1973 in poetry

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Events

* Canadian poet and author, Michael Ondaatje adapts his 1970 book of poetry, "The Collected Works of Billy the Kid", into a play which this year is first produced in Stratford, Ontario; it will appear in New York in 1974 and in London, England in 1984.Web page titled [http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=5142 "Archive: Michael Ondaatje (1943- )"] at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed May 7, 2008]

Works published in English

=Australia=

* John Tranter:
** "Red Movie and other poems", Angus & Robertson
** "The Blast Area", Gargoyle Poets number 13, Makar Press
* Chris Wallace-Crabbe:
** "Selected Poems", Sydney: Angus & Robertson
** Vinyl record: "Chris Wallace-Crabbe Reads From His Own Verse", St.Lucia

=Canada=

* Shirley Gibson, "I Am Watching"
* Irving Layton, "Lovers and lesser Men"
* Eli Mandel, "Crusoe: Poems Selected and New"
* John Metcalf, editor, "The Speaking Earth", anthology
* Michael Ondaatje, "Rat Jelly", Toronto: Coach House PressWeb page titled [http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=5142 "Archive: Michael Ondaatje (1943- )"] at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed May 7, 2008]
* Al Purdy, "Sex and Death"
* F.R. Scott, "The Dance Is One"

New Zealand

* James K. Baxter, "Two Obscene Poems", posthumous,
* Alan Brunton, "Messengers in Blackface", work by a New Zealand poet published in the United Kingdom [Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, "The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature", 1998, pp. 75-76, "Alan Brunton" article by Peter Simpson]
* Allen Curnow, "An Abominable Temper & Other Poems" [ [http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/writers/curnowa.html Allen Curnow Web page] at the New Zealand Book Council website, accessed April 21, 2008]
* Winston Curnow, editor, "Essays on New Zealand Literature", Auckland: Heinemann Educational Books (scholarship) [ [http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/subjects/nzp/nzlit2/bethell.htm Web page titled "Ursula Bethell / New Zealand Literature File"] at the University of Aukland Library website, accessed April 30, 2008]
* Keith Sinclair, "The Firewheel Tree"

=United Kingdom=

* Dannie Abse, "Funland and Other Poems"
* Martin Booth, "Coronis", including the long poem, "On the Death of Archdeacon Broix"
* Edwin Brock, a book of poetry"Literature" article, "Britannica Book of the Year 1974", covering events of 1973, published in 1974, pages 425-442, the article provides no information on this book's title]
* Alan Brunton, "Messengers in Blackface", work by a New Zealand poet published in the United Kingdom [Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, "The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature", 1998, pp. 75-76, "Alan Brunton" article by Peter Simpson]
* Cal Clothier, "Behind Heslington Hall"
* Tony Curtis, "Walk Down a Welsh Wind"
* Patric Dickinson, a book of poetry
* D. J. Enright, "The Terrible Shears"
* Elaine Feinstein, "The Celebrants and Other Poems", Hutchinson
* Michael Fried, "Powers"
* Geoffrey Holloway, "To Have Eyes"
* Paul Muldoon, "New Weather"
* Geoffrey Grigson, a book of poetry
* Seamus Heaney, a book of poetry
* Thomas Kinsella, a book of poetry
* Brian Patten, a book of poetry
* Peter Redgrove, a book of poetry
* Anne Ridler, a book of poetry
* Michael Schmidt, "It Was My Tree"
* Sydney Tremayne, "Selected and new Poems"
* Derek Walcott, "Another Life"

Anthologies

* Philip Larkin, "The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse" anthology of poets from the British Isles or who spent time there, ISBN 0-19-812137-7
* Jon Silkin, editor, "Poetry of the Committeed Individual"
* John Bishop and Virginia Broadbent, editors, "London Between the Lines"
* Howard Sergeant, editor, "African Voices"

United States

* Frank Bidart, "Golden State"
* Robert Bly, "Sleepers Joining Hands"
* Joseph Brodsky: "Poems", Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ardis [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
* Victor Hernandez Cruz, "Mainland"
* Irving Feldman, "Lost Originals"
* Lawrence Ferlinghetti, "Open Eye, Open Heart"
* Allen Ginsberg, "The Fall of America"
* John Logan, "The Anonymous Lover", including "New Poem" and "Heart to Heart Talk with My Liver"
* Robert Lowell:
** "The Dolphin", containing 103 new poems
** "History", containing 360 poems, including more than 80 new ones and many revised
** "For Lizzie and Harriet", 67 old poems, all revised
* Adrienne Rich, "Rape"
* Muriel Rukeyser, "Breaking Open"
* Patti Smith, "Witt"
* W.S. Merwin, "Writings to an Unfinished Accompaniment"
* Joyce Carol Oates, "Angel Fire"
* Alice Walker, "Revolutionary Petunias and Other Poems"

Works published in other languages

French language

=Canada=

* Michel Bealieu:
** "Variables"
** "Pulsions"
* Yves-Gabriel Brunet, "Poésies I", collected poems from 1958 to 1962
* Gilles Constantineau, "Nouveaux Poèmes"
* Roland Giguère, "La Main au feu", collected poems from 1949 to 1968
* Gilbert Langevin:
** "Les Ecrits de Zéro Legel"
** "Novembre"
* Raymond LeBlanc, "Cri de terre"
* Luc Racine, "Le Pays saint"

=France=

* George es-Emmanuel clancier, "Peut-Être une demeure"
* Philippe Soupault, "Poèmes et poésies"
* François Pradelle, "Les Naïves Amours"
* Jean Loisy, "Le Double Jeu"
* Katia Granoff "Méditerranée"
* Pierrette Sartin, "Le Destin accepté"
* Denis Roche, "Le Mécrit"
* Michel Deguy, "Tombeau de Du Bellay"

German language

East Germany

* Wolf Biermann, a communist living in East Germany, he could only publish these works in the West:
** "Für meine Genossen"
** "Deutschland: ein Wintermärchen", long satirical poem on the division of Germany

West Germany, Austria, Switzerland

* Peter Huchel, "Gezähte Tage"
* Marie Luise Kaschnitz, "Kein Zauberspruch"
* Eric Fried, "Die Freiheit den Mund aufzumachen"
* Günter Herburger, "Operette"
* J. P. Stössel, "Friedenserklärung"

=Italy=

* "Almanacco dello Specchio" for 1973, an anthology of poetry, including translated poetry
* Franco Fortini, "Questo muro", collected poems from 1962 to 1972
* Pier Paolo Pasolini, "Trasumanar e organizzar"
* Libero De Libero, "Scempio e lusinga", collected poems written from 1930 to 1956
* Marino Moretti, "Le poverazze"

Russian poetry

* M. Bazhan, "The Spark" from "Uman Recollections" (translated into Russian from Ukrainian), 1973"Britannica Book of the Year 1975", published by "The Encyclopaedia Britannica", 1975, "Literature" article, "Russian" section, "Soviet Literature" subsection, page 465; although the book is for "Events of 1974" the article specifically cites each of these works as published in Russian in 1973]
* P. Brovka, "We Are Children of One Mother" (translated into Russian from Belarusian)
* B. Istru, "Pain of a Shadow" (translated into Russian from Moldavian)
* R. Margiani, "From the Book of Brotherhood" (translated into Russian from Georgian)
* S. Orlov, "Loyalty"

panish language

* Matilde Camus, "Bestiario poético" (Poetic Book of animals)

=Latin America=

* Alvaro Mutis, "Summa de magroll el Gaviero" (Colombia)
* José Miguel Oviedo, "Estos trece"
* Ernesto Cardenal, "Canto nacional" (Nicaragua)
* Ulalume González de León, "Plagio" (Uruguay)
* Enrique Fierro, "Mutaciones" (Uruguay)
* José Emilio Pacheco, "Irás y no volverás" (Mexico)
* Gabriel Zaid,"Práctica mortal" (Mexico)
* José Carlos Becerra, "El otoño recorre las islas", collected poetry from 1960 to 1970, edited by José Emilio Pacheco and Gabriel Zaid

Other

* Odysseus Elytis, "The Trills Of Love (Τα Ρω του Έρωτα)" (Greece)

Awards and honors

English language

=Canada=

* See 1973 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

=United Kingdom=

* Cholmondeley Award: Patric Dickinson, Philip Larkin
* Eric Gregory Award: John Beynon, Ian Caws, James Fenton, Keith Harris, David Howarth, Philip Pacey
* Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: John Heath-Stubbs

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"): Daniel Hoffman appointed this year.
* American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in Poetry, John Crowe Ransom
* Bollingen Prize: James Merrill
* National Book Award for Poetry: A. R. Ammons, "Collected Poems, 1951-1971"
* Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Maxine Kumin, "Up Country"
* Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: W. S. Merwin

French language

=France=

* Max Jacob prize: Hubert Juin for "Le Cinquième Poème"
* Guillaume Apollinaire prize: Marc Alyn
* Grand Priz of the French Academy: André Frénaud
* Grand Aigle d'Or: Eugène Guillevic

Births

* date not known:
** Ben Doyle
** Sonnet L'Abbé, Canadian poet
** Paul Vermeersch, Canadian poet

Deaths

* March 26 — Noël Coward, 73, English actor, playwright, poet and composer of popular music, of a heart attack
* May 20 — Charles Brasch, 63, New Zealand poet, literary editor, and arts patron
* June 4 — Arna Bontemps, 70, American poet and member of the Harlem Renaissance, of a heart attack
* August 17, Conrad Aiken, 84, of a heart attack
* September 2 — J.R.R. Tolkien, 81, poet, author and academic
* September 23 — Pablo Neruda, 69, Chilean writer, poet and Communist politician, from leukemia
* September 28 — W. H. Auden, 66, English poet, often cited as one of the most influential of the century
* October 17 — Ingeborg Bachmann (born 1926) Austrian poet and author
* November 22 — Ramon Guthrie, 77,
* November 23 — Francis Webb, 48, Australian poet
* date not known — Kenneth Allott, Welsh poet, academic, and authority on Matthew Arnold

Notes

ee also

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