1980 in poetry

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Events

* Mark Jarman and Robert McDowell started the small magazine "The Reaper" to promote narrative and formal poetry.
* Conjunctions literary magazine gets its start one afternoon late this year when founding editor Bradford Morrow sits in Beat poet Kenneth Rexroth's library in Santa Barbara, California talking over the idea of assembling a publication to celebrate James Laughlin, editor of New Directions. Poets solicited for the publication promised to send in work for future issues of the magazine, not realizing that no magazine was planned. Morrow then started the magazine, financing the first few issues himself.
* Three new Hebrew literary journals appear this year in Israel: "Mahbarot", edited by Y. Kenaz, "Rosh" a poetry journal edited by O. Bartena, and "Hazerem hehadash", founded by a group of young ex-soldiers.

Works published in English

Canada

* Roo Borson (American-Canadian):
** "In the Smoky Light of the Fields", ISBN 0-88823-024-9
** "Rain", ISBN 0-920806-19-8
* Fred Cogswell, "A Long Apprenticeship"
* Ralph Gustafson, "Landscape with Rain"
* Dorothy Farmiloe, "Words for My Weeping Daughter"
* Gail Fox, "In Search of Living Things"
* Raymond Souster, "Collected Poems, Volume 1 (1940-55)" (first of a projected four-volume collection)
* Andrew Suknaski, "Montage for an Interstellar Cry"
* Anne Szumigalski, "A Game of Angels"
* Tom Wayman, "Living on the Ground: Tom Wayman Country", including "Garrison", first prize-winner of the U.S. Bicentennial poetry competition

New Zealand

* James K. Baxter, "Collected Poems", posthumous
* Charles Brasch, "Indirections: a Memoir, 1909-1947", Wellington ; New York: Oxford University Press, autobiography [http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/subjects/nzp/nzlit2/brasch.htm Web page titled "Charles Brasch: New Zealand Literature File"] at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, [2008]
* Alistair Campbell, "The Dark Lord of Savaiki: Collected Poems", Christchurch: Hazard Press
* Lauris Edmond:
**"Wellington Letter: A Sequence of Poems"Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, "The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature", 1998, "Lauris Edmond" article]
**"Seven: Poems"
**"Salt from the North"
* W. H. Oliver, "Out of Season: Poems", Wellington; New York: Oxford University Press, New Zealand
* Alistair Patterson, editor, "Fifteen Contemporary New Zealand Poets", anthologyPreminger, 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, "Anthologies" section, p 837]
* Ian Wedde, "Castaly: Poems 1973–1977"

United Kingdom

* Lawrence Durrell, "Collected Poems: 1931–1974" edited by James A. Brigham
* Elaine Feinstein, "The Feast of Eurydice", Faber & Faber/Next Editions
* James Fenton, "A German Requiem: A Poem", Salamander Press, a pamphlet, [http://www.jamesfenton.com/books/] Web page titled "Books by Fenton" at the James Fenton Web site, accessed October 11, 2007]
* Seamus Heaney, "Selected Poems 1965-1975", Faber & Faber
* Derek Walcott, "The Star-Apple Kingdom"

Anthologies in the United Kingdom

* D. J. Enright, editor, "The Oxford Book of Contemporary Verse"
* Blake Morrison, editor, "The Movement"
* Charles Tomlinson, editor, "The Oxford Book of Verse in English translation"
* Geoffrey Grigson, editor, "Oxford Book of Satirical Verse"
* Gavin Ewart, editor, "Penguin Book of Light Verse"
* Valentine Cunningham, editor, "Penguin Book of Spanish Civil War Verse"

United States

* A.R. Ammons, "Selected Longer Poems"
* Ted Berrigan:
** "So Going Around Cities: New & Selected Poems" (ISBN 0-912652-61-6)
** "Carrying a Torch"
* Joseph Brodsky: "A Part of Speech", New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux [http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1987/brodsky-bibl.html] Web page titled "Joseph Brodsky / Nobel Prize in Literature 1987 / Bibliography" at the "Official Web Site of the Nobel Foundation", accessed October 18, 2007] Russian-American
* Lucille Clifton, "Two-Headed Woman"
* George F. Butterick and Richard Blevins, editors, "Charles Olson and Robert Creeley: The Complete Correspondence", first volume published this year (ninth and last volume published in 1990), Santa Barbara, CaliforniaEverett, Nicholas, [http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/creeley/life.htm "Robert Creeley's Life and Career"] at the "Modern American Poetry" website, accessed May 1, 2008]
* Billy Collins, "Video Poems"
* James McMichael, "Four Good Things"
* James Merrill, "Scripts for the Pageant"
* Molly Peacock, "And Live Apart"
* James Schuyler, "The Morning of the Poem"
* Rosmarie Waldrop, "When They Have Senses" (Burning Deck Press)
* Philip Whalen, "Enough Said" (Grey Fox Press)

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States

* Justin Kaplan, "Walt Whitman" (biography)
* Lew Welch, "I Remain" (letters; Grey Fox Press), posthumous

Other in English

* Jayanta Mahapatra, India:
** "The False Start" [http://www.orissagateway.com/features/Arts_and_Architecture/Art/Literature/Poets/Jayanta_Mohapatra/] Jayata Mahapatra Web page at the Orissa Gateway Web site, accessed October 16, 2007] Bombay: Clearing House
** "Relationship"
* Philip Salom: "The Silent Piano". (Fremantle Arts Centre) ISBN 978-0-909144-31-9, Australia
* Chris Wallace-Crabbe, editor, "The Golden Apples of the Sun: Twentieth Century Australian Poetry", Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, anthology

Works published in other languages

German language

West Germany

* Ernst Jandl, "Der gelbe Hund"
* Johanna Moosdorf, "Sieben Jahr sieben Tag"
* W. Schubert and K. H. Höfer, editors, "Ansichten über Lyrik", anthology, poems and prose since OpitzPreminger, 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, "Anthologies in German" section, pp 473-474]

East German exiles

* Roger Loewig, "Ein Vogel bin ich ohne Flügel"
* Thomas Brasch, "Der Schöne 27. September"
* Günter Kunert, "Abtötungsverfahren"

=Hebrew=

* Natan Sach, "Tsfonit misrahit"
* Dan Pagis, editor, an anthology of medieval Hebrew love poetry
* "Mavet ve' ahava", an anthology of Egyptian poetry in Hebrew translation

=Italian=

* Piero Bigongiari, "Moses"
* Edoardo Sanguineti, "Stracciafoglio"
* Antonio Porta, "Passi passaggi"
* Maurizio Cucchi, "Le meraviglie dell'acqua"
* Ugo Reale, "Il cerchio d'ombra"

=Portuguese language=

=Portugal=

* Mário Cláudio, "Estáncias"
* Mário Cesariny de Vasconcelos, "Primavera Autónomia das Estradas"

Brazilian

* Carlos Drummond de Andrade, "Esquecer para lembrar" (the third volume of his poetic autobiography)
* Mário Chamie
* Astrid Cabral
* Liane dos Santos
* Tarik de Sousa
* Dante de Milano, complete poems
* Paulo Mendes Campos, complete poems
* Afonso Félix de Sousa, book of poems

Russia

* Aleksandr Blok (1880–1921), much of his poetry was republished in this year, his centenary, including a six-volume edition of his collected works and "Blok in the Reminiscences of Contemporaries"

=Spanish language=

pain

* Matilde Camus, "Perfiles" ("Profiles")
* Antonio Colinas, "Astrolabio"
* Leopoldo Azancot, "La novia judia"

=Yiddish=

* Leyzer Aichenrand of Switzerland, "Landscape of Fate"

Other

=Denmark=

* Klaus Rifbjerg, "Livsfrisen"

=Norway=

* Ernst Orvil, "Nær nok" (Norwegian)
* Harald Sverdrup, "Fugleskremsel" (Norwegian)
* Marie Takvam, "Falle og reise seg att" (Norwegian)

=Sweden=

* Lars Forssell, "Stenar"
* Ylva Eggehorn, "Hjärtats Knytnãvsslag"
* Tobias Berggren, "Threnos"
* Begt Emil Johnson, "Vinterminne"

Awards and honors

* Nobel Prize in Literature: Czeslaw Milosz, Polish poet, translator, literary critic, and (since 1951) exile.

Australia

* Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: David Campbell, "Man in the Honeysuckle"

=Canada=

* See 1980 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

=United Kingdom=

* Cholmondeley Award: George Barker, Terence Tiller, Roy Fuller
* Eric Gregory Award: Robert Minhinnick, Michael Hulse, Blake Morrison, Medbh McGuckian

United States

* Academy of American Poets Fellowship: Mona Van Duyn
* Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Donald Justice, "Selected Poems" (April 14)
* American Academy of Arts and Letters: John Ashbery elected a member of the Literature Department
* Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Mona Van Duyn

=Spanish=

* Premios de la Crítica awards in poetry:
** Castilian: Luis Rosales, "Diario de una resurrección"
** Catalan: Miquel Martí i Pol, "Estimada Marta"
** Galician: Eduardo Moreiras, "O libro dos mortos"
** Basque: Juan Mari Lekuona, "Ilargiaren eskolan"

Deaths

* January 3 — G. S. Fraser, poet and critic,
* February 12 — Muriel Rukeyser, 66, American, of a heart attack
* February 25 — Robert Hayden, 66, poet, essayist, and educator, of a heart ailment
* March 25 — James Wright, 52, of cancer
* March 31 — Vladimir Holan, 74, Czech
* August 9 — Denis Glover (born 1911) New Zealand poet and publisher
* November 21 — A.J.M. Smith, Canadian
* November 28 — Julia Reynolds, 98

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)

ee also

* Poetry
* List of years in poetry
* List of poetry awards