
      Michel Leiris, Mots sans mémoire
      C. Le Quintrec, La Marche des arbres
      M. Manoll, Incarnada
      J.L. Moreau, Sous le masque des mots
      J. Tardieu, Poèmes à 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 Skjønsberg, Flyttedag
      Tarjei Vesaas, Liv ved straumen (posthumous)


      = Portuguese language

      =


      Brazil


      Augusto de Campos, Equivocábulos, collection of "semantic-visual texts, photo-poems, and 'Viagem via linguagem', a collapsible environment-poem resembling an architect's model"
      Affonso Avila, Código 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 Guillén, Obra poética
      José 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 Cortázar, Último round, miscellany of stories, poems, essays and collage games (Argentina)
      Alberto Girri, Antología temática (Argentina)
      Alberto Vanasco, Canto rodado (Argentina)
      I. López Vallecillo, Puro asombro (El Salvador)
      Ernesto Cardenal, Salmos (Nicaragua)
      R. Fernández Retamar, Que veremos arder (Cuba)
      Nicanor Parra, Obra gruesa (Chile)
      Enrique Lihn, La musiquilla de las pobres esferas (Chile)


      = Sweden

      =
      Werner Aspenström, Inre ("Inner")
      Gören Sonnevi, Det Måste gå ("It Must Be Possible")
      Maja Ekelöf, Rapport från en skurhink ("Report from a Scrub Bucket")
      Henry Olsson, Vinlövsranka och hagtornskrans, a study of the poet Gustaf Fröding (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 Poèsie: Jean Follain


      = Soviet Union

      =
      Lenin Prize: Nikolai Tikhonov


      Births


      February 27 – Rachel Mann, English trans woman poet and Anglican priest
      September 10 – Phaswane Mpe (died 2004), South African novelist and poet
      September 16 – Nick Sagan, American poet, novelist and screenwriter
      September 24 – 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 Šehić, Bosnian poet and fiction writer
      Brenda Shaughnessy, Japanese-born American poet


      Deaths



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

      January 10 – Charles Olson, 59 (born 1910), American poet, of cancer
      January 15 – Leah Goldberg, 58 (born 1911), Israeli poet who wrote in Hebrew
      January 24 – 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 – Louise Bogan, 72 (born 1897), American poet, United States Poet Laureate
      February 19 – Edsel Ford, 41 (born 1928), American poet
      March 26 – Rosa Zagnoni Marinoni, 82 (born 1888), American poet
      March 28 – Nathan Alterman, 59 (born 1910), Israeli poet, journalist and translator
      March 29 – Vera Brittain, 76 (born 1893) English novelist and poet
      about April 20 – Paul Celan, 49 (born 1920), Romanian-born poet who wrote in German and became a French citizen, suicide
      May 12 – Nelly Sachs, 78 (born 1891), German-Swedish poet and dramatist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1966
      June 2 – Giuseppe Ungaretti, 82 (born 1888), Italian modernist poet, journalist, essayist, critic and academic
      June 18 – N. P. van Wyk Louw, 64 (born 1906), South African Afrikaans poet and critic
      September 23 – John Gawsworth, 58 (born 1912), English poet, anthologist, Fitzrovian and King Juan I of Redonda
      September 28 – John Dos Passos, 74 (born 1896), American novelist, poet and artist
      November 25 – Yukio Mishima 三島 由紀夫, pen name of Kimitake Hiraoka 平岡 公威, 45 (born 1925), Japanese author, poet and playwright, by public ritual suicide
      December 11 – Arthur Nortje, 27 (born 1942), South African poet, of a drug overdose
      December 31 – 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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