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Irish poetry
The history of Irish poetry includes the poetries of two languages, one in Irish and the other in English. The complex interplay between these two traditions, and between both of them and other poetries in English, has produced a body of work that is both rich in variety and difficult to...

 or France
French poetry
French poetry is a category of French literature. It may include Francophone poetry composed outside France and poetry written in other languages of France.-French prosody and poetics:...

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Events

  • With the 1974
    1974 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:*The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics is founded by Allen Ginsberg and Anne Waldman....

    , fall of the dictatorship in Greece, poets, authors and intellectuals who had fled after the coup of 1967
    1967 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:*Cecil Day-Lewis is selected as the new Poet Laureate of the UK....

     returned, and this year many began publishing in that country.
  • Brick Books, a small literary press, is founded in London, Ontario
    London, Ontario
    London is a city in Southwestern Ontario, Canada, situated along the Quebec City – Windsor Corridor. The city has a population of 352,395, and the metropolitan area has a population of 457,720, according to the 2006 Canadian census; the metro population in 2009 was estimated at 489,274. The city...

     by Stan Dragland and Don McKay
    Don McKay
    Don McKay, CM is an award-winning Canadian poet, editor, and educator.Born in Owen Sound, Ontario and raised in Cornwall, McKay was educated at the University of Western Ontario and the University of Wales, where he earned his PhD in 1971...

     to publish work by Canadian poets, initially as a publisher of chapbooks.

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:

Canada
Canadian poetry
- Beginnings:The earliest works of poetry, mainly written by visitors, described the new territories in optimistic terms, mainly targeted at a European audience...

  • Earle Birney
    Earle Birney
    Earle Alfred Birney, OC, FRSC was a distinguished Canadian poet and novelist, who twice won the Governor General's Award, Canada's top literary honor, for his poetry.-Life:...

    , The collected poems of Earle Birney. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart.
  • Don Domanski
    Don Domanski
    Don Rusu Domanski is a Canadian poet who lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia.Domanski was born and raised on Cape Breton Island. Published and reviewed internationally, his work has been translated into Czechoslovakian, Portuguese, and Spanish...

    , The Cape Breton Book of the Dead
  • Louis Dudek
    Louis Dudek
    Louis Dudek, OC was a Canadian poet, academic, and publisher known for his role in defining Modernism in poetry, and for his literary criticism. He was the author of over two dozen books...

    . Selected Poems. Ottawa: Golden Dog, 1975.
  • Archibald Lampman
    Archibald Lampman
    Archibald Lampman, was a Canadian poet. "He has been described as 'the Canadian Keats;' and he is perhaps the most outstanding exponent of the Canadian school of nature poets." The Canadian Encyclopedia says that he is "generally considered the finest of Canada's late 19th-century poets in...

    , * Lampman's Kate: Late Love Poems of Archibald Lampman, Margaret Coulby Whitridge ed. (Ottawa: Borealis).
  • Irving Layton
    Irving Layton
    Irving Peter Layton, OC was a Romanian-born Canadian poet. He was known for his "tell it like it is" style which won him a wide following but also made enemies. As T...

    , The Darkening Fire: Selected Poems, 1945–1968. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart.
  • Irving Layton
    Irving Layton
    Irving Peter Layton, OC was a Romanian-born Canadian poet. He was known for his "tell it like it is" style which won him a wide following but also made enemies. As T...

    , The Unwavering Eye: Selected Poems, 1969–1975. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart.
  • Dorothy Livesay
    Dorothy Livesay
    Dorothy Kathleen May Livesay, was a Canadian poet who twice won the Governor General`s Award in the 1940s, and was "senior woman writer in Canada" during the 1970s and 1980s.-Life:...

    , Ice Age. Erin, ON: Porcepic.
  • James Reaney
    James Reaney
    James Crerar Reaney was an influential Canadian poet, playwright, librettist, and professor, "whose works transform small-town Ontario life into the realm of dream and symbol."...

    , Selected Shorter Poems, Erin: Porcepic.
  • Joe Rosenblatt
    Joe Rosenblatt
    Joseph Rosenblatt is a Canadian poet who lives in Qualicum Beach, British Columbia. He has won Canada's Governor-General's Award and British Columbia's B.C. Book Prize for poetry...

    , Dream Craters. Press Porcepic.
  • Joe Rosenblatt
    Joe Rosenblatt
    Joseph Rosenblatt is a Canadian poet who lives in Qualicum Beach, British Columbia. He has won Canada's Governor-General's Award and British Columbia's B.C. Book Prize for poetry...

    , Virgins & Vampires. McClelland & Stewart.
  • Raymond Souster
    Raymond Souster
    Raymond Holmes Souster, OC is a Canadian poet whose writing career spans almost 70 years. He has published more than 50 volumes of his own verse, and edited or co-edited a dozen volumes of others' poetry...

    , Double Header: As Is; Lost & Found. Ottawa: Oberon Press.
  • Raymond Souster
    Raymond Souster
    Raymond Holmes Souster, OC is a Canadian poet whose writing career spans almost 70 years. He has published more than 50 volumes of his own verse, and edited or co-edited a dozen volumes of others' poetry...

    , Rain Check. Ottawa:Oberon Press.
  • Raymond Souster
    Raymond Souster
    Raymond Holmes Souster, OC is a Canadian poet whose writing career spans almost 70 years. He has published more than 50 volumes of his own verse, and edited or co-edited a dozen volumes of others' poetry...

     and Richard Woollatt, eds. These Loved, These Hated Lands. Toronto: Doubleday.
  • George Woodcock
    George Woodcock
    George Woodcock was a Canadian writer of political biography and history, an anarchist thinker, an essayist and literary critic. He was also a poet, and published several volumes of travel writing. He founded in 1959 the journal Canadian Literature, the first academic journal specifically...

    , Notes on Visitations: Poems 1936-75, Toronto: Anansi, Canada
    Canadian literature
    Canadian literature is literature originating from Canada. Collectively it is often called CanLit. Some criticism of Canadian literature has focused on nationalistic and regional themes, although this is only a small portion of Canadian Literary criticism...


India
Indian poetry
Indian poetry, and Indian literature in general, has a long history dating back to Vedic times. They were written in various Indian languages such as Vedic Sanskrit, Classical Sanskrit, Oriya, Tamil, Kannada, Bengali and Urdu. Poetry in foreign languages such as Persian and English also have a...

 in English
Indian Poetry in English
Henry Louis Vivian Derozio is considered the first poet in the lineage of Indian English Poetry. A significant and torch bearer poet is Nissim Ezekiel and the significant poets of the post-Derozio and pre-Ezekiel times are Toru Dutt, Sarojini Naidu, Rabindranath Tagore and Sri Aurobindo...

  • Ruskin Bond
    Ruskin Bond
    Ruskin Bond, born 19 May 1934, is an Indian author of British descent. He is considered to be an icon among Indian writers and children's authors and a top novelist....

    , Lone Fox Dancing: Lyric Poems ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop
    Writers Workshop
    Writers Workshop is a Calcutta-based literary publisher founded by the poet-professor P. Lal in 1958. Over the next few decades it published many new authors in urban literature of the post-independence period. These authors later became big names.-History:...

    , India .
  • G. S. Sharat Chandra, Offsprings of Servagna ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop
    Writers Workshop
    Writers Workshop is a Calcutta-based literary publisher founded by the poet-professor P. Lal in 1958. Over the next few decades it published many new authors in urban literature of the post-independence period. These authors later became big names.-History:...

    , India.
  • Rita Dalmiya, Poems ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop
    Writers Workshop
    Writers Workshop is a Calcutta-based literary publisher founded by the poet-professor P. Lal in 1958. Over the next few decades it published many new authors in urban literature of the post-independence period. These authors later became big names.-History:...

    , India
  • Mary Ann Das Gupta, The Circus of Love ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop
    Writers Workshop
    Writers Workshop is a Calcutta-based literary publisher founded by the poet-professor P. Lal in 1958. Over the next few decades it published many new authors in urban literature of the post-independence period. These authors later became big names.-History:...

    , India
  • Prabhu Siddartha Guptara, Beginnings ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop
    Writers Workshop
    Writers Workshop is a Calcutta-based literary publisher founded by the poet-professor P. Lal in 1958. Over the next few decades it published many new authors in urban literature of the post-independence period. These authors later became big names.-History:...

    , India
  • Pranab Bandyopadhyay, The Voice of the Indian Poets: An Anthology of Indian Poetry, Calcutta: United Writers

Ireland
Irish poetry
The history of Irish poetry includes the poetries of two languages, one in Irish and the other in English. The complex interplay between these two traditions, and between both of them and other poetries in English, has produced a body of work that is both rich in variety and difficult to...

  • Eavan Boland
    Eavan Boland
    -Biography:Boland's father, Frederick Boland, was a career diplomat and her mother, Frances Kelly, was a noted post-expressionist painter. She was born in Dublin in 1944. At the age of six, Boland's father was appointed Irish Ambassador to the United Kingdom; the family followed him to London,...

    , The War Horse, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
    English poetry
    The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...

  • Paul Durcan
    Paul Durcan
    Paul Durcan is a contemporary Irish poet.-Early life:Durcan grew up in Dublin and in Turlough, County Mayo. His father, John, was a barrister and circuit court judge; father and son had a difficult and formal relationship. Durcan enjoyed a warmer and more natural relationship with his mother,...

    , O Westport in the Light of Asia Minor, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
    English poetry
    The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...

  • Seamus Heaney
    Seamus Heaney
    Seamus Heaney is an Irish poet, writer and lecturer. He lives in Dublin. Heaney has received the Nobel Prize in Literature , the Golden Wreath of Poetry , T. S. Eliot Prize and two Whitbread prizes...

    , Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom
    English poetry
    The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...

    :
    • Stations
      Stations (Heaney)
      Stations is a collection of poems written by Seamus Heaney, published in 1975.This particular collection presents a style of writing which was then new to Heaney, known as "verse paragraphs" or prose poems...

      , Ulsterman Publications
    • North
      North (poetry)
      North is a collection of poems written by Irish Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney. It was the first of his works that directly dealt with the troubles experienced in Ireland through the 1960s and 70s. In particular, he uses parallels with past events to explain the problems of Irish society...

      , Faber & Faber
    • Bog Poems, Rainbow Press
  • Derek Mahon, The Snow Party. Oxford University Press, Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom
    English poetry
    The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...

  • Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
    Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
    Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin is an Irish poet born in Cork .-Life:Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin is the daughter of Eilís Dillon and Professor Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin. She was educated at University College Cork and The University of Oxford. She lives in Dublin with her husband Macdara Woods, and they have one...

    : Site of Ambush, Dublin: The Gallery Press

New Zealand
New Zealand literature
New Zealand literature is essentially literature in English that is either written by New Zealanders, or migrants, dealing with New Zealand themes or places and is primarily a 20th Century creation...

  • Alistair Campbell
    Alistair Campbell (poet)
    Alistair Te Ariki Campbell, ONZM was a New Zealand poet, playwright, and novelist. His father was a New Zealand Scot and his mother a Cook Island Maori from Penrhyn Island.-Biography:...

    , Dreams, Yellow Lions
  • Lauris Edmond
    Lauris Edmond
    Lauris Dorothy Edmond was a New Zealand poet and writer. Born in Dannevirke, Hawke's Bay, she survived the 1931 Napier earthquake as a child. Trained as a teacher, Edmond raised a family before publishing the poetry she had privately written throughout her life...

    , In Middle Air
  • Bill Manhire
    Bill Manhire
    William "Bill" Manhire, CNZM is an award-winning New Zealand poet, short story writer, and professor, New Zealand's inaugural Poet Laureate.-Biography:...

    , Song Cycle, New Zealand
    New Zealand literature
    New Zealand literature is essentially literature in English that is either written by New Zealanders, or migrants, dealing with New Zealand themes or places and is primarily a 20th Century creation...

  • Ian Wedde
    Ian Wedde
    Ian Curtis Wedde ONZM is a New Zealand poet, fiction writer, critic, and art curator.-Biography:Born in Blenheim, New Zealand, Wedde lived in East Pakistan and England as a child before returning to New Zealand. He attended King's College and University of Auckland, graduating with an MA in...

    :
    • Earthly: Sonnets for Carlos
    • Pathway to the Sea

United Kingdom
English poetry
The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...

  • Arthur J. Ball, Collected Poems
  • Thomas Blackburn, Selected Poems
  • Eavan Boland
    Eavan Boland
    -Biography:Boland's father, Frederick Boland, was a career diplomat and her mother, Frances Kelly, was a noted post-expressionist painter. She was born in Dublin in 1944. At the age of six, Boland's father was appointed Irish Ambassador to the United Kingdom; the family followed him to London,...

    , The War Horse Irish
    Irish poetry
    The history of Irish poetry includes the poetries of two languages, one in Irish and the other in English. The complex interplay between these two traditions, and between both of them and other poetries in English, has produced a body of work that is both rich in variety and difficult to...

     poet published in the United Kingdom
  • Edwin Brock
    Edwin Brock
    Edwin Brock was a British poet. Brock wrote two of the best-known poems of the last century, Five Ways to Kill a Man and Song of the Battery Hen.-Early life:...

    , a book of poetry
  • Allen Brownjohn, A Song of Good Life
  • Charles Causley
    Charles Causley
    Charles Stanley Causley, CBE, FRSL was a Cornish poet, schoolmaster and writer. His work is noted for its simplicity and directness and for its associations with folklore, especially when linked to his native Cornwall....

    , Collected Poems 1951–1975 (see also Collected Poems 1997
    1997 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:*January 20 — Miller Williams of Arkansas reads his poem, "Of History and Hope," at President Clinton's inauguration....

    )
  • Maureen Duffy
    Maureen Duffy
    Maureen Patricia Duffy is a contemporary British poet, playwright and novelist. She has also published a literary biography of Aphra Behn, and The Erotic World of Faery a book-length study of eroticism in faery fantasy literature.-Life and work:After a tough childhood, Duffy took her degree in...

    , Evesong
  • Paul Durcan
    Paul Durcan
    Paul Durcan is a contemporary Irish poet.-Early life:Durcan grew up in Dublin and in Turlough, County Mayo. His father, John, was a barrister and circuit court judge; father and son had a difficult and formal relationship. Durcan enjoyed a warmer and more natural relationship with his mother,...

    , O Westport in the Light of Asia Minor Irish
    Irish poetry
    The history of Irish poetry includes the poetries of two languages, one in Irish and the other in English. The complex interplay between these two traditions, and between both of them and other poetries in English, has produced a body of work that is both rich in variety and difficult to...

     poet published in the United Kingdom
  • John Fuller
    John Fuller (poet)
    John Fuller is an English poet and author, and Fellow Emeritus at Magdalen College, Oxford.Fuller was born in Ashford, Kent, England, the son of poet and Oxford Professor Roy Fuller, and educated at St Paul's School and New College, Oxford. He began teaching in 1962 at the State University of New...

    , a book of poetry
  • Roy Fuller
    Roy Fuller
    Roy Broadbent Fuller was an English writer, known mostly as a poet. He was born in Failsworth, Lancashire, and brought up in Blackpool. He worked as a lawyer for a building society, serving in the Royal Navy 1941-1946.Poems was his first book of poetry. He began to write fiction also in the 1950s...

    , From the Joke Shop
  • Roger Garfitt, West of Elm
  • Robert Graves
    Robert Graves
    Robert von Ranke Graves 24 July 1895 – 7 December 1985 was an English poet, translator and novelist. During his long life he produced more than 140 works...

    , a book of poetry
  • Seamus Heaney
    Seamus Heaney
    Seamus Heaney is an Irish poet, writer and lecturer. He lives in Dublin. Heaney has received the Nobel Prize in Literature , the Golden Wreath of Poetry , T. S. Eliot Prize and two Whitbread prizes...

    , Northern Ireland
    Irish poetry
    The history of Irish poetry includes the poetries of two languages, one in Irish and the other in English. The complex interplay between these two traditions, and between both of them and other poetries in English, has produced a body of work that is both rich in variety and difficult to...

     poet published in the United Kingdom:
    • Stations
      Stations (Heaney)
      Stations is a collection of poems written by Seamus Heaney, published in 1975.This particular collection presents a style of writing which was then new to Heaney, known as "verse paragraphs" or prose poems...

      , Ulsterman Publications
    • North
      North (poetry)
      North is a collection of poems written by Irish Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney. It was the first of his works that directly dealt with the troubles experienced in Ireland through the 1960s and 70s. In particular, he uses parallels with past events to explain the problems of Irish society...

      , Faber & Faber
    • Bog Poems, Rainbow Press
  • John Heath-Stubbs
    John Heath-Stubbs
    John Francis Alexander Heath-Stubbs OBE was an English poet and translator, known for his verse influenced by classical myths, and the long Arthurian poem Artorius .- Biography :...

    , a Parliament of Birds
  • Adrian Henri
    Adrian Henri
    Adrian Henri was a British poet and painter best remembered as the founder of poetry-rock group The Liverpool Scene and as one of three poets in the best-selling anthology The Mersey Sound, along with Brian Patten and Roger McGough. The trio of Liverpool poets came to prominence in that city's...

    , The Best of Henri: Selected Poems 1960–70, London: Jonathan Cape, ISBN 978-0-224-01148-8
  • Geoffrey Hill
    Geoffrey Hill
    Geoffrey Hill is an English poet, professor emeritus of English literature and religion, and former co-director of the Editorial Institute, at Boston University. Hill has been considered to be among the most distinguished poets of his generation...

    , Somewhere is Such a Kingdom
  • Michael Ivens, Born Early
  • Elizabeth Jennings
    Elizabeth Jennings
    Elizabeth Jennings was an English poet.-Life and career:Jennings was born in Boston, Lincolnshire. When she was six, her family moved to Oxford, where she remained for the rest of her life. Couzyn, Jeni Contemporary Women Poets. Bloodaxe, pp. 98-100. There she later attended St Anne's College...

    , Growing-Points
  • Linton Kwesi Johnson
    Linton Kwesi Johnson
    Linton Kwesi Johnson is a UK-based dub poet. He became the second living poet, and the only black poet, to be published in the Penguin Classics series. His poetry involves the recitation of his own verse in Jamaican Patois over dub-reggae, usually written in collaboration with renowned British...

    , Dread, Beat and' Blood
  • George MacBeth
    George MacBeth
    George Mann MacBeth was a Scottish poet and novelist. He was born in Shotts, Lanarkshire.When he was three, his family moved to Sheffield....

    , In the Hours Waiting for the Blood to Come
  • Derek Mahon, The Snow Party. Oxford University Press, Northern Ireland
    Irish poetry
    The history of Irish poetry includes the poetries of two languages, one in Irish and the other in English. The complex interplay between these two traditions, and between both of them and other poetries in English, has produced a body of work that is both rich in variety and difficult to...

     poet published in the United Kingdom
  • Christopher Middleton
    Christopher Middleton (poet)
    Christopher Middleton is a British poet and translator, especially of German literature.-Life:He was born in Truro, Cornwall, in 1926. He studied at Merton College, Oxford. He then held academic positions at the University of Zürich and King's College London. He became Professor of Germanic...

    , a book of poetry
  • Adrian Mitchell
    Adrian Mitchell
    Adrian Mitchell FRSL was an English poet, novelist and playwright. A former journalist, he became a noted figure on the British anti-authoritarian Left. For almost half a century he was the foremost poet of the country's anti-Bomb movement...

    , The Apeman Cometh
  • Norman Nicholson
    Norman Nicholson
    Norman Cornthwaite Nicholson OBE, , was an English poet, known for his association with the Cumberland town of Millom...

    , Cloud on Black Combe
  • Leslie Norris
    Leslie Norris
    George Leslie Norris FRSL , was a prize-winning Welsh poet and short story writer. Up to 1974 he earned his living as a college lecturer, teacher and headmaster...

    , Mountains, Polecats, Pheasants and other Elegies
  • Ruth Pitter
    Ruth Pitter
    Emma Thomas "Ruth" Pitter, CBE, FRSL was a 20th century British poet.She was the first woman to receive the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 1955, and was appointed a CBE in 1979 to honour her many contributions to English literature.In 1974, she was named a "Companion of Literature", the highest...

    , End of Drought
  • Peter Porter
    Peter Porter (poet)
    Peter Neville Frederick Porter, OAM was a British-based Australian poet.-Life:Porter was born in Brisbane, Australia, in 1929. His mother, Marion, died of a burst gall-bladder in 1938. He attended the Church of England Grammar School and left school at 18, and went to work as a trainee journalist...

    , Living in a Calm Country
  • J. H. Prynne
    J. H. Prynne
    Jeremy Halvard Prynne is a British poet closely associated with the British Poetry Revival.Prynne's early influences include Charles Olson and Donald Davie. His first book, Force of Circumstance and Other Poems was published in 1962; Prynne has excluded it from his canon...

    , High Pink on Chrome
  • James Reeves, Collected Poems
  • Edgell Rickword
    Edgell Rickword
    John Edgell Rickword, MC was an English poet, critic, journalist and literary editor. He became one of the leading communist intellectuals active in the 1930s.-Early life:He was born in Colchester, Essex...

    , Collected Poems
  • Alan Ross
    Alan Ross
    Alan John Ross, , was a British poet, writer and editor. He was born in Calcutta, India, where he spent the first seven years of his life...

    , Open Sea
  • Vernon Scannell
    Vernon Scannell
    Vernon Scannell was a British poet and author. He was at one time a professional boxer, and wrote novels about the sport.-Personal life:Vernon Scannell was born in 1922 in Spilsby, Lincolnshire...

    , a book of poetry
  • Peter Scupham
    Peter Scupham
    -Life:He studied at Emmanuel College, Cambridge.He founded The Mandeville Press with John Mole. He lives in Norfolk, and runs a catalogue book business with Margaret Steward.-Awards:* 1990 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature...

    , Prehistories
  • Henry Shore, Selected Poems
  • Iain Sinclair
    Iain Sinclair
    Iain Sinclair FRSL is a British writer and filmmaker. Much of his work is rooted in London, most recently within the influences of psychogeography.-Life and work:...

    , Lud Heat
  • Stevie Smith
    Stevie Smith
    Florence Margaret Smith, known as Stevie Smith was an English poet and novelist.-Life:Stevie Smith, born Florence Margaret Smith in Kingston upon Hull, was the second daughter of Ethel and Charles Smith. Contemporary Women Poets...

    , Collected Poems
  • R.S. Thomas, Laboratories of the Spirit, Welsh
  • John Wain
    John Wain
    John Barrington Wain was an English poet, novelist, and critic, associated with the literary group "The Movement". For most of his life, Wain worked as a freelance journalist and author, writing and reviewing for newspapers and the radio. He seems to have married in 1947, since C. S...

    , a book of poetry
  • Hugo Williams
    Hugo Williams
    Hugo Williams is a British poet, journalist and travel writer. His full name is Hugh Mordaunt Vyner Williams He is the son of actor Hugh Williams and the model and actress Margaret Vyner, who co-wrote some upper-middle-class comedies in the late 1950s...

    , Some Sweet Day

Anthologies in the United Kingdom

  • John Barrell
    John Barrell
    John Barrell FBA, FEA is a British scholar of eighteenth and early nineteenth century studies and is currently Professor of English at the University of York. He took his first degree at Trinity College Cambridge, and his PhD at the University of Essex. He was a lecturer in the Department of...

     and John Bull
    John Bull
    John Bull is a national personification of Britain in general and England in particular, especially in political cartoons and similar graphic works. He is usually depicted as a stout, middle-aged man, often wearing a Union Flag waistcoat.-Origin:...

    , editors, The Penguin Book of English Pastoral Verse
  • J.M. Cohen, A Choice of Comic and Curious Verse
  • Peter Redgrove
    Peter Redgrove
    Peter William Redgrove was a prolific and widely respected British poet, who also wrote works with his second wife Penelope Shuttle on menstruation and women's health, novels and plays.-Life:...

    , editor, Lamb and Thundercloud, from the Arvon Foundation creative writing courses at Totleigh Barton Manor in Devon
  • Wole Soyinka
    Wole Soyinka
    Akinwande Oluwole "Wole" Soyinka is a Nigerian writer, poet and playwright. He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature, where he was recognised as a man "who in a wide cultural perspective and with poetic overtones fashions the drama of existence", and became the first African in Africa and...

    , editor, Poems of Black Africa
    Poems of Black Africa
    Poems of Black Africa is a poetry anthology edited by Wole Soyinka, and published in 1975 as part of the Heinemann African Writers Series. It was arranged by theme.-Poets in Poems of Black Africa:...

    , part of the Heinemann
    Heinemann (book publisher)
    Heinemann is a UK publishing house founded by William Heinemann in Covent Garden, London in 1890. On William Heinemann's death in 1920 a majority stake was purchased by U.S. publisher Doubleday. It was later acquired by commemorate Thomas Tilling in 1961...

     African Writers Series
    African Writers Series
    African Writers Series is a series of books by African writers which has been published by Heinemann since 1962. The series has been a vehicle for some of the most important African writers, ensuring an international voice to literary masters including Chinua Achebe, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Steve Biko,...

    ; published in the United Kingdom; Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd., ISBN 978-0-436-47820-8, published in April (also published in the United States, in May)
  • Poetry Introduction (Faber & Faber) the third in the series
  • Treble Poets (Chatto & Windus)

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom

  • Edward Lucie-Smith
    Edward Lucie-Smith
    John Edward McKenzie Lucie-Smith is a British writer, poet, art critic, curator, broadcaster and author of exhibition catalogues.-Biography:Lucie-Smith was born in Kingston, Jamaica, moving to the United Kingdom in 1946...

    , The Burnt Child, autobiography
  • Norman Nicholson
    Norman Nicholson
    Norman Cornthwaite Nicholson OBE, , was an English poet, known for his association with the Cumberland town of Millom...

    , Wednesday Early Closing, autobiography
  • Laurie Lee
    Laurie Lee
    Laurence Edward Alan "Laurie" Lee, MBE was an English poet, novelist, and screenwriter, raised in the village of Slad, and went to Marling School, Gloucestershire. His most famous work was an autobiographical trilogy which consisted of Cider with Rosie , As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning and...

    , I Can't Stay Long, mostly travel pieces by this poet
  • Kathleen Raine
    Kathleen Raine
    Kathleen Jessie Raine was a British poet, critic, and scholar writing in particular on William Blake, W. B. Yeats and Thomas Taylor. Known for her interest in various forms of spirituality, most prominently Platonism and Neoplatonism, she was a founder member of the Temenos Academy.-Life:Raine was...

    , The Land Unknown, autobiography

United States

  • A.R. Ammons, Diversifications: Poems
  • Maya Angelou
    Maya Angelou
    Maya Angelou is an American author and poet who has been called "America's most visible black female autobiographer" by scholar Joanne M. Braxton. She is best known for her series of six autobiographical volumes, which focus on her childhood and early adult experiences. The first and most highly...

    , Oh Pray My Wings are Gonna Fit Me Well
  • John Ashbery
    John Ashbery
    John Lawrence Ashbery is an American poet. He has published more than twenty volumes of poetry and won nearly every major American award for poetry, including a Pulitzer Prize in 1976 for his collection Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror. But Ashbery's work still proves controversial...

    :
    • Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror later awarded the Pulitzer Prize
      Pulitzer Prize
      The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...

      , the National Book Award
      National Book Award
      The National Book Awards are a set of American literary awards. Started in 1950, the Awards are presented annually to American authors for literature published in the current year. In 1989 the National Book Foundation, a nonprofit organization which now oversees and manages the National Book...

      , and the National Book Critics Circle Award
      National Book Critics Circle Award
      The National Book Critics Circle Award is an annual award given by the National Book Critics Circle to promote the finest books and reviews published in English....

    • Vermont Notebook
  • Ted Berrigan
    Ted Berrigan
    -Early life:Berrigan was born in Providence, Rhode Island, on November 15, 1934. After high school, he spent a year at Providence College before joining the U.S. Army in 1954 to serve in the Korean War. After three years in the Army, he finished his college studies at the University of Tulsa in...

    , A Feeling For Leaving
  • Gwendolyn Brooks
    Gwendolyn Brooks
    Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks was an American poet. She was appointed Poet Laureate of Illinois in 1968 and Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1985.-Biography:...

    , Beckonings
  • Lin Carter
    Lin Carter
    Linwood Vrooman Carter was an American author of science fiction and fantasy, as well as an editor and critic. He usually wrote as Lin Carter; known pseudonyms include H. P. Lowcraft and Grail Undwin.-Life:Carter was born in St. Petersburg, Florida...

    , Dreams from R'lyeh
    Dreams from R'lyeh
    Dreams from R'lyeh is a collection of poems by Lin Carter. It was released in 1975 by Arkham House in an edition of 3,152 copies. It was Carter's only book published by Arkham House. The Sonnet Cycle, "Dreams from R'lyeh", that comprises the first two-thirds of the book, consists of poems...

  • Robert Creeley
    Robert Creeley
    Robert Creeley was an American poet and author of more than sixty books. He is usually associated with the Black Mountain poets, though his verse aesthetic diverged from that school's. He was close with Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, John Wieners and Ed Dorn. He served as the Samuel P...

    , Backwards and The Door: Selected Poems
  • Ed Dorn
    Ed Dorn
    Edward Merton Dorn was an American poet and teacher often associated with the Black Mountain poets. His most famous work is Gunslinger.-Overview:...

     and Jennifer Dunbar, Manchester Square, Permanent Press
  • Ed Dorn
    Ed Dorn
    Edward Merton Dorn was an American poet and teacher often associated with the Black Mountain poets. His most famous work is Gunslinger.-Overview:...

    , Collected Poems: 1956–1974, Four Seasons Foundation
  • Allen Ginsberg
    Allen Ginsberg
    Irwin Allen Ginsberg was an American poet and one of the leading figures of the Beat Generation in the 1950s. He vigorously opposed militarism, materialism and sexual repression...

    , "Hadda be Playin' on a Jukebox
    Hadda be Playin' on a Jukebox
    Hadda be Playin' on the Jukebox is a poem written by Allen Ginsberg in 1975. It has been performed live, with accompanying music, by the band Rage Against the Machine, appearing on their album Live & Rare....

    "
  • Marilyn Hacker
    Marilyn Hacker
    Marilyn Hacker is an American poet, translator and critic. She is Professor of English at the City College of New York....

    , Presentation Piece
  • Michael S. Harper
    Michael S. Harper
    Michael Steven Harper is an American poet from Brooklyn, who was the Poet Laureate of Rhode Island from 1988 to 1993. He has published ten books of poetry, two of which, "Dear John, Dear Coltrane" and "Images of Kin" , have been nominated for the National Book Award. A great deal of his poetry...

    , Nightmare Begins Responsibility
  • John Hollander
    John Hollander
    John Hollander is a Jewish-American poet and literary critic. As of 2007, he is Sterling Professor Emeritus of English at Yale University...

    , Tales Told of the Fathers
  • Erica Jong
    Erica Jong
    Erica Jong is an American author and teacher best known for her fiction and poetry.-Career:A 1963 graduate of Barnard College, and with an M.A...

    , Loveroot
  • Kenneth Koch
    Kenneth Koch
    Kenneth Koch was an American poet, playwright, and professor, active from the 1950s until his death at age 77...

    , The Art of Love
  • W. S. Merwin
    W. S. Merwin
    William Stanley Merwin is an American poet, credited with over 30 books of poetry, translation and prose. During the 1960s anti-war movement, Merwin's unique craft was thematically characterized by indirect, unpunctuated narration. In the 1980s and 1990s, Merwin's writing influence derived from...

    , The First Four Books of Poems, containing A Mask for Janus, The Dancing Bears, Green with Beasts, and The Drunk in the Furnace, New York: Atheneum; (reprinted in 2000, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press
    Copper Canyon Press
    Copper Canyon Press is an independent, non-profit small press, specializing in the publication of poetry and located in the picturesque town of Port Townsend, Washington. Since 1972, the Press has published poetry exclusively and has established an international reputation for its commitment to...

    )
  • Joyce Carol Oates
    Joyce Carol Oates
    Joyce Carol Oates is an American author. Oates published her first book in 1963 and has since published over fifty novels, as well as many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction...

    , The Fabulous Beasts
  • George Oppen
    George Oppen
    George Oppen was an American poet, best known as one of the members of the Objectivist group of poets. He abandoned poetry in the 1930s for political activism, and later moved to Mexico to avoid the attentions of the House Un-American Activities Committee...

    , Collected Poems (New Directions)
  • Charles Olson
    Charles Olson
    Charles Olson , was a second generation American modernist poet who was a link between earlier figures such as Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams and the New American poets, which includes the New York School, the Black Mountain School, the Beat poets, and the San Francisco Renaissance...

    , The Maximus Poems, third volume (posthumous)
  • Carl Rakosi
    Carl Rakosi
    Carl Rakosi was the last surviving member of the original group of poets who were given the rubric Objectivist. He was still publishing and performing his poetry well into his 90s.-Early life:...

    , Ex Cranium, Night
  • Charles Reznikoff
    Charles Reznikoff
    Charles Reznikoff was the poet for whom the term Objectivist was first coined. When asked by Harriet Munroe to provide an introduction to what became known as the Objectivist issue of Poetry, Louis Zukofsky provided his essay Sincerity and Objectification: With Special Reference to the Work of...

    , Holocaust
  • Adrienne Rich
    Adrienne Rich
    Adrienne Cecile Rich is an American poet, essayist and feminist. She has been called "one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century."-Early life:...

    , Poems: Selected and New, 1950–1974

  • Charles Wright
    Charles Wright (poet)
    Charles Wright is an American poet whose awards include the National Book Award Charles Wright (born August 25, 1935) is an American poet whose awards include the National Book Award Charles Wright (born August 25, 1935) is an American poet whose awards include the National Book Award (19830 for...

    , Bloodlines

Anthologies in the United States

  • Duane Niatum
    Duane Niatum
    -Life:After his parent's divorce, his Klallam grandfather became his surrogate father.After serving in the Navy, he graduated from the University of Washington, Johns Hopkins University with a M.A., and the University of Michigan with a Ph.D...

    , editor, Carriers of the Dream Wheel: Contemporary Native American Poetry, New York: Harper, anthology ISBN 0-06-451151-0
  • Kenneth Rosen, Voices of the Rainbow: Contemporary Poetry by American Indians, New York: Viking Press, anthology
  • Wole Soyinka
    Wole Soyinka
    Akinwande Oluwole "Wole" Soyinka is a Nigerian writer, poet and playwright. He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature, where he was recognised as a man "who in a wide cultural perspective and with poetic overtones fashions the drama of existence", and became the first African in Africa and...

    , editor, Poems of Black Africa
    Poems of Black Africa
    Poems of Black Africa is a poetry anthology edited by Wole Soyinka, and published in 1975 as part of the Heinemann African Writers Series. It was arranged by theme.-Poets in Poems of Black Africa:...

    , part of the Heinemann
    Heinemann (book publisher)
    Heinemann is a UK publishing house founded by William Heinemann in Covent Garden, London in 1890. On William Heinemann's death in 1920 a majority stake was purchased by U.S. publisher Doubleday. It was later acquired by commemorate Thomas Tilling in 1961...

     African Writers Series
    African Writers Series
    African Writers Series is a series of books by African writers which has been published by Heinemann since 1962. The series has been a vehicle for some of the most important African writers, ensuring an international voice to literary masters including Chinua Achebe, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Steve Biko,...

    ; Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, published in May (published in April in the United Kingdom), ISBN 978-0-8090-7747-2

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States

  • John Hollander
    John Hollander
    John Hollander is a Jewish-American poet and literary critic. As of 2007, he is Sterling Professor Emeritus of English at Yale University...

    , Vision and Resonance, criticism
  • Reed Whittemore
    Reed Whittemore
    Edward Reed Whittemore, Jr. is an American poet, biographer, critic, literary journalist and college professor. He was appointed the sixteenth and later the twenty-eighth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1964, and in 1984.-Biography:Born in New Haven, Connecticut,...

    , William Carlos Williams: Poet from Jersey

Other in English

  • Jennifer Maiden
    Jennifer Maiden
    Jennifer Maiden is a contemporary Australian poet.Jennifer Maiden was born in Penrith, New South Wales. She began publishing professionally in the late 1960s and has been active in Sydney's literary scene since then. She took a BA at Macquarie University in the early 1970s...

    , Australia:
    • The Problem of Evil, Prism
    • The Occupying Forces, Gargoyle
  • Maki Kureishi
    Maki Kureishi
    Maki Kureishi was a Pakistani poet.She taught at University of Karachi.She wrote in English.Her nephew is Hanif Kureshi.-Works:*, Drunken Boat 10-External links:...

    , Taufiq Rafat and Kaleem Omar
    Kaleem Omar
    Kaleem Omar was a Pakistani journalist, and an English language poet.-Life:He attended Sherwood College, Naini Tal.He was associated with the Jang Group's daily The News International, in Karachi for the past many years...

    , Wordfall, Oxford University Press, English-language poetry published in Pakistan
    Pakistani poetry
    Pakistan has a rich and diverse tradition of poetry that includes Urdu poetry, English poetry, Sindhi poetry, Pashto poetry, Punjabi poetry, Saraiki poetry, Baluchi poetry, and Kashmiri poetry...

  • Wole Soyinka
    Wole Soyinka
    Akinwande Oluwole "Wole" Soyinka is a Nigerian writer, poet and playwright. He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature, where he was recognised as a man "who in a wide cultural perspective and with poetic overtones fashions the drama of existence", and became the first African in Africa and...

    , editor, Poems of Black Africa
    Poems of Black Africa
    Poems of Black Africa is a poetry anthology edited by Wole Soyinka, and published in 1975 as part of the Heinemann African Writers Series. It was arranged by theme.-Poets in Poems of Black Africa:...

    , part of the Heinemann
    Heinemann (book publisher)
    Heinemann is a UK publishing house founded by William Heinemann in Covent Garden, London in 1890. On William Heinemann's death in 1920 a majority stake was purchased by U.S. publisher Doubleday. It was later acquired by commemorate Thomas Tilling in 1961...

     African Writers Series
    African Writers Series
    African Writers Series is a series of books by African writers which has been published by Heinemann since 1962. The series has been a vehicle for some of the most important African writers, ensuring an international voice to literary masters including Chinua Achebe, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Steve Biko,...

    ; published in the United Kingdom; Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd., ISBN 978-0-436-47820-8 (also published in the United States this year)

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:

Arabic

  • Adonis, Al-Aghani al-Thania Li Mehyar al-Dimashki ("The Second Songs of Mihyar al-Dimashki"), Syria
  • Mahmood Darwish, a book of poems? (Palestine)
  • Abdel Wahhab al-Bayyati, a book of poems? (Iraq)
  • Amal Dankal, a book of poems? (Egypt)

Denmark
Danish literature
Danish literature, a subset of Scandinavian literature, stretches back to the Middle Ages. Of special note across the centuries are the historian Saxo Grammaticus, the playwright Ludvig Holberg, the storyteller Hans Christian Andersen, the philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, and Karen Blixen who...

  • Thorkild Bjørnvig:
    • Delfinen
    • Stoffets krystalhav
  • Henrik Nordbrandt
    Henrik Nordbrandt
    Henrik Nordbrandt is a Danish poet, novelist and essayist. He made his literary debut in 1966 with the poetry collection Digte. He was awarded the Nordic Council's Literature Prize in 2000 for the poetry collection' Drømmebroer...

    , Ode til blæksprutten og andre kærlighedsdigte ("Ode to Cephalopods and Other Love Poems"), Copenhagen: Gylendal, 55 pages

France
French poetry
French poetry is a category of French literature. It may include Francophone poetry composed outside France and poetry written in other languages of France.-French prosody and poetics:...

  • Anne-Marie Albiach
    Anne-Marie Albiach
    Anne-Marie Albiach is a contemporary French poet and translator.-Overview:Anne-Marie Albiach's poetry is characterized by, among other things, an inventive use of spacing on the printed page...

    :
    • Césure: le corps
    • Le Double
  • Jean l'Anselme, La Foire à la ferraille
  • Yves Bonnefoy
    Yves Bonnefoy
    Yves Bonnefoy is a French poet and essayist. Bonnefoy was born in Tours, Indre-et-Loire, the son of a railroad worker and a teacher....

    , Dans le leurre du seuil ("The Lure of the Threshold"), long poem with an epic tone and allusions to classical literature
  • Charles Bory, L'Enfant-soleil et la croix
  • Philippe Denis, Les Cendres de la voix
  • Robert Desnos
    Robert Desnos
    Robert Desnos , was a French surrealist poet who played a key role in the Surrealist movement of his day.- Biography :...

    , Destinée arbitraire, published posthumously (died 1945
    1945 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Benjamin Britten's opera Peter Grimes, based on George Crabbe's The Borough...

    )
  • Philippe Dumaine, Aux Passeurs de la nuit
  • Jacques Dupin
    Jacques Dupin
    Jacques Dupin is a French poet, art critic, and co-founder of the journal L'éphemère.A resident of Paris since 1944, he is director of publication at Galerie Maeght.- Jacques Dupin's poetry in English :...

    , Debors
  • Jean Pourtal de Ladevèze, De La Source azurine
  • Pierre Loubière, Poèmes à la craie
  • Saint-John Perse
    Saint-John Perse
    Saint-John Perse was a French poet, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1960 "for the soaring flight and evocative imagery of his poetry." He was also a major French diplomat from 1914 to 1940, after which he lived primarily in the USA until 1967.-Biography:Alexis Leger was...

    , Chant pour un équinoxe , Paris: Gallimard
  • Jean-Louis Vallas, Resonances de Paris

Criticism and scholarship
  • Robert Sabatier
    Robert Sabatier
    Robert Sabatier was born on the 17th of August 1923 in Paris. He is a French poet and writer.He has written numerous novels, essays and books of aphorisms and poems. He was elected to the Académie Goncourt in 1971, as well as to the Académie Mallarme...

    , Histoire de la poésie française
    • volume on the Middle Ages to the sixteenth century
    • volume on the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

West Germany
German literature
German literature comprises those literary texts written in the German language. This includes literature written in Germany, Austria, the German part of Switzerland, and to a lesser extent works of the German diaspora. German literature of the modern period is mostly in Standard German, but there...

  • Herbert Asmodi, Jokers Gala
  • Rolf Dieter Brinkmann
    Rolf Dieter Brinkmann
    Rolf Dieter Brinkmann was an important poet of German Pop-Literatur. He also wrote Keiner weiß mehr , a novel of modern family life. His early writing was inspired by Gottfried Benn and the French nouveau roman...

    , Westwärts 1 und 2 (posthumous)
  • Frank Geerk, Notwehr
  • Klaus Konjetsky, Poem vom Grünen Eck
  • Kaspar H. Spinner, Zur Struktur des lyrischen Ich Frankfurt am Main: Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft (scholarship)

Greece
Modern Greek literature
Modern Greek literature refers to literature written in the Greek language from the 11th century, with texts written in a language that is more familiar to the ears of Greeks today than is the language of the early Byzantine literature, the compilers of the New Testament, or, of course, the...

  • Kostas Varnalis
    Kostas Varnalis
    Kostas Varnalis was a Greek poet.-Life:Varnalis was born in Burgas, Bulgaria, in 1884. As his name suggests, his family originated from Varna. He completed his elementary studies in the Zariphios Greek high school in Plovdiv and then moved to Athens to study literature at the National and...

    ,
  • Nikiforos Vrettakos
    Nikiforos Vrettakos
    -Biography:Nikephoros Vrettakos was born in the village of Kokees, near Sparta, but originated from Mani and published his first collection of poems, Under Shadows and Lights, in 1929, at the age of seventeen. That same year he moved to Athens to attend university, but left after a year to take a...

    ,
  • Kostas Stergiopoulos,
  • Yiorgos Yeralis,
  • Yannis Ritsos:
    • (written in the Makronisos concentration camp in 1949
      1949 in poetry
      Links to nations or nationalities point to articles with information on that nation's poetry or literature. For example, United Kingdom links to English poetry and Indian links to Indian poetry.-Events:...

      )
    • , about the Turkish invasion of Cyprus
    • , a book of essays

Hebrew
Hebrew literature
Hebrew literature consists of ancient, medieval, and modern writings in the Hebrew language. It is one of the primary forms of Jewish literature, though there have been cases of literature written in Hebrew by non-Jews...

  • M. Dor, Mappot Hazeman
  • Haim Gouri
    Haim Gouri
    Haim Gouri is an Israeli poet, novelist, journalist, and documentary filmmaker.-Biography:Haim Gouri was born in Tel Aviv. After studying at the Kadoorie Agricultural High School, he joined the Palmach militia. In 1947 he was sent to Hungary to assist Holocaust survivors to come to Palestine...

    , Ad Kav Ha-Nesher ("The Eagle Line"), by an Israeli
    Israeli literature
    Israeli literature is literature written in the State of Israel by Israelis. Most works classed as Israeli literature are written in the Hebrew language, although some Israeli authors write in Yiddish, English, Arabic and Russian...

     writing in Hebrew
    Hebrew literature
    Hebrew literature consists of ancient, medieval, and modern writings in the Hebrew language. It is one of the primary forms of Jewish literature, though there have been cases of literature written in Hebrew by non-Jews...

  • Y. Ratosh, three slim volumes which appeared simultaneously
  • I. Pinkas, Al Kav Hamashveh
  • Y. Ratosh, three slim volumes which appeared simultaneously
  • D. Rokeah, Ir Shezemana Kayitz
  • Y. Tan-Pai, Olam Kazeh Olam Kaba
  • A. Trainin, Ha-Shaar Hasotum
  • Nathan Yonathan, Shirim

India
Indian poetry
Indian poetry, and Indian literature in general, has a long history dating back to Vedic times. They were written in various Indian languages such as Vedic Sanskrit, Classical Sanskrit, Oriya, Tamil, Kannada, Bengali and Urdu. Poetry in foreign languages such as Persian and English also have a...

Listed in alphabetical order by first name:
  • Amarjit Chandan, Kauan Nahin Chahega, Rangshala, Chandigarh; Punjabi-language
  • K. Siva Reddy, Charya, Hyderabad: Jhari Poetry Circle, Telugu
    Telugu poetry
    Telugu poetry is verse originating in the southern provinces of India, predominantly from modern Andhra Pradesh and some corners of Tamilnadu and Karnataka.- Origins :...

    -language
  • Namdeo Dhasal
    Namdeo Dhasal
    Namdeo Laxman Dhasal is a Marathi writer and Dalit activist from Maharashtra, India.-Biography:Dhasal was born on February 15, 1949, in a village near Pune, India. A member of the Mahar Dalit class, he grew up in dire poverty...

    , Moorkha Mhatarayane Dongar Halavile; Marathi
    Marathi poetry
    -Earliest Prominent Marathi Poetry:The two poets, Namadev and Dnyaneshwar , wrote the earliest significant poetry in Marathi. They were respectively born in 1270 and 1275 CE in Maharashtra, India, and both wrote religious poetry. A little over 400 verses in the so-called “abhang” form are...

    -language
  • Nilmani Phookan
    Nilmani Phookan
    Nilmani Phookan is an Indian poet in Assamese language and an academic. His work replete with symbolism, is inspired by French symbolism and is representative of the genre in Assamese poetry...

    , Kaint Golap Aru Kaint, Guwahati, Assam: Dutta Barua, Assamese
    Assamese Poetry
    Assamese poetry, poetry in Assamese language.-History:Sanskrit literature, the fountain head of most of the Indian literature, supplied not only the themes of medieval Assamese literature, but also has inspired many a writer of modern Assamese literature to undertake creative writings in context of...

    -language
  • Rajendra Kishore Panda, Gouna Devata, Patanagarh, Orissa: Varnamala, Oraya-language
  • Suresh Joshi
    Suresh Joshi
    Suresh Joshi was an Indian novelist, short-story writer, critic, poet, translator, writer and academic in the Gujarati language.He was born in Valod, a small town in South Gujarat on 30 May 1921....

    , Pratyancha, Indian
    Indian poetry
    Indian poetry, and Indian literature in general, has a long history dating back to Vedic times. They were written in various Indian languages such as Vedic Sanskrit, Classical Sanskrit, Oriya, Tamil, Kannada, Bengali and Urdu. Poetry in foreign languages such as Persian and English also have a...

    , Gujarati-language

Italy
Italian poetry
-Important Italian poets:* Giacomo da Lentini a 13th Century poet who is believed to have invented the sonnet.* Guido Cavalcanti Tuscan poet, and a key figure in the Dolce Stil Novo movement....

  • Pier Paolo Pasolini
    Pier Paolo Pasolini
    Pier Paolo Pasolini was an Italian film director, poet, writer, and intellectual. Pasolini distinguished himself as a poet, journalist, philosopher, linguist, novelist, playwright, filmmaker, newspaper and magazine columnist, actor, painter and political figure...

    , La nuova gioventú
  • Giovanni Raboni
    Giovanni Raboni
    ^Giovanni Raboni was an Italian poet, translator and literary critic.- Biography :Raboni was born in Milan, the second son of Giuseppe, a clerk at Milan commune, and Matilde Sommariva...

    , Cadenza d'inganno

Anthology

  • Marco Forti, editor, Almanacco dello Specchio for 1975, an anthology (from Arnoldo Mondadori
    Arnoldo Mondadori
    Arnoldo Mondadori was a noted Italian publisher.Mondadori was born at Poggio Rusco, Mantua and died in Milan.His publishing house is today the largest in Italy.-External links:*...

    's publishing house) which included poems by Eugenio Montale
    Eugenio Montale
    Eugenio Montale was an Italian poet, prose writer, editor and translator, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1975.- Early years :...

    , Mario Luzi
    Mario Luzi
    - Biography:Mario Luzi was born in Castello, near Sesto Fiorentino; his parents, Ciro Luzi and Margherita Papini hailed from Samprugnano and he spent his youth in Castello, where he started his primary school...

    , Albino Pierro
    Albino Pierro
    Albino Pierro was an Italian poet. He was famous for his works in Lucan dialect, and being nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature.-Biography:He was born in Tursi in province of Matera...

    , Vasco Pratolini
    Vasco Pratolini
    Vasco Pratolini was one of the most noted Italian writers of the twentieth century.Born in Florence, Pratolini worked at various jobs before entering the literary world thanks to his acquaintance with Elio Vittorini. In 1938 he founded, together with Alfonso Gatto, the magazine Campo di Marte...

    , Pier Paolo Pasolini
    Pier Paolo Pasolini
    Pier Paolo Pasolini was an Italian film director, poet, writer, and intellectual. Pasolini distinguished himself as a poet, journalist, philosopher, linguist, novelist, playwright, filmmaker, newspaper and magazine columnist, actor, painter and political figure...

    , Giovanni Testori
    Giovanni Testori
    "'Giovanni Testori'" was a major Italian writer, playwright, art historian and literary critic. His literary works are characterised by linguistic experimentalism, featuring both lexicon and syntax that mix and fuse elements of the Lombard dialect with French and English...

    , Giovanni Guiducci, Rossana Ombres

Portugal
Portuguese literature
This is a survey of Portuguese literature.The Portuguese language was developed gradually from the Vulgar language spoken in the countries which formed part of the Roman Empire and, both in morphology and syntax, it represents an organic transformation of Latin without the direct intervention of...

  • A. Ramos Rosa, Animal Olhar
  • Fiama Brandão, Novas Visões do Passado
  • A.-F. Alexandre, Sem Palavras nem Coisas

Russia

  • N. Dorizo, The Sword of Victory. Verses, Poems and Songs
  • Yu. Drunina, The Star of the Trenches. New Poems
  • K. Vanshenkin, Campfire Reminiscences. Wartime Lyrics
  • Ya. Smelyakov, Verses of Many Years
  • B. Kunyayev, Devotion. Poems
  • I. Molchanov, Half a Century. Verses
  • G. Korshak, The Stellar Hour
  • I. Ulyanova, Birch Tree Rain
  • A. Roshka, Steel and Flint (translated into Russian from Moldavian)
  • S. Eraliyev, Herald's Word (translated into Russian from Kirgiz)

Spain
Spanish poetry
Spanish poetry is the poetic tradition of Spain. It may include elements of Spanish literature, and literatures written in languages of Spain other than Castilian, such as Catalan literature....

  • Vicente Gaos
    Vicente Gaos
    Vicente Gaos was a Spanish poet and essayist. He was the brother of José and Lola Gaos. He received the Premio Adonais in 1943 for Arcángel de mi noche and was posthumously awarded the Nacional de Poesía in 1980....

    , Diez siglos de poesía
  • Luis Cernuda
    Luis Cernuda
    Luis Cernuda , was a Spanish poet and literary critic.-Life and career:...

    , Antología poetica, introduction and selection by Philip Silver

Latin America
Latin American literature
Latin American literature consists of the oral and written literature of Latin America in several languages, particularly in Spanish, Portuguese, and indigenous languages of the Americas. It rose to particular prominence globally during the second half of the 20th century, largely due to the...

  • Juan Gonzalo Rose, Obra poética (Peru)
  • Javier Sologuren, translator from Swiss, Italian and French, Las uvas del racimo (Peru)
  • Raúl Gonzáles Tuñón, Antología poética (Argentina), posthumous
  • Margit Frenk, Cancionero folklórico, anthology of popular poetry
  • Juan Gelman
    Juan Gelman
    Juan Gelman is an Argentine poet. He has published more than twenty books of poetry since 1956. He won the Cervantes Prize in 2007, the most important in Spanish literature...

    , Obra poética (Argentina)
  • Pablo Antonio Cuadra
    Pablo Antonio Cuadra
    Pablo Antonio Cuadra was a Nicaraguan essayist, art and literary critic, playwright, graphic artist and one of the most famous poets of Nicaragua.-Early life and career:...

    , Tierra que habla (Nicaragua)
  • Roberto Fernández Retamar
    Roberto Fernández Retamar
    Roberto Fernández Retamar is a Cuban poet, essayist, literary critic and President of the Casa de las Américas. In his role as President of the organization, Fernández also serves on the Council of State of Cuba. An early close confidant of Che Guevara and Fidel Castro, he has remained a central...

    , Cuaderno paralelo (Cuba)
  • Jorge Enrique Adoum
    Jorge Enrique Adoum
    Jorge Enrique Adoum was an Ecuadorian poet and writer. He was one of the major exponents of Latin American poetry. Social concerns were always present in his work.-Biography:...

    , Informe personal sobre la situación (Ecuador)
  • Olga Orozco
    Olga Orozco
    thumb|Olga Orozco, 1960Olga Orozco was an Argentine poet born in Toay, La Pampa. She spent her childhood in Bahía Blanca until she was 16 years old and she moved to Buenos Aires with her parents where she initiated her career as a writer.Orozco directed some literary publications using some...

    , Museo salvage (Argentina)
  • Hernán Levín, El que a hierro mata (Chile)
  • Octavio Paz
    Octavio Paz
    Octavio Paz Lozano was a Mexican writer, poet, and diplomat, and the winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature.-Early life and writings:...

    , Children of the Mire: Modern Poetry from Romanticism to the Avant-Garde, text of his Charles Eliot Norton lectures at Harvard for 1971–1972
  • José Coronel Urteche, Rápido tránsito, critical essays

Sweden
Swedish literature
Swedish literature refers to literature written in the Swedish language or by writers from Sweden.The first literary text from Sweden is the Rök Runestone, carved during the Viking Age circa 800 AD. With the conversion of the land to Christianity around 1100 AD, Sweden entered the Middle Ages,...

  • Kjell Espmark
    Kjell Espmark
    Professor Kjell Erik Espmark , is a writer, literary historian, member of the Swedish Academy and Professor of the History of Literature at Stockholm University. He was elected to the Swedish Academy on 5 March 1981 and admitted on 20 December 1981. Kjell Espmark succeeded the linguist Elias Wessén...

    , Det obevekliga paradiset, the last volume of a trilogy
  • Claes Andersson
    Claes Andersson
    Claes-Johan Rudolf Andersson is a Finland-Swedish psychiatrist, author, musician, politician and former member of the Finnish Parliament, representing the Left Alliance and the Finnish People's Democratic League. He was member of Finnish Parliament in 1987-1999 and 2007-2008.-External links:*...

    , Rums kamrater
  • Ylva Eggehorn
    Ylva Eggehorn
    Ylva Elisabet Eggehorn is a Swedish poet, writer, and hymnwriter. She is said to be among Sweden's most famous contemporary Christian writers and poets. Along with Christian poetry she wrote for what's believed to be the first Swedish worship album...

    , Han Kommer

Yiddish
Yiddish literature
Yiddish literature encompasses all belles lettres written in Yiddish, the language of Ashkenazic Jewry which is related to Middle High German. The history of Yiddish, with its roots in central Europe and locus for centuries in Eastern Europe, is evident in its literature.It is generally described...

  • Hirsh Osherovitch, The World of Sacrifices
  • Arie Shamri, Rings in Stem
  • Hillel Shargel, A Tree in the Window
  • M. Shklar, In Imagination Sealed
  • Moshe Nadir, A Day in a Garden
  • Alef Katz, Morning Star
  • Yakov Friedman, Poems and Songs, three volumes (posthumous)

Other

  • Zbigniew Herbert
    Zbigniew Herbert
    Zbigniew Herbert was an influential Polish poet, essayist, drama writer, author of plays, and moralist. A member of the Polish resistance movement – Home Army during World War II, he is one of the best known and the most translated post-war Polish writers...

    , Mr. Cogito, which was translated into 15 languages and dramatized in 1975; Poland
    Polish literature
    Polish literature is the literary tradition of Poland. Most Polish literature has been written in the Polish language, though other languages, used in Poland over the centuries, have also contributed to Polish literary traditions, including Yiddish, Lithuanian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, German and...

  • Ndoc Gjetja
    Ndoc Gjetja
    Ndoc Gjetja was an Albanian poet. He died after a long illness.-External links:*...

    , Shqiponja rreh krahët, ("Beats Eagle Wings"), Albania
  • Miroslav Holub
    Miroslav Holub
    Miroslav Holub was a Czech poet and immunologist.Miroslav Holub's work was heavily influenced by his experiences as an Immunologist, writing many poems using his scientific knowledge to poetic effect. His work is almost always unrhymed, so lends itself easily to translation...

    , a book of poetry? Czecholslovakia: Czech
    Czech literature
    Czech literature is the literature written by Czechs or other inhabitants of the Czech state, mostly in the Czech language, although other languages like Old Church Slavonic, Latin or German have been also used, especially in the past. Modern authors from the Czech territory who wrote in other...

  • Julian Przybos
    Julian Przybos
    Julian Przyboś was a Polish poet, essayist and translator, one of the most important poets of Kraków Avantgarde....

    , Poems and Notes (posthumous), Poland
    Polish literature
    Polish literature is the literary tradition of Poland. Most Polish literature has been written in the Polish language, though other languages, used in Poland over the centuries, have also contributed to Polish literary traditions, including Yiddish, Lithuanian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, German and...

  • Jan Skacel
    Jan Skácel
    Jan Skácel was a Czech poet of Moravian origin, widely acclaimed as one of the best poets who had been writing in Czech....

    , a book of poetry? Czechoslovakia: Czech
    Czech literature
    Czech literature is the literature written by Czechs or other inhabitants of the Czech state, mostly in the Czech language, although other languages like Old Church Slavonic, Latin or German have been also used, especially in the past. Modern authors from the Czech territory who wrote in other...

  • Nichita Stănescu
    Nichita Stanescu
    Nichita Stănescu was a Romanian poet and essayist. He is the most acclaimed contemporary Romanian language poet, loved by the public and generally held in esteem by literary critics.-Biography:...

    , selected poems Romania
  • Ion Alexandru, selected poems Romania

Awards and honors

  • Nobel Prize for Literature: Eugenio Montale
    Eugenio Montale
    Eugenio Montale was an Italian poet, prose writer, editor and translator, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1975.- Early years :...

    , Italian
    Italian poetry
    -Important Italian poets:* Giacomo da Lentini a 13th Century poet who is believed to have invented the sonnet.* Guido Cavalcanti Tuscan poet, and a key figure in the Dolce Stil Novo movement....

     poet, prose writer, editor and translator

Canada
Canadian poetry
- Beginnings:The earliest works of poetry, mainly written by visitors, described the new territories in optimistic terms, mainly targeted at a European audience...

  • See 1975 Governor General's Awards
    1975 Governor General's Awards
    Each winner of the 1975 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit was selected by a panel of judges administered by the Canada Council for the Arts.-English Language:*Fiction: Brian Moore, The Great Victorian Collection....

     for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards

United Kingdom
English poetry
The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...

  • Cholmondeley Award
    Cholmondeley Award
    The Cholmondeley Award is an annual award for poetry given by the Society of Authors in the United Kingdom. Awards honour distinguished poets, from a fund endowed by the late Dowager Marchioness of Cholmondeley in 1966...

    : Jenny Joseph
    Jenny Joseph
    -Life and career:She was born in Birmingham, and with a scholarship, studied English literature at St Hilda's College, Oxford .Her poems were first published when she was at university in the early 1950s...

    , Norman MacCaig
    Norman MacCaig
    Norman MacCaig was a Scottish poet. His poetry, in modern English, is known for its humour, simplicity of language and great popularity.-Life:...

    , John Ormond
    John Ormond
    John Ormond , was a Welsh poet and filmmaker.Ormond was born in Dunvant, near Swansea, and was educated at Swansea University.He joined the staff of Picture Post in 1945. He returned to Swansea in 1949 and, in 1957, began what was to be a distinguished career with BBC Wales as a director and...

  • Eric Gregory Award
    Eric Gregory Award
    The Eric Gregory Award is given by the Society of Authors to British poets under 30 on submission. The awards are up to a sum value of £24000 annually....

    : John Birtwhistle
    John Birtwhistle
    John Birtwhistle is a British poet whose subject-matter is often political, cultural or historical. He won an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors in 1975. He was a university lecturer in English until retirement. Some of his early work was translated by Ştefan Augustin Doinaş and...

    , Duncan Bush, Val Warner, Philip Holmes
    Philip Holmes
    Philip J. Holmes is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University. As a member of the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering department, he formerly served as the interim chair until May 2007....

    , Peter Cash
    Peter Cash
    Peter Cash is a Canadian singer-songwriter.He was a member of Skydiggers from 1987 to 1996. After leaving that band, he began to write and record music with his brother, singer-songwriter Andrew Cash, which was released as The Cash Brothers....

    , Alasdair Paterson

United States

  • Bollingen Prize
    Bollingen Prize
    The Bollingen Prize for Poetry, which is currently awarded every two years by Beinecke Library of Yale University, is a literary honor bestowed on an American poet in recognition of the best book of new verse within the last two years, or for lifetime achievement.-Inception and controversy:The...

    : Archie Randolph Ammons
    Archie Randolph Ammons
    Archie Randolph Ammons was an American poet. He wrote about humanity's relationship to nature in alternately comic and solemn tones.-Life:...

  • National Book Award for Poetry
    National Book Award for Poetry
    The National Book Award for Poetry has been given since 1950 and is part of the National Book Awards, which are given annually for outstanding literary works by American citizens...

    : Marilyn Hacker
    Marilyn Hacker
    Marilyn Hacker is an American poet, translator and critic. She is Professor of English at the City College of New York....

    , Presentation Piece
  • Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
    Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
    The Pulitzer Prize in Poetry has been presented since 1922 for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author. However, special citations for poetry were presented in 1918 and 1919.-Winners:...

    : Gary Snyder
    Gary Snyder
    Gary Snyder is an American poet , as well as an essayist, lecturer, and environmental activist . Snyder is a winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry...

    , Turtle Island
  • Walt Whitman Award: Reg Saner
    Reg Saner
    -Life:He graduated from St. Norbert College, near Green Bay, Wisconsin.He served as an infantry platoon leader in the Korean War.He studied at University of Illinois, an received a Fulbright Scholarship to study at University of Florence....

    , Climbing into the Roots
  • Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Robert Hayden
    Robert Hayden
    Robert Hayden was an American poet, essayist, educator. He was appointed Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1976.-Biography:...

  • Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize: Cid Corman
    Cid Corman
    Cid Corman was an American poet, translator and editor, most notably of Origin, who was a key figure in the history of American poetry in the second half of the 20th century.-Early life and writing:...

    , O/I (Judge: Hayden Carruth
    Hayden Carruth
    Hayden Carruth was an American poet and literary critic. He taught at Syracuse University.-Life:Hayden Carruth grew up in Woodbury, Connecticut, and was educated at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and at the University of Chicago. He lived in Johnson, Vermont for many years...

    )

France
French poetry
French poetry is a category of French literature. It may include Francophone poetry composed outside France and poetry written in other languages of France.-French prosody and poetics:...

  • Prix Appolinaire: Charles Le Quintrec
    Charles Le Quintrec
    Charles Le Quintrec was a French poet. He was born in Plescop and died in Lorient.He was a literary critic for Ouest-France .-Awards:* Chevalier des Arts et Lettres* Officer of the Ordre national du Mérite...

    , jeunesse de Dieu
  • Grand Prix de poésie of the French Academy: Gabriel Audisio, Racine de tout

Spanish language

  • Casa de las Américas prizes:
    • Omar Lara (Chile), ¡Oh buenas maneras!
    • Manuel Orestes Nieto (Panama), Dar la cara

Other

  • A Soviet state prizes for poetry:
    • K. Kuliyev, The Book of the Earth
    • L. Martynov, Hyperboles

Births

  • Srijato
    Srijato
    Srijato Bandopadhyay , is a popular poet of the Bengali younger generation. He won the Ananda Puroskar in 2004 for his book Udanta Sawb Joker: All Those Flying Jokers...

     (Srijato Bandopadhyay), Bengali
    Bengali poetry
    Bengali poetry is a form that originated in Pāli and other Prakrit socio-cultural traditions. It is antagonistic towards Vedic rituals and laws as opposed to the shramanic traditions such as Buddhism and Jainism...

     poet
  • Tony Tost
    Tony Tost
    Tony Tost is an American poet. His first book Invisible Bride won the 2003 Walt Whitman Award judged by C.D. Wright.Tost was born in Springfield, Missouri, and raised in Enumclaw, Washington. He is a graduate of Green River Community College in Auburn, Washington, and College of the Ozarks in...

    , American poet
  • Razvan Tupa
    Razvan Tupa
    Răzvan Ţupa is a Romanian poet. His first book Fetis won the 2002 Mihai Eminescu First Book in Poetry National Award.Ţupa was born in Brăila and raised in Bucharest. He is a graduate of International Academy for Study of Religions and Culture History in Bucharest...

    , Romanian poet

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
  • January 15 – Sydney Goodsir Smith
    Sydney Goodsir Smith
    Sydney Goodsir Smith was a Scottish poet, artist, dramatist and novelist. He wrote poetry in literary Scots often referred to as Lallans, and was a major figure of the Scottish Renaissance....

    , poet, dramatist and novelist
  • February 10 – Nikos Kavadias, Greek
  • February 14 – Sir Julian Sorell Huxley (born 1887
    1887 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Canada:* George Frederick Cameron, Lyrics on Freedom, Love and Death, posthumously published ....

    ), English
    English poetry
    The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...

     evolutionary biologist, humanist and internationalist
  • March 3 – Sir Thomas Herbert Parry-Williams, 87, Welsh
    Welsh poetry
    Welsh poetry may refer to poetry in the Welsh language, Anglo-Welsh poetry, or other poetry written in Wales or by Welsh poets.-History:Wales has one of the earliest literary traditions in Northern Europe, stretching back to the days of Aneirin Welsh poetry may refer to poetry in the Welsh...

     poet, translator and academic
  • April 23 – Rolf Dieter Brinkmann
    Rolf Dieter Brinkmann
    Rolf Dieter Brinkmann was an important poet of German Pop-Literatur. He also wrote Keiner weiß mehr , a novel of modern family life. His early writing was inspired by Gottfried Benn and the French nouveau roman...

     (born 1940
    1940 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* English poet and writer Aldous Huxley is a screenwriter for the movie adaptation of Pride and Prejudice...

    ) German
    German literature
    German literature comprises those literary texts written in the German language. This includes literature written in Germany, Austria, the German part of Switzerland, and to a lesser extent works of the German diaspora. German literature of the modern period is mostly in Standard German, but there...

     poet
  • May 10 – Roque Dalton
    Roque Dalton
    Roque Dalton García was a Salvadoran poet and journalist. He is considered one of Latin America's most compelling poets...

    , 39, (born 1935
    1935 in poetry
    Links to nations or nationalities point to articles with information on that nation's poetry or literature. For example, United Kingdom links to English poetry and Indian links to Indian poetry.-Events:* Canada -- Charles G.D...

    ), leftist Salvadoran poet and journalist who wrote on death, love, and politics; executed
  • September 4 – Shigeji Tsuboi
    Shigeji Tsuboi
    was an influential Japanese poet of the modern era of Japanese literature.-History:Tsuboi was born on the island of Shōdoshima and studied briefly at Waseda University in Tokyo, but he never graduated...

     壺井繁治 (born 1897
    1897 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Canada:* Jean Blewett, Heart Songs...

    ) Japanese
    Japanese poetry
    Japanese poets first encountered Chinese poetry during the Tang Dynasty. It took them several hundred years to digest the foreign impact, make it a part of their culture and merge it with their literary tradition in their mother tongue, and begin to develop the diversity of their native poetry. For...

  • September 20 – Saint-John Perse
    Saint-John Perse
    Saint-John Perse was a French poet, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1960 "for the soaring flight and evocative imagery of his poetry." He was also a major French diplomat from 1914 to 1940, after which he lived primarily in the USA until 1967.-Biography:Alexis Leger was...

    , 88, French
    French poetry
    French poetry is a category of French literature. It may include Francophone poetry composed outside France and poetry written in other languages of France.-French prosody and poetics:...

     diplomat and poet, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature
    Nobel Prize in Literature
    Since 1901, the Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded annually to an author from any country who has, in the words from the will of Alfred Nobel, produced "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction"...

     in 1960
    1960 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* August Derleth launches the poetry magazine, Hawk and Whippoorwill....

  • October 27 – Vayalar Rama Varma (born 1928
    1928 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Russian poets Daniil Kharms and Alexander Vvedensky found OBERIU , an avant-garde grouping of Russian post-Futurist poets in the 1920s-1930s* American poets Charles Reznikoff, George Oppen and Louis...

    ), Indian
    Indian poetry
    Indian poetry, and Indian literature in general, has a long history dating back to Vedic times. They were written in various Indian languages such as Vedic Sanskrit, Classical Sanskrit, Oriya, Tamil, Kannada, Bengali and Urdu. Poetry in foreign languages such as Persian and English also have a...

    , Malayalam
    Malayalam poetry
    There are two types of meters used in Malayalam poetry, the classical Sanskrit based and Tamil based ones.- Sanskrit Meters :Sanskrit meters are primarily based on trisyllabic feet. The short sound is called a laghu, a long sound is called a guru. A guru is twice as long as a laghu...

    -language poet and film songwriter
  • November 2 – Pier Paolo Pasolini
    Pier Paolo Pasolini
    Pier Paolo Pasolini was an Italian film director, poet, writer, and intellectual. Pasolini distinguished himself as a poet, journalist, philosopher, linguist, novelist, playwright, filmmaker, newspaper and magazine columnist, actor, painter and political figure...

    , 53, Italian
    Italian poetry
    -Important Italian poets:* Giacomo da Lentini a 13th Century poet who is believed to have invented the sonnet.* Guido Cavalcanti Tuscan poet, and a key figure in the Dolce Stil Novo movement....

     film director, author and poet
  • November 23 – Francis Webb
    Francis Webb (poet)
    Francis Charles Webb-Wagg was an Australian poet who published under the name Francis Webb. "Diagnosed as suffering from schizophrenia in the 1950s, he spent most of his adult life in and out of psychiatric hospitals, writing poetry against terrible odds." He is widely regarded as one of...

    , 52, Australian poet
  • Also:
    • Andreas Empeirikos (born 1901
      1901 in poetry
      Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* a small plaque is set on the Statue of Liberty to display Emma Lazarus' 1883 poem, "The New Colossus"...

      ), Greek
    • Janko Glazer, (born 1893
      1893 in poetry
      Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Canada:* William Wilfred Campbell, The Dread Voyage Poems. Toronto: William Briggs.* Bliss Carman, Low Tide at Grand Pré...

      )
    • Vojko Gorjan, (born 1949
      1949 in poetry
      Links to nations or nationalities point to articles with information on that nation's poetry or literature. For example, United Kingdom links to English poetry and Indian links to Indian poetry.-Events:...

      )

See also

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