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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

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
  • Candice James, A Split in the Water. Fredericton: Fiddlehead Poetry Books.
  • 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 , (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

India, in English

Ireland

  • Harry Clifton, Office of the Salt Merchant, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, 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

United Kingdom

United States

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

French

Canada, in French

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

France

India

Listed in alphabetical order by first name:

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

Spanish

Spain

Latin America

Other

Awards and honors

Canada

United Kingdom

United States

Births

Deaths

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

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