1975 in Poetry - Events

Events

  • With the 1974, fall of the dictatorship in Greece, poets, authors and intellectuals who had fled after the coup of 1967 returned, and this year many began publishing in that country.
  • Brick Books, a small literary press, is founded in London, Ontario by Stan Dragland and Don McKay to publish work by Canadian poets, initially as a publisher of chapbooks.

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