Events
- John Betjeman becomes Poet Laureate
- The Belfast Group, a discussion group of poets in Northern Ireland, went out of existence this year. The group was started by Philip Hobsbaum when he moved to Belfast in 1963 and which included Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, James Simmons, Paul Muldoon, Ciaran Carson, Stewart Parker, Bernard MacLaverty and the critics Edna Longley and Michael Allen.
- The American Poetry Review founded by Stephen Berg in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- May — Joseph Brodsky is expelled from the Soviet Union.
- W. H. Auden, now a U.S. citizen, declares his New York neighborhood is too dangerous and returns to Oxford from the United States.
- James K. Baxter, one of New Zealand's best-known poets, writes two original poems on the wallpaper of a room in the home of painter Michael Illingworth and his wife Dene. Soon after, Baxter died. In 1973, after Baxter's death, the Illingworths removed the sections of wallpaper containing the poems and sent them to the Hocken Library to be stored with Baxter's other papers.
Read more about this topic: 1972 In Poetry
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