1974 in poetry

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Events

*The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics is founded by Allen Ginsberg and Anne Waldman.
* October 4, When Ann Sexton was having lunch with her friend, fellow poet and collaborator Maxine Kumin to review Sexton's most recent book, "The Awful Rowing Toward God", without a note or any warning, Sexton went in to her garage, started the ignition of her car, and died of carbon monoxide poisoning.
* The dictatorship in Greece falls; exiled poets, authors and intellectuals return to the country to publish there.
* The dictatorship in Portugal falls in April; in the six months prior, with increasing repression and a discouraging atmosphere, little new work is published; yet later in the year, not much new poetry is published either as "writers who had based their style on censor-proof allusiveness and their themes on protest would now have to do some retooling". ["Britannica Book of the Year 1975" ("for events of 1974"), published by "The Encyclopaedia Britannica" 1975; "Literature" article, "Portuguese" section, "Portugal" subsection, by Stephen Reckert, page 464]

Works published in English

=Canada=

* George Bowering, "In the Flesh"
* A.M. Klein, "The Collected Poems of A.M. Klein"
* Patrick Lane, "Beware the Months of Fire"
* P.K. Page, "Poems Selected and New"
* Annie Szumigalski, "Woman Reading in the Bath"
* George Woodcock, editor, "Poets and Critics: Essays from Canadian Literature 1966-1974", Toronto: Oxford University Press, scholarship [ [http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/anarchist_Archives/bright/woodcock/woodbiblio.html 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]

New Zealand

* Fleur Adcock, "The Scenic Route", London and New York: Oxford University Press (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963) [http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/subjects/nzp/nzlit2/adcock.htm Web page titled "Fleur Adcock: New Zealand Literature File"] at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, 2008]
* James K. Baxter, posthumous:
** "The Tree House", poems for children
** "The Labyrinth: Some Uncollected Poems 1944–72", edited by J. E. Weir
* Charles Brasch: "Home Ground: Poems", Christchurch: Caxton Press (published posthumously) [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]
* Allen Curnow, "Collected Poems 1933–73" [ [http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/writers/curnowa.html Allen Curnow Web page] at the New Zealand Book Council website, accessed April 21, 2008]
* Kendrick Smithyman, "The Seal in the Dolphin Pool", Auckland: Auckland University Press and Oxford University Press
* Ian Wedde, "Made Over"

=United Kingdom=

* W. H. Auden, "Thank You, Fog" (posthumous)
* Alasdair Clayre, "A Fire by the Sea"
* Odysseas Elytis, two English translations: "The Axion Esti" (trans. Edmund Keeley and G. Savidis) and "The Sovereign Sun" (trans. Kinom Friar)
* William R. P. George - "Grawn Medi"
* Karen Gershon, "My Daughters, My Sisters"
* Robin Hamilton, "Poems"
* John Heath-Stubbs, "Artorius: A Heroic Poem in Four Books and Eight Episodes"
* David Jones, "The Sleeping Lord and Other Fragments"
* Susanne Knowles, "The Sea-Bell and Other Poems"
* Philip Larkin, "High Windows"
* Edward Lucie-Smith, "The Well-Wishers"
* John Montague, editor, "The Faber Book of Irish Verse" anthology (Faber and Faber)
* Richard Murphy, "High Island"
* John Pudney, "Selected Poems, 1967-1973"
* Richard Ryan, "Ravenswood"
* Jon Silkin, "the Principle of Water"
* Joan Murray Simpson, "In High Places"
* C. H. Sisson, "In the Trojan Ditch", collected poems and selected translations
* Iain Crichton Smith, "Notebooks of Robinson Crusoe"
* John Stallworthy, "The Apple Barrel"
* R. S. Thomas:
** "Selected Poems, 1946-1968"
** "What is a Welshman?"
* Anthony Thwaite, "New Confessions"
* Andrew Young, "Complete Poems" (posthumous)

United States

* Ai, "Cruelty"
* A.R. Ammons, "Sphere: The Form of a Motion"
* Ted Berrigan, "The Drunken Boat"
* Ed Dorn:
** "Recollections of Gran Apacheria", Turtle IslandWeb page titled [http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=1837"Archive / Edward Dorn (1929-1999)"] at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved May 8, 2008]
** "Slinger" (contains "Gunslinger", Books I-IV and "The Cycle"), Wingbow Press
* Jill Hoffman, "Mink Coat"
* Galway Kinnell, "The Avenue Bearing the Initial of Christ into the New World"
* Judith Kroll, "In the Temperate Zone"
* James Merrill: "Lost in Translation", one of the most studied and celebrated of his shorter works, was originally published in The New Yorker magazine on April 8, and published in his 1976 book "Divine Comedies".
* Michael Palmer, "The Circular Gates" (Black Sparrow Press)
* Charles Reznikoff, "By the Well of Living & Seeing: New & Selected Poems 1918-1973"
* Michael Ryan, "Threats Instead of Trees" (Yale University Press)
* Anne Sexton, "The Death Notebooks"
* Gary Snyder, "Turtle Island"
* Reed Whittemore, "The Mother's Breast and the Father's House"

Other

* Robert Gray, "Creekwater Journal" Australia
* Christopher Hope, "Cape Drives" (South Africa)
* Les Murray, "Lunch and Counter Lunch", Australia [http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoet.do?poetId=216] Les Murray Web page at The Poetry Archive Web site, accessed October 15, 2007]

;In translation
* Ernesto Cardenal, translated from Spanish, "Homage to the American Indians"
* César Vallejo, translated from Spanish by David Smith, "Trilce"
* Padilla, translated from Spanish by J. M. Cohen, "Fuera del juego" (English title: "Sent off the Field")

Works published in other languages

=Denmark=

* Poul Borum, "Sang til dagens glæde"
* Jørgen Gustava Brandt, "Her omkring"
* Vagn Steen, "Fuglens flugt i halvkrystal"

French language

* Andrée Sodenkamp "La Fête debout" (Belgium)

=France=

* Michel Béguey, "Par des chemins secrets"
* Maurice Courant, "O toi que le vent glace"
* Pierre Emmanuel, "Sophia"
* Claude Fourcade, "Le Florilège poétique"
* Eugène Guillevic, "encoches"
* Patrice de La Tour du Pin, "Psaumes de tous mes temps"
* Jean Lebrau, "Singles"
* Jean-Claude Renard, "Le Dieu de nuit"
* Robert Mallet, "Quand le mirior s'etonne"
* Pierre Menanteau, "Capitale du souvenir"

Criticism, scholarship and biography in France

* Jean Follain, "Collège", memoirs
* Pierre Segher, "La Résistance et ses poètes"

=Canada=

* Rémi-Paul Forgue, "Poèmes du vent et des ombres"
* Michel Garneau, "Moments"

German language

West Germany

* Jürgen Becker, "Das Ende der Landschaftsmalerei"
* Erich Fried, "Gegengift"
* Hermann Kesten, "Ich bin der ich bin"

=Hebrew=

* N. Alterman, "Regayim" (posthumous)
* T. Carmi, "Hitnatzlut ha-Mechaber"
* Haim Gouri, "Mar`ot Gihazi" ("Gehazi Visions"), Israel [ [http://www.ithl.org.il/author_info.asp?id=101] Web page titled "Haim Gouri" at the Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature Web site, accessed October 6, 2007]
* Y. Lerner, "Shirim"
* N. Sach, "Mivhar"
* H. Schimmel, "Shirai Malon Zion"
* A Shllonsky, "Sefer ha-Sulamot" (posthumous)
* N. Stern, "Bain Arpilim"
* M. Wieseltier, "Kach"

Portuguese language

Brazil

* Francisco Alvim, "Passatempo"
* Geraldo Carneiro, "Na Busca do Sete-Estrelo"
* Ledo Ivo, "O Sinal Semafórico" (posthumous)
* Stella Leonardos:
** "Amanhecéncia
** "Romançário"
* Ariano Suassuna, "A Farsa da Boa Preguiça"

=Portugal=

* Fiama Brandão, collected verse, with additions
* Fernando Echevarria, "A Base e o Timbre"
* Egito Gonçalves, "Destruição: Dois Pontos"
* Herberto Helder, collected poems to dateStephen Reckert, "Portugal" subsection (page 464) of "Portuguese" section of "Literature" article in "The Britannica Book of the Year 1975" (for events of 1974), published by "The Encyclopaedia Britannica"; this was as much information as was given in the article]
* Jorge de Sena, "Conheço o Sal"
* Pedro Támen, "Os 42 Sonetos"

Russian

* M. Kanoatov, "The Voice of Stalingrad" (translated into Russian from Tajik), 1973
* M. Lukonin, "Frontline Verse"
* L. Tatyanichev, "The Honey Season"

=Sweden=

* Reidar Ekner, "Efter flera tusen rad"
* Lars Forssell, "Det möjiliga"
* G. Harding and R. Aggestam, editors, "Tjugo unga poeter", an anthology of modern poetry
* Lars Norén, "Dagliga och nattliga dikter"
* Tomas Tranströmer, "Östersjöar"

=Yiddish=

* Pinche Berman, "Love"
* Moshe Brodersohn, "The Last Song" (posthumous)
* Meir Charatz:
** "Heaven and Earth"
** "In Strange Paradise"
* Eliezer Greenberg, "Memorabilia"
* Shifrah Kholodenko, "The Word"
* Rachel Kramf, "Clouds Wish to Cry"
* Saul Maltz, "Poems of My Profound Belief"
* Joseph Mlotek and Eleanor Mlotek, editors, "Pearls from Yiddish Poetry" (anthology), poems printed in the Sunday editions of the New York "Jewish Daily Forward"
* Roza Nevadovska, "Poems of Mine" (posthumous)
* Hillel Shargel, "A Window to Heaven"
* Abraham Sutzkever, "The Fidlerose"
* Malka H. Tuzman, "Under Your Mark"
* Freed Weininger, "In the Wide Outside"
* Isaac Yanosovich, "The Other Side of Wonder"
* Hersh Leib Young, "In the Astral Spheres"

panish Language

=Spain=

* Vicente Aleixandre, "Diálogos del conocimiento"
* Matilde Camus, "Templo del Alba" ("Temple of Dawn")

=Latin America=

* Pablo Neruda:
** "La rosa separada"
** "Jardín de invierno"
** "Defectos escogidos"
** "2000 El corazón amarillo"
** "Libro de las preguntas"
** "Elegía"
** "El mar y las campanas"
* Efraín Huerta, "Los eróticos y otros poemas" (Mexico)
* Elvio Romero, "Antología poética 1947-73", second edition (Paraguay)
* Luis Cardoza y Aragón, "Quinta estación"

Other

* Odysseas Elytis, "Τα Ετεροθαλή" ("Step-Poems") Greece

Awards and honors

=Canada=

* See 1974 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

=United Kingdom=

* Cholmondeley Award: D.J. Enright, Vernon Scannell, Alasdair Maclean
* Eric Gregory Award: Duncan Forbes, Roger Garfitt, Robin Hamilton, Frank Ormsby, Penelope Shuttle
* Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Ted Hughes

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"): Stanley Kunitz appointed this year.
* Frost Medal: John Hall Wheelock
* National Book Award for Poetry, Allen Ginsberg, "The Fall of America: Poems of these States, 1965-1971" and Adrienne Rich, "Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971-1972"
* Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Robert Lowell, "The Dolphin"
* Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Léonie Adams

French language

=France=

* French Academy: Grand Prix de la Poésie: Philippe Soupault

Births

* William Allegrezza

Deaths

* January 20 - Edmund Blunden, English poet, author and critic
* March 19 - Austin Clarke, Irish poet, novelist and playwright
* June 9 — Miguel Ángel Asturias, 74, Guatemalan poet, author, writer, journalist and diplomat
* July 5 - John Crowe Ransom, 86
* July 11 — Pär Lagerkvist, 83, Swedish poet, author, playwright, writer and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1951
* July 24 - Tyler Parker, 70
* August 22 - Jacob Bronowski, at 66
* September 6 - Julian Davis, 72
* October 4 - Anne Sexton, 45, American poet, of suicide;
* October 28 - David Jones, 78, English poet and artist
* Date not known:
** Eric Roach
** Kostas Varnalis, Greek

Notes

* "Britannica Book of the Year 1975" ("for events of 1974"), published by "Encyclopaedia Britannica" 1975 (source of many items in "Works published" section and rarely in other sections)

ee also

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

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