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==Events==
* [[L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E (magazine)|L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E]] Magazine, edited by [[Bruce Andrews]] and [[Charles Bernstein]], first published
* ''[[Stevie (film)|Stevie]]'', a film based on a play about the poet [[Stevie Smith]] is released
==Works published in English==
===[[Canadian poetry|Canada]]===
* [[Margaret Avison]], ''sunblue''
* [[Earle Birney]], ''Fall by Fury''
* [[Leonard Cohen]]. ''Death of a Lady's Man''
* [[Don Domanski]], ''Heaven''
* [[Phyllis Gotlieb]], ''The Works: Collected Poems''
* [[Irving Layton]], ''The Tightrope Dancer''
* [[Pat MacKay]], ''The Pat Lowther Poem''
* [[Sean O'Huigin]], ''The Inks and the Pencils and the Looking Back''
* [[Michael Ondaatje]], ''Elimination Dance/La danse eliminatoire'', Ilderton: Nairn Coldstream; revised edition, Brick, 1980<ref name=mopf>Web page titled [http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=5142 "Archive: Michael Ondaatje (1943- )"] at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed [[May 7]], [[2008]]</ref>
* [[Craig Powell]], ''Rehearsal for Dancers''
* [[Al Purdy]], ''Being Alive''
* [[Peter Trower]], ''Bush Poems''
* [[Sean Virgo]], ''Deathwatch on Skidegate Narrows''
* [[Miriam Waddington]], ''Mister Never''
* [[George Woodcock]]:
**''The Kestrel and Other Poems of Past and Present. Sunderland, Durham: Coelfrith Press, [[Canadian literature|Canada]]<ref name=gwaa>[http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/anarchist_Archives/bright/woodcock/woodbiblio.html Web page titled "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]]</ref>
**''Thomas Merton, Monk and Poet: A Critical Study'', Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, and Seattle: University of Washington Press, criticism<ref name=gwaa/>
===[[New Zealand literature|New Zealand]]===
* [[Alan Brunton]], ''Oh Ravachol'', Red Mole<ref>Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, ''The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature'', 1998, pp. 75-76, "Alan Brunton" article by Peter Simpson</ref>
===[[English poetry|United Kingdom]]===
* [[James Fenton]], ''A Vacant Possession'', poems, TNR Publications<ref name=jf>[http://www.jamesfenton.com/books/]Web page titled "Books by Fenton" at the James Fenton Web site, accessed [[October 11]], [[2007]]</ref>
* [[Geoffrey Grigson]], ''The Fiesta and Other Poems''
* [[Seamus Heaney]]: ''After Summer'', Gallery Press
* [[John Heath-Stubbs]], ''The Watchman's Flute''
* [[Geoffrey Hill]], ''Tenebrae'', including the sonnet sequences "Lachrimae" and "An Apology for the Rivival of Christian Architecture in England"
* [[A. Norman Jeffares]], ''W.B. Yeats: Man And Poet'', [[English poetry|United Kingdom]], biography, revision of the first edition of [[1948 in poetry|1948]]<ref>[http://books.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,11617,1506107,00.html "Obituary: A. Norman Jeffares"], ''[[The Guardian]]'', by John Sutherland, [[June 14]], [[2005]], accessed [[April 22]], [[2008]]</ref>
* [[Hugh MacDiarmid]], ''Collected Poems'', two volumes (posthumous)
* [[John Montague]], ''The Great Cloak''
* [[Craig Raine]], ''The Onion, Memory''
* [[R.S. Thomas]], ''Frequencies''
* [[Jeffrey Wainwright]], ''Heart's Desire''
===[[American poetry|United States]]===
* [[Maya Angelou]], ''And Still I Rise''
* [[Paul Blackburn (U.S. poet)|Paul Blackburn]], translator (posthumous), ''Proensa: An Anthology of Troubadour Poetry''
* [[Robert Creeley]]:
** ''Hello''
** ''Later''<ref name=rcnam>Everett, Nicholas, [http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/creeley/life.htm "Robert Creeley's Life and Career"] at the ''Modern American Poetry'' website, accessed [[May 1]], [[2008]]</ref>
* [[Ed Dorn]]:
** ''Hello, La Jolla'', Wingbow Press,<ref name=edpf>Web page titled [http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=1837"Archive / Edward Dorn (1929-1999)"] at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved [[May 8]], [[2008]]</ref> ISBN 978-0914728245
** ''Selected Poems'', edited by [[Donald Allen]], Grey Fox Press<ref name=edpf/>
* [[Cynthia Dubin Edelberg]], ''[[Robert Creeley]]'s Poetry: A Critical Introduction'', Albuquerque, New Mexico (criticism)<ref name=rcnam/>
* [[Nikki Giovanni]], ''Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day''
* [[John Hollander]], ''Spectral Emanations''
* [[James McMichael]], ''The Lover’s Familiar''
* [[James Merrill]], ''[[Mirabell: Books of Number]]''
* [[Mary Oliver]]:
** ''The Night Traveler''
** ''Twelve Moons''
* [[George Oppen]], ''Primitive'' (Black Sparrow Press)
* [[Mary Oppen]] (George Oppen's wife), ''Meaning a Life'', a memoir (Black Sparrow Press)
* [[Adrienne Rich]], ''The Dream of a Common Language''
* [[Patti Smith]], ''[[Babel (book)|Babel]]''
* [[William Stafford]], ''Stories That Could Be True''
* [[Rosmarie Waldrop]], ''The Road Is Everywhere or Stop This Body'' (Open Places)
* [[James Wright]], ''To a Blossoming Pear Tree''
* [[Louis Zukofsky]]:
** ''A'' (University of California Press)
** ''80 Flowers''
===Other in English===
* [[Thomas McCarthy (poet)|Thomas McCarthy]], ''The First Convention'', Dolmen Press, Dublin, [[Irish poetry|Ireland]]<ref name=tmpiw>[http://ireland.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=9272 Web page titled "Thomas McCarthy"] at the Poetry International Website, accessed [[May 2]], [[2008]]</ref>
==Works in other languages==
===French language===
====[[French poetry|France]]====
* [[Guillevic]], ''Du Domaine''
* [[Joyce Mansour]], ''Faire Signe au machiniste''
* [[Jean-Pierre Faye]], ''Verres''
* [[Yves Martin]], ''Je fais bouillir mon vin''
====[[Canadian poetry|Canada]]====
* [[Marcel Bélanger]]:
** ''Fragments paniques''
** ''Infranoir''
* [[Normand de Bellefeuille]], ''La Belle Conduite''
===German language===
====[[German literature|Germany]]====
* [[Alfred Andersch]], ''''Empōrt euch der Himmel ist blau''
* [[Ingeborg Bachmann]], works, in a four-volume edition
* [[Konrad Beyer]], ''Gesamtwerk''
* [[Nicolas Born]], ''Gedichte 1967-1978''
* [[Erich Fried]], ''Die bunten Getûme''
* J. Hans, U. Herms, and R. Thenior, ''Lyrik-Katalog Bundesrepublik'', anthology<ref name=gape>Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, ''The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics'', 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "German Poetry" article, "Anthologies in German" section, pp 473-474</ref>
* [[Thomas Mann]], ''Tagebücher 1933-1934''
* [[Johannes Schenk]], ''Zittern''
* [[Kurt Tucholsky]], ''Die Q-Tagebücher 1934-1935''
=====Criticism, scholarship and biography in Germany=====
* [[Walter Hinck]], ''Von Heine zu Brecht. Lyrik im Geschichtsprozess'' (scholarship)<ref name=aptbpe>Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, ''The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics'', 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "German Poetry" article, "Criticism in German" section, p 474</ref>
* [[Walter Hinderer]], editor, ''Gesch. der politschen Lyrik in Deutschland'', Stuttgart (scholarship)<ref name=aptbpe/>
* [[William H. Rey]], ''Poesie der Antipoesie: Moderne deutsche Lyrik Genesis, Theorie, Struktur'', Heidelberg, ISBN 10: 3798805202 ISBN 13: 9783798805200 (scholarship)<ref name=aptbpe/>
===Hebrew language===
* [[D. Avidan]], a poetry book
* [[P. Sadeh]], a poetry book
* [[E. Megged]], a poetry book
* [[M. Ben-Shaul]], a poetry book
* [[Zelda (poet)]], a poetry book
===[[Italian poetry|Italy]]===
* [[Mario Luzi]], ''Al Fuoco della controversia''
* [[Leonardo Sinisgalli]], ''Dimenticatoio''
* [[Eugenio Montale]], ''Tutte le poesie''
* [[Franco Fortini]], ''Una volta per sempre, poesie 1938-1973''
===[[Norwegian literature|Norway]]===
* [[Hans Børli]], ''Dag og Drøm: Dikt i utvalg'' ("Day and Dream") ([[Norwegian literature|Norway]])
* [[Paal Brekke]], ''Dikt 1949-1722'' ([[Norwegian literature|Norway]])
* [[Halldis Moren Vesaa]], ''Dikt i samling'' ([[Norwegian literature|Norway]])
===[[Portuguese literature|Portuguese language]]===
* [[Rui Knopfli]], ''O Escriba Acocorado'' ([[Portuguese literature|Portugal]])
* [[Waldimir Diniz]], ''Até o 8° round'' ([[Brazilian literature|Brazilian]])
* [[Cassiano Nunes]], ''Madrugada'' ([[Brazilian literature|Brazilian]])
* [[Accioly Lopes]], his first volume of verse ([[Brazilian literature|Brazilian]])
===Spanish language===
====[[Spanish poetry|Spain]]====
* [[Eduardo Haro Ibars]], ''Perdiddas blancas''
* [[Féliz de Asúa]], ''Pasar y siete canciones'' (he also published a novel this year, ''Les lecciones suspendidas'')
* [[Luis Antonio de Villena]], ''Viaje a Bizancio''
* [[Pere Gimferrer]], a collection of his verse translated from Catalan to Castilian by the author
* [[García Hortelano]], editor, anthology of verse by the Generation of the '50s, including [[Caballero Bonald]], [[Angel González]], [[Jaime gil de Biedma]], [[Carlos Barral]]
====[[Latin American poetry|Latin America]]====
* [[Oscar Hahn]], ''Arte de morir''
* [[Pablo Neruda]], ''Para nacer he nacido'', previously unpublished diary entries, memoirs and other writings (posthumous), put out by his widow, Matilde de Neruda and [[Miguel Otero Silva]] (of Venezuala)
===[[Swedish literature|Sweden]]===
* [[Tomas Tranströmer]], ''Sanningsbarriāren''
* [[Tobias Berggren]], ''Bergsmusik''
* [[Eva Runefelt]], ''Aldriga och barnsliga trakter''
===[[Yiddish literature|Yiddish]]===
* [[Shoyme Roitman]], a poetry book
* [[Rachel Boymvol]], a poetry book
* [[Jacob Shargel]], a poetry book
* [[Hayyim Plotkin]], a poetry book
===Other===
* [[Odysseus Elytis]], ''Μαρία Νεφέλη'' ("Maria Nefeli") [[Modern Greek literature|Greece]]
* [[Joseph Brodsky]], editor of two expatriate [[Russian poetry]] anthologies:
** ''Konets prekrasnoy epokh: Stikhotvoreniya 1964-71''
** ''Chast' rechi: Stkikhotvoreniya 1972-76''
==Awards and honors==
===[[Canadian poetry|Canada]]===
* See [[1978 Governor General's Awards]] for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
===[[English poetry|United Kingdom]]===
* [[Cholmondeley Award]]: [[Christopher Hope]], [[Leslie Norris]], [[Peter Reading]], [[D.M. Thomas]], [[R.S. Thomas]]
* [[Eric Gregory Award]]: [[Ciaran Carson]], [[Peter Denman]], [[Christopher Reid]], [[Paul Wilkins]], [[Martyn A. Ford]], [[James Sutherland-Smith]]
===[[American poetry|United States]]===
* [[Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress|Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress]] (later the post would be called "Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress"): [[William Meredith]] appointed this year.
* [[National Book Award for Poetry]]: [[Howard Nemerov]], ''The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov''
* [[Pulitzer Prize for Poetry]]: [[Howard Nemerov]], ''The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov''
* [[Walt Whitman Award]]: [[Karen Snow]], ''Wonders''
* [[Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets]]: [[Josephine Miles]]
===[[French poetry|France]]===
* Guillaume Apollinaire prize: [[Jean-Claude Renard]], ''La Lumière du silence''
===Other===
* Casa de las Américas prize for poetry (Cuba): [[Claribel Alegria]] of El Salvador, for ''Sobrevivo''
==Births==
* [[June 7]] — [[Jesse Ball]], [[American poetry|American]] poet and writer
==Deaths==
* [[January 20]] — [[Gilbert Highet]], 71, Scottish-[[American poetry|American]] classicist, academic, writer, intellectual, critic, and literary historian, of cancer
* [[February 22]] — [[Phyllis McGinley]], at 72
* [[March 19]] — [[Faith Baldwin]], 84
* [[March 22]] — [[John Hall Wheelock]], 91, [[American poetry|American]] poet
* [[April 14]] — [[F.R. Leavis]], 82, [[English poetry|English]] literary critic
* [[May 1]] — [[Sylvia Townsend Warner]], 84, [[English poetry|English]] novelist and poet
* [[May 12]] — [[Louis Zukofsky]], 74, [[American poetry|American]] [[Modernist poetry|modernist]] poet
* [[July 2]] — [[Aris Alexandrou]], [[Greek poetry|Greek]]
* [[June 3]] — [[Frank Stanford]], 29, [[American poetry|American]] poet, by suicide
* [[September 9]] — [[Hugh MacDiarmid]], 86, Scottish poet
* Date not known — [[Juan Rodolfo Wilcock]], (born [[1919 in poetry|1919]]), [[Latin American poetry|Argentine]] author and poet
==Notes==
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* ''Britannica Book of the Year 1979'' ("for events of 1978"), published by ''Encyclopaedia Britannica'' 1979 (source of many items in "Works published" section and rarely in other sections)
==See also==
{{portal|Poetry}}
* [[Poetry]]
* [[List of poetry awards]]
* [[List of years in poetry]]
{{Schools of poetry}}
[[Category:Years in poetry]]
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