Events

• Two poems written in 1965 by Mao Zedong just before the Cultural Revolution, including "Two Birds: A Dialogue", are published on January 1

Works published in English

Australia

• R. Berndt, editor, Love Songs of Arnhem Land (anthology)
• Les Murray, The Vernacular Republic Selected Poems
• John Tranter, The Alphabet Murders (notes from a work in progress), Angus & Robertson
• Chris Wallace-Crabbe, The Foundations of Joy, (Poets of the Month Series), Sydney: Angus & Robertson

Canada

• Al Purdy, Sundance at Dusk
• Irving Layton, My Brother Jesus
• Gary Geddes, War & Other Measures
• Roland Giguere, Miron translated from French

New Zealand

• James K. Baxter, posthumous
• The Bone Chanter: Unpublished Poems 1945–72, edited by J. E. Weir
• The Holy Life and Death of Concrete Grady: Various Uncollected and Unpublished Poems, edited by J. E. Weir
• Alan Brunton, Black & White Anthology, a 33-part sequence with an Asian setting, Hawk Press
• Vincent O'Sullivan, James K. Baxter, biography, New Zealand

United Kingdom

• Kenneth Allott, 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
• Ciarán Carson: The New Estate, Blackstaff Press, Wake Forest University Press
• 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

Anthologies in the United Kingdom

• Elaine Feinstein, editor and translator, Three Russian Poets: Margarite Aliger, Yunna Morits, Bella Akhmadulina, Manchester, Carcanet Press
• 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

United States

• Diane Ackerman, The Planets
• Ted Berrigan, Red Wagon
• Elizabeth Bishop, One Act
• Raymond Carver, At Night The Salmon Move
• Maxine Chernoff, Vegetable Emergency, prose poems (Beyond Baroque Foundation)
• Robert Creeley, Selected Poems
• James Dickey, The Zodiac
• Ed Dorn, translator, Selected Poems of Cesar Vallejo, Penguin
• Charles Doyle, James K. Baxter, Boston: Twayne (Twayne's World Authors Series); study of the New Zealand poet
• Irving Feldman, Leaping Clear
• Marya Fiamengo, In Praise of Older Women
• John Hollander, Reflections on Espionage
• 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

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States

• Harold Bloom, Poetry and Repression, the final volume of a tetralogy that began with The Anxiety of Influence in 1973
• Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren, Understanding Poetry (college textbook), originally published in 1938, goes into its fourth edition (after revised editions in 1950 and 1960); this would be the final edition before the deaths of the authors

Other in English

• Jayanta Mahapatra, Indian:
• A Father's Hours
• A Rain of Rites

Works published in other languages

Denmark

• Jørgen Nash, Her er jeg
• Klaus Rifbjerg, Stranden
• Jørgen Gustava Brandt:
• Mit hjerte i København
• Jothárram
• Regnansigt

Finland

• 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.

French language

France

• 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

Other in French

• John Jackson, a study of Yves Bonnefoy

Canada

• Georges Cartier, Chanteaux
• Paul Chanel Malenfant, Poèmes de la mères pays
• A Quebec collective of women, La Nef des sorcières

German language

West Germany

• Horst Bienek, Gleiwitzer Kindheit
• H. M. Enzensberger, Mausoleum: 37 Ballads From the History of Progress
• Michael Kruger, Reginapoly
• Ernst Meister, Im Zeitspalt
• Jurgen Theobaldy and Gustav Zürcher, Veränderung der Lyrik: Über westdeutsche Gedichte seit 1965

East Germany

• Erich Arendt, Memento und Bild

Italy

• Dario Bellezza, Morta segreta
• Alberto Bevilacqua, ''La crudeltà
• Amelia Rosselli, Documento 1966-73
• Angelo M. Ripellino, La splendido violino verde

Norway

• Göran Sonnevi, Det omöjliga
• Sten Hagliden, Kvällsordat
• Barbro Lindgren, Rapporter från marken

Spanish language

Spain

• Matilde Camus, Siempre amor ("Forever Love")
• Antonio Colinas, Sepulcro en Taruinia
• Claudio Rodriguez, El vuelo de la celebración

Latin America

• 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

Portuguese language

Portugal

• Carlos de Oliveira, Trabalho Poético
• Egito Gonçalves, Luz Vegital
• Eugénio de Andrade, Limar dos Pássaros
• António Ramos Rosa, Ciclo do Cavalo
• Pedro Tamen, Agora, Estar

Brazil

• 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

Other languages

• Gerrit Kouwenaar, Verzamelde Gedichten (Netherlands)
• Wisława Szymborska: Wielka liczba ("A Large Number"), Poland

Awards and honors

Canada

• See 1976 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

United Kingdom

• Cholmondeley Award: Peter Porter, Fleur Adcock
• Eric Gregory Award: Stewart Brown, Valerie Gillies, Paul Groves, Paul Hyland, Nigel Jenkins, Andrew Motion, Tom Paulin, William Peskett

United States

• Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (later the post would be called "Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress"): Robert Hayden appointed this year.
• Frost Medal: A.M. Sullivan
• National Book Award for Poetry: John Ashbery, Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: John Ashbery: Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
• Walt Whitman Award: Laura Gilpin, The Hocus-Pocus of the Universe
• Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: J. V. Cunningham
• Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize: Denise Levertov, The Freeing of the Dust (Judge: Hayden Carruth)

Births

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

See also

• Poetry
• List of poetry awards
• List of years in poetry

Notes