1979_in_poetry

1979 in poetry

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]

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

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]

Michael Ondaatje:
- Editor, A Book of Beasts, animal verse; Ottawa: Oberon; revision of The Broken Ark, 1971^[3]
- Editor, The Long Poem Anthology, Toronto: Coach House^[3] ISBN 0889101779

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]

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]
Kingsley Amis, Collected Poems
Robert Conquest, Forays
Duglas Dunn
D.J. Enright, A Faust Book
Omar Khayyám, The Rubaiyat, translated by John Heath-Stubbs and Peter Avery
Derek Mahon, Poems 1962-1978. Oxford University Press
Craig Raine, A Martian Sends a Postcard Home
Seamus Heaney
- 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
P.J. Kavanagh
Terence Tiller

John Ashbery, As We Know
Ted Berrigan and Harris Schiff, Yo-Yo's With Money
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^[7]
Federico Garcia Lorca (posthumous), translated by Paul Blackburn, Lorca/Blackburn: Poems of Federico Garcia 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
F. A. Nettelbeck, Bug Death
Mary Oliver, Sleeping in the Forest (chapbook)
Robert Penn Warren, Brother to Dragons

See 1979 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

February 9 - Allen Tate, 79, American poet, of emphysema
October 6 - Elizabeth Bishop, 68, American poet, from an aneurism
December 7 — Nicolas Born, (born 1937), German
Dates not known:
- I. A. Richards, influential literary critic and rhetorician.
- Ernst Meister (born 1911), German^[10]

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