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
- Roo Borson (American-Canadian):
- In the Smoky Light of the Fields, ISBN 0-88823-024-9
- Rain, ISBN 0-920806-19-8
- Fred Cogswell, A Long Apprenticeship
- Louis Dudek, Cross-Section: Poems 1940-1980. Toronto: Coach House Press. [1]
- Dorothy Farmiloe, Words for My Weeping Daughter
- Robert Finch, Variations and Theme. [2]
- Gail Fox, In Search of Living Things
- Ralph Gustafson, Landscape with Rain
- Irving Layton, For My Neighbours in Hell. Oakville, Ontario: Mosaic Press. [3]
- Miriam Mandel, Where Have You Been?. Edmonton: Longspoon Press. [4]
- Joe Rosenblatt, The Sleeping Lady. Exile Editions. [5]
- Raymond Souster, Collected Poems, Volume 1 (1940-55) (first of a projected ten-volume collection)
- Raymond Souster and Richard Woollatt, eds. Poems of a Snow-Eyed Country. Don Mills, ON: Academic Press. [6]
- Andrew Suknaski, Montage for an Interstellar Cry
- Anne Szumigalski, A Game of Angels
- Tom Wayman, Living on the Ground: Tom Wayman Country, including "Garrison", first prize-winner of the U.S. Bicentennial poetry competition
- Phyllis Webb, Wilson's Bowl [7]
Caribbean
- A. J. Seymour, A Treasury of Guyanese Poetry [8]
- Pamela Mordecai, Mervyn Morris, editors, Jamaica Woman: An Anthology of Poems, Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books [8]
- Lorna Goodison, Tamarind Season [8]
- Mutabaruka, The First Poems: 1970–1979 [8]
- Derek Walcott, The Star-Apple Kingdom, St. Lucia native living in and published in the United States
India, in English
- Meena Alexander, Stone Roots ( Poetry in English ), New Delhi: Arnold Heinemann, by an Indian writing and living in the United States [9]
- Dilip Chitre, Travelling In A Cage ( Poetry in English ), Mumbai:Clearing House [10]
- Keki Daruwalla:
- E. V. Ramakrishnan:
- A Python in A Snake Park ( Poetry in English ), New Delhi: Rupa and Co. ISBN 81-7167-194-2 [12]
- Being Elsewhere in Myself ( Poetry in English ), Kolkata: Writers Workshop, India. [12]
- Jayanta Mahapatra, The False Start (Poetry in English), [13] Bombay: Clearing House, India .
Ireland
- Eavan Boland, In Her Own Image, [14] Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
- Dermot Bolger, The Habit of Flesh
- Seamus Heaney, Selected Poems 1965-1975, Faber & Faber, Northern Ireland native published in the United Kingdom
- Thomas Kinsella, Poems 1956–1973, [14] Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
- Paul Muldoon, Why Brownlee Left [14] Northern Ireland native published in the United Kingdom
- Tom Paulin, The Strange Museum, including "Pot Burial" and "Where Art Is a Midwife", Faber and Faber, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom [15]
New Zealand
- James K. Baxter, Collected Poems, posthumous
- Charles Brasch, Indirections: a Memoir, 1909-1947, Wellington; New York: Oxford University Press, autobiography [16]
- Alistair Campbell, The Dark Lord of Savaiki: Collected Poems, Christchurch: Hazard Press
- Lauris Edmond:
- W. H. Oliver, Out of Season: Poems, Wellington; New York: Oxford University Press, New Zealand
- Alistair Patterson, editor, Fifteen Contemporary New Zealand Poets, anthology [18]
- Ian Wedde, Castaly: Poems 1973–1977
United Kingdom
- Eavan Boland, In Her Own Image, [14] Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
- Alan Brownjohn, A Night in the Gazebo [14]
- David Constantine, A Brightness to Cast Shadows [14]
- Wendy Cope, Across the City [14]
- Donald Davie, In the Stopping Train, and Other Poems [14]
- Lawrence Durrell, Collected Poems: 1931–1974, edited by James A. Brigham
- Gavin Ewart, The Collected Ewart 1933–1980 (see also Collected Poems 1990) [14]
- Elaine Feinstein, The Feast of Eurydice, [14] Faber & Faber/Next Editions
- James Fenton, A German Requiem: A Poem, Salamander Press, a pamphlet [19]
- Roy Fisher, Poems 1955–1980 [14]
- John Fuller, The January Divan [14]
- Roy Fuller, The Reign of Sparrows [14]
- Geoffrey Grigson, History of Him [14]
- Seamus Heaney, Selected Poems 1965–1975 (see also New Selected Poems 1990), Northern Ireland native published in the United Kingdom
- Adrian Henri, From the Loveless Matel [14]
- Frances Horovitz, Water Over Stone [14]
- Elizabeth Jennings, A Dream of Spring [14]
- Linton Kwesi Johnson, Inglan is a Bitch [14]
- Thomas Kinsella, Poems 1956–1973, [14] Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
- Laurence Lerner, A.R.T.H.U.R. & M.A.R.T.H.A.; or, The Loves of the Computers, [14] South African native living and published in the United Kingdom
- George MacBeth, Poems of Love and Death [14]
- Norman MacCaig, The Equal Skies [14]
- Pete Morgan, One Greek Alphabet [20]
- Paul Muldoon, Why Brownlee Left, [14] Northern Ireland native published in the United Kingdom
- Tom Paulin, The Strange Museum, [14] Northern Ireland native published in the United Kingdom
- Kathleen Raine, The Oracle in the Heart, and Other Poems 1975–1978 [14]
- Jeremy Reed, Bleecker Street [14]
- Jon Silkin, The Psalms With Their Spoils [14]
- Anthony Thwaite, Victorian Voices [14]
- John Wain, Poems, 1949–1979 [14]
- Benjamin Zephaniah, Pen Rhythm, his first published collection
Anthologies in the United Kingdom
- D. J. Enright, editor, The Oxford Book of Contemporary Verse (see above)
- Blake Morrison, editor, The Movement
- Charles Tomlinson, editor, The Oxford Book of Verse in English translation
- Geoffrey Grigson, editor, Oxford Book of Satirical Verse
- Gavin Ewart, editor, Penguin Book of Light Verse
- Valentine Cunningham, editor, Penguin Book of Spanish Civil War Verse
United States
- Meena Alexander, Stone Roots, New Delhi: Arnold Heinemann, by an Indian writing and living in the United States [9]
- A.R. Ammons, Selected Longer Poems [21]
- Ted Berrigan:
- So Going Around Cities: New & Selected Poems ( ISBN 0-912652-61-6)
- Carrying a Torch
- Elizabeth Bishop, That was Then, published posthumously (died 1979) [21]
- Philip Booth, Before Sleep [21]
- Joseph Brodsky: A Part of Speech, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux [22] Russian-American
- Lucille Clifton, Two-Headed Woman
- George F. Butterick and Richard Blevins, editors, Charles Olson and Robert Creeley: The Complete Correspondence, first volume published this year (ninth and last volume published in 1990), Santa Barbara, California [23]
- Billy Collins, Video Poems
- Allen Ginsberg, Straight Hearts' Delight: Love Poems and Selected Letters, 1947–1980 [21]
- Daniel G. Hoffman, Brotherly Love [21]
- Galway Kinnell, Mortal Acts, Mortal Words [21]
- James McMichael, Four Good Things
- William Meredith, The Cheer [21]
- James Merrill, Scripts for the Pageant [21]
- Howard Nemerov, Sentences [21]
- Molly Peacock, And Live Apart
- James Schuyler, The Morning of the Poem
- Frederick Seidel, Sunrise [21]
- Louis Simpson, Caviare at the Funeral [21]
- Mark Strand, Selected Poems, Canadian native living in and published in the United States
- Derek Walcott, The Star-Apple Kingdom, St. Lucia native living in and published in the United States
- Rosmarie Waldrop, When They Have Senses (Burning Deck Press)
- Robert Penn Warren, Being Here: Poetry 1977–1980 [21]
- Philip Whalen, Enough Said (Grey Fox Press)
- Ray Young Bear, winter of the salamander (sic) [24]
Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States
- Justin Kaplan, Walt Whitman (biography)
- Lew Welch, I Remain (letters; Grey Fox Press), posthumous
Other in English
- Lorna Goodison, Tamarind Season, Jamaica
- Philip Salom, The Silent Piano (Fremantle Arts Centre) ISBN 978-0-909144-31-9, Australia
- Chris Wallace-Crabbe, editor, The Golden Apples of the Sun: Twentieth Century Australian Poetry, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, anthology
