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.[1]
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
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.[3]
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:
The Collected Works of Billy the Kid: Left-handed Poems (adapted by Ondaatje into a play of the same name in 1973), Toronto: Anansi[6]ISBN0-88784-018-3 ; New York: Berkeley, 1975
Leonard Cohen (literary criticism), Toronto: McClelland & Stewart[6]
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
Augusto de Campos, Equivocábulos, collection of "semantic-visual texts, photo-poems, and 'Viagem via linguagem', a collapsible environment-poem resembling an architect's model"[26]
January 24 – Caresse Crosby, also known as "Mary Phelps Jacob", 78 (born 1891), American poet and New York socialite, who, in 1927, founded Black Sun Press with her husband Harry Crosby (also a poet) and who in 1910[31] invented the first modern bra to receive a patent and gain wide acceptance
1971 Britannica Book of the Year (covering events of 1970), "Literature" article and "Obituaries of 1970" article; source of many of the books in the "Works published" list and some deaths.
Lal, P., Modern Indian Poetry in English: An Anthology & a Credo, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, second edition, 1971 (however, on page 597 an "editor's note" states contents "on the following pages are a supplement to the first edition" and is dated "1972"); hereafter: "P. Lal (1971)"
^1971 Britannica Book of the Year, covering events of 1970, published by The Encyclopædia Britannica (1971), "Literature" article, "Canada" section, "French Language" subsection, page 457
^"Selected Timeline of Anglophone Caribbean Poetry" in Williams, Emily Allen, Anglophone Caribbean Poetry, 1970–2001: An Annotated Bibliography, page xvii and following pages, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002, ISBN978-0-313-31747-7, retrieved via Google Books, February 7, 2009
^Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "Australian Poetry" article, Anthologies section, p 108
^ abcdefghiCox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN0-19-860634-6
^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, "History and Criticism" section, p 837
^1971 Britannica Book of the Year (covering events of 1970), 1971, published by the Encyclopædia Britannica, "Literature" article, "English" section, "Poetry" subsection, page 460
^ abWeb page titled "W. S. Merwin (1927–)" at the Poetry Foundation Web site, retrieved June 8, 2010
^ abc1971 Britannica Book of the Year (covering events of 1970), 1971, published by the Encyclopædia Britannica, this is as much information about the book as is given in the "Literature" article, "Danish" subsection, page 456
^"Danish Poetry" article, pp 270-274, in Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
^ abcBrée, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983
^ abAuster, Paul, editor, The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets, New York: Random House, 1982 ISBN0-394-52197-8
^Carmi, T., The Penguin Book of Hebrew Verse, p 142, Penguin, 1981, ISBN978-0-14-042197-2
^1971 Britannica Book of the Year, covering events of 1970 (1970), "Literature" article, "Latin American" section, page 466
^1971 Britannica Book of the Year, covering events of 1970, published by the Encyclopædia Britannica (1971), "Literature" article, "Soviet" section, page 469, the exact name of the book, even in translation, was not given
^Balcom, John, "Lo Fu"Archived January 1, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, article on Poetry International website, retrieved November 22, 2008
^Web page titled "Rituraj"Archived April 6, 2012, at the Wayback Machine at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 12, 2010
