Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events January – James Dickey, composes a poem he reads at new United States President Jimmy Carter’s inaugural gala (although not at the inauguration itself). 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 Name by James Kirkup in a case (Whitehouse v. Lemon) brought by Mary Whitehouse's National Viewers and Listeners Association at the Old Bailey in London. 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 Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately: Australia Robert Adamson Cross The Border Jennifer Maiden, Mortal Details, Rigmarole Les Murray, Ethnic Radio, Angus & Robertson John Tranter, Crying in Early Infancy: 100 Sonnets, Makar Press Canada 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. Roo Borson, Landfall, American-Canadian Leonard Cohen, Death of a Ladies' Man Isabella Valancy Crawford, Hugh and Ion, Glenn Clever ed. (Ottawa: Borealis). 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. Irving Layton, The Covenant. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart. Dorothy Livesay, Right Hand Left Hand. Erin, ON: Porcepic. Pat Lowther, A Stone Diary Miriam Mandel, Station 14. Edmonton: NeWest Press. Charles Sangster, The Angel Guest and Other Poems and Lyrics, edited by Frank M. Tierney (Tecumseh) F. R. Scott, Poems of French Canada. Translated by F. R. Scott. Burnaby, B.C.: Blackfish Press. Raymond Souster, Extra Innings. Ottawa. Oberon Press. George Woodcock, Anima, or, Swann Grown Old. A Cycle of Poems by George Woodcock, Windsor, Ontario: Black Moss Press, Canada India, in English R. Parthasarathy, Rough Passage, Delhi: Oxford University Press Meena Alexander, I Root My Name, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India. Ireland Samuel Beckett, Collected Poems in English and French, Irish native living in France and published in the United Kingdom Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin: The Second Voyage, including "Deaths and Engines", Oldcastle: The Gallery Press