1978 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events Bloodaxe Books is established by Neil Astley in Newcastle upon Tyne, England L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E magazine, edited by Bruce Andrews and Charles Bernstein, is first published in the United States Stevie, a film based on a play about the poet Stevie Smith is released 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 Margaret Avison, Sunblue Earle Birney, Fall by Fury & Other Makings. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart. Dionne Brand, Fore Day Morning: Poems William Wilfred Campbell, Vapour and Blue: Souster selects Campbell. Raymond Souster ed. Paget Press. Leonard Cohen, Death of a Lady's Man Don Domanski, Heaven Phyllis Gotlieb, The Works: Collected Poems George Benson Johnston, Taking a Grip: Poems 1971-78. Irving Layton, The Love Poems of Irving Layton. Toronto: Canadian Fine Editions. Irving Layton, The Tightrope Dancer. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart. Dennis Lee, The Gods. Vancouver: Kanchenjunga Press. Pat MacKay, The Pat Lowther Poem Sean O'Huigin, The Inks and the Pencils and the Looking Back Michael Ondaatje, Elimination Dance/La danse eliminatoire, Ilderton: Nairn Coldstream; revised edition, Brick, 1980 Craig Powell, Rehearsal for Dancers Al Purdy, Being Alive Joe Rosenblatt, Loosely Tied Hands. Black Moss. A.J.M. Smith The Classic Shade: Selected Poems Peter Trower, Bush Poems Sean Virgo, Deathwatch on Skidegate Narrows Miriam Waddington, Mister Never Wilfred Watson, I Begin With Counting George Woodcock: The Kestrel and Other Poems of Past and Present. Sunderland, Durham: Coelfrith Press, Canada Thomas Merton, Monk and Poet: A Critical Study, Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, and Seattle: University of Washington Press, criticism India in English K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar, Microcosmographia Poetica, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India . Ketaki Kushari Dyson, Sap-wood, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India. Margaret Chatterjee, The Sound of Wings, New Delhi: Arnold-Heinemann Ireland Seamus Heaney, After Summer, Gallery Press, Northern Ireland poet published in Dublin Thomas McCarthy, The First Convention, including "State Funeral" Dublin: Dolmen Press Tom Paulin, Personal Column, Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom New Zealand Alan Brunton, Oh Ravachol, Red Mole United Kingdom Peter Ackroyd, Country Life Al Alvarez, Autumn to Autumn and Selected Poems 1953–1976 Gillian Clarke, The Sundial, Welsh D. J. Enright, Paradise Illustrated Gavin Ewart, All My Little Ones (see also More Little Ones 1982) James Fenton, A Vacant Possession, poems, TNR Publications Roy Fisher, The Thing About Joe Sullivan Geoffrey Grigson, The Fiesta and Other Poems Tony Harrison, From the School of Eloquence, and Other Poems Seamus Heaney, After Summer, Gallery Press, Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom John Heath-Stubbs, The Watchman's Flute Geoffrey Hill, Tenebrae, including the sonnet sequences "Lachrimae" and "An Apology for the Revival of Christian Architecture in England" Ted Hughes: Cave Birds Moon-Bells, and Other Poems, for children A. Norman Jeffares, W. B. Yeats: Man And Poet, United Kingdom, biography, revision of the first edition of 1948 Jenny Joseph, The Thinking Heart