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.