Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
September 16 – Chilean poet Víctor Jara, having been detained four days earlier as a political prisoner in Estadio Chile and tortured during the 1973 Chilean coup d'état, is shot and killed. His last poem Estadio Chile is preserved in memories and scraps of paper retained by fellow detainees.
Canadian poet and author, Michael Ondaatje adapts his 1970 book of poetry, The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, into a play which this year is first produced in Stratford, Ontario; it will appear in New York in 1974 and in London, England in 1984.
White Pine Press founded in Buffalo, New York. The publisher is a nonprofit organization putting out poetry, fiction, essays, and literature in translation.
The French journal L'éphémère, founded in 1966, ceases publication this year; poets associated with it include Yves Bonnefoy, Jacques Dupin and André du Bouchet.
Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:
John Tranter:
Red Movie and other poems, Angus & Robertson
The Blast Area, Gargoyle Poets number 13, Makar Press
Chris Wallace-Crabbe:
Selected Poems, Sydney: Angus & Robertson
Vinyl record: Chris Wallace-Crabbe Reads From His Own Verse, St.Lucia
Alfred Bailey, Thanks for a Drowned Island.
Earle Birney:
The Bear on the Delhi Road: selected poems. London: Chatto & Windus.
what's so big about GREEN?. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart.
Shirley Gibson, I Am Watching
John Glassco, Montreal. Montreal: DC Books.
Irving Layton, Lovers and lesser Men. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart.
Dorothy Livesay, Nine Poems of Farewell. Windsor, ON: Black Moss Press.
Eli Mandel, Crusoe: Poems Selected and New
Miriam Mandel, Lions at Her Face. Edmonton: White Pelican Publications.
John Metcalf (ed.), The Speaking Earth, anthology
Michael Ondaatje, Rat Jelly, Toronto: Coach House Press
Al Purdy, Sex and Death
F. R. Scott, The Dance Is One.