1979 in poetry
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| Years in poetry: | 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 |
| Years in literature: | 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 |
| Decades in poetry: | 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s |
| Centuries in poetry: | 19th century 20th century 21st century |
| Centuries: | 19th century · 20th century · 21st century |
| Decades: | 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s |
| Years: | 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 |
Contents |
[edit] Events
- The Kenyon Review is restarted by Kenyon College 10 years after the original publication was closed.
[edit] Works published
[edit] Canada
- Paul Dutton, Right Hemisphere, Left Ear
- Michael Ondaatje, There's a Trick with a Knife I'm Learning to Do
- Irving Layton, Droppings from Heaven
- Dennis Lee, The Gods
- Steven McCaffery and B.P. Nichol, In England Now That Spring
- Susan Musgrave, A Man to Bury, A Man to Marry
[edit] Anthologies
- John Jessop, editor, International Anthology of Concrete Poetry, vol. i
- George Swede, editor, The Canadian Haiku Anthology
[edit] United Kingdom
- Kingsley Amis, Collected Poems
- Robert Conquest, Forays
- Duglas Dunn
- D.J. Enright, A Faust Book
- Craig Raine, A Martian Sends a Postcard Home
- Ted Hughes:
- Moortown
- Remains of Elmet
- P.J. Kavanagh
- Terence Tiller
[edit] United States
- John Ashbery, As We Know
- Ted Berrigan and Harris Schiff, Yo-Yo's With Money
- Maxine Chernoff, Utopia TV Store (The Yellow Press)
- Paul Hoover, Letter to Einstein Beginning Dear Albert (The Yellow Press)
- Stanley Kunitz, The Poems of Stanley Kunitz
- Denise Levertov, Collected Earlier Poems
- Mary Oliver, Sleeping in the Forest (chapbook)
- Robert Penn Warren, Brother to Dragons
[edit] In translation
- Federico Garcia Lorca (posthumous), translated by Paul Blackburn, Lorca/Blackburn: Poems of Federico Garcia Lorca Chosen by Paul Blackburn
[edit] Spain
- Matilde Camus, Corcel en el tiempo ("Steed of the time")
[edit] French
[edit] France
- Alain Bosquet, Poémes, un, his collected works up to 1967
- Pierre Emmanuel, Una, ou la mort, la vie
- Guillevic, Etier
- André Pieyre de Mandiargues, L'ivre Oeil
- Patrick Reumaux, Repérages du vif
[edit] Denmark
- Henrik Nordbrandt, Spøgelseslege
[edit] Awards and honors
[edit] Canada
- See 1979 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
[edit] United Kingdom
- Cholmondeley Award: Alan Brownjohn, Andrew Motion, Charles Tomlinson
- Eric Gregory Award: Stuart Henson, Michael Jenkins, Alan Hollinghurst, Sean O'Brien, Peter Thabit Jones, James Lindesay, Walter Perrie, Brian Moses
[edit] United States
- Bollingen Prize: W.S. Merwin
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in Poetry, Archibald MacLeish
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Robert Penn Warren: Now and Then
- Walt Whitman Award: David Bottoms, Shooting Rats at the Bibb County Dump
- Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: May Swenson and Mark Strand
[edit] Deaths
- February 9 - Allen Tate, 79, American poet, of emphysema
- October 6 - Elizabeth Bishop, 68, American poet, from an aneurism
- date not known - I. A. Richards, influential literary critic and rhetorician.
[edit] Notes
- Britannica Book of the Year 1980 ("for events of 1979"), published by Encyclopaedia Britannica 1980 (source of many items in "Works published" section and rarely in other sections)
