January – James Dickey, composes a poem he reads at new United States President Jimmy Carter’s inaugural gala (although not at the inauguration itself).[1]
Irving Layton, The Poems of Irving Layton. Eli Mandel ed. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart. Also published, with an introduction by Hugh Kenner, as The Selected Poems of Irving Layton. New York: New Directions, 1977.[5]ISBN0-8112-0642-4
Irving Layton, The Covenant. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart.[5]
Translator, Vertical Poetry, poems by Roberto Juarroz; San Francisco: Kayak (reprinted in 1988; San Francisco: North Point Press)[23]
W. S. Merwin and J. Moussaieff Mason, translators, Sanskrit Love Poetry, New York: Columbia University Press (published in 1981 as Peacock's Egg: Love Poems from Ancient India, San Francisco: North Point Press)[23]
Listed by language and often by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:
Mehr Lal Soni Zia FatehabadiDhoop Aur Chandni (The Sunlight and the Moonlight) - Collection of poems published by Radha Krishan Sehgal, Bazm-e-Seemab, J 5/21, Rajouri Garden, New Delhi in 1977.
^"The Works of George Woodcock" at Anarchy Archives: "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
^Niranjan Mohanty, "Trends in Indian Poetry in English", p. 18 ("Works Cited"), Footnote 7, 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
^Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, "Lauris Edmond" article
^Preminger, 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
^[2] McFadden, Robert D., "Joseph Brodsky, Exiled Poet Who Won Nobel, Dies at 55", obituary, The New York Times, January 29, 1996, accessed October 18, 2007
^ abcdefghiAuster, Paul (ed.), 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
^Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al. (eds), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "German Poetry" article, "Criticism in German" section, p. 474.
^ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyThis is as specific as The Britannica Book of the Year 1978, the source, gets; the book, published in 1978, covers events in 1977, "Literature" article, p. 511.
^Eugenio Montale, Collected Poems 1920-1954, translated and edited by Jonathan Galassi, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998, ISBN0-374-12554-6
^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
Britannica Book of the Year 1978 ("for events of 1977"), published by Encyclopædia Britannica 1978 (source of many items in "Works published" section and rarely in other sections)
