1978 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Bloodaxe Books is established by Neil Astley in Newcastle upon Tyne, England L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E magazine, edited by Bruce Andrews and Charles Bernstein, is first published in the United States Stevie, a film based on a play about the poet Stevie Smith is released Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately: Margaret Avison, Sunblue Earle Birney, Fall by Fury & Other Makings. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart. Dionne Brand, Fore Day Morning: Poems William Wilfred Campbell, Vapour and Blue: Souster selects Campbell. Raymond Souster ed. Paget Press. Leonard Cohen, Death of a Lady's Man Don Domanski, Heaven Phyllis Gotlieb, The Works: Collected Poems George Benson Johnston, Taking a Grip: Poems 1971-78. Irving Layton, The Love Poems of Irving Layton. Toronto: Canadian Fine Editions. Irving Layton, The Tightrope Dancer. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart. Dennis Lee, The Gods. Vancouver: Kanchenjunga Press. 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 Craig Powell, Rehearsal for Dancers Al Purdy, Being Alive Joe Rosenblatt, Loosely Tied Hands. Black Moss. A.J.M. Smith The Classic Shade: Selected Poems Peter Trower, Bush Poems Sean Virgo, Deathwatch on Skidegate Narrows Miriam Waddington, Mister Never Wilfred Watson, I Begin With Counting George Woodcock: The Kestrel and Other Poems of Past and Present. Sunderland, Durham: Coelfrith Press, Canada Thomas Merton, Monk and Poet: A Critical Study, Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, and Seattle: University of Washington Press, criticism K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar, Microcosmographia Poetica, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India . Ketaki Kushari Dyson, Sap-wood, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India.