Overview of the events of 1972 in poetry
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Overview of the events of 1972 in poetry
Poet Robert Creeley in 1972
Works published in English
Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:
Earle Birney , Judith Copithorne , Andrew Suknaski , bill bissett , Four Parts Sand a selection of works by these concrete poetsLeonard Cohen , The Energy of Slaves David Helwig , The Best Name of Silence George Johnston , Happy Enough: Poems 1935–1972 .[4] Dennis Lee , Civil Elegies and Other Poems . Toronto: Anansi.[5] Kenneth Leslie , O'Malley to the Reds And Other Poems. Halifax: By the Author.[6] Dorothy Livesay , Collected Poems: The Two Seasons . Toronto: Mcgraw-Hill Ryerson.[7] Gwendolyn MacEwen :
Don McKay , Moccasins on Concrete: Poems (Canada )James Reaney , Poems .Charles Sangster , The St Lawrence and the Saguenay and other poems; Hesperus and other poems and lyrics , intro. Gordon Johnston (Toronto: University of Toronto Press and Buffalo, N.Y.)[9] Raymond Souster , Selected Poems of Raymond Souster . Michael Maklem ed. Ottawa: Oberon Press.[10] Wilfred Watson , The Sorrowful Canadians Meena Alexander , Without Place , Calcutta : Writers Workshop , India .[11] Ruskin Bond , It isn't Time That's Passing: Poems, 1970–71 , Calcutta : Writers Workshop , India .[11] Margaret Chatterjee, The Sandalwood Tree , Calcutta : Writers Workshop , India[11]
Dilip Chitre , Ambulance Ride ,[12] Gauri Deshpande , Beyond the Slaughter House , Calcutta : Writers Workshop , India[11] Shree Devi , Shades of Green , Calcutta : Writers Workshop , India[11] Mary Vasanti Erulkar, Mandala 2/5 , Calcutta : Writers Workshop , India[11]
Samir Das Gupta, Paling Shadows , Calcutta: Writers Workshop , India[11]
Nandita Haksar, Ego and Other Poems , Delhi: Orient Longman[11]
Gopal R. Honnalgere, A Gesture of Fleshless Sound , Calcutta : Writers Workshop , India .[11]
Dilip Kumar Roy , Hark! His Flute! , Poona: Hari Krishna Mandir[13] Syed Ameerudin:
Pritish Nandy , editor, Indian Poetry in English , anthology[14] Saleem Peerandina (ed.), Contemporary Indian Poetry in English: An Assessment and Selection , Madras: Macmillan India Ltd.[15] Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin , Acts and Monuments , Dublin: The Gallery Press[16] Seamus Heaney , Wintering Out United Kingdom Pearse Hutchinson , Watching the Morning Grow , including "Sometimes Feel", Gallery Press[17] Thomas Kinsella , Notes from the Land of the Dead [18] United Kingdom Derek Mahon , Lives. Oxford University Press, Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom John Montague , The Rough Field W. R. Rodgers , Collected Poems , Northern Ireland poet, published in the United Kingdom ; posthumousJames K. Baxter :
Autumn Testament , not posthumousStonegut Sugar Works, Junkies and the Fuzz, Ode to Auckland, and Other Poems , posthumousAlistair Campbell , Kapiti : Selected Poems 1947-71 . Christchurch: Pegasus PressAllen Curnow , Trees, Effigies, Moving Objects [19] Bill Manhire , The Elaboration Kendrick Smithyman , Earthquake Weather J. R. Ackerley (died 1967 ), Micheldever and Other Poems James Aitchison, Sounds Before Sleep
Anne Beresford, Footsteps
Martin Booth , The Crying Embers Alan Brownjohn , Warrior's Career [18] Florence Bull, Saint David's Day
Kevin Crossley-Holland , The Rain-Giver Douglas Dunn , The Happier Life [18] D. J. Enright , Daughters of Earth [18] Elaine Feinstien, At the Edge , Sceptre Press
James Fenton , Terminal Moraine [20] Seamus Heaney , Wintering Out Ireland native published in the United KingdomMichael Horovitz , The Wolverhampton Wanderer Ted Hughes , Selected Poems 1957–1967 (see also Selected Poems 1982 , New Selected Poems 1995 )[18] Thomas Kinsella , Notes from the Land of the Dead [18] Irish poet published in the United KingdomLiz Lochhead , Memo for Spring [18] George MacBeth , Collected Poems 1958-70 Derek Mahon , Lives. Oxford University Press, Northern Ireland native published in the United KingdomAdrian Mitchell , Ride the Nightmare Edwin Morgan , Glasgow Sonnets [18] Norman Nicholson , A Local Habitation [18] Brian Patten , And Sometimes It Happens [18] Mervyn Peake , A Book of Nonsense Peter Porter , Preaching to the Converted [18] Sally Purcell , The Holly Queen Peter Redgrove , Dr Faust's Sea-Spiral Spirit, and Other Poems [18] R. S. Thomas , H'm , WelshNorman Nicholson , A Local Habitation Kathleen Raine , the Lost Country W. R. Rodgers , Collected Poems , Northern Ireland poet, published in the United Kingdom; posthumousVernon Scannell , Selected Poems Peter Scupham , The Snowing Globe [18] Stevie Smith , Scorpion, and Other Poems , posthumous[18] Charles Tomlinson , Written on Water
Anthologies in the United Kingdom
Helen Gardner , The New Oxford Book of English Verse , replaced the 1939 revised selection by Quiller-Couch. 1972John Heath-Stubbs , co-editor, Penguin Modern Poets 20 A.R. Ammons :
John Ashbery , Three Poems W. H. Auden , Epistle to a Godson Ted Berrigan , Ron Padgett , and Tom Clark , Back In Boston Again John Berryman , Delusions, Etc. (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux) posthumousElizabeth Bishop and Emanuel Brasil, editors, An Anthology of Twentieth Century Brazilian Poetry (Wesleyan University Press)Harold Bloom , Yeats (criticism)[21] Joseph Brodsky : Poems , Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ardis,[22] Russian –American Gwendolyn Brooks , Aurora Robert Creeley , A Day Book [23] Stephen Dobyns , Concurring Beasts Ed Dorn :
The Hamadryas Baboon at the Lincoln Park Zoo , Wine Press[24] Gunslinger , Book III: The Winterbook, Prologue to the Great Book IV Kornerstone[24] H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), Hermetic Definition Michael S. Harper , Song: "I want a Witness" [25] LeRoi Jones as Amiri Baraka , Spirit Reach Philip Levine , They Feed They Lion Archibald MacLeish , The Human Season: Selected Poems, 1926–1972 , selected poemsJames Merrill , Braving the Elements Ned O'Gorman , The Flag the Hawk Flies Mary Oliver , The River Styx, Ohio, and Other Poems George Oppen , Collected Poems (only in Great Britain) and Seascape: Needle's Eye Michael Palmer , Blake's Newton (Black Sparrow Press)Kenneth Rexroth :
100 Poems from the French (translator)Orchard Boat (translator)Theodore Roethke , Straw for Fire , posthumous selections made by David Wagoner from the poet's notebooksLouis Simpson , Adventures of the Letter I , including "American Dreams" and "Doubting"Patti Smith , Seventh Heaven James Tate , Absences Eleanor Ross Taylor , Welcome Eumenides [26] Rosmarie Waldrop , The Aggressive Ways of the Casual Stranger (Random House)J. Rodolfo Wilcock (Argentine ), La sinagoga degli iconoclasti , translated as The Temple of Iconoclasts
Other in English
Wayne Brown, On the Coast , Caribbean [27]
Zulfikar Ghose , The Violent West , Pakistani poet lecturing in TexasAnthony McNeill , Reel from "The Life Movie" , Jamaica [27] James Matthews and Gladys Thomas, Cry Rage! , South Africa Wole Soyinka , A Shuttle in the Crypt , Nigeria
Works published in other languages
Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:
French language
Paul Chamberland , Éclats de la pierre noire d'oû rejaillit ma vie Gilles Hénault, complete works
Gustave Lamarche, complete works
Rina Lasnier , complete worksFernand Ouellette , complete worksSuzanne Paradis , Il y eut un matin Jean-Guy Pilon , Silences pour une souveraine , Ottawa: Éditions de l'Université d'Ottawa[28] Félix A. Savard, Le Bouscueil
Gemma Tremblay, Souffles du midi
Pierre Trottier , Sainte-Mémoire Marc Alyn , Infini au delà Philippe Chabaneix, Musiques d'avant la nuit
Andrée Chedid , Visage premier [29] Maurice Courant, Soleil de ma mémoire
Micheline Dupray , L'Herbe est trop douce Gérard Genette , Figures III , one of three volumes of a work of critical scholarship in poetics – general theory of literary form and analysis of individual works — the Figures volumes are concerned with the problems of poetic discourse and narrative in Stendhal, Flaubert and Proust and in Baroque poetry (see also Figures I 1966 , Figures II 1969 )[29] Eugène Guillevic , Encoches Edmond Jabès , Aély [30] Pierre Loubière, Mémoire buisonnière
Pierre Moussaric, Chansons du temps présent
Marie Noël , Chants des quatre temps (posthumous)Hélène Parmelin , De Songe et de silence Saint-John Perse , Œuvres Complètes , Paris: Gallimard[31] Denis Roche, Le Mécrit [30]
Claude Royet-Journoud , Le Renversement [30] Claire de Soujeole, Pas dans la rosée Listed in alphabetical order by first name:
Chandranath Mishra, Unata pal , humorous and satirical poems by "a major poet of Maithili ", according to Indian academic Sisir Kumar Das (a revised and expanded edition of Yugacakra 1952 )[32]
Harumal Isardas Sadarangani, Piraha Ji Bakha , Sindhi -language[32]
Hiren Bhattacharya , Mor Des Mor Premar Kavita ("Poems of My Country and of My Love"), Assamese language[33] Namdeo Dhasal , Golpitha ; Marathi -language[34] Niranjan Bhagat , Kavina Ketlak Prashno (Indian , writing in Gujarati ), criticism[35] Vasant Abaji Dahake , Yogabhrashta (translated into English by Ranjit Hoskote and Mangesh Kulkarni as A Terrorist of the Spirit ;New Delhi: Harper Collins/Indus, 1992 ); Marathi -language[36] Yumlembam Ibomcha Singh, Shingnaba Vol. I & II , Imphal; Meitei language [37]
Spanish language
Matilde Camus , Manantial de amor (Love Spring)Pedro Salinas , Poesía , selected by Julio Cortázar Ángel González , Palabra sobre palabra Saul Yukievich, Fundadores de la nueva poesía latinoamericana , a collection of studies published in Spain by an Argentinian
Darie Novaceanu and J.M. Caballero Bonald, translators and editors, Poesía rumana contemporánea , a bilingual edition of Romanian poems translated into Spanish. Asya, Quiver of Boughs
Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman , Footpaths Between Walls Zyameh Telesin, Cries of Memory
Rachel Baumwoll, Longed For
Israel's President Shazer:
During a Mission For Myself
Rivkah Bassman, Bright Stones
Malkah Chefetz-Tuzman, Leaves Do Not Fall
Rachel H. Korn , On the Edge of a Moment Joshuah Rivin, Rainbow of Song
Saul Maltz, With Joy and Song (for younger readers)
Other
Jørgen Gustava Brandt, Upraktiske digte. Udvalg , selected poems from 1953 to 1971, Denmark
Odysseus Elytis , The Light Tree And The Fourteenth Beauty (Το φωτόδεντρο και η δέκατη τέταρτη ομορφιά) and The Monogram (Το Μονόγραμμα) Greece Nizar Qabbani , Poems Against The Law , Syrian poet writing in Arabic Karl Ristikivi , Inimese teekond ("The journey of a man"), Estonian poet published in Sweden Wisława Szymborska : Wszelki wypadek ("Could Have"), Poland Johannes Wulff, Udvalgte digte. Vi som er hinanden , collected poems from 1928 to 1970, Denmark
Deaths
Grave of Ezra Pound Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 1 – Eberhard Wolfgang Möller , 65 (born 1906 ), German playwright and poet
January 7 – John Berryman , 57 (born 1914 ), American poet , from suicide by jumping off a bridge into the Mississippi River[39]
January 8 – Kenneth Patchen , 60 (born 1911 ), American poet and painter, of a heart attack
January 11 – Padraic Colum , 90, Irish –American poet
February 5 – Marianne Moore 1887 ), American Modernist poet and writer
March 4 – Richard Church (poet) , 78, English poet, critic and novelist
May 22 – Cecil Day-Lewis , 68 English poet
c June – Winifred Mary Letts (born 1882 ), English writer
August 2 – Paul Goodman (born 1911 ), American poet, of a heart attack
August 21 – A.M. Klein , 61, Ukrainian-Canadian poet and writer
August 24 – Venkatarama Ramalingam Pillai , 83 (born 1888 ), Indian Tamil -language poet and freedom fighter
September 25 – Alejandra Pizarnik , 36 (born 1936 ), Argentinian poet, suicide by overdose
October 3 – Gladys Schmitt , 63 (born 1909 ), American poet
October 22 – James K. Baxter , 46, New Zealand poet
November 1 – Ezra Pound 1885 ), American poet, critic and the driving force behind several Modernist movements, notably Imagism and Vorticism , from an intestinal blockage
November 20 – Robert Fletcher (poet) , 87, American "cowboy poet" of "Don't Fence Me In"
December 10
December 20 – Günter Eich (born 1907 ) German poet, dramatist and author 
