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Poet Robert Creeley in 1972

Events

• John Betjeman becomes Poet Laureate
• The Belfast Group, a discussion group of poets in Northern Ireland, went out of existence this year. The group was started by Philip Hobsbaum when he moved to Belfast in 1963 and which included Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, James Simmons, Paul Muldoon, Ciaran Carson, Stewart Parker, Bernard MacLaverty and the critics Edna Longley and Michael Allen.
• The American Poetry Review founded by Stephen Berg in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• May — Joseph Brodsky is expelled from the Soviet Union.
• W. H. Auden, now a U.S. citizen, declares his New York neighborhood is too dangerous and returns to Oxford from the United States.
• James K. Baxter, one of New Zealand's best-known poets, writes two original poems on the wallpaper of a room in the home of painter Michael Illingworth and his wife Dene. Soon after, Baxter died. In 1973, after Baxter's death, the Illingworths removed the sections of wallpaper containing the poems and sent them to the Hocken Library to be stored with Baxter’s other papers.¹

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:

• Zulfikar Ghose, The Violent West, a Pakistani poet, lecturing in Texas
• Wole Soyinka, A Shuttle in the Crypt

Australia

• A.D. Hope, Collected Poems
• Les Murray, Poems Against Economics²

Canada

• Earle Birney, Judith Copithorne, Andrew Suknaski, Bill Bissett, Four Parts Sand a selection of works by these concrete poets
• Leonard Cohen, The Engergy of Slaves
• David Helwig, The Best Name of Silence
• George Johnston, Happy Enough: Poems 1935-1972
• Gwendolyn MacEwen, The Armies of the Moon
• Don McKay, Moccasins on Concrete: Poems (Canada)

New Zealand

• James K. Baxter:
  • Autumn Testament, not posthumous
  • Stonegut Sugar Works, Junkies and the Fuzz, Ode to Auckland, and Other Poems, posthumous
• Alistair Campbell, Kapiti : Selected Poems 1947-71. Christchurch : Pegasus Press
• Allen Curnow, Trees, Effigies, Moving Objects³
• Bill Manhire, The Elaboration
• Kendrick Smithyman, Earthquake Weather

United Kingdom

• James Aitchison, Sounds Before Sleep
• Anne Beresford, Footsteps
• Martin Booth, The Crying Embers
• Florence Bull, Saint David's Day
• Kevin Crossley-Holland, The Rain-Giver
• Douglas Dunn, The Happier Life
• Elaine Feinstien, At the Edge, Sceptre Press
• James Fenton, Terminal Moraine ⁴
• Seamus Heaney, Wintering Out, Faber & Faber
• Michael Horovitz, The Wolverhampton Wanderer
• George MacBeth, Collected Poems 1958-70
• Derek Mahon, Lives. Oxford University Press
• Adrian Mitchell, Ride the Nightmare
• Mervyn Peake, A Book of Nonsense
• Sally Purcell, The Holly Queen
• R.S. Thomas, H'm
• Norman Nicholson, A Local Habitation
• Kathleen Raine, the Lost Country
• W.R. Rodgers, Collected Poems, posthumous
• Vernon Scannell, Selected Poems
• Peter Scupham, the Snowing Globe
• Stevie Smith, Scorpion (posthumous)

Anthologies in the United Kingdom

• Helen Gardner, The New Oxford Book of English Verse, replaced the 1939 revised selection by Quiller and Couch. 1972
• John Heath-Stubbs, co-editor, Penguin Modern Poets 20

United States

• A.R. Ammons:
  • Briefings: Poems Small and Easy
  • Collected Poems: 1951-1971, winner of the National Book Award in 1973
• John Ashbery, Three Poems
• W. H. Auden, Epistle to a Godson
• Ted Berrigan, Ron Padgett, and Tom Clark, Back In Boston Again
• John Berryman, Delusions, Etc. (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux) posthumous
• Elizabeth Bishop and Emanuel Brasil, editors, An Anthology of Twentieth Century Brazilian Poetry (Wesleyan University Press)
• Harold Bloom, Yeats (criticism)⁵
• Joseph Brodsky: Poems, Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ardis⁶, Russian-American
• Gwendolyn Brooks, Aurora
• Robert Creeley, A Day Book⁷
• Stephen Dobyns, Concurring Beasts
• Hilda Doolittle (H.D.), Hermetic Definition
• Ed Dorn:
  • The Hamadryas Baboon at the Lincoln Park Zoo, Wine Press⁸
  • Gunslinger, Book III: The Winterbook, Prologue to the Great Book IV Kornerstone, Frontier Press⁸
• Michael S. Harper, Song: "I want a Witness"⁹
• LeRoi Jones as Amiri Baraka, Spirit Reach
• Philip Levine, They Feed They Lion
• Archibald MacLeish, The Human Season: Selected Poems, 1926-1972, selected poems
• James Merrill, Braving the Elements
• Ned O'Gorman, The Flag the Hawk Flies
• Mary Oliver, The River Styx, Ohio, and Other Poems
• George Oppen, Collected Poems (only in Great Britain) and Seascape: Needle's Eye
• Michael Palmer, Blake's Newton (Black Sparrow Press)
• Kenneth Rexroth:
  • 100 Poems from the French, (translator)
  • Orchard Boat, (translator)
• Theodore Roethke, Straw for Fire, posthumous selections made by David Wagoner from the poet's notebooks
• Louis Simpson, Adventures of the Letter I, including "American Dreams" and "Doubting"
• Patti Smith, Seventh Heaven
• James Tate, Absences
• Rosmarie Waldrop, The Aggressive Ways of the Casual Stranger (Random House)
• Juan Rodolfo Wilcock (Argentine), La sinagoga degli iconoclasti, translated into English as The Temple of Iconoclasts

Other in English

• Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Acts and Monuments, Dublin: The Gallery Press, Ireland¹⁰

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:

French language

Canada

• Fernand Ouellette, complete works
• Gilles Hénault, complete works
• Rina Lasnier, complete works
• Gustave Lamarche, complete works
• Pierre Trottier, Sainte-Mémoire
• Suzanne Paradis, Il y eut un matin
• Paul Chamberland, Éclats de la pierre noire d'oû rejaillit ma vie
• Félix A. Savard, Le Bouscueil
• Gemma Tremblay, Souffles du midi

France

• Marc Alyn, Infini au delà
• Philippe Chabaneix, Musiques d'avant la nuit
• Maurice Courant, Soliel de ma mémoire
• Micheline Dupray, L'Herbe est trop douce
• Eugène Guillevic, Encoches
• Pierre Loubière, Mémoire buisonnière
• Pierre Moussaric, Chansons du temps présent
• Marie Noël, Chants des quatre temps (posthumous)
• Hélène Parmelin, De Songe et de silence
• Claire de Soujeole, Pas dans la rosée

Germany

• Heinrich Böll, Gedichte, nine poems
• Andreas Okopenko, Orte wechselnden Unbehagens
• Reiner Kunze, Zimmerlautstärke
• Peter Huchel, Neue Gedichte
• Günter Kunert, Offenere Ausgang
• Beat Brechbühl, Der gechlagene Hund pisst an die Saüle des Tempels
• Heiner Bastian, Tod im Leben, a long poem

Hebrew

• Abraham Shlonsky, Ketavim
• David Fogel, Kol ha-Shirim, collected by Dan Pagis, edited by Y. Cohen
• E. Zussman, Atzai Tamid
• T. Ribner, Ain Lehashiv
• Yair Hurvitz, Narkisim le-Malhut Madmena
• Abba Kovner, Lahakat ha-Katzav

Italy

• Riccardo Bacchelli, La stella del mattino
• Marino Moretti, Tre anni e un giorno
• Aldo Palazzeschi, Via dalle cento stelle
• Tommaso Landolfi, Viola di morte, winner of the Fiuggi Prize
• Edoardo Sanguineti, Wirrwarr
• Giorgio Manganelli, Agli Dei ulteriori
• Ferdinando Camon, La vita eterna

Norway

• Hans Børli, Kyndelsmesse
• Per Arneberg, Oktobernetter
• Ernst Orvil, Nok sagt

Russia

• Konstantin Simonov, Vietnam. Summer 1970
• Aleksandr Bezymenski, The Law of the Heart, collected poems
• David Kugultinov, Kalmyk poet, Revolt of the Intellect

Spanish poetry

Spain

• Matilde Camus, Manantial de amor (Love Spring)
• Pedro Salinas, Poesía, selected by Julio Cortázar
• Angel González, Palabra sobre palabra
• Saul Yukievich, Fundadores de la nueva poesía latinoamericana, a collection of studies published in Spain by an Argentinian
• Darie Novaceanu and J.M. Caballero Bonald, translators and editors, Poesía rumana contemporánea, a bilingual edition of Romanian poems translated into Spanish.

Latin America

• Aída Vitale, Oidor andante
• Idea Vilariño, Poemas de amor
• Hugo Achugar, Con bigote triste

Yiddish language

• Asya, Quiver of Boughs
• Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman, Footpaths Between Walls
• Zyameh Telesin, Cries of Memory
• Rachel Baumwoll, Longed For
• Israel's President Shazer:
  • During a Mission
  • For Myself
• Rivkah Bassman, Bright Stones
• Malkah Chefetz-Tuzman, Leaves Do Not Fall
• Rachel H. Korn, On the Edge of a Moment
• Joshuah Rivin, Rainbow of Song
• Saul Maltz, With Joy and Song (for younger readers)

Other

• Jørgen Gustava Brandt, Upraktiske digte. Udvalg, selected poems from 1953 to 1971 (Denmark)
• Odysseus Elytis, The Light Tree And The Fourteenth Beauty (Το φωτόδεντρο και η δέκατη τέταρτη ομορφιά) and The Monogram (Το Μονόγραμμα) (Greek)
• Johannes Wulff, Udvalgte digte. Vi som er hinanden, collected poems from 1928 to 1970 (Denmark)
• Wisława Szymborska: Wszelki wypadek ("Could Have"), Poland

Awards and honors

• Nobel Prize in Literature: Heinrich Böll, West Germany

Canada

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

United Kingdom

• Cholmondeley Award: Molly Holden, Tom Raworth, Patricia Whittaker
• Eric Gregory Award: Tony Curtis, Richard Burns, Brian Oxley, Andrew Greig, Robin Lee, Paul Muldoon

United States

• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: James Wright, Collected Poems
• National Book Award for Poetry: Frank O'Hara, The Collected Works of Frank O'Hara
• Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: W. D. Snodgrass

Births

• Shimon Adaf, Israeli poet and author

Deaths

Grave of Ezra Pound

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

• January 7 – John Berryman, 57 , American poet, from suicide
• January 8 – Kenneth Patchen, 60 (born 1911), American poet and painter, of a heart attack
• January 11 – Padraic Colum, 90, Irish-American poet
• February 5 – Marianne Moore, 84 (born 1887), American Modernist poet and writer
• March 4 – Richard Church (poet), 78, English poet, critic and novelist
• May 22 – Cecil Day-Lewis, 68 English poet
• August 2 – Paul Goodman (born 1911), American poet, of a heart attack
• August 21 – A.M. Klein, 61, Ukrainian-Canadian poet and writer
• October 3 – Gladys Schmitt, 63
• October 22 – James K. Baxter, 46, New Zealand poet
• November 1 – Ezra Pound, 87, an American poet, critic and the driving force behind several Modernist movements, notably Imagism and Vorticism, from an intestinal blockage
• November 20 – Robert Fletcher (poet), 87, poet of "Don't Fence Me In"
• December 10 – Mark Van Doren, 78, American poet, academic and critic
• December 20 – Günter Eich (born 1907) German poet, dramatist, and author
• Date not known:
  • Eileen Duggan
  • Andrew John Young

See also

Poetry portal

• Poetry
• List of poetry awards
• List of years in poetry

References

1. ^ Web page titled "Best New Zealand Poems 2001 / James K. Baxter" at the "Best New Zealand Poems" Web site, accessed October 11, 2007
2. ^ [1]Les Murray Web page at The Poetry Archive Web site, accessed October 15, 2007
3. ^ Allen Curnow Web page at the New Zealand Book Council website, accessed April 21, 2008
4. ^ [2]Web page titled "Books by Fenton" at the James Fenton Web site, accessed October 11, 2007
5. ^ Mac Liammoir, Michael, and Eavan Boland, W. B. Yeats, Thames and Hudson (part of the "Thames and Hudson Literary Lives" series), London, 1971, 1986 paperback edition, Bibliographical Note, p 130
6. ^ [3]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
7. ^ Everett, Nicholas, "Robert Creeley's Life and Career" at the Modern American Poetry website, accessed May 1, 2008
8. ^ ^{a b} Web page titled "Archive / Edward Dorn (1929-1999)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved May 8, 2008
9. ^ Web page titled "Michael S. Harper" at the Academy of American poets website, accessed April 23, 2008
10. ^ Web page titled "Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin" at The Gallery Press website, accessed May 4, 2008