1973 in poetry

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.

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1966 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Raymond Souster founds the League of Canadian Poets Philip Hobsbaum, who had founded The Belfast Group in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 1963, departs for Glasgow, and the Belfast Group meetings lapsed for a while, but then was reconstituted in 1968 by Michael Allen, Arthur Terry, and Seamus Heaney. At one time or another, the grouping also includes Michael Longley, James Simmons, Paul Muldoon, Ciaran Carson, Stewart Parker, Bernard MacLaverty and the critic Edna Longley.

Adrienne Rich

Adrienne Cecile Rich (ˈædriən ; May 16, 1929 – March 27, 2012) was an American poet, essayist and feminist. She was called "one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century", and was credited with bringing "the oppression of women and lesbians to the forefront of poetic discourse". Rich criticized rigid forms of feminist identities, and valorized what she coined the "lesbian continuum", which is a female continuum of solidarity and creativity that impacts and fills women's lives.

1972 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). June 4 — Joseph Brodsky is expelled from the Soviet Union. May 22 — Cecil Day-Lewis, Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, dies at Lemmons, the home of writers Kingsley Amis and Elizabeth Jane Howard on the northern edge of London. Autumn — The first threnody attributed to E. J. Thribb (actually written by Barry Fantoni and colleagues) is published in the English satirical magazine Private Eye.