• Source: 1979 in poetry

      • Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).


      Events


      The Kenyon Review is restarted by Kenyon College in the United States 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 series The Best American Poetry 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.
      Poetry Canada Review founded by Clifton Whiten in order to publish and review poetry from across Canada; the publication folds in 1994.


      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 Where I Come From
      Robert Gray, Grass script
      Jennifer Maiden, The Border Loss, Angus & Robertson
      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 (Australia)
      Editor, The New Australian Poetry (anthology)
      Chris Wallace-Crabbe:
      The Emotions Are Not Skilled Workers, Sydney: Angus & Robertson
      Toil and Spin: Two Directions in Modern Poetry (scholarship), Melbourne: Hutchinson


      = Canada

      =
      Dionne Brand, Earth Magic
      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. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart.
      Irving Layton, The Tamed Puma. Toronto: Virgo Press.
      Irving Layton, There Were No Signs. Toronto: Madison Gallery.
      Dennis Lee.The Gods. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart.
      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 ISBN 0-393-01191-7, ISBN 978-0-393-01191-3 (published as Rat Jelly, and Other Poems, 1963-1978, London, United Kingdom: Marion Boyars, 1980)
      Claude Glass (literary criticism), Toronto: Coach House Press
      Charles Sangster, Hesperus and other poems and lyrics (revised edition), edited by Frank M. Tierney (Tecumseh)
      Raymond Souster, Hanging In: New Poems. Ottawa: Oberon Press.
      James Wreford Watson, Countryside Canada.


      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 0-88910-177-9


      = India, in English

      =
      K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar, Leaves from a Log: Fragments of a Journey, New Delhi: Arnold Heinemann
      Kamala Das, Old Playhouse and Other Poems ( Poetry in English ), Madras: Orient Longman
      Eunice de Souza, Fix ( Poetry in English ), Bombay: Newground, India.
      Jayanta Mahapatra, Waiting ( Poetry in English ), New Delhi: Samkaleen Prakashan
      Prabhu Siddartha Guptara, Continuations ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop
      Om Prakash Bhatnagar, Feeling Fossils


      = Ireland

      =
      Harry Clifton, Office of the Salt Merchant, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, ISBN 978-0-902996-84-7 Ireland
      Seamus Heaney, Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom:
      Field Work, Faber & Faber
      Hedge School, Janus Press
      Ugolino, Carpenter Press
      Gravities, Charlotte Press
      A Family Album, Byron Press
      Thomas Kinsella, One and Other Poems, including "Anniversaries"
      Michael Longley, The Echo Gate. Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom
      Derek Mahon, Poems 1962-1978, including "A Dying Art", "Ecclesiastes", "An Image from Beckett", "Lives", "The Snow Party", "A Refusal to Mourn" and "A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford", Oxford University Press, Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom


      = 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)
      Below Loughrigg, Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books
      Allen Curnow, An Incorrigible Music
      Bill Manhire, Dawn/Water
      Bob Orr, Poems for Moira


      Anthologies


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


      = South Africa

      =
      Mazisi Kunene, Emperor Shaka the Great: a Zulu Epic


      = 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)
      Below Loughrigg, Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books
      Kingsley Amis, Collected Poems 1944–1979
      James Berry, Fractured Circles
      Anne Born, Changing Views
      Robert Conquest, Forays
      Patric Dickinson, Our Living John, and Other Poems
      Maureen Duffy, Memorials of the Quick and the Dead
      Douglas Dunn, Barbarians
      Ketaki Kushari Dyson, Hibiscus in the North
      D. J. Enright, A Faust Book
      John Fuller, Lies and Secrets
      W. S. Graham, Collected Poems 1942–1977
      Thom Gunn, Selected Poems 1950–1975 (see also Poems 1969 in poetry, Collected Poems 1993)
      Seamus Heaney, Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom:
      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
      Elizabeth Jennings, Moments of Grace
      P. J. Kavanagh, Life Before Death
      Omar Khayyám, The Rubaiyat, translated by John Heath-Stubbs and Peter Avery
      Michael Longley, The Echo Gate
      Roger McGough, Holiday on Death Row
      Derek Mahon, Poems 1962-1978. Oxford University Press
      Pete Morgan, The Spring Collection
      Brian Patten, Grave Gossip
      Craig Raine, A Martian Sends a Postcard Home
      Peter Reading, Fiction


      = United States

      =
      John Ashbery, As We Know
      Ted Berrigan and Harris Schiff, Yo-Yo's With Money
      Joseph Payne Brennan, Webs of Time (Macabre House)
      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
      Federico García Lorca (posthumous), translated by Paul Blackburn, Lorca/Blackburn: Poems of Federico García 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
      Gary Miranda, Listeners at the Breathing Place
      F. A. Nettelbeck, Bug Death
      Mary Oliver, Sleeping in the Forest (chapbook)
      George Quasha, Giving the Lily Back Her Hands (Station Hill Press)
      Frank Stanford, You, posthumous chapbook (Lost Roads Publishers)
      Robert Penn Warren, Brother to Dragons


      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

      =
      Inger Christensen, Brev i April ("Letter in April")
      Klaus Høeck, Denmark:
      Dylan Forever, publisher: Swing
      Winterreise, publisher: Gyldendal
      Henrik Nordbrandt, Spøgelseslege


      = French

      =


      Canada, in French


      Jean Royer, Les heures nues, Montréal: Nouvelles Éditions de l'Arc
      Marie Uguay Signe et rumeur


      France


      Noureddine Aba, Gazelle après minuit, Algerian writer
      Alain Bosquet, Poémes, un, his collected works up to 1967
      André du Bouchet, Laisses
      Pierre Emmanuel, Una, ou la mort, la vie
      Claude Esteban, Terres, travaux du cœur, Flammarion
      Guillevic, Etier
      André Pieyre de Mandiargues, L'ivre Oeil
      Patrick Reumaux, Repérages du vif


      = India

      =
      Listed in alphabetical order by first name:

      Ajmer Rode, Surti, London, Ontario: Third Eye Publications, ISBN 0-919581-59-5 Chandigarh: Raghbir Rachna Parkashan; Punjabi-language
      Geeta Parikh, Bhinash; Gujarati-language
      K. Satchidanandan, Ezhuthachan Ezhutumbol, ("When the Poet Writes"); Malayalam-language
      Kunwar Narain, Apne Samne, New Delhi: Rajkamal Prakashan; Hindi-language
      Malika Amar Sheikh, Valuchya Priyakar, Mumbai: Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Prabodhini; Marathi-language
      Rajendra Bhandari, Hiundey yee chisa raatka pardeharuma ("In the Veils of Cold Wintry Nights"), Gangtok, Sikkim: Padmakala Prakashan; Nepali-language


      = Poland

      =
      Stanisław Barańczak, Etyka i poetyka ("Ethics and Poetics"), criticism; Paris: Instytut Literacki
      Ewa Lipska:
      Dom spokojnej młodości ("A Home for Youth"), selected poems, Kraków: Wydawnictwo literackie
      Zywa smierc, ("Living Death"); Kraków: Wydawnictwo literackie


      = Spain

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


      = Other

      =
      Christoph Buchwald, general editor, and Harald Hartung, guest editor, Jahrbuch der Lyrik 1: Am Rand der Zeit ("Poetry Yearbook 1: On the Edge of Time"), publisher: Claassen; anthology; Germany
      Haim Gouri, Ayuma, Israeli writing in Hebrew
      Nizar Qabbani, I Testify That There Is No Woman But You, Syrian poet writing in Arabic


      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.
      Prix Émile-Nelligan: François Charron, Blessures


      = 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

      =
      AML Award for Poetry to Marden J. Clark for "Moods: Of Late" and Edward L. Hart for "To Utah"
      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


      Births


      February 4 - Ben Lerner, American poet, novelist and critic
      October 16 - Jonathan Edwards, Welsh, English-language poet
      Aifric Mac Aodha, Irish-language poet and editor
      Qabaniso Malewezi ('Q'), Malawian musician and English-language poet


      Deaths


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

      February 8 - Alexandru A. Philippide (born 1900), Romanian
      February 9 - Allen Tate (born 1899), American poet, of emphysema
      June 15 - Ernst Meister (born 1911), German
      July 15 - Juana de Ibarbourou (born 1892), Uruguayan
      September 5 - John Bradburne (born 1921), English poet and missionary, killed by guerillas
      September 7 - I. A. Richards (born 1893), influential English literary critic and rhetorician
      October 6 - Elizabeth Bishop (born 1911), American poet, from an aneurism
      December 7 - Nicolas Born (born 1937), German poet, from cancer


      Notes



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


      See also



      Poetry
      List of poetry awards
      List of years in poetry

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