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[edit] Events
- release of Tomfoolery, an animated film directed by Joy Batchelor and John Halas, based on the nonsense verse of Edward Lear (especially "The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo") and Lewis Carroll
- May — "La nuit de la poésie", a poetry reading in Montreal bringing together poets from French Canada to recite before an audience of more than 2,000 in the Théâtre du Gesu, lasted until 7 a.m.[1]
[edit] Works published in English
- Robert Adamson Canticles on the Skin
- B. Elliott and A. Mitchell, Bards in the Wilderness: Australian Colonial Poetry to 1920, anthology[2]
- John Tranter, Parallax, South Head Press
- Joan Finnigan, 'It Was Warm and Sunny When We Set Out
- Gail Fox, Dangerous Season
- R.A.D. Ford, The Solitary City, his poems and translations from Russian and Portuguese
- John Glassco, Memoirs of Montparnasse
- Michael Ondaatje:
- The Collected Works of Billy the Kid: Left-handed Poems (adapted by Ondaatje into a play of the same name in 1973), Toronto: Anansi[3] ISBN 0887840183 ; New York: Berkeley, 1975
- Leonard Cohen (literary criticism), Toronto: McClelland & Stewart[3]
[edit] Anthologies
- Dannie Abse, Selected Poems
- Margaret Atwood, The Journals of Susanna Moodie
- George Barker, At Thurgarton Church
- R. H. Bowden, Poems from Italy
- Frederick Broadie, My Findings
- Michael Dennis Browne, The Wife of Winter
- Charles Causley, Figgie Hobbin
- Donald Davie, Six Epistles to Eva Hesse
- Clifford Dyment, Collected Poems
- D.J. Enright, Selected Poems
- W.S. Graham, Malcolm Mooney's Land
- Ian Hamilton, The Visit
- Tony Harrison, The Loiners (1970)
- Seamus Heaney:
- Night Drive, Gilbertson
- A Boy Driving His Father to Confession, Sceptre Press
- Glyn Hughes, Neighbours
- Ted Hughes, A Crow Hymn
- C. Day Lewis, The Whispering Roots
- George MacBeth, The Burning Cone
- Norman MacCaig, A Man in My Position
- Hugh MacDiarmid, Selected Poems
- Walter de la Mare, The Complete Poems of Walter de la Mare
- Stuart Montgomery, Circe
- Christopher Pilling, Snakes and Girls, won the new Poets Award sponsored by Leeds university and the Yorkshire Post
- Burns Singer, Collected Poems (posthumous)
- Iain Crichton Smith, Selected Poems
- Charles Tomlinson, The Way of a World
- John Wain, Letters to Five Artists
- Ted Walker, The Night Bathers
- Mary Wilson (wife of Prime Minister Harold Wilson), Selected Poems, "easily the 'best selling'" poetry book of the year.[5]
[edit] Anthologies
- Alan Bold, editor, The Penguin Book of Socialist Verse
- Peter Robins, editor, Doves for the Seventies
- Edward Lucie-Smith, editor, British Poetry since 1945, Penguin
- F.E.S. Finn, editor, Poems of the Sixties
- Howard Sergeant, editor, Poetry of the 1940s
- A.R. Ammons, Uplands
- John Ashbery, The Double Dream of Spring
- Paul Blackburn:
- The Assassination of President McKinley
- Three Dreams and an Old Poem
- Gin: Four Journal Pieces
- Louise Bogan, A Poet's Alphabet
- Philip Booth, Margins
- Stanley Burnshaw, The Seamless Web
- Gwendolyn Brooks, Family Pictures
- Raymond Carver, Winter Insomnia
- Clark Coolidge, Space, Harper & Row
- L. Sprague deCamp, Demons and Dinosaurs
- James Dickey, The Eye-Beaters, Blood, Victory, Madness, Buckhead and Mercy
- Ed Dorn:
- Michael S. Harper , Dear John, Dear Coultrane,[7] nominated for the National Book Award[7]
- John Hollander, Images of Voice, criticism
- David Ignatow, Poems: 1934-1969
- LeRoi Jones, It's Nation Time
- Shirley Kaufman, the Floor Keeps Turning
- Denise Levertov, Relearning the Alphabet
- William Meredith, Earth Walk
- W.S. Merwin, The Carrier of Ladders
- Lorine Niedecker, My Life by Water: Collected Poems, 1936-1968 (Fulcrum Press)
- Michael Ondaatje, The Collected Works of Billy the Kid
- Ezra Pound's Drafts and Fragments of Cantos CX to CXVII
- Mark Strand, Darker
- May Swenson, Iconographs
- Mona Van Duyn, To See, To Take
- Reed Whittemore, Fifty Poems Fifty
- William Carlos Williams, Imaginations (posthumous)
[edit] Works published in other languages
[edit] French language
- Paul Celan, Lichtzwang (Romanian, writing in German)
[edit] Portuguese language
[edit] Brazil
[edit] Spanish language
- Julio Cortázar, Último round, miscellany of stories, poems, essays and collage games (Argentina)
- Alberto Girri, Antología temática (Argentina)
- Alberto Vanasco, Canto rodado (Argentina)
- I. López Vallecillo, Puro asombro (El Salvador)
- Ernesto Cardenal, Salmos (Nicaragua)
- R. Fernández Retamar, Que veremos arder (Cuba)
- Nicanor Parra, Obra gruesa (Chile)
- Enrique Lihn, La musiquilla de las pobres esferas (Chile)
[edit] Israel
[edit] United States
[edit] Elsewhere
[edit] Awards and honors
[edit] Soviet Union
[edit] Births
[edit] Deaths
- January 10 — Charles Olson, 59, of cancer
- February 4 — Louise Bogan, 72
- February 19 — Edsel Ford, 41
- March 29 — Vera Brittain, novelist and poet
- approximately April 20 — Paul Celan, 49, Romanian-born poet who wrote in German and became a French citizen, from suicide
- May 12 — Nelly Sachs (born 1891), German-Swedish poet and dramatist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1966
- June 2 — Giuseppe Ungaretti, 82, Italian
- June 18 — Nicholaas Petrus Van Wyk Louw, 64, South African Afrikaans poet and critic
- December 31 — Lorine Niedecker
- Date not known:
[edit] Notes and references
- ^ 1971 Britannica Book of the Year, covering events of 1970, published by The Encyclopaedia Britannica (1971), "Literature" article, "Canada" section, "French Language" subsection, page 457
- ^ 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
- ^ a b Web page titled "Archive: Michael Ondaatje (1943- )" at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed May 7, 2008
- ^ Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "New Zealand Poetry" article, "History and Criticism" section, p 837
- ^ 1971 Britannica Book of the Year (covering events of 1970), 1971, published by the Encyclopaedia Britannica, "Literature" article, "English" section, "Poetry" subsection, page 460
- ^ a b Web page titled "Archive / Edward Dorn (1929-1999)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved May 8, 2008
- ^ a b Web page titled "Michael S. Harper" at the Academy of American poets website, accessed April 23, 2008
- ^ a b c 1971 Britannica Book of the Year (covering events of 1970), 1971, published by the Encyclopaedia Britannica, this is as much information about the book as is given in the "Literature" article, "Danish" subsection, page 456
- ^ 1971 Britannica Book of the Year, covering events of 1970 (1970), "Literature" article, "Latin American" section, page 466
- ^ 1971 Britannica Book of the Year, covering events of 1970, published by the Encyclopaedia Britannica (1971), "Literature" article, "Soviet" section, page 469, the exact name of the book, even in translation, was not given
- ^ "Victoria Chang (1970 - )" at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed April 24, 2008
- 1971 Britannica Book of the Year (covering events of 1970), "Literature" article and "Obituaries of 1970" article; source of many of the books in the "Works published" list and some deaths.
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