980s in poetry

This article covers 980s in poetry. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.

Births

Death years link to the corresponding " 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, Icelandic skald

987:

Liu Yong, Song

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
983:

Minamoto no Shitagō 源順, 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 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

985:

Kishi Joō 徽子女王, Japanese waka poet and noblewoman; one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals