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1972 in poetry

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List of years in poetry (table)
In literature
1969
1970
1971
1972
1973
1974
1975
Poet Robert Creeley in 1972

Events

  • June 4 — Joseph Brodsky is expelled from the Soviet Union.
  • May 22 — Cecil Day-Lewis, Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, dies at Lemmons, the home of writers Kingsley Amis and Elizabeth Jane Howard on the northern edge of London.
  • Autumn — The first threnody attributed to E. J. Thribb (actually written by Barry Fantoni and colleagues) is published in the English satirical magazine Private Eye.
  • October 10 — Sir John Betjeman is appointed Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom.[1]
  • November — The American Poetry Review founded by Stephen Berg in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  • W. H. Auden, now a U.S. citizen, declares his New York neighborhood is too dangerous and returns to Oxford from the United States for the winter.
  • The Belfast Group, a discussion group of poets in Northern Ireland, goes out of existence this year. The group was started by Philip Hobsbaum when he moved to Belfast in 1963 and which included Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, James Simmons, Paul Muldoon, Ciaran Carson, Stewart Parker, Bernard MacLaverty and the critics Edna Longley and Michael Allen. Heaney moves from Belfast to work in Dublin and live in County Wicklow.
  • James K. Baxter, one of New Zealand's best-known poets, writes two original poems on the wallpaper of a room in the home of painter Michael Illingworth and his wife Dene. Soon after, Baxter dies. In 1973, after Baxter's death, the Illingworths remove the sections of wallpaper containing the poems and send them to the Hocken Library to be stored with Baxter's other papers.[2]

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:

Australia

  • Anne Elder, For the Record
  • A.D. Hope, Collected Poems
  • Les Murray, Poems Against Economics[3]

Canada

  • Earle Birney, Judith Copithorne, Andrew Suknaski, bill bissett, Four Parts Sand a selection of works by these concrete poets
  • Leonard 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:
    • * The Shadow-Maker. Toronto: Macmillan.
    • The Armies of the Moon. Toronto: Macmillan, 1972.[8] ISBN 978-0-7705-0868-5
  • 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

India in English

Ireland

New Zealand

  • James K. Baxter:
    • Autumn Testament, not posthumous
    • Stonegut Sugar Works, Junkies and the Fuzz, Ode to Auckland, and Other Poems, posthumous
  • Alistair Campbell, Kapiti : Selected Poems 1947-71. Christchurch: Pegasus Press
  • Allen Curnow, Trees, Effigies, Moving Objects[19]
  • Bill Manhire, The Elaboration
  • Kendrick Smithyman, Earthquake Weather

United Kingdom

Anthologies in the United Kingdom

  • Helen Gardner, The New Oxford Book of English Verse, replaced the 1939 revised selection by Quiller-Couch. 1972
  • John Heath-Stubbs, co-editor, Penguin Modern Poets 20

United States

Other in English

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

Canada, in French

  • Paul Chamberland, Éclats de la pierre noire d'oû rejaillit ma vie
  • Gilles Hénault, complete works
  • Gustave Lamarche, complete works
  • Rina Lasnier, complete works
  • Fernand Ouellette, complete works
  • Suzanne 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

France

  • 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

Germany

Hebrew

  • Abraham Shlonsky, Ketavim
  • David Fogel, Kol ha-Shirim, collected by Dan Pagis, edited by Y. Cohen
  • E. Zussman, Atzai Tamid
  • T. Ribner, Ain Lehashiv
  • Yair Hurvitz, Narkisim le-Malhut Madmena
  • Abba Kovner, Lahakat ha-Katzav

India

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]

Italy

Norway

  • Hans Børli, Kyndelsmesse
  • Per Arneberg, Oktobernetter
  • Ernst Orvil, Nok sagt

Russia

  • Konstantin Simonov, Vietnam. Summer 1970
  • Aleksandr Bezymenski, The Law of the Heart, collected poems
  • David Kugultinov, Kalmyk poet, Revolt of the Intellect

Spanish language

Spain

  • 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.

Latin America

  • Hugo Achugar, Con bigote triste
  • Rosario Castellanos, Poesía no eres tú: Obra poética, 1948–1971
  • Rafael Méndez Dorich, editor, Profundo Centro, an anthology (Lima), Peru[38]
  • Aída Vitale, Oidor andante
  • Idea Vilariño, Poemas de amor

Yiddish language

  • 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

Awards and honors

Canada

United Kingdom

United States

Births

  • March 1 – Rie Yasumi やすみ りえ pen name of Reiko Yasumi 休 理英子, Japanese Senryū poet (a woman)
  • April 16 – Tracy K. Smith, African American poet, United States Poet Laureate
  • April 24 – Sinéad Morrissey, Northern Irish poet
  • June 28 – Geeta Tripathee, Nepali poet, lyricist and literary critic
  • August 18 – Adda Djørup, Danish poet and fiction writer (a woman)
  • Shimon Adaf, Israeli poet and author
  • Alissa Quart, American nonfiction writer, critic, journalist, editor and poet

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, 84 (born 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, 87 (born 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
    • Eileen Duggan, 78, New Zealand poet and journalist
    • Mark Van Doren, 78, American poet, academic and critic
  • December 20 – Günter Eich (born 1907) German poet, dramatist and author

See also

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