980s in poetry

	… 975; 976; 977; 978; 979; 980; 981; ; 982; 983; 984; 985; 986; 987; 988; ; 989; 990; 991; 992; 993; 994; 995 …;
	In literature 982 983 984 985 986 987 988
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Events

Works published

Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article. There are conflicting or unreliable sources for the birth years of many people born in this period; where sources conflict, the poet is listed again and the conflict is noted:

983:

Gunnlaugr ormstunga (died 1008), Icelandic skald

987:

Liu Yong (died 1053), Song

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

983:

Minamoto no Shitagō 源順 (born 911), Japanese waka poet, scholar and nobleman; one of the Five Men of the Pear Chamber and Thirty-six Poetry Immortals of Japan; author of the Minamoto no Shitagōshū (源順集) poetry collection; some scholars claim that he also wrote the Taketori Monogatari; original compiler of the Wamyō Ruijushō, the first extant Japanese dictionary organized into semantic headings