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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events

• Final issue of L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Magazine published.
• First issue of Conjunctions literary journal published.
• This year, "the word 'Martianism' came into use, through the verse of Craig Raine and his associates, presenting a vision of life on Earth as seen by a visiting Martian," the 1982 Britannica Book of the Year reported (page 504). Some noted that "Martianism" is an anagram for one of Raine's associates, Martin Amis.

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

• R. Hall, editor, Collins Book of Australian Poetry, anthology^[1]
• H. Heseltine, editor, Penguin Book of Modern Australian Verse, anthology^[1]
• L. Kramer, Oxford History of Australian Literature (scholarship)^[1]

Canada

• Margaret Atwood, True Stories
• Roo Borson, A Sad Device, ISBN 0-86495-011-X, American-Canadian
• Louis Dudek, Cross-Section: Poems 1940-80
• Gwen Hauser, Gophers and Swans
• P. K. Page, Evening Dance of the Grey Flies, poetry and prose^[2]
• Stephen Scobie, A Grand Memory For Forgetting
• Stephen Scobie and Douglas Barbour:
  • The Pirates of Pen's Chance: Homolinguistic Translations
  • The Maple Laugh Forever: An Anthology of Canadian Comic Poetry (Edmonton: Hurtig Publishers)
• F.R. Scott, The Collected Poems of F.R. Scott
• Raymond Souster, Collected Poems of Raymond Souster, Volume Two, 1955-62

Ireland

• Dermot Bolger, Finglas Lilies
• Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin: The Rose Geranium, Dublin: The Gallery Press^[3]
• Thomas McCarthy, The Sorrow Garden, Anvil Press, London, Irish poet published in the United Kingdm^[4]

United Kingdom

• Roberta Berke, Bounds out of Bounds: A Compass for Recent American and British Poetry, Oxford University Press, criticism^[5]
• James Fenton, Dead Soldiers, Sycamore Press, ^[6]
• John Heath-Stubbs, editor, Selected Poems of Thomas Gray
• Derek Mahon, Courtyards in Delft. Gallery Press
• Elizabeth Smart, Ten Poems
• The Faber Book of Christian Verse

United States

• A.R. Ammons, A Coast of Trees
• John Ashbery, Shadow Train
• Ted Berrigan, In a Blue River
• Joseph Brodsky: Verses on the Winter Campaign 1980, translation by Alan Meyers. – London: Anvil Press^[7] Russian-American
• Gwendolyn Brooks:
  • Black Love
  • To Disembark
• Gregory Corso, Herald of the Autochthonic Spirit, his first collection in 11 years
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Endless Life: Selected Poems
• Philip Levine, One for the Rose
• Michael Palmer, Notes For Echo Lake (North Point Press)
• Sylvia Plath, The Collected Poems of Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, editor, containing 224 poems in chronological order (posthumous)
• Marie Ponsot, Admit Impediment
• Michael Ryan, In Winter (Holt)
• Gilbert Sorrentino, Selected Poems 1958-1980
• Gerald Stern, The Red Coal
• Richard L. Tierney, Collected Poems
• Michael Van Walleghen, More Trouble With the Obvious
• David Wagoner, One for the Rose
• Rosmarie Waldrop, Nothing Has Changed (Awede Press)
• Robert Penn Warren, Rumor Verified: Poems 1979-1980
• Shel Silverstein, A Light in the Attic a collection of children's poetry

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States

• John Hollander:
  • Rhyme's Reason: A Guide to English Verse, criticism
  • The Figure of Echo, criticism

Other in English

• Alistair Campbell, Collected Poems, Hazard, ISBN 1-877393-00-2, New Zealand
• C. K. Stead, In the Glass Case, criticism, New Zealand^[8]

Works published in other languages

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:

French language

France

• Alain Bosquet:
  • Poèmes, deux
  • Sonnets pour une fin de siècle
• Jean Cayrol, Poésie-Journal

• Charles le Quintrec, La Lumière et l'argile
• Jacques Roubaud, Dors
• Jacques Roubaud and Florence Delay, Merlin l'enchanteur

German

• V. Hage, editor, Lyrik für Leser: Deutsche Gedichte der siebziger Jahre, anthology^[9]
• Heinz Toni Hamm, Poesie und kommunikative Praxis (scholarship)^[10]
• Klaus Weissenberger, editor, Die deutsche Lyrik, 1945-1975 (scholarship)^[10]

Hebrew

• A. Hillel, Devareiy
• Gavriel Preil, a new collection^[11]
• Avot Yeshurun, a new collection^[11]
• S. Shalom, a new collection^[11]
• Yehuda Amichai, Shalva gedola, she'elot uteshuvot
• Robert Whitehill, a "new poet"^[11]
• Peretz Banai, a "new poet"^[11]
• Esther Ettinger, a "new poet"^[11]
• Yosef Yehezkel, a "new poet"^[11]
• Aharon Shabtai, a new collection^[11]
• Mordecai Geldman, a new collection^[11]
• Hannah Barzilai, a new collection^[11]
• Batsheva Sharif, a new collection^[11]
• Michael Senunit, a new collection^[11]
• Menachem Ben, a new collection^[11]

Italian

• Eugenio Montale, L'opera in versi
• Carlo Betocchi, Poesie del sabato
• Maria Luisa Spaziani, Geometria del disordine
• Giovanni Guidici, Il ristorante dei morti
• Amelia Rosselli:
  • Primi scritti 1952-1965
  • Impromptu

Portuguese language

Portugal

• Herberto Helder, Poesia Toda
• A. Pinheiro Torre, O Ressentimento dum Ocidental

Brazil

• Carlos Drummond de Andrade, A paixão medida
• João Cabral de Melo Neto, A escola das faces
• Adélia Prado, Terra de Santa Cruz
• Mário da Silva, several volumes of poetry

Spanish language

Spain

• Antonio Abad, Misericor de mí
• Matilde Camus:
  • He seguido tus huellas ("I have followed your footprints")
  • Testigo de tu marcha ("Witness of your departure")
• Concha Lagos, Teoría de la inseguridad
• Vincente Presa, Teoría de los límites
• Pablo Virumbrales, Cancionero del vaso

Yiddish

Criticism, scholarship and biography in Yiddish

• Itskhak Janoswicz, Avrom Sutzkever, His Poetry and Prose
• The Lexicon of Modern Yiddish Literature, the eighth and final volume
• Khaim Leyb Fuks, Biographical Dictionary of Hebrew and Yiddish Writers in Canada

Other

• Chen Kehua, Qijing shaonian ("Whale Boy") Chinese (Taiwan)^[12]
• Lo Fu (poet) (Luo Fu),Wound of Time, Chinese (Taiwan) ^[13]

Nordic

• Inger Christensen, Alfabet, 1981 ("Alphabet"), later translated into English by Susanna Nied, twice translated into Swedish, Denmark^[14]
• Stein Mehren, Den usynlige regnbuen, Norway
• Karl Vennberg, Bilder I-XXVI, Sweden
• Goran Sonnevi, SmÃ¥ klanger; en rÅ‘st, Sweden
• Eva Runefelt, Augusti, Sweden

Awards and honors

Australia

• Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Alan Gould, Astral Sea

Canada

• Gerald Lampert Award
• See 1981 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
• Pat Lowther Award

United Kingdom

• Cholmondeley Award: Roy Fisher, Robert Garioch, Charles Boyle
• Eric Gregory Award: Alan Jenkins, Simon Rae, Marion Lomax, Philip Gross, Kathleen Jamie, Mark Abley, Roger Crowley, Ian Gregson
• Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: D. J. Enright
• Hawthornden Prize: Christopher Reid

United States

• Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Kathy Calloway, Heart of the Garfish
• Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry: Frank Bidart, "The War of Vaslav Nijinsky"
• Bollingen Prize (United States): Howard Nemerov and May Swenson
• Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (later the post would be called "Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress"): Maxine Kumin appointed this year.
• MacArthur Fellowships: A.R. Ammons, Joseph Brodsky, Robert Penn Warren
• National Book Award for poetry (United States): Lisel Mueller, The Need to Hold Still
• National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry: A.R. Ammons, A Coast of Trees (Norton)
• Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress: Maxine Kumin appointed
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: James Schuyler: The Morning of the Poem
• Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Richard Hugo
• Walt Whitman Award: Alberto Ríos, Whispering to Fool the Wind (Sheep Meadow Press) Judge: Donald Justice

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• April 26 – Robert Garioch (born 1909)
• May 31 – Falguni Ray (born 1945), Bengali poet and youngest member of Hungryalism movement
• September 12 – Eugenio Montale, 85, Italian poet, prose writer, editor and translator, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1975.
• October 26 – Marie Uguay, 26 (born 1955), French-Canadian), from bone cancer
• October 30 – George Brassens, French

• Date not known:
  • John Glassco, Canadian poet, memoirist and novelist
  • Ada Verdun Howell (born 1902), Australian
  • Leonard Mann (born 1895), Australian
  • Takis Sinopoulos (born 1917), Greek

Notes

1. ^ ^{a b c} Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "Australian Poetry" article, Anthologies section, p 108
2. ^ Roberts, Neil, editor, A Companion to Twentieth-century Poetry, Part III, Chapter 3, "Canadian Poetry", by Cynthia Messenger, Blackwell Publishing, 2003, ISBN 9781405113618, retrieved via Google Books, January 3, 2009
3. ^ Web page titled "Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin" at The Gallery Press website, accessed May 4, 2008
4. ^ Web page titled "Thomas McCarthy" at the Poetry International Website, accessed May 2, 2008
5. ^ Web page titled "Archives / Kenneth Koch (1925 - 2002)", "Further Readings" section, at Poetry Foundation website, accessed May 15, 2008
6. ^ [1]Web page titled "Books by Fenton" at the James Fenton Web site, accessed October 11, 2007
7. ^ [2] Web page titled "Joseph Brodsky / Nobel Prize in Literature 1987 / Bibliography" at the "Official Web Site of the Nobel Foundation", accessed October 18, 2007
8. ^ 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, "History and Criticism" section, p 837
9. ^ 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
10. ^ ^{a b} 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
11. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m} Britannica Book of the Year 1982, published by Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc., 1982, "Literature" section, "Jewish" subsection, page 518; the article does not specify the names of all works, or, in the case of "new poets" whether a work was even written or whether the poet was just published in a periodical; perhaps this information can be added from other sources
12. ^ Poetry International website Web page on Chen Kehua, retrieved November 22, 2008
13. ^ Balcom, John, "Lo Fu", article on Poetry International website, retrieved November 22, 2008
14. ^ Web page titled "Inger Christensen (b. 1935)" at Pegasos website, retrieved January 7, 2009

• Britannica Book of the Year 1982 ("for events of 1981"), published by Encyclopaedia Britannica 1982 (source of many items in "Works published" section and rarely in other sections)

See also

Poetry portal

• Poetry
• List of years in poetry
• List of poetry awards

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