Kraków: Cracowska Oficyna Studentow Ewa Lipska, Poezje wybrane ("Selected Poems"), Warszawa: LSW Bronisław Maj, Taka wolność. Wiersze z lat 1971-1975 ("Such Freedom: Poems, 1971-1975"); Warsaw: MAW Piotr Sommer, Przed snem Portuguese language Portugal Herberto Helder, Poesia Toda A. Pinheiro Torre, O Ressentimento dum Ocidental Brazil Carlos Drummond de Andrade, A paixão medida João Cabral de Melo Neto, A escola das faces Adélia Prado, Terra de Santa Cruz Mário da Silva, several volumes of poetry Spanish language Spain Antonio Abad, Misericor de mí Matilde Camus: He seguido tus huellas ("I have followed your footprints") Testigo de tu marcha ("Witness of your departure") Concha Lagos, Teoría de la inseguridad Vincente Presa, Teoría de los límites Pablo Virumbrales, Cancionero del vaso Latin America Mario Benedetti, Viento del exilio ("Air From Exile"), Uruguay Swedish Karl Vennberg, Bilder I-XXVI Goran Sonnevi, Små klanger; en rőst Eva Runefelt, Augusti Yiddish Criticism, scholarship and biography in Yiddish Itskhak Janoswicz, Avrom Sutzkever, His Poetry and Prose The Lexicon of Modern Yiddish Literature, the eighth and final volume Khaim Leyb Fuks, Biographical Dictionary of Hebrew and Yiddish Writers in Canada Other Chen Kehua, Qijing shaonian ("Whale Boy") Chinese (Taiwan) Rita Kelly, Dialann sa Díseart, Ireland Luo Fu, Wound of Time, Chinese (Taiwan) Stein Mehren, Den usynlige regnbuen, Norway Alexander Mezhirov, Selected Works, two volumes, Russia, Soviet Union Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, An dealg Droighin, including "Sceala" and "Failte Bheal na Sionna don Iasc", Gaelic-language, Ireland Nizar Qabbani, Syrian poet writing in Arabic: I Write the History of Woman Like So The Lover's Dictionary Awards and honors Australia Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Alan Gould, Astral Sea Canada Gerald Lampert Award: Elizabeth Allan, The Shored Up House 1981 Governor General's Awards: F. R. Scott, The Collected Poems of F. R. Scott (English); Michel Beaulieu, Visages (French) Pat Lowther Award: M. Travis Lane, Divinations and Short Poems 1973–1978 Prix Émile-Nelligan: Jean-Yves Collette, La Mort d’André Breton United Kingdom Cholmondeley Award: Roy Fisher, Robert Garioch, Charles Boyle Eric Gregory Award: Alan Jenkins, Simon Rae, Marion Lomax, Philip Gross, Kathleen Jamie, Mark Abley, Roger Crowley, Ian Gregson Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: D. J. Enright Hawthornden Prize: Christopher Reid United States Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Kathy Callaway, Heart of the Garfish AML Award for poetry to Robert A. Rees for "Gilead" Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry: Frank Bidart, "The War of Vaslav Nijinsky" Bollingen Prize (United States): Howard Nemerov and May Swenson