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Poetry timeline
US poet Anne Sexton publishes Live or Die, a collection containing a poem to her dead friend Sylvia Plath
Three young Liverpool poets publish a shared anthology under the title The Mersey Sound
Ezra Pound publishes his last collection of cantos, Drafts and Fragments of Cantos CX - CXVII
Australian author David Malouf is first published as a poet, with his collection Bicycle and Other Poems
English poet James Fenton publishes his first collection, Terminal Moraine
English author Andrew Motion publishes his first collection of poems, The Pleasure Steamers
War Music is the first instalment of Christopher Logue's version of the Iliad
US poet Robert Pinsky publishes an acclaimed verse translation, The Inferno of Dante
British Rasta poet Benjamin Zephaniah publishes his second collection as The Dread Affair
English poets John Fuller and James Fenton collaborate in a volume of satirical poems, Partingtime Hall
West Indian author Derek Walcott publishes Omeros, an epic poem of the Caribbean
English poet Thom Gunn's The Man with Night Sweats deals openly with AIDS
US author A.R. Ammons publishes a book-length poem, Garbage, typed on narrow strips of adding-machine paper
US poet Philip Levine wins a Pulitzer Prize with his volume of poems Simple Truth
The poems forming Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters describe his relationship with Sylvia Plath
A translation by Irish author Seamus Heaney brings many new readers to the Old English poem Beowulf
