January – James Dickey, composes a poem he reads at new United States President Jimmy Carter’s inaugural gala (although not at the inauguration itself).^[1]
July 11 – The English magazine Gay News is found guilty of blasphemous libel for publishing a homoerotic poem The Love That Dares to Speak Its NamebyJames Kirkup in a case (Whitehouse v. Lemon) brought by Mary Whitehouse's National Viewers and Listeners Association at the Old Bailey in London.^[2]
Poet Sarah Kirsch leaves her native East Germany for the West.
In Israeli the literary journal Keshet goes defunct, while Itton and Proza are founded.

Works published in English

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Australia

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Robert Adamson Cross The Border
Jennifer Maiden, Mortal Details, Rigmarole
Les Murray, Ethnic Radio, Angus & Robertson^[3]
John Tranter, Crying in Early Infancy: 100 Sonnets, Makar Press

Canada

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Earle Birney:
- The Damnation of Vancouver. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart. A satire on the modern city.
- Ghost in the Wheels: selected poems. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart.^[4]
Roo Borson, Landfall, ISBN 0-920110-32-0 American-Canadian
Leonard Cohen, Death of a Ladies' Man
Isabella Valancy Crawford, Hugh and Ion, Glenn Clever ed. (Ottawa: Borealis). ISBN 978-0-919594-77-7
Irving Layton, The Poems of Irving Layton. Eli Mandel ed. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart. Also published, with an introduction by Hugh Kenner, as The Selected Poems of Irving Layton. New York: New Directions, 1977.^[5] ISBN 0-8112-0642-4
Irving Layton, The Covenant. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart.^[5]
Dorothy Livesay, Right Hand Left Hand. Erin, ON: Porcepic.^[6]
Pat Lowther, A Stone Diary
Miriam Mandel, Station 14. Edmonton: NeWest Press.^[7] ISBN 0-920316-08-5 ISBN 978-0920316085
Charles Sangster, The Angel Guest and Other Poems and Lyrics, edited by Frank M. Tierney (Tecumseh)^[8]
F. R. Scott, Poems of French Canada. Translated by F. R. Scott. Burnaby, B.C.: Blackfish Press.^[9]
Raymond Souster, Extra Innings. Ottawa. Oberon Press.^[10]
George Woodcock, Anima, or, Swann Grown Old. A Cycle of Poems by George Woodcock, Windsor, Ontario: Black Moss Press, Canada^[11]

India, in English

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R. Parthasarathy, Rough Passage, Delhi: Oxford University Press^[12]
Meena Alexander, I Root My Name, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India.^[13]

Ireland

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Samuel Beckett, Collected Poems in English and French,^[14] Irish native living in France and published in the United Kingdom
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin: The Second Voyage, including "Deaths and Engines",^[15] Oldcastle: The Gallery Press^[16]
Harry Clifton, The Walls of Carthage Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, ISBN 978-0-902996-51-9
Paul Muldoon, Mules,^[14] Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom
Frank Ormsby, A Store of Candles, including "Passing the Crematorium", Oldcastle: Gallery Press^[15]
Tom Paulin, A State of Justice,^[14] Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom

New Zealand

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Bill Manhire, How to Take Off Your Clothes at the Picnic
Lauris Edmond, The Pear Tree: Poems ^[17]
R. Ensing, editor, Private Gardens, anthology of New Zealand women poets^[18]
Kendrick Smithyman, Dwarf with a Billiard Cue, Auckland: Auckland University Press and Oxford University Press
Ian Wedde, Spells for Coming Out, New Zealand

United Kingdom

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Samuel Beckett, Collected Poems in English and French,^[14] Irish native living in France and published in the United Kingdom
Kamau Brathwaite, Mother Poem
Joseph Brodsky: Poems and Translations, Keele: University of Keele^[19] Russian-American (but published in the United Kingdom; see United States section for a book published there)
Donald Davies, To Scorch or Freeze
Carol Ann Duffy and Adrian Henri, Beauty and the Beast^[20]
Elaine Feinstein:
- Some Unease and Angels,^[14] Hutchinson
- Selected Poems, University Center, Michigan, Green River Press
W. S. Graham, Implements in their Places
Michael Hamburger, Real Estate
Adrian Henri, City Hedges^[14]
Ted Hughes, Gaudete,^[14] derived from an abandoned film scenario, the book has elements of a poetic novel, narrative poem and verse play
Elizabeth Jennings, Consequently I Rejoice^[14]
Norman MacCaig, Tree of Strings^[14]
Sorley MacLean, pen name of Somhairle MacGill-Eain, Spring Tide and Neap Tide [Reothairt is Contraigh], in Gaelic and English^[14]
Paul Muldoon, Mules,^[14] Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom
Tom Paulin, A State of Justice,^[14] Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom
Kathleen Raine, The Oval Portrait, and Other Poems^[14]
Peter Scupham, The Hinterland^[14]
R. S. Thomas, The Way of It
Anthony Thwaite, A Portion for Foxes^[14]

United States

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A. R. Ammons:
- Highgate Road
- The Selected Poems: 1951-1977
- The Snow Poems
John Ashbery, Houseboat Days
Ted Berrigan:
- Clear The Range
- Nothing For You
John Berryman, Henry's Fate and Other Poems, 1967-1972, with 45 previously unpublished "Dream Songs" (posthumous)
Joseph Payne Brennan, The Riddle (Fantome Press)
Frank Bidart, The Book of the Body
Elizabeth Bishop, Geography III, which includes "In the Waiting Room," "The Moose," and the villanelle, "One Art"
Joseph Brodsky: A Part of Speech^[21] Russian-American (see United Kingdom section for a book published there)
Robert Bly, This Body is Made of Camphor and Gopherwood
Billy Collins, Pokerface
Frank Belknap Long, In Mayan Splendor
Michael S. Harper, Images of Kin (1977), won the Melville-Cane Award from the Poetry Society of America; nominated for the National Book Award^[22]
Robert Lowell, Day by Day
W. S. Merwin:
- The Compass Flower, New York: Atheneum^[23]
- Translator, Vertical Poetry, poems by Roberto Juarroz; San Francisco: Kayak (reprinted in 1988; San Francisco: North Point Press)^[23]
W. S. Merwin and J. Moussaieff Mason, translators, Sanskrit Love Poetry, New York: Columbia University Press (published in 1981 as Peacock's Egg: Love Poems from Ancient India, San Francisco: North Point Press)^[23]
Michael Palmer, Without Music (Black Sparrow Press)
Carl Rakosi, My Experience in Parnassus
Charles Reznikoff, Poems 1937-1975 (published posthumously)
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Prussian Nights, translated into English from the original RussianbyRobert Conquest; first written in 1951; first published in 1974
Gary Soto, The Elements of San Joaquin^[24]

Works published in other languages

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Denmark

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Vita Andersen, Tryghedsnarkomaner
Jørgen Gustava Brandt, Ophold
Klaus Høeck:
- Projekt Perseus, publisher: Gyldendal^[25]
- Ulrike Marie Meinhof, publisher: Gyldendal^[25]
Vagn Lundbye, Digte 1977
Jess Ornsbo, Digte uden arbejde
Charlotte Strandgaard, Naesten kun om kaerlighed

French language

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Canada, in French

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Denise Boucher and Madeleine Gagnon, Retailles
Claude Gavreau, Ouvres créatrices complètes (posthumous)
Michel Leclerc, La Traversée du réel
Pierre Nepveu, Épisodes, Montréal: l'Hexagone^[26]

France

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Samuel Beckett, Collected Poems in English and French,^[14] Irish native living in France and published in the United Kingdom
Yves Bonnefoy, Rue Traversière
André du Bouchet, Air (1950–1953)^[27]
Alain Delahaye, L'etre perdu^[27]
Philippe Denis, Malgré la bouche^[27]
Roger Giroux, published posthumously (died 1973):
- S^[27]
- L'arbre le Temps suivi le Lieu-Je et de Lettre^[27]
Eugene Guilleveic, Du domaine^[27]
Emmanuel Hocquard, Album d'images de la Villa Harris^[27]
Georges Perec, Alphabets
Jacques Roubaud, Autobiographie chapitre dix^[27]
Alain Veinstein, Recherche des dispositions anciennes^[27]

German language

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East Germany

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Sarah Kirsch, Rückenwind, love poems
Paul Günter Krohn, Alle meine Namen

West Germany

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Herbert Asmodi [de], Jokers Farewell
Gotthard de Beauclair, Zeit, Überzeit
Rolf Haufs, Die Geschwindigkeit eines einzigen Tages
Karl Krowlow, Der Einfachheit halber
Norbert Mecklenburg, Naturlyrik und Gesellschaft Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta (scholarship)^[28]

Hebrew

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Nathan Alterman, a posthumous book of poems^[29]
O. Bernstein, a book of poems^[29]
Simon Halkin, a book of the collected poems and works^[29]
Hurvitz, a book of poems^[29]
Shimshon Meltzer, a book of the collected poems and works^[29]
Gabriel Preil, a book of poems^[29]
Dalia Ravikovitch, a book of poems^[29]
Yonatan Ratosh, a book of poems^[29]
Shin Shalom, a book of poems^[29]
Y. Wallach, a book of collected poems^[29]
Meir Wieseltier, a book of poems^[29]
Avot Yeshurun, a book of poems^[29]
Zussman, a posthumous book of poems^[29]

India

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In each section, listed in alphabetical order by first name:

Malayalam

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Sugathakumari, Raathrimazha (Night Rain)

Oriya

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Mohan Upendra Thakur, Baji Uthal Murali^[30]
Rajendra Kishore Panda:
- Satadru Anek, Cuttack: Agradoot^[31]
- Ghunakshara, Cuttack: Cuttack Students' Store^[31]

Sindhi

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Hari Daryani, Pala Pala Jo Parlau^[30]
Harumal Isardas Sadarangani, Cikha^[30]
Parsram Rohra, O Nava Halaina Vara^[30]

Urdu

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Mehr Lal Soni Zia Fatehabadi Dhoop Aur Chandni (The Sunlight and the Moonlight) - Collection of poems published by Radha Krishan Sehgal, Bazm-e-Seemab, J 5/21, Rajouri Garden, New Delhi in 1977.

Other languages in India

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K. Satchidanandan, Kavita, ("Poetry"); Malayalam-language^[32]
Nilmani Phookan; Assamese-language:
- Golapi Jamur Lagna, Guwahati, Assam: Bani Prakash^[33]
- Editor, Kuri Satikar Asomiya Kavita, an anthology of modern Assamese poetry; Guwahati, Assam: Asom Prakashan Parishad^[33]
Siddayya Puranika, Vacanodyana, modern vachana poetry, Kannada-language^[30]

Italy

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Bartolo Cattafi, Marzo e le sue idi
Giovanni Guidici, Il male de creditori
Tommaso Landolfi, Il tradimento
Eugenio Montale, Tutte le poesie, publisher: Mondadori^[34] (enlarged edition published posthumously in 1984)
Maria Luisa Spaziani, Transito con catene

Norway

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Hans Børli, Vinden ser aldri pa veviserne
Jan Magnus Bruheim, Lyrespelaren
Gunvor Hofmo, Hva fanger natten
Peter R. Holm, I disse bilder
Stein Mehren, Det trettende stjernebilde
Sigmund Skard, Ord mot mørkret
Helge Vatsend, Livets bok

Portuguese language

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Portugal

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Ruy de Moura Belo, Despeço-me da terra da alegria ("I Bid Farewell to the Land of Happiness")^[35]

Herberto Helder, Cobra
António Ramos Rosa, Boca Incompleta
Sophia Andresen, O Nome das Coisas
Fiama Brandão, Homenagem à Literatura
Liberto Cruz, Distància
Vitorino Nemésio, Sapateia Açoriana

Brazil

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Carlos Nejar, Árvore do mundo
Décio Pignatari
- Poesia / Pois é / Poesia (poems)
- Comunicacao poética (critical theory about poetry)
Murilo Mendes, a posthumous collection of poems edited by João Cabral de Melo Neto, with a study by José Guilherme Merquior

Russia

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Arkadi Kuleshov, a book of poems^[29]
Bella Akhmadulina:
- Candle
- Dreams of Georgia
Alexander Mezhirov, Очертания вещей ("Outline of things"), Russia, Soviet Union
Valentin Sorokin, a book of poems^[29]
Stepan Shchipachev, a book of poems^[29]
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Prussian Nights, narrative poem, much of it composed in his head when he was in concentration camps
Yevgeny Yevtushenko, a book of poems^[29]
"[L]esser-known poets who attracted attention":^[29]

Spanish language

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Spain

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Francisco Brines, Insistencia en Luzbel
Matilde Camus, Cancionero de Liébana ("Collection of verse of Liebana")
José María Valverde, Ser de palabra

Latin America

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Mario Benedetti, La casa y el ladrillo ("The House and the Brick"), Uruguay^[36]
Antonio Cisneros, el libro de dios y de los húngaros (Peru)
Jaime Sabines, Nuevo recuento de poemas (Mexico)
Efraín Huerta, Circuito interior (Mexico)
David Huerta, Cuadernos de noviembre (Mexico)

Yiddish

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David Hofshteyn, a two-volume selection of poems^[29]
Josl Lerner, Till Dawn Breaks, partly written in a German-Romanian death camp during World War II
Chaim Maltinsky, My Mother's Resemblance
Hirsh Osherovitch, Song in a Labyrinth
Shloyme Roitman, My Israel Shofar
Efraim Roitman, The Earth Sings
Motl Saktzier, With a Burned Pencil, about his experiences in Soviet gulags
M.M. Shaffir, Words of Endearment
Avrom Sutzkever, Poems from My Diary
Rajzel Zychlinska, The Sun of November

Other languages

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Stanisław Barańczak, Ja wiem, ze to niesluszne ("I Know It's Not Right"), Paris: Instytut Literacki; Polish^[37]
Anne-Marie Berglund, Luftberusningen, Sweden
Chen Yi, Selected Poems; China
Odysseus Elytis, Signalbook (Σηματολόγιον); Greece
Ndoc Gjetja, Qëndresa ("Center"); Albania^[38]
Gozo Yoshimasu, river, Written in Cursive Characters; Japan
Lars Gustafsson, Sonetter; Sweden
Per E. Rundquist, Men störst av allt är kärleken till vem; (Sweden
Piotr Sommer, W krześle; Poland^[39]
Marlene van Niekerk, Sprokkelster; South Africa
Wen Wu-pin, Battle Songs of Tachai; China
Yasuo Irisawa, Moon and Other Poems; Japan

Awards and honors

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Nobel Prize in Literature: Vicente Aleixandre (Spain)

United States

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AML Award for Poetry to Linda Sillitoe for "The Old Philosopher, Letter to a Four-Year-Old Daughter" and Arthur Henry King for "The Field Behind Holly House"
Bollingen Prize: David Ignatow
National Book Award for Poetry: Richard Eberhart, Collected Poems, 1930-1976
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: James Merrill, Divine Comedies
Walt Whitman Award: Lauren Shakely, Guilty Bystander
Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Louis Coxe

Births

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April 18 — Ilya Kaminsky, Soviet-born Russian- and English-language poet
September 25 — Sole, American hip hop artist
Jenni Fagan, Scottish novelist and poet

Deaths

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

January 5 — Artur Adson, 87, Estonian poet and critic
January 21 — Sandro Penna, 70, Italian
February 2 — Rashid Hussein, 41, Palestinian Arabic poet in the United States, in fire
April 7 — Elizabeth Daryush, 96, English poet, daughter of Robert Bridges
April 11 — Jacques Prévert, 77, French
September 12 — Robert Lowell, 60, American, from a heart attack
November 30 — Miloš Crnjanski, 84, Serbian poet and novelist
December 18 — Louis Untermeyer, 92, American author, poet, anthologist and editor
December 30 — Katherine C. Biddle, 87, American
Also — Gitaujali Badruddin, 16, Indian girl poet

Notes

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^ Garner, Dwight, "The Intersection of Poetry and Politics", article, The New York Times, December 25, 2008, retrieved same day

^ "11 July 1977: Gay paper guilty of blasphemy". On This Day. BBC News. Archived from the original on 7 March 2008. Retrieved 2013-06-29.

^ [1] Archived 2007-10-13 at the Wayback Machine Les Murray Web page at The Poetry Archive Web site, accessed October 15, 2007

^ "Earle Birney: Published Works Archived 2011-03-13 at the Wayback Machine," Canadian Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 3, 2011.

^ ^a ^b "Irving Layton: Publications Archived 2011-07-14 at the Wayback Machine," Canadian Poetry Online, Web, May 7, 2011.

^ "Dorothy Livesay (1909-1996): Works" Archived 2012-09-05 at the Wayback Machine, Canadian Women Poets, Brock University. Web, Mar. 18, 2011.

^ "Books by former English Department Students," USask.ca, Web, Apr. 25, 2011.

^ Frank M. Tierney, "Sangster, Charles," Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online. Web., Oct. 15 2010.

^ "F.R. Scott: Publications Archived 2013-04-08 at the Wayback Machine," Canadian Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 7, 2011.

^ "Notes on Life and Works Archived 2011-08-17 at the Wayback Machine," Selected Poetry of Raymond Souster, Representative Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 7, 2011.

^ "The Works of George Woodcock" at Anarchy Archives: "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

^ Niranjan Mohanty, "Trends in Indian Poetry in English", p. 18 ("Works Cited"), Footnote 7, in Indian English Poetry: Critical Perspectives, edited by Jaydipsinh Dodiya, 2000, Delhi: Prabhat Kumar Sharma for Sarup & Sons, ISBN 81-7625-111-9, retrieved July 17, 2010

^ Naik, M. K., Perspectives on Indian poetry in English, p. 230 (published by Abhinav Publications, 1984, ISBN 0-391-03286-0, ISBN 978-0-391-03286-6), retrieved June 12, 2009

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6

^ ^a ^b Crotty, Patrick, Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology, Belfast, The Blackstaff Press Ltd., 1995, ISBN 0-85640-561-2

^ "Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin" Archived 2008-07-05 at the Wayback Machine at The Gallery Press website, accessed May 4, 2008

^ Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, "Lauris Edmond" article

^ Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "New Zealand Poetry" article, "Anthologies" section, p 837

^ "Joseph Brodsky / Nobel Prize in Literature 1987 / Bibliography" at Official Web Site of the Nobel Foundation, accessed October 18, 2007

^ Michelis, Angelica, "Carol Ann Duffy (1955-)", The Literary Encyclopedia; retrieved May 4, 2009. Archived 2009-05-07.

^ [2] McFadden, Robert D., "Joseph Brodsky, Exiled Poet Who Won Nobel, Dies at 55", obituary, The New York Times, January 29, 1996, accessed October 18, 2007

^ "Michael S. Harper", Academy of American Poets, accessed April 23, 2008

^ ^a ^b ^c "W. S. Merwin (1927- )", Poetry Foundation; retrieved June 8, 2010

^ Porter, Joy, and Kenneth M. Roemer, The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature, p. 29, Cambridge University Press, 2005, ISBN 978-0-521-82283-1, retrieved February 9, 2009

^ ^a ^b "Bibliography of Klaus Høeck", website of the Danish Arts Agency / Literature Centre, retrieved January 1, 2010

^ "Pierre Nepveu" Archived 2009-11-25 at the Wayback Machine at L’Académie des lettres du Québec website (in French), retrieved October 20, 2010

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Auster, Paul (ed.), The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets, New York: Random House, 1982. ISBN 0-394-52197-8

^ Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al. (eds), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "German Poetry" article, "Criticism in German" section, p. 474.

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t ^u ^v ^w ^x ^y This is as specific as The Britannica Book of the Year 1978, the source, gets; the book, published in 1978, covers events in 1977, "Literature" article, p. 511.

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Das, Sisir Kumar and various, History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956: struggle for freedom: triumph and tragedy, Volume 2, 1995, published by Sahitya Akademi, ISBN 978-81-7201-798-9, retrieved December 23, 2008

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^ "K. Satchidanandan" Archived 2011-07-21 at the Wayback Machine, Poetry International website, retrieved July 11, 2010

^ ^a ^b "Nilmani Phookan" Archived 2011-07-21 at the Wayback Machine at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 16, 2010

^ Eugenio Montale, Collected Poems 1920-1954, translated and edited by Jonathan Galassi, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998, ISBN 0-374-12554-6

^ da Silva, Jaime H., "BELO, Ruy de Moura", article, p. 185, Bleiberg, Germán, Dictionary of the literature of the Iberian peninsula, Volume 1, retrieved September 6, 2011

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