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[edit] Events
- Two poems written in 1965 by Mao Zedong just before the Cultural Revolution, including "Two Birds: A Dialogue", are published on January 1[1]
[edit] Works published
[edit] English language
- Al Purdy, Sundance at Dusk
- Irving Layton, My Brother Jesus
- Gary Geddes, War & Other Measures
- Roland Giguere, Miron translated from French
- Kenneth Allot, Collected Poems
- W.H. Auden, Collected Poems of W.H. Auden, edited by Edward Mendelson
- Frances Bellerby, The First Known (posthumous)
- Zoë Brooks, Owl Shadows and Whispering Stone "parallel booklets"
- George Mackay Brown, Winterfold
- Elizabeth Daryush, Collected Poems
- David Day, Brass Rubbings
- Patric Dickinson, The Bearing Beast
- Ruth Fainlight, Another Full Moon
- Tony Flynn, Separations
- Alistair Fowler, Catagomb Suburb
- Thom Gunn, Jack Straw's Castle
- Adrian Henri, The Best of Adrian Henri
- Ted Hughes, Season Songs
- Glyn Jones, Selected Poems
- Peter Levi, Collected Poems
- Hugh MacDairmid, Collected Poems
- Hugh Maxton, The Noise of the Fields
- Humphrey John Moore, Collected Poems
- Eleanor Murray, Black and Sepia
- Luke Parsons, Last Poems
- Brian Patten, Vanishing Trick
- Rodney Pybus, Bridging Loans
- Jon Silkin, The Little Timekeeper
- Derek Walcott, Sea Grapes
- David Wright, A View of the North
- Edmund Leo Wright, The Horwich Hennets (the poet invented the "hennet", a 12-line hendecasyllabic verse with the rhymes "abacbcde deff")
- Paul Yates, Sky Made of Stone
[edit] Anthologies
- F.E.S. Finn, Here and Human
- Antonia Fraser, Scottish Love Poems
- Dannie Abse, Poetry Dimension Annual 4
- Howard Sergeant, New Poems 1976/1977, P.E.N. anthology
- Diane Ackerman, The Planets
- Ted Berrigan, Red Wagon
- Elizabeth Bishop, One Act
- Robert Creeley, Selected Poems
- James Dickey, The Zodiac
- Raymond Carver, At Night The Salmon Move
- Maxine Chernoff, Vegetable Emergency, prose poems (Beyond Baroque Foundation)
- Irving Feldman, Leaping Clear
- Marya Fiamengo, In Praise of Older Women
- Robert Lowell, Selected Poems
- James Merrill: Divine Comedies, including "Lost in Translation" and "The Book of Ephraim", a long narrative poem
- Lorine Niedecker, Blue Chicory (published posthumously)
- Kenneth Rexroth, 100 More Poems from the Japanese
- Charles Reznikoff, Poems 1918-1936
- Muriel Rukeyser, The Gates
- Anne Sexton, 45 Mercy Street (posthumous)
- James Tate, Viper Jazz
- Paavo Haavikko, Viiniä, kirjoitusta
- Hannu Mäkelä, Synkkyys pohjaton, ninn myös iloni, onneni
- Jarkko Laine, Viidenpennin Hamlet
- Matti Rossi, Laulu tummana tulevi
- Matti Kuusi, Kansanruno Kalevala, a reconstruction of the folk poems that formed the basis of the Finnish national epic, Kaalevala, compiled in 1849 by Elias Lönnrot.
[edit] French language
- Raymond Queneau, Morale élémentaire
- Hervé Bazin, Traits
- Roland Bacri, Roland Bacri (the name of the author and book are the same)
- Jacques Prévert, Grand Bal du printemps
- Jean Berthet, L'éternel instant
- Robert Houdelot, Les Treize
- Philippe Chabaneix, Dix nouvelles romances
- Christian Dedeyan, Chant du Houlme
- Jacques Marlet, Toi qui pâlis au nom de Vancouver
- J.P. Seguin, LAnnée poétique 1975
- Georges Cartier, Chanteaux
- Paul Chanel Malenfant, Poèmes de la mères pays
- A Quebec collective of women, La Nef des sorcières
[edit] German language
- Horst Bienek, Gleiwitzer Kindheit
- Michael Kruger, Reginapoly
- Ernst Meister, Im Zeitspalt
- H. M. Enzensberger, Mausoleum: 37 Ballads From the History of Progress
- Erich Arendt, Memento und Bild
[edit] Spanish language
- Matilde Camus, Siempre amor ("Forever Love")
- Antonio Colinas, Sepulcro en Taruinia
- Claudio Rodriguez, El vuelo de la celebración
- José Emilio Pacheco, Islas a la deriva (Mexico)
- Guadalupe Amor, El zoológico de Pita Amor
- Jomi García Ascot, Un modo de decir
- A workshop in "synthetic poetry" came out with Doce modos
[edit] Portuguese language
- Marcus Accioly, Sisifo, a long poem containing multiple forms of poetry, including the classical sonnet, concrete and popular Brazilian forms
- Yolanda Jordão, Biografia do Edificio e Anexos
- Adélia Prado, Bagagem
[edit] Awards and honors
[edit] Births
[edit] Deaths
- January 15 - Sydney Goodsir Smith, a New Zealand-Scottish poet, artist, dramatist and novelist
- January 18 - Chester Kallman, 53
- January 22 - Charles Reznikoff, 81, American Objectivist poet
- March 10 - Louis Sissman, 48, of Hodgkin's disease
- March 12 - Lloyd Frankenberg, 67
- March 22 - Stanley Young, 69
- April 28 - Richard A. W. Hughes, British poet, author and playwright
- May 10 - Roque Dalton, executed
- July 10 - Sir Francis Meynell, 84
- August 19 — Jan Nisar Akhtar, 62, Indian poet of Urdu ghazals and nazms, a lyricist for Bollywood and father of psychiatrist and poet Salman Akhtar
- August 29 — Kazi Nazrul Islam, 77, Bengali poet and composer best known as the Bidrohi Kobi ("Rebel Poet"), popular among Bengalis and considered the national poet of Bangladesh
- September 24? - Pat Lowther - Canadian poet murdered by her husband, Roy Lowther
- October 15 - James McAuley, Australian poet, academic, journalist, literary critic
- date not known - Anne Elder
[edit] See also
- ^ [1]Representative Poetry Online Web site, which cites Facts on File 36 [1976]: 9
- Britannica Book of the Year 1977 ("for events of 1976"), published by Encyclopaedia Britannica 1977 (source of many items in "Works published" section and rarely in other sections)
