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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==
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 FromRobert Gray, Grass scriptJennifer 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 MagicPaul Dutton, Right Hemisphere, Left EarMichael 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. • Dennis Lee.The Gods. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart. • Steven McCaffery and B.P. Nichol, In England Now That SpringSusan Musgrave, A Man to Bury, A Man to MarryMichael 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) • Raymond Souster, Hanging In: New Poems. Ottawa: Oberon Press. • James Wreford Watson, Countryside Canada. Anthologies in CanadaMichael Ondaatje: • Editor, A Book of Beasts, animal verse; Ottawa: Oberon; revision of The Broken Ark, 1971Eunice 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 ===Ireland=== • Harry Clifton, Office of the Salt Merchant, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, IrelandSeamus 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. • Below Loughrigg, Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books • Bill Manhire, Dawn/WaterBob Orr, Poems for Moira AnthologiesJohn Jessop, editor, International Anthology of Concrete Poetry, vol. iGeorge 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) • Brian Patten, Grave GossipFederico García Lorca (posthumous), translated by Paul Blackburn, Lorca/Blackburn: Poems of Federico García Lorca Chosen by Paul BlackburnJohn Hollander, Blue WinePaul Hoover, Letter to Einstein Beginning Dear Albert (The Yellow Press) • Stanley Kunitz, The Poems of Stanley KunitzDenise Levertov, Collected Earlier PoemsGary Miranda, Listeners at the Breathing PlaceF. A. Nettelbeck, Bug DeathMary 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==
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 • Marie Uguay Signe et rumeur FranceNoureddine Aba, Gazelle après minuit, Algerian writer • Alain Bosquet, Poémes, un, his collected works up to 1967 • André du Bouchet, LaissesPierre Emmanuel, Una, ou la mort, la vieClaude Esteban, Terres, travaux du cœur, Flammarion • Guillevic, EtierAndré 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, 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 OtherChristoph 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; GermanyHaim Gouri, Ayuma, Israeli writing in HebrewNizar Qabbani, I Testify That There Is No Woman But You, Syrian poet writing in Arabic ==Awards and honors==
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==
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==
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