title: 970s in poetry
text: # 970s in poetry
  
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
  
  ## 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:
  
  973:
  
  * Dec. 26: Al-Ma'arri (died 1057), blind Arab philosopher, poet and writer
  * Murasaki Shikibu (died 1014 or (died 1025)), Japanese woman poet
  
  ## Deaths
  
  Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
  
  970:
  
  * Minamoto no Saneakira (born 910), one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals of Japan
  
  973:
  
  * Hrotsvitha (born 935), Latin language poet and dramatist from Saxony
  
  975:
  
  * Adikavi Pampa (born 902), writing in Kannada language
  
  978:
  
  * Li Houzhu (born 936), Southern Tang and Song poet
  