Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
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:
- Roo Borson (American-Canadian):
- In the Smoky Light of the Fields,
- Rain,
- Fred Cogswell, A Long Apprenticeship
- Louis Dudek, Cross-Section: Poems 1940-1980. Toronto: Coach House Press.
- Dorothy Farmiloe, Words for My Weeping Daughter
- Robert Finch, Variations and Theme.
- Gail Fox, In Search of Living Things
- Ralph Gustafson, Landscape with Rain
- Irving Layton, For My Neighbours in Hell. Oakville, Ontario: Mosaic Press.
- Miriam Mandel, Where Have You Been?. Edmonton: Longspoon Press.
- Joe Rosenblatt, The Sleeping Lady. Exile Editions.
- Raymond Souster, Collected Poems, Volume 1 (1940-55) (first of a projected ten-volume collection)
- Raymond Souster and Richard Woollatt, eds. Poems of a Snow-Eyed Country. Don Mills, ON: Academic Press.
- Andrew Suknaski, Montage for an Interstellar Cry
- Anne Szumigalski, A Game of Angels
- Tom Wayman, Living on the Ground: Tom Wayman Country, including "Garrison", first prize-winner of the U.S. Bicentennial poetry competition
- Phyllis Webb, Wilson's Bowl
- Meena Alexander, Stone Roots ( Poetry in English ), New Delhi: Arnold Heinemann, by an Indian writing and living in the United States
- Dilip Chitre, Travelling In A Cage ( Poetry in English ), Mumbai:Clearing House
- Keki Daruwalla:
- Editor, Two Decades of Indian Poetry 1960-1980, Delhi: Vikas
- Winter Poems ( Poetry in English ), New Delhi: Allied Publishers Pvt Ltd.
- E. V. Ramakrishnan:
- A Python in A Snake Park ( Poetry in English ), New Delhi: Rupa and Co.
- Being Elsewhere in Myself ( Poetry in English ), Kolkata: Writers Workshop, India.
- Jayanta Mahapatra, The False Start (Poetry in English), Bombay: Clearing House, India .
- Eavan Boland, In Her Own Image, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
- Dermot Bolger, The Habit of Flesh
- Seamus Heaney, Selected Poems 1965-1975, Faber & Faber, Northern Ireland native published in the United Kingdom
- Thomas Kinsella, Poems 1956–1973, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
- Paul Muldoon, Why Brownlee Left Northern Ireland native published in the United Kingdom
- Tom Paulin, The Strange Museum, including "Pot Burial" and "Where Art Is a Midwife", Faber and Faber, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
- James K. Baxter, Collected Poems, posthumous
- Charles Brasch, Indirections: a Memoir, 1909-1947, Wellington; New York: Oxford University Press, autobiography
- Alistair Campbell, The Dark Lord of Savaiki: Collected Poems, Christchurch: Hazard Press
- Lauris Edmond:
- Wellington Letter: A Sequence of Poems
- Seven: Poems
- Salt from the North
- W. H. Oliver, Out of Season: Poems, Wellington; New York: Oxford University Press, New Zealand
- Alistair Patterson, editor, Fifteen Contemporary New Zealand Poets, anthology
- Ian Wedde, Castaly: Poems 1973âÂÂ1977
- Eavan Boland, In Her Own Image, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
- Alan Brownjohn, A Night in the Gazebo
- David Constantine, A Brightness to Cast Shadows
- Wendy Cope, Across the City
- Donald Davie, In the Stopping Train, and Other Poems
- Lawrence Durrell, Collected Poems: 1931–1974, edited by James A. Brigham
- Gavin Ewart, The Collected Ewart 1933–1980 (see also Collected Poems 1990)
- Elaine Feinstein, The Feast of Eurydice, Faber & Faber/Next Editions
- James Fenton, A German Requiem: A Poem, Salamander Press, a pamphlet
- Roy Fisher, Poems 1955–1980
- John Fuller, The January Divan
- Roy Fuller, The Reign of Sparrows
- Geoffrey Grigson, History of Him
- Seamus Heaney, Selected Poems 1965–1975 (see also New Selected Poems 1990), Northern Ireland native published in the United Kingdom
- Adrian Henri, From the Loveless Matel
- Frances Horovitz, Water Over Stone
- Elizabeth Jennings, A Dream of Spring
- Linton Kwesi Johnson, Inglan is a Bitch
- Thomas Kinsella, Poems 1956–1973, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
- Laurence Lerner, A.R.T.H.U.R. & M.A.R.T.H.A.; or, The Loves of the Computers, South African native living and published in the United Kingdom
- George MacBeth, Poems of Love and Death
- Norman MacCaig, The Equal Skies
- Pete Morgan, One Greek Alphabet
- Paul Muldoon, Why Brownlee Left, Northern Ireland native published in the United Kingdom
- Tom Paulin, The Strange Museum, Northern Ireland native published in the United Kingdom
- Kathleen Raine, The Oracle in the Heart, and Other Poems 1975–1978
- Jeremy Reed, Bleecker Street
- Jon Silkin, The Psalms With Their Spoils
- Anthony Thwaite, Victorian Voices
- John Wain, Poems, 1949–1979
- Benjamin Zephaniah, Pen Rhythm, his first published collection
Anthologies in the United Kingdom
- D. J. Enright, editor, The Oxford Book of Contemporary Verse (see above)
- Blake Morrison, editor, The Movement
- Charles Tomlinson, editor, The Oxford Book of Verse in English translation
- Geoffrey Grigson, editor, Oxford Book of Satirical Verse
- Gavin Ewart, editor, Penguin Book of Light Verse
- Valentine Cunningham, editor, Penguin Book of Spanish Civil War Verse
United States
- Meena Alexander, Stone Roots, New Delhi: Arnold Heinemann, by an Indian writing and living in the United States
- A.R. Ammons, Selected Longer Poems
- Ted Berrigan:
- So Going Around Cities: New & Selected Poems ()
- Carrying a Torch
- Elizabeth Bishop, That was Then, published posthumously (died 1979)
- Philip Booth, Before Sleep
- Joseph Brodsky: A Part of Speech, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Russian-American
- Lucille Clifton, Two-Headed Woman
- George F. Butterick and Richard Blevins, editors, Charles Olson and Robert Creeley: The Complete Correspondence, first volume published this year (ninth and last volume published in 1990), Santa Barbara, California
- Billy Collins, Video Poems
- Allen Ginsberg, Straight Hearts' Delight: Love Poems and Selected Letters, 1947–1980
- Daniel G. Hoffman, Brotherly Love
- Galway Kinnell, Mortal Acts, Mortal Words
- James McMichael, Four Good Things
- William Meredith, The Cheer
- James Merrill, Scripts for the Pageant
- Howard Nemerov, Sentences
- Molly Peacock, And Live Apart
- James Schuyler, The Morning of the Poem
- Frederick Seidel, Sunrise
- Louis Simpson, Caviare at the Funeral
- Mark Strand, Selected Poems, Canadian native living in and published in the United States
- Derek Walcott, The Star-Apple Kingdom, St. Lucia native living in and published in the United States
- Rosmarie Waldrop, When They Have Senses (Burning Deck Press)
- Robert Penn Warren, Being Here: Poetry 1977–1980
- Philip Whalen, Enough Said (Grey Fox Press)
- Ray Young Bear, winter of the salamander (sic)
Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States
Other in English
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:
French language
- Yves Bonnefoy, Entretiens sur la poésie, France
- Philippe Denis:
- Carnet d'un aveuglement
- Surface d'écueil
- Emmanuel Hocquard, Une journée dans le détroit
- Edmond Jabès, L'Ineffacable L'Inaperçu
- Abdellatif Laabi, Moroccan author writing in and published in France:
- Le Règne de barbarie. Seuil, Paris (épuisé)
- Histoire des sept crucifiés de l'espoir. La Table rase, Paris
- Jean Max Tixier, editor, , publisher: La Table Rase
West Germany
- Christoph Buchwald, general editor, and Christoph Meckel, Jahrbuch der Lyrik 2 ("Poetry Yearbook 2"), publisher: Claassen; anthology
- Ernst Jandl, Der gelbe Hund
- Johanna Moosdorf, Sieben Jahr sieben Tag
- W. Schubert and K. H. Höfer, editors, Ansichten über Lyrik, anthology, poems and prose since Opitz
East German exiles
- Natan Sach,
- Dan Pagis, editor, an anthology of medieval Hebrew love poetry
- Mavet ve' ahava, an anthology of Egyptian poetry in Hebrew translation
Listed in alphabetical order by first name:
- Gulzar, Kuch Aur Nazme, New Delhi: Radhakrishna Prakashan; Hindi-language
- Kedarnath Singh, Zameen Pak Rahi Hai, Delhi: Prakashan Sansthan; Hindi
- M. Gopalakrishna Adiga, Mulaka Mahasayaru, India, Kannada-language
- Nilmani Phookan, Kavita, Guwahati, Assam: Barua Book Agency, Assamese-language
- Rajendra Kishore Panda, Nija Pain Nanabaya, Samabesha, Bhubaneswar: Prakashani, Oraya-language
- Panna Nayak, Philadelphia; Gujarati-language
- Prabhu Chugani, Surkh Gulab Suraha, a collection of five-line poems in a form invented by him; the book received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1981, Indian, Sindhi-language
- StanisÃ
Âaw BaraÃ
Âczak, Tryptyk z betonu, zmeczenia i sniegu ("Triptych with Concrete, Fatigue and Snow"), Kraków: KOS
- M. Korolko, editor, , second edition, anthology
- A. Lam, editor, Ze struny na strune, anthology
- BronisÃ
Âaw Maj, Wiersze ("Poems"); Warsaw: NOWA
- Piotr Sommer, PamiÃÂ
tki po nas
- Jan Twardowski, Niebieskie okulary ("Blue Sunglasses"), Kraków: Znak
- Aleksandr Blok (1880–1921), much of his poetry was republished in this year, his centenary, including a six-volume edition of his collected works and Blok in the Reminiscences of Contemporaries
Spain
Other languages
- Leyzer Aichenrand, Landscape of Fate, Yiddish in Switzerland
- Samih al-Qasim, Je t'aime au gré de la mort, Palestinian
- Simin Behbahani, Khatti ze Sor'at va Atash ("A Line of Speed and Fire"), Persia
- Mairtin O Direain, Danta, including "Deiradh Re", "Cuimhne an Domhnaigh", and "Cranna Foirtil", Gaelic-language, Ireland
Awards and honors
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 3 – George Sutherland Fraser (born 1915), Scottish poet and critic
- February 12 – Muriel Rukeyser, 66 (born 1913), American, of a heart attack
- February 25 – Robert Hayden, 66, American poet, essayist, and educator, of a heart ailment
- March 25 – James Wright, 52, American, of cancer
- March 31 – Vladimir Holan, 74, Czech
- April 21 – Sohrab Sepehri (born 1928), Persian poet and painter
- April 30 – Luis Muñoz MarÃÂn (born 1898), Puerto Rican poet, journalist and politician
- June 20 – Amy Key Clarke (born 1892), English mystical poet
- July 9 – Vinicius de Moraes (born 1913), Brazilian writer, poet and diplomat
- July 25 – Vladimir Vysotsky (born 1938), Russian singer-songwriter, poet and actor
- August 9 – Denis Glover (born 1911), New Zealand poet and publisher
- September 2 – Frederick T. Macartney (born 1887), Australian
- September 25 – Marie Under (born 1883), Estonian
- October 18 – Martin Haley (born 1905), Australian poet, essayist, translator and schoolteacher
- October 25 – Sahir Ludhianvi (born 1921), Urdu/Hindustani poet and Hindi film lyricist
- November 21 – A. J. M. Smith (born 1902), Canadian
- November 28 – Julia Reynolds, 98
See also
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)