April – The dictatorship in Portugal falls; in the six months prior, with increasing repression and a discouraging atmosphere, little new work has been 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".[1]
July 23 – The dictatorial Greek junta falls; start of the Metapolitefsi: exiled poets, authors and intellectuals return to the country to publish there.
October 4 – While Ann Sexton is 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 goes into her garage, starts the ignition of her car and dies of carbon monoxide poisoning.
Austin Clarke, Collected Poems, including "The Lost Heifer", "The Young Woman of Beare", "The Planter's Daughter", "Celibacy", "Martha Blake", "The Straying Student", "Penal Law", "St Christopher", "Early Unfinished Sketch", "Martha Blake at Fifty-One", and "Tiresias" (died this year)[16]
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)
George Quasha, Word-Yum: Somapoetics 64-69: Seventh Series
George Quasha (with Susan Quasha), An Active Anthology (Sumac Press)
Translations in the United States
Ernesto Cardenal, translated from Spanish, Homage to the American Indians
W. S. Merwin and Clarence Brown, translation, Osip Mandelstam: Selected Poems, New York: Oxford University Press (reprinted in 2004 as The Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam, New York: New York Review of Books)[24]
Joseph Mlotek and Eleanor Mlotek, editors, Pearls from Yiddish Poetry (anthology), poems printed in the Sunday editions of the New York Jewish Daily Forward
September 15 – Ikuma Arishima, 有島生馬 pen-name (together with Utosei and then Jugatsutei) of Arishima Mibuma (born 1882), Japanese novelist, poet and painter; member of the Shirakaba literary circle
^Britannica Book of the Year 1975 ("for events of 1974"), published by The Encyclopædia Britannica 1975; "Literature" article, "Portuguese" section, "Portugal" subsection, by Stephen Reckert, page 464
^[1]Archived 2007-10-13 at the Wayback Machine Les Murray page at The Poetry Archive, accessed October 15, 2007
^"A.M. Klein: Publications," Canadian Poetry Online, UToronto, Web, May 7, 2011.
^"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
^J. G. Bhuva, "The Poetry of Keki N. Daruwalla", p 196, in Indian English Poetry: Critical Perspectives, edited by Jaydipsinh Dodiya, 2000, Delhi: Prabhat Kumar Sharma for Sarup & Sons, ISBN81-7625-111-9; retrieved July 17, 2010
^ abcdeAuster, Paul, editor, The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets, New York: Random House, 1982 ISBN0-394-52197-8
^"Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-09-30. Retrieved 2007-10-06.((cite web)): CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) "Haim Gouri" page at the Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature, accessed October 6, 2007
^da Silva, Jaime H., "BELO, Ruy de Moura", article, p. 185, Bleiberg, Germán, Dictionary of the literature of the Iberian peninsula, Volume 1; retrieved September 6, 2011
^ abStephen 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 Encyclopædia Britannica; this was as much information as was given in the article
^Balcom, John, "Lo Fu"Archived 2011-01-01 at the Wayback Machine, article on Poetry International website, retrieved November 22, 2008
Britannica Book of the Year 1975 ("for events of 1974"), published by Encyclopædia Britannica 1975 (source of many items in "Works published" section and rarely in other sections)
