Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
January 1 – Two poems written in 1965 by Mao Zedong just before the Cultural Revolution, including "Two Birds: A Dialogue", are published
April 5 – 1976 Tiananmen Incident in Beijing, China: the display of poems against the Gang of Four are among events provoking a police crackdown.
Lille Stesichorus, the largest fragments of work attributed to Ancient Greek poet Stesichorus, are first published
Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:
R. Berndt (ed.), Love Songs of Arnhem Land (anthology)
Anne Elder, posthumous, Crazy Woman
John Forbes, Tropical Skiing (Poets of the Month Series), Sydney: Angus & Robertson.
Les Murray, The Vernacular Republic Selected Poems
John Tranter, The Alphabet Murders (notes from a work in progress), Angus & Robertson
Chris Wallace-Crabbe, The Foundations of Joy (Poets of the Month Series), Sydney: Angus & Robertson.
Earle Birney:
Alphabeings and Other Seasyours. London, Ont.: Pikadilly Press.
The Rugging and the Moving Times: poems new and uncollected 1976. Coatsworth, ON: Black Moss Press.
Gary Geddes, War & Other Measures
Roland Giguere, Miron translated from French
Archibald Lampman, Lampman's Sonnets: The Complete Sonnets of Archibald Lampman, Margaret Coulby Whitridge ed. (Ottawa: Borealis).
Irving Layton, For My Brother Jesus. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart.
Irving Layton, The Uncollected Poems of Irving Layton: 1936-59. Ed. W. David John. Ottawa, ON: Mosaic Press.
Dennis Lee. The Death of Harold Ladoo. Vancouver: Kanchenjunga Press.
Al Purdy, Sundance at Dusk
James Reaney, Selected Longer Poems.
Joe Rosenblatt, Top Soil, Selected Poems (1962-1975). Press Porcepic.
Charles Sangster, Norland echoes and other strains and lyrics, ed. Frank M. Tierney (Tecumseh)
Raymond Souster, To Hell with Poetry. Burton, Ohio.