1974 in poetry.html



Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events

• The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics is founded by Allen Ginsberg and Anne Waldman.
• October 4, When Ann Sexton was having lunch with her friend, fellow poet and collaborator Maxine Kumin to review Sexton's most recent book, The Awful Rowing Toward God, without a note or any warning, Sexton went in to her garage, started the ignition of her car, and died of carbon monoxide poisoning.
• The dictatorship in Greece falls; exiled poets, authors and intellectuals return to the country to publish there.
• The dictatorship in Portugal falls in April; in the six months prior, with increasing repression and a discouraging atmosphere, little new work is published; yet later in the year, not much new poetry is published either as "writers who had based their style on censor-proof allusiveness and their themes on protest would now have to do some retooling".¹

Works published in English

Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:

Canada

• George Bowering, In the Flesh
• A.M. Klein, The Collected Poems of A.M. Klein
• Patrick Lane, Beware the Months of Fire
• P.K. Page, Poems Selected and New
• Annie Szumigalski, Woman Reading in the Bath
• George Woodcock, editor, Poets and Critics: Essays from Canadian Literature 1966-1974, Toronto: Oxford University Press, scholarship²

New Zealand

• Fleur Adcock, The Scenic Route, London and New York: Oxford University Press (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963)³
• James K. Baxter, posthumous:
  • The Tree House, poems for children
  • The Labyrinth: Some Uncollected Poems 1944–72, edited by J. E. Weir
• Charles Brasch: Home Ground: Poems, Christchurch: Caxton Press (published posthumously)⁴
• Allen Curnow, Collected Poems 1933–73⁵
• Kendrick Smithyman, The Seal in the Dolphin Pool, Auckland: Auckland University Press and Oxford University Press
• Ian Wedde, Made Over

United Kingdom

• W. H. Auden, Thank You, Fog (posthumous)
• Alasdair Clayre, A Fire by the Sea
• Odysseas Elytis, two English translations: The Axion Esti (trans. Edmund Keeley and G. Savidis) and The Sovereign Sun (trans. Kinom Friar)
• William R. P. George - Grawn Medi
• Karen Gershon, My Daughters, My Sisters
• Robin Hamilton, Poems
• John Heath-Stubbs, Artorius: A Heroic Poem in Four Books and Eight Episodes
• David Jones, The Sleeping Lord and Other Fragments
• Susanne Knowles, The Sea-Bell and Other Poems
• Philip Larkin, High Windows
• Edward Lucie-Smith, The Well-Wishers
• John Montague, editor, The Faber Book of Irish Verse anthology (Faber and Faber)
• Richard Murphy, High Island
• John Pudney, Selected Poems, 1967-1973
• Richard Ryan, Ravenswood
• Jon Silkin, the Principle of Water
• Joan Murray Simpson, In High Places
• C. H. Sisson, In the Trojan Ditch, collected poems and selected translations
• Iain Crichton Smith, Notebooks of Robinson Crusoe
• John Stallworthy, The Apple Barrel
• R. S. Thomas:
  • Selected Poems, 1946-1968
  • What is a Welshman?
• Anthony Thwaite, New Confessions
• Andrew Young, Complete Poems (posthumous)

United States

• Ai, Cruelty
• A.R. Ammons, Sphere: The Form of a Motion
• Ted Berrigan, The Drunken Boat
• Ed Dorn:
  • Recollections of Gran Apacheria, Turtle Island⁶
  • Slinger (contains Gunslinger, Books I-IV and "The Cycle"), Wingbow Press⁶
• Jill Hoffman, Mink Coat
• Galway Kinnell, The Avenue Bearing the Initial of Christ into the New World
• Judith Kroll, In the Temperate Zone
• James Merrill: "Lost in Translation", one of the most studied and celebrated of his shorter works, was originally published in The New Yorker magazine on April 8, and published in his 1976 book Divine Comedies.
• Michael Palmer, The Circular Gates (Black Sparrow Press)
• Charles Reznikoff, By the Well of Living & Seeing: New & Selected Poems 1918-1973
• Michael Ryan, Threats Instead of Trees (Yale University Press)
• Anne Sexton, The Death Notebooks
• Gary Snyder, Turtle Island
• Reed Whittemore, The Mother's Breast and the Father's House

Other

• Robert Gray, Creekwater Journal Australia
• Christopher Hope, Cape Drives (South Africa)
• Les Murray, Lunch and Counter Lunch, Australia⁷

In translation

• Ernesto Cardenal, translated from Spanish, Homage to the American Indians
• César Vallejo, translated from Spanish by David Smith, Trilce
• Padilla, translated from Spanish by J. M. Cohen, Fuera del juego (English title: "Sent off the Field")

Works published in other languages

Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:

Denmark

• Poul Borum, Sang til dagens glæde
• Jørgen Gustava Brandt, Her omkring
• Vagn Steen, Fuglens flugt i halvkrystal

French language

• Andrée Sodenkamp La Fête debout (Belgium)

France

• Michel Béguey, Par des chemins secrets
• Maurice Courant, O toi que le vent glace
• Pierre Emmanuel, Sophia
• Claude Fourcade, Le Florilège poétique
• Eugène Guillevic, encoches
• Patrice de La Tour du Pin, Psaumes de tous mes temps
• Jean Lebrau, Singles
• Jean-Claude Renard, Le Dieu de nuit
• Robert Mallet, Quand le mirior s'etonne
• Pierre Menanteau, Capitale du souvenir

Criticism, scholarship and biography in France

• Jean Follain, Collège, memoirs
• Pierre Segher, La Résistance et ses poètes

Canada

• Rémi-Paul Forgue, Poèmes du vent et des ombres
• Michel Garneau, Moments

German language

West Germany

• Jürgen Becker, Das Ende der Landschaftsmalerei
• Erich Fried, Gegengift
• Hermann Kesten, Ich bin der ich bin

Hebrew

• N. Alterman, Regayim (posthumous)
• T. Carmi, Hitnatzlut ha-Mechaber
• Haim Gouri, Mar`ot Gihazi ("Gehazi Visions"), Israel⁸
• Y. Lerner, Shirim
• N. Sach, Mivhar
• H. Schimmel, Shirai Malon Zion
• A Shllonsky, Sefer ha-Sulamot (posthumous)
• N. Stern, Bain Arpilim
• M. Wieseltier, Kach

Portuguese language

Brazil

• Francisco Alvim, Passatempo
• Geraldo Carneiro, Na Busca do Sete-Estrelo
• Ledo Ivo, O Sinal Semafórico (posthumous)
• Stella Leonardos:
  • Amanhecéncia
  • Romançário
• Ariano Suassuna, A Farsa da Boa Preguiça

Portugal

• Fiama Brandão, collected verse, with additions⁹
• Fernando Echevarria, A Base e o Timbre
• Egito Gonçalves, Destruição: Dois Pontos
• Herberto Helder, collected poems to date⁹
• Jorge de Sena, Conheço o Sal
• Pedro Támen, Os 42 Sonetos

Russian

• M. Kanoatov, The Voice of Stalingrad (translated into Russian from Tajik), 1973
• M. Lukonin, Frontline Verse
• L. Tatyanichev, The Honey Season

Sweden

• Reidar Ekner, Efter flera tusen rad
• Lars Forssell, Det möjiliga
• G. Harding and R. Aggestam, editors, Tjugo unga poeter, an anthology of modern poetry
• Lars Norén, Dagliga och nattliga dikter
• Tomas Tranströmer, Östersjöar

Yiddish

• Pinche Berman, Love
• Moshe Brodersohn, The Last Song (posthumous)
• Meir Charatz:
  • Heaven and Earth
  • In Strange Paradise
• Eliezer Greenberg, Memorabilia
• Shifrah Kholodenko, The Word
• Rachel Kramf, Clouds Wish to Cry
• Saul Maltz, Poems of My Profound Belief
• Joseph Mlotek and Eleanor Mlotek, editors, Pearls from Yiddish Poetry (anthology), poems printed in the Sunday editions of the New York Jewish Daily Forward
• Roza Nevadovska, Poems of Mine (posthumous)
• Hillel Shargel, A Window to Heaven
• Abraham Sutzkever, The Fidlerose
• Malka H. Tuzman, Under Your Mark
• Freed Weininger, In the Wide Outside
• Isaac Yanosovich, The Other Side of Wonder
• Hersh Leib Young, In the Astral Spheres

Spanish Language

Spain

• Vicente Aleixandre, Diálogos del conocimiento
• Matilde Camus, Templo del Alba ("Temple of Dawn")

Latin America

• Pablo Neruda:
  • La rosa separada
  • Jardín de invierno
  • Defectos escogidos
  • 2000 El corazón amarillo
  • Libro de las preguntas
  • Elegía
  • El mar y las campanas
• Efraín Huerta, Los eróticos y otros poemas (Mexico)
• Elvio Romero, Antología poética 1947-73, second edition (Paraguay)
• Luis Cardoza y Aragón, Quinta estación

Other

• Odysseas Elytis, Τα Ετεροθαλή ("Step-Poems") Greece
• Lo Fu (poet) (Luo Fu),Magical Songs, Chinese (Taiwan)¹⁰

Awards and honors

Canada

• See 1974 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

United Kingdom

• Cholmondeley Award: D.J. Enright, Vernon Scannell, Alasdair Maclean
• Eric Gregory Award: Duncan Forbes, Roger Garfitt, Robin Hamilton, Frank Ormsby, Penelope Shuttle
• Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Ted Hughes

United States

• Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (later the post would be called "Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress"): Stanley Kunitz appointed this year.
• Frost Medal: John Hall Wheelock
• National Book Award for Poetry, Allen Ginsberg, The Fall of America: Poems of these States, 1965-1971 and Adrienne Rich, Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971-1972
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Robert Lowell, The Dolphin
• Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Léonie Adams

French language

France

• French Academy: Grand Prix de la Poésie: Philippe Soupault

Births

• William Allegrezza

Deaths

Anne Sexton, 1974

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• January 20 - Edmund Blunden, English poet, author and critic
• March 19 - Austin Clarke, Irish poet, novelist and playwright
• June 9 — Miguel Ángel Asturias, 74, Guatemalan poet, author, writer, journalist and diplomat
• July 5 - John Crowe Ransom, 86
• July 11 — Pär Lagerkvist, 83, Swedish poet, author, playwright, writer and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1951
• July 24 - Tyler Parker, 70
• August 22 - Jacob Bronowski, at 66
• September 6 - Julian Davis, 72
• October 4 - Anne Sexton, 45, American poet, of suicide;
• October 28 - David Jones, 78, English poet and artist
• Date not known:
  • Eric Roach
  • Kostas Varnalis, Greek

Notes

1. ^ Britannica Book of the Year 1975 ("for events of 1974"), published by The Encyclopaedia Britannica 1975; "Literature" article, "Portuguese" section, "Portugal" subsection, by Stephen Reckert, page 464
2. ^ Web page titled "The Works of George Woodcock" at the Anarchy Archives website, which states: "This list is based on The Record of George Woodcock (issued for his eightieth birthday) and Ivan Avakumovic's bibliography in A Political Art: Essays and Images in Honour of George Woodcock, edited by W.H. New, 1978, with additions to bring it up to date"; accessed April 24, 2008
3. ^ Web page titled "Fleur Adcock: New Zealand Literature File" at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, 2008
4. ^ Web page titled "Charles Brasch: New Zealand Literature File" at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, [[2008
5. ^ Allen Curnow Web page at the New Zealand Book Council website, accessed April 21, 2008
6. ^ ^{a b} Web page titled "Archive / Edward Dorn (1929-1999)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved May 8, 2008
7. ^ [1]Les Murray Web page at The Poetry Archive Web site, accessed October 15, 2007
8. ^ [2]Web page titled "Haim Gouri" at the Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature Web site, accessed October 6, 2007
9. ^ ^{a b} Stephen Reckert, "Portugal" subsection (page 464) of "Portuguese" section of "Literature" article in The Britannica Book of the Year 1975 (for events of 1974), published by The Encyclopaedia Britannica; this was as much information as was given in the article
10. ^ Balcom, John, "Lo Fu", article on Poetry International website, retrieved November 22, 2008

• Britannica Book of the Year 1975 ("for events of 1974"), published by Encyclopaedia Britannica 1975 (source of many items in "Works published" section and rarely in other sections)

See also

Poetry portal

• Poetry
• List of poetry awards
• List of years in poetry

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