1970 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). May – "La nuit de la poésie", a poetry reading in Montreal bringing together poets from French Canada to recite before an audience of more than 2,000 in the Théâtre du Gesu, lasting until 7 a.m. Release of Tomfoolery, an animated film directed by Joy Batchelor and John Halas, based on the nonsense verse of Edward Lear (especially "The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo") and Lewis Carroll First issue of Tapia (later named the Trinidad & Tobago Review) published In the United Kingdom, "My Enemies Have Sweet Voices", a poem by Pete Morgan, is set to music by Al Stewart and included in his "Zero She Flies" album this year. Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately: Robert Adamson Canticles on the Skin B. Elliott and A. Mitchell, Bards in the Wilderness: Australian Colonial Poetry to 1920, anthology John Tranter, Parallax, South Head Press Earle Birney, Rag & Bone Shop. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart). Joan Finnigan, It Was Warm and Sunny When We Set Out Gail Fox, Dangerous Season R.A.D. Ford, The Solitary City, his poems and translations from Russian and Portuguese John Glassco, Memoirs of Montparnasse Michael Ondaatje: The Collected Works of Billy the Kid: Left-handed Poems (adapted by Ondaatje into a play of the same name in 1973), Toronto: Anansi ; New York: Berkeley, 1975 Leonard Cohen (literary criticism), Toronto: McClelland & Stewart Joe Rosenblatt, Bumblebee Dithyramb. Robert Evans, editor, Song to a Seagull, collected Canadian songs and poems John Glassco, editor, The Poetry of French Canada in Translation, translated by English-speaking poets, including E. J. Pratt, Al Purdy, Leonard Cohen; and poetic lyrics from recent songs Raymond Souster and Douglas Lochhead, eds. New Poems of the Seventies. Ottawa: Oberon Press. Raymond Souster and Douglas Lochhead, eds. Made in Canada.