1975 in poetry

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Events

With the 1974, fall of the dictatorship in Greece, poets, authors and intellectuals who had fled after the coup of 1967 returned, and this year many began publishing in that country.

Brick Books, a small literary press, is founded in London, Ontario by Stan Dragland and Don McKay to publish work by Canadian poets, initially as a publisher of chapbooks. emergency eyewash station

Works published in English gel knee pad

Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately: metal detector dealers

India in English

Ruskin Bond, Lone Fox Dancing: Lyric Poems, Calcutta: Writers Workshop

G. S. Sharat Chandra, Offsprings of Servagna, Calcutta: Writers Workshop

Rita Dalmiya, Poems, Calcutta: Writers Workshop

Mary Ann Das Gupta, The Circus of Love, Calcutta: Writers Workshop

Prabhu Siddartha Guptara, Beginnings, Calcutta: Writers Workshop

Ireland

Eavan Boland, The War Horse, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom

Paul Durcan, O Westport in the Light of Asia Minor, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom

Seamus Heaney, Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom:

Stations, Ulsterman Publications

North, Faber & Faber

Bog Poems, Rainbow Press

Derek Mahon, The Snow Party. Oxford University Press, Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom

Eilan N Chuilleanin: Site of Ambush, Dublin: The Gallery Press

New Zealand

Alistair Campbell, Dreams, Yellow Lions

Lauris Edmond, In Middle Air

Bill Manhire, Song Cycle, New Zealand

Ian Wedde:

Earthly: Sonnets for Carlos

Pathway to the Sea

United Kingdom

Arthur J. Ball, Collected Poems

Thomas Blackburn, Selected Poems

Eavan Boland, The War Horse Irish poet published in the United Kingdom

Edwin Brock, a book of poetry

Allen Brownjohn, A Song of Good Life

Charles Causley, Collected Poems 19511975 (see also Collected Poems 1997)

Maureen Duffy, Evesong

Paul Durcan, O Westport in the Light of Asia Minor Irish poet published in the United Kingdom

John Fuller, a book of poetry

Roy Fuller, From the Joke Shop

Roger Garfitt, West of Elm

Robert Graves, a book of poetry

Seamus Heaney, Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom:

Stations, Ulsterman Publications

North, Faber & Faber

Bog Poems, Rainbow Press

John Heath-Stubbs, a Parliament of Birds

Adrian Henri, The Best of Henri: Selected Poems 196070, London: Jonathan Cape, ISBN 9780224011488

Geoffrey Hill, Somewhere is Such a Kingdom

Michael Ivens, Born Early

Elizabeth Jennings, Growing-Points

Linton Kwesi Johnson, Dread, Beat and' Blood

George MacBeth, In the Hours Waiting for the Blood to Come

Derek Mahon, The Snow Party. Oxford University Press, Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom

Christopher Middleton, a book of poetry

Adrian Mitchell, The Apeman Cometh

Norman Nicholson, Cloud on Black Combe

Leslie Norris, Mountains, Polecats, Pheasants and other Elegies

Ruth Pitter, End of Drought

Peter Porter, Living in a Calm Country

J. H. Prynne, High Pink on Chrome

James Reeves, Collected Poems

Edgell Rickword, Collected Poems

Alan Ross, Open Sea

Vernon Scannell, a book of poetry

Peter Scupham, Prehistories

Henry Shore, Selected Poems

Iain Sinclair, Lud Heat

Stevie Smith, Collected Poems

R.S. Thomas, Laboratories of the Spirit, Welsh

John Wain, a book of poetry

Hugo Williams, Some Sweet Day

Anthologies

John Barrell and John Bull, editors, The Penguin Book of English Pastoral Verse

J.M. Cohen, A Choice of Comic and Curious Verse

Peter Redgrove, editor, Lamb and Thundercloud, from the Arvon Foundation creative writing courses at Totleigh Barton Manor in Devon

Wole Soyinka, editor, Poems of Black Africa

Poetry Introduction (Faber & Faber) the third in the series

Treble Poets (Chatto & Windus)

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom

Edward Lucie-Smith, The Burnt Child, autobiography

Norman Nicholson, Wednesday Early Closing, autobiography

Laurie Lee, I Can't Stay Long, mostly travel pieces by this poet

Kathleen Raine, The Land Unknown, autobiography

United States

A.R. Ammons, Diversifications: Poems

Maya Angelou, Oh Pray My Wings are Gonna Fit Me Well

John Ashbery:

Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror later awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award

Vermont Notebook

Ted Berrigan, A Feeling For Leaving

Gwendolyn Brooks, Beckonings

Lin Carter, Dreams from R'lyeh

Robert Creeley, Backwards and The Door: Selected Poems

Ed Dorn and Jennifer Dunbar, Manchester Square, Permanent Press

Ed Dorn, Collected Poems: 1956-1974, Four Seasons Foundation

Allen Ginsberg, "Hadda be Playin' on a Jukebox"

Marilyn Hacker, Presentation Piece

Michael S. Harper, Nightmare Begins Responsibility

John Hollander, Tales Told of the Fathers

Erica Jong, Loveroot

Kenneth Koch, The Art of Love

Duane Niatum, editor, Carriers of the Dream Wheel: Contemporary Native American Poetry, New York: Harper, anthology

Genre: Poetry ISBN: 0064511510

Joyce Carol Oates, The Fabulous Beasts

George Oppen, Collected Poems (New Directions)

Charles Olson, The Maximus Poems, third volume (posthumous)

Carl Rakosi, Ex Cranium, Night

Charles Reznikoff, Holocaust

Adrienne Rich, Poems: Selected and New, 1950-1974

Kenneth Rosen, Voices of the Rainbow: Contemporary Poetry by American Indians, New York: Viking Press, anthology

Charles Wright, Bloodlines

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States

John Hollander, Vision and Resonance, criticism

Reed Whittemore, William Carlos Williams: Poet from Jersey

Other in English

Don Domanski, The Cape Breton Book of the Dead, Canada

Jennifer Maiden, Australia:

The Problem of Evil, Prism

The Occupying Forces, Gargoyle

George Woodcock, Notes on Visitations: Poems 1936-75, Toronto: Anansi, Canada

Maki Kureishi, Taufiq Rafat and Kaleem Omar, Wordfall, Oxford University Press, English-language poetry published in Pakistan

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

Thorkild Bjrnvig:

Delfinen

Stoffets krystalhav

Henrik Nordbrandt, Ode til blksprutten og andre krlighedsdigte ("Ode to Cephalopods and Other Love Poems"), Copenhagen: Gylendal, 55 pages

French language

France

Anne-Marie Albiach:

Csure: le corps

Le Double

Jean l'Anselme, La Foire la ferraille

Yves Bonnefoy, 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-soliel et la croix

Philippe Denis, Les Cendres de la voix

Robert Desnos, Destine arbitraire, published posthumously (died 1945)

Philippe Dumaine, Aux Passeurs de la nuit

Jacques Dupin, Debors

Jean Pourtal de Ladevze, De La Source azurine

Pierre Loubire, Pomes la craie

Saint-John Perse, Chant pour un quinoxe , Paris: Gallimard

Jean-Louis Vallas, Resonances de Paris

Criticism and scholarship

Robert Sabatier, Histoire de la posie franaise

volume on the Middle Ages to the sixteenth century

volume on the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

German language

West Germany

Herbert Asmodi, Jokers Gala

Rolf Dieter Brinkmann, Westwrts 1 und 2 (posthumous)

Frank Geerk, Notwehr

Klaus Konjetsky, Poem vom Grnen Eck

Kaspar H. Spinner, Zur Struktur des lyrischen Ich Frankfurt am Main: Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft (scholarship)

Greece

Kostas Varnalis, Orgi laou

Nikiforos Vrettakos, Diamartiria

Kostas Stergiopoulos, Eklipsi

Yiorgos Yeralis, Elliniki nikhta

Yannis Ritsos:

Kodonostasio

O tikhos mesa ston kathrefti

Hartina

Petrinos khronos (written in the Makronisos concentration camp in 1949)

Imnos kai thrinos yia tin Kipro, about the Turkish invasion of Cyprus

Meletes, a book of essays

Hebrew

M. Dor, Mappot Hazeman

Haim Gouri, Ad Kav Ha-Nesher ("The Eagle Line"), by an Israeli writing in Hebrew

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

Italy

Pier Paolo Pasolini, La nuova giovent

Giovanni Raboni, Cadenza d'inganno

Anthology

Marco Forti, editor, Almanacco dello Specchio for 1975, an anthology (from Arnoldo Mondadori's publishing house) which included poems by Eugenio Montale, Mario Luzi, Albino Pierro, Vasco Pratolini, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Giovanni Testori, Giovanni Guiducci, Rossana Ombres

Portuguese language

Portugal

A. Ramos Rosa, Animal Olhar

Fiama Brando, Novas Vises 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)

Soviet anthology

Winds of Different Colors

Spanish language

Spain

Vicente Gaos, Diez siglos de poesa

Luis Cernuda, Antologa poetica, introduction and selection by Philip Silver

Latin America

Juan Gonzalo Rose, Obra potica (Peru)

Javier Sologuren, translator from Swiss, Italian and French, Las uvas del racimo (Peru)

Ral Gonzles Tun, Antologa potica (Argentina), posthumous

Juan Gelman, Obra potica (Argentina)

Pablo Antonio Cuadra, Tierra que habla (Nicaragua)

Roberto Fernndez Retamar, Cuaderno paralelo (Cuba)

Jorge Enrique Adoum, Informe personal sobre la situacin (Ecuador)

Olga Orozco, Museo salvage (Argentina)

Hernn Levn, El que a hierro mata (Chile)

Other

Octavio Paz, Children of the Mire: Modern Poetry from Romanticism to the Avant-Garde, text of his Charles Eliot Norton lectures at Harvard for 1971-1972

Jos Coronel Urteche, Rpido trnsito, critical essays

Margit Frenk, Cancionero folklrico, anthology of popular poetry

Sweden

Kjell Espmark, Det obevekliga paradiset, the last volume of a trilogy

Claes Andersson, Rums kamrater

Ylva Eggehorn, Han Kommer

Yiddish

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, Mr. Cogito, which was translated into 15 languages and dramatized in 1975 (Poland)

Julian Przybos, Poems and Notes (posthumous) (Poland)

Miroslav Holub, a book of poetry? (Czecholslovakia: Czech)

Suresh Joshi, Pratyancha, Indian, Gujarati language

Jan Skacel, a book of poetry? (Czechoslovakia: Czech)

Nichita Stanescu, selected poems (Romania)

Ion Alexandru, selected poems (Romania)

Awards and honors

Nobel Prize for Literature: Eugenio Montale, Italian poet, prose writer, editor and translator

English language

Canada

See 1975 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards

United Kingdom

Cholmondeley Award: Jenny Joseph, Norman MacCaig, John Ormond

Eric Gregory Award: John Birtwhistle, Duncan Bush, Val Warner, Philip Holmes, Peter Cash, Alasdair Paterson

United States

Bollingen Prize: Archie Randolph Ammons

National Book Award for Poetry: Marilyn Hacker, Presentation Piece

Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Gary Snyder, Turtle Island

Walt Whitman Award: Reg Saner, Climbing into the Roots

Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Robert Hayden

Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize: Cid Corman, O/I (Judge: Hayden Carruth)

French language

France

Prix Appolinaire: Charles Le Quintrec, jeunesse de Dieu

Grand Prix de posie of the French Academy: Gabriel Audisio, Racine de tout

Spanish language

Casa de las Amricas 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 Bandopadhyay), Bengali poet

Tony Tost, American poet

Razvan Tupa, Romanian poet

Deaths

Roque Dalton

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

January 15 Sydney Goodsir Smith, poet, dramatist and novelist

February 10 Nikos Kavadias, Greek

February 14 Sir Julian Sorell Huxley (born 1887), English evolutionary biologist, humanist and internationalist

March 3 Sir Thomas Herbert Parry-Williams, 87, Welsh poet, translator and academic

April 23 Rolf Dieter Brinkmann (born 1940) German poet

May 10 Roque Dalton, 39, (born 1935), leftist Salvadoran poet and journalist who wrote on death, love, and politics; executed

September 4 Shigeji Tsuboi (born 1897) Japanese

September 20 Saint-John Perse, 88, French diplomat and poet, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1960

October 27 Vayalar Rama Varma (born 1928), Indian, Malayalam-language poet and film songwriter

November 2 Pier Paolo Pasolini, 53, Italian film director, author and poet

November 23 Francis Webb, 52, Australian poet

Also:

Andreas Empeirikos (born 1901), Greek

Janko Glazer, (born 1893)

Vojko Gorjan, (born 1949)

Notes

^ Web page titled "About / Brick Books" at the Brick Books website, retrieved January 3, 2008

^ a b c d e Naik, M. K., Perspectives on Indian poetry in English, p. 230, (published by Abhinav Publications, 1984, ISBN 0391032860, ISBN 9780391032866), retrieved via Google Books, June 12, 2009

^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6

^ Web page titled "Eilan N Chuilleanin" at The Gallery Press website, accessed May 4, 2008

^ Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, "Lauris Edmond" article

^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m This is as much information as was available in The Britannica Book of the Year 1976 (for events of 1975), published by The Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1976

^ a b Web page titled "Archive / Edward Dorn (1929-1999)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved May 8, 2008

^ Web page titled "Michael S. Harper" at the Academy of American poets website, accessed April 23, 2008

^ a b Porter, Joy, and Kenneth M. Roemer, The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature, p 29, Cambridge University Press, 2005, ISBN 9780521822831, retrieved February 9, 2009

^ Web page titled "The Works of George Woodcock" at the Anarchy Archives website, which states: "This list is based on The Record of George Woodcock (issued for his eightieth birthday) and Ivan Avakumovic's bibliography in A Political Art: Essays and Images in Honour of George Woodcock, edited by W.H. New, 1978, with additions to bring it up to date"; accessed April 24, 2008

^ Abbasi, Reema, "Journalist, poet Kaleem Omar dead", article, Dawn newspaper, June 26, 2009, retrieved June 27, 2009

^ Web page titled "Henrik Nordbrandt" at the Literatur.siden website, retrieved January 29, 2010

^ a b c d e Auster, Paul, editor, The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets, New York: Random House, 1982 ISBN 0394521978

^ Denis Hollier, editor, A New History of French Literature, p 1025, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1989 ISBN 0674615654

^ Web page titled "Saint-John Perse: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1960: Bibliography" at the Nobel Prize Website, retrieved July 20, 2009. Archived 2009-07-24.

^ Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "German Poetry" article, "Criticism in German" section, p 474

^ Web page titled "Haim Gouri" at the Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature Web site, accessed October 6, 2007

^ Mohan, Sarala Jag, Chapter 4: "Twentieth-Century Gujarati Literature" (Google books link), in Natarajan, Nalini, and Emanuel Sampath Nelson, editors, Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, ISBN 9780313287787, retrieved December 10, 2008

^ Paniker, Ayyappa, "Modern Malayalam Literature" chapter in George, K. M., editor, ' 'Modern Indian Literature, an Anthology' ', pp 231255, published by Sahitya Akademi, 1992, retrieved January 10, 2009

Britannica Book of the Year 1976 ("for events of 1975"), published by Encyclopaedia Britannica 1976 (source of many items in "Works published" section and rarely in other sections)

See also

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List of years in poetry

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