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Overview of the events of 1973 in poetry
Events
September 16 – Chilean poet Víctor Jara , having been detained four days earlier as a political prisoner in Estadio Chile and tortured during the 1973 Chilean coup d'état , is shot and killed. His last poem Estadio Chile
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.[ 1]
White Pine Press founded in Buffalo, New York. The publisher is a nonprofit organization putting out poetry, fiction, essays, and literature in translation.[ 2]
The French journal L'éphémère 1966 , ceases publication this year; poets associated with it include Yves Bonnefoy , Jacques Dupin and André du Bouchet .[ 3]
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:
John Tranter :
Red Movie and other poems , Angus & RobertsonThe Blast Area , Gargoyle Poets number 13, Makar PressChris Wallace-Crabbe :
Selected Poems , Sydney: Angus & RobertsonVinyl record: Chris Wallace-Crabbe Reads From His Own Verse , St.Lucia Alfred Bailey , Thanks for a Drowned Island .[ 4] Earle Birney :
The Bear on the Delhi Road: selected poems . London: Chatto & Windus.what's so big about GREEN? . Toronto: McClelland and Stewart.[ 5] Shirley Gibson , I Am Watching John Glassco , Montreal . Montreal: DC Books .Irving Layton , Lovers and lesser Men . Toronto: McClelland & Stewart.[ 6] Dorothy Livesay , Nine Poems of Farewell . Windsor, ON: Black Moss Press.[ 7] Eli Mandel , Crusoe: Poems Selected and New Miriam Mandel , Lions at Her Face . Edmonton: White Pelican Publications.[ 8] John Metcalf (ed.), The Speaking Earth , anthologyMichael Ondaatje , Rat Jelly , Toronto: Coach House Press[ 1] Al Purdy , Sex and Death F. R. Scott , The Dance Is One . Toronto: McClelland and Stewart.[ 9] Raymond Souster , The Colour of the Times. Ten Elephants on Yonge Street. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson.[ 10] Raymond Souster and Richard Woollatt, eds. Sights and Sounds . Toronto: Macmillan.[ 10] Doris Huestis Speirs , Exercise for Psyche Kamala Das :
Richard L. Bartholomew, Poems , Calcutta : Writers Workshop , India .[ 13]
Brooks Frederick , Rocket to the Moon , Calcutta : Writers Workshop , India [ 13] Alokeranjan Das Gupta , Poems , Calcutta: Dialogue Pub.[ 13] A. K. Ramanujan , Speaking of Siva , Penguin[ 15] Dannie Abse , Funland, and Other Poems [ 16] Peter Ackroyd , London Lickpenny [ 16] Martin Booth , Coronis , including the long poem, "On the Death of Archdeacon Broix"Edwin Brock , a book of poetry[ 17] Alan Brunton , Messengers in Blackface , work by a New Zealand poet published in the United Kingdom[ 19] Cal Clothier , Behind Heslington Hall Tony Curtis , Walk Down a Welsh Wind , WelshPatric Dickinson , A Wintering Tree ,[ 16] Irish poet published in the United KingdomCarol Ann Duffy , Fleshweathercock [ 16] Lawrence Durrell , Vega, and Other Poems [ 16] D. J. Enright , The Terrible Shears Elaine Feinstein , The Celebrants and Other Poems , HutchinsonMichael Fried , Powers Roy Fuller , Tiny Tears [ 16] Geoffrey Grigson , Sad Grave of an Imperial Mongoose [ 16] Michael Hamburger , Ownerless Earth [ 16] Seamus Heaney , a book of poetry,[ 17] Irish native published in the United KingdomTed Hughes , Prometheus on his Crag [ 16] Thomas Kinsella , a book of poetry[ 17] Irish poet published in the United KingdomGeoffrey Holloway , To Have Eyes Michael Longley , An Exploded View [ 16] George MacBeth , Shrapnel [ 16] Edwin Morgan , From Glasgow to Saturn [ 16] Pete Morgan , The Grey Mare Being the Better Steed [ 22] Paul Muldoon , New Weather , Northern Irish native published in the United KingdomBrian Patten , The Unreliable Nightingale [ 16] Peter Redgrove , a book of poetry[ 17] Alan Ross , The Taj Express [ 16] Anne Ridler , a book of poetry[ 17] Carol Rumens , A Strange Girl in Bright Colours [ 16] Vernon Scannell , The Winter Man [ 16] Michael Schmidt , It Was My Tree Sydney Tremayne , Selected and New Poems Derek Walcott , Another Life
Anthologies
Frank Bidart , Golden State Robert Bly , Sleepers Joining Hands Joseph Payne Brennan , A Sheaf of Snow Poems Joseph Brodsky : Poems , Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ardis[ 23] 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 poemsHistory , containing 360 poems, including more than 80 new ones and many revisedFor Lizzie and Harriet , 67 old poems, all revisedW. S. Merwin , Writings to an Unfinished Accompaniment , New York: Atheneum[ 24] Joyce Carol Oates , Angel Fire George Quasha , Somapoetics Adrienne Rich , "Rape" Muriel Rukeyser , Breaking Open Patti Smith , Witt Mark Strand , The Story of Our Lives , Canadian native living in and published in the United StatesAlice Walker , Revolutionary Petunias and Other Poems
Anthologies
George Quasha & Jerome Rothenberg , (eds.) America a Prophecy: A New Reading of American Poetry from Pre-Columbian Times to the Present (Random House/Viking)Ronald Gross & George Quasha , (eds.) Open Poetry: Four Anthologies of Expanded Poems (Simon & Schuster)
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
Conseil international des femmes, Anthologie de la poésie féminine mondiale , Saint-Germain-des-Prés
Jean Daive , Fut bâti , about the author's friendship with Paul Celan ; part memoir, part prose-poem;[ 25] [ 26] Michel Deguy , Tombeau de du Bellay [ 26] Georges-Emmanuel Clancier , Peut-Être une demeure Jean Loisy , Le Double Jeu Katia Granoff Méditerranée Eugene Guilleveic , Inclus [ 26] Edmond Jabès , (El, ou le drier livre) [ 26] Michel Leiris , Haut-mal [ 27] François Pradelle , Les Naïves Amours Denis Roche , Le Mécrit Pierrette Sartin , Le Destin accepté Philippe Soupault , Poèmes et Poésies: 1917–1973 , publisher: Grasset[ 26]
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
In each section, listed in alphabetical order by first name:
Other in India
Eugenio Montale , Diario del '71 e del '72 (poetry) Milan: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore (a private edition of 100 copies was published in 1971 )[ 33] Almanacco dello Specchio for 1973, an anthology of poetry, including translated poetryFranco Fortini , Questo muro , collected poems from 1962 to 1972Pier Paolo Pasolini , Trasumanar e organizzar Libero De Libero , Scempio e lusinga , collected poems written from 1930 to 1956Marino Moretti , Le poverazze M. Bazhan , The Spark from Uman Recollections (translated into Russian from Ukrainian), 1973[ 34] P. Brovka , We Are Children of One Mother (translated into Russian from Belarusian)[ 34] B. Istru , Pain of a Shadow (translated into Russian from Moldavian)[ 34] R. Margiani , From the Book of Brotherhood (translated into Russian from Georgian)[ 34] S. Orlov , Loyalty [ 34]
Spanish language
José Carlos Becerra , El otoño recorre las islas , collected poetry from 1960 to 1970, edited by José Emilio Pacheco and Gabriel Zaid Alfonso Calderón , Isla de los Bienaventurados ("Island of the Blessed"), Chile [ 35] Matilde Camus , Bestiario poético ("Poetic Book of Aaimals")Ernesto Cardenal , Canto nacional , Nicaragua Rosario Castellanos , "Valium 10"Rafael Méndez Dorich , Globos cautivos , posthumously published (Lima), Peru [ 36] Enrique Fierro , Mutaciones , Uruguay Ulalume González de León , Plagio , Uruguay Alvaro Mutis , Summa de magroll el Gaviero , Colombia José Miguel Oviedo , Estos trece José Emilio Pacheco , Irás y no volverás , Mexico Justo Jorge Padrón , Mar de la noche Gabriel Zaid , Práctica mortal , Mexico
Other
Awards and honors
English language
French language
Births
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
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 (born 1902 ), 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, English novelist, poet and academic
September 16 – Víctor Jara , 40, Chilean writer, poet and Communist politician, by political murder
September 20 – William Plomer , 69, South African-born British poet, novelist and literary editor, sometimes writing as Robert Pagan
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
November 24 – John G. Neihardt (born 1881 ), American author and poet
December 11 – May Wedderburn Cannan , 80 (born 1893 ), English war poet
December 14 – Josef Magnus Wehner , 82 (born 1891 ), German poet and playwright
December 30 – Vagaland , pen name of Thomas Alexander Robertson, 64 (born 1909 ), Shetland Scottish poet
date not known – Kenneth Allott , Welsh poet, academic, and authority on Matthew Arnold
See also
Notes
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^ "Biographical Sketch ," Dr. Alfred Goldsworthy Bailey fonds, Lib.UNB.ca, Web, Jan. 5, 2009.
^ "Earle Birney: Published Works Archived 2011-03-13 at the Wayback Machine ," Canadian Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 3, 2011.
^ "Irving Layton: Publications Archived 2011-07-14 at the Wayback Machine ," Canadian Poetry Online, Web, May 7, 2011.
^ "Dorothy Livesay (1909-1996): Works" Archived 2012-09-05 at the Wayback Machine , Canadian Women Poets, Brock University. Web, Mar. 18, 2011.
^ "Books by former English Department Students ," USask.ca, Web, Apr. 25, 2011.
^ "F. R. Scott: Publications Archived 2013-04-08 at the Wayback Machine ," Canadian Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 7, 2011.
^ a b "Notes on Life and Works Archived 2011-08-17 at the Wayback Machine ," Selected Poetry of Raymond Souster, Representative Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 7, 2011.
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^ C. S. Nanjundaiah, "Translating the Untranslatable: A Look at A. K. Ramanujan's Speaking of Siva" , p. 85, in Jaydipsinh Dodiya (ed.), Indian English Poetry: Critical Perspectives , 2000, Delhi: Prabhat Kumar Sharma for Sarup & Sons, ISBN 81-7625-111-9 ; retrieved July 17, 2010
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^ a b Crotty, Patrick, Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology , Belfast, The Blackstaff Press, 1995, ISBN 0-85640-561-2
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^ Brée, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature , translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983
^ a b c Das, Sisir Kumar and various, History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956: struggle for freedom: triumph and tragedy, Volume 2 Sahitya Akademi , ISBN 978-81-7201-798-9 ; retrieved December 23, 2008
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