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Events
- Two poems written in 1965 by Mao Zedong just before the Cultural Revolution, including "Two Birds: A Dialogue", are published on January 11
Works published in English
Australia
- R. Berndt, editor, Love Songs of Arnhem Land (anthology)2
- Les Murray, The Vernacular Republic Selected Poems3
- 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- The Bone Chanter: Unpublished Poems 1945–72, edited by J. E. Weir
- The Holy Life and Death of Concrete Grady: Various Uncollected and Unpublished Poems, edited by J. E. Weir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 Press4
- 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, Penguin5
- 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
- John Ennis, Night on Hibernia Oldcastle: The New Gallery Press, ISBN 9780902996465 Ireland
- Jayanta Mahapatra, Indian:
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 19657
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
Notes
- ^ [1]Representative Poetry Online Web site, which cites Facts on File 36 [1976]: 9
- ^ Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "Australian Poetry" article, Anthologies section, p 108
- ^ [2]Les Murray Web page at The Poetry Archive Web site, accessed October 15, 2007
- ^ Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, pp. 75-76, "Alan Brunton" article by Peter Simpson
- ^ Web page titled "Archive / Edward Dorn (1929-1999)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved May 8, 2008
- ^ a b [3]Jayata Mahapatra Web page at the Orissa Gateway Web site, accessed October 16, 2007
- ^ 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
- 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)
