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Events
- Sylvia Plath suffers a miscarriage
- Keith and Rosmarie Waldrop buy a secondhand printing press and start Burning Deck magazine in the United States.
Works published in English
Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:
Canada
- Earle Binney, Ice Cod Bell on Stone1
- Arthur Bourinot, Poems: Paul Bunyan, Three Lincoln Poems and Other Verse1
- Leonard Cohen, The Spice-Box of Earth1
- Robert Finch
- Dover Beach Revisited, a meditation on the significance of Matthew Arnold1
- Acis in Oxford and Other Poems1
- Ralph Gustafson, Rivers Among Rocks1
- Daryl Hine, The Devil's Picture Books1
- Irving Layton, The Swinging Flesh1
- Eli Mandel and Jean Guy Pilon, Poetry 62, an anthology1
- D. Pacey, Creative Writing in Canada, revised edition (scholarship)2
- Dorothy Roberts, Twice to Flame1
Ireland
- Austin Clarke, Later Poems, Dublin: Dolmen Press, Ireland3
- Thomas Kinsella:
United Kingdom
- James K. Baxter, Howrah Bridge and Other Poems, London: Oxford University Press, New Zealand poet published in the United Kingdom
- Thomas Blackburn, A Smell of Burning1
- Alan Brownjohn, The Railings1
- Charles Causley, Johnny Alleluia1
- Donald Davie, New and Selected Poems, Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press3
- Ian Hamilton Finlay, Glasgow Beasts, An a Burd, Edinburgh: Wild Flounder Press 3
- John Fuller, Fairground Music1
- Allen Ginsberg:
- Robert Graves, More Poems 19611
- Thom Gunn, My Sad Captains,1 London: Faber and Faber; University of Chicago Press3
- Ralph Hodgson, Collected Poems1
- David Holbrook, Imaginings1
- Graham Hough, Legends and Pastorals1
- Edward Jennings, Song for a Birth or a Death1
- Edward Lucie-Smith, A Tropical Childhood, including "The Witnesses", "The Fault", and "On Looking at Stubb's Anatomy of the Horse"1
- Louis MacNeice, Solstices1
- {{John Montague]], The Nature of Cold Weather, London: MacGibbon and Kee3
- Peter Porter, Once Bitten, Twice Bitten, by an Australian living in England,1 Northwood, Middlesex: Scorpion Press3
- Peter Redgrove, The Collector, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul
- Siegfried Sassoon, Collected Poems1
- Iain Crichton Smith, Thistles and Roses1
- Gillian Stoneham, When That April1
- R.S. Thomas, Tares1
- Marina Tsvetayeva, The Selected Poems of Marina Tsvetayeva, translated by Elaine Feinstein, Oxford University Press, first of four editions (and a much-revised fifth edition)
- John Wain, Weep Before God, including "Time Was", which won second prize in the international Borestone Mountain Poetry awards competition,1 London: Macmillan3
Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom
- William Empson, Milton's God1
- Doris Landley Moore, The Late Lord Byron1
United States
- Lee Anderson, Nags Head1
- Helen Bevington, When Found, Make a Verse Of1
- Paul Blackburn, The Nets
- Harold Bloom, John Hollander, editors, The Wind and the Rain
- John Ciardi, In the Stoneworks1
- Leonard Cohen, The Spice-Box of Earth
- August Derleth, editor, Fire and Sleet and Candlelight
- Hilda Doolittle (H.D.), Helen in Egypt, a long retelling of the tale in lyrical prose and verse of the Helen of Troy tale1
- Ed Dorn, The Newly Fallen, Totem Press4
- Abbie Houston Evans, Fact of Crystal1
- Arthur Freeman, Apollonian Poems1
- Allen Ginsberg, Kaddish and Other Poems
- Thom Gunn, My Sad Captains,1 London: Faber and Faber; University of Chicago Press3 Briton
- John Hollander, The Untuning of the Sky (also see Harold Bloom/John Hollander item above)
- John Holmes, The Fortune Teller1
- David Ignatow, Say Pardon1
- LeRoi Jones, Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note
- Carolyn Kizer, The Ungrateful Garden, Bloomington: Indiana University Press13
- Denise Levertov, The Jacob's Ladder, New York: New Directions3
- Pablo Neruda, Odas elementales, translated by C. Lozano and with an introduction by Fernando Alegría1
- Lorine Niedecker, My Friend Tree (published with help from Ian Hamilton Finlay)
- John Nist, editor, Modern Brazilian Poetry1
- Charles Olson:
- Hyam Plutzik, Horatio, a narrative monologue basically in blank verse1
- Peter Viereck, The Tree Witch1
- John Hall Wheelock, The Gardener1
- Richard Wilbur, Advice to a Prophet1
- James Wright and Robert Bly, translators, Twenty Poems of Georg Trakl (Austrian poet writing in German), The Sixties Press
Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States
- Roger Asselineau, The Evolution of Walt Whitman1
- Walter Lowenfels, editor, Walt Whitman's Civil War, Whitman's writing about the war1
- Edwin Haviland Miller, The Correspondence of Walt Whitman (1842-1875, in two volumes)1
- Archibald MacLeish, Poetry and Experience (autobiography)1
Other in English
- Allen Curnow, editor, Penguin Book of New Zealand Verse,1
- A. D. Hope, Poems (Australia)1
Works published in other languages
Listed by language and often by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:
French language
Canada
- Rina Lasnier, Mémoire sans jour1
- Paul Marie Lapointe, Choix de poèmes1
- Jean Guy Pilon, La Mouette et le large1
France
- Jean Cocteau, Le Cérémonial espagnol de Phoenix1
- Max Pol Fouchet, Demeure le Secret1
- Marie Noël, Chants d'arrière-saison1
- Léopold Sédar Senghor, Nocturnes1
- Jean Tardieu, Choix de poèmes1
Criticism, scholarship and biography in France
- André Berry, editor, Anthologie de la poésie occitane1
- Yves Bonnefoy, Rimbaud1
Germany
- Clemens Hesselhaus, editor, Deutsche Lyrik der Moderne: von Nietzsche bis Yvan Goll Düsseldorf: August Bagel an anthology51
Criticism, scholarship and biography in Germany
- Wilhelm Emrich, Protest und Verheissung (criticism)1
- Walter Jens, Deutsche Literatur der Gegenwart (criticism)1
Hebrew
- J. Akavyahu, Manginot Hazot ("Midnight Music")6
- Anonymous poet from a Soviet Bloc country, Behilokah Halail ("As the Night Is Taken"), the poems were clandestinely smuggled into Israel and published6
- K. A. Bertini, Shevil Kahol ("Blue Path")6
- A. Broides, El ha-Shahar ha-Gonuz ("Toward the Hidden Dawn")6
- Yonah David, Shirim Le-lo Ahava ("Poems on Nonlove")6
- Israel Efros, Bain Hofim Nistarim ("Among Hidden Shores")6
- Hayim Guri, Shoshanat ha-Ruhot ("Rose of the Winds")6
- Yosef Lichtenbaum, ba-Mishor ha-Govoha ("On a High Plain")6
- E. Lisitzky, Kemo ha-Yom Rad ("As the Day Wanes") published in the United States6
- Anda Pinkerfield-Amir, Gadish ve-Omer ("Sheaf and Measure")6
- Gabriel Preil, Mapat Erew ("Map of Evening"), published in the United States6
- T. Ribner, Shirim Limzo Et ("Poems in Search of Time")6
- Rena Shani, Ir Zara ("Strange City")6
- Nathan Zakh, Shirim Shonim ("Various")6
Criticism, scholarship and biography in Hebrew
- B. Kurzweil, Bialik ve- Tchernichovsky — Mehkarim be-Shiratam, about aspects of the works of two important poets of the Hebrew literary renaissance1
Italy
- Attilio Giuliani, editor, Novissimi, an anthology-cum-manifesto of five poets which, by 1965, was "increasingly regarded as the principal event in Italian poetry in recent times"6
Portuguese language
Portugal
- Herberto Hélder, A Colher na Boca ("The Spoon in the Mouth")
- Mário Cesariny:
- Poesia
- Planisfério e Outros Poemas
Spanish language
Spain
- María Victoria Atencia, Cañada de los ingleses1
- Miguel Hernández, a "complete" collection of poems (posthumous)1
- Gerardo Diego, Glosa a Villamediana1
Anthologies in Spain
- Jimenez Martos, editor, Nuevos poetas españoles, mostly on the work of the "Generation of '54"1
- Rafael Montesinos, editor, Poesía taurina contemporánea, including verse by Miguel Hernández, Diego and García Lorca1
Latin America
- Roque Dalton, La ventana en rel rostro (El Salvador)1
- Hernando Domínguez de Camargo, Obras de Hernando Domínguez de Camargo (posthumous)1
- Octavio Paz, Libertad bajo palabra collected poems previously published from 1935 to 1958 in a volume using the title of an earlier book of his1
- Carlos A. Velazco, El corazón de silencio1
Anthologies in Latin America
- Anuario del cuento mexicano (Mexico)1
- Ginés de Albareda and F. Garfias, editors, Antología de la poesía hispanoamericana, Volume 8, devoted to Chilean poetry1
Yiddish
Israel
- Y Fridman, Di legende fun Neyakh Grin ("The Legend of Noah Green")1
- L. Fuks, editor, Schemuelbuch, a scholarly edition of this old Yiddish epic1
- Avrom Lev, a book of poetry1
- Leyb Olitsky, a book of poetry1
- Y Papernikov, a book of poetry1
- Rikude Potash, a book of poetry1
- Arye Shamri, Funken fun tikun ("Sparks of Salvation")1
- Avrom Sutzkever, Di gaystike erd ("The Spiritual Soil")1
Elsewhere
- Efrayim Oyerbakh, Di vayse shtot ("The White City")1
- I. L. Kalushiner, a book of poetry1
- Yisroel Emiot, In nigun ayngehert ("Listening to the Melody")1
- David Sfard, A zegl in vint ("A Sail in the Wind") (Poland)1
Awards and honors
United Kingdom
United States
- Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (later the post would be called "Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress"): Louis Untermeyer appointed this year.
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Phyllis McGinley: Times Three: Selected Verse From Three Decades
- Bollingen Prize: Yvor Winters
- National Book Award for Poetry: Randall Jarrell, The Woman at the Washington Zoo
- Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Horace Gregory
Other
- Lenin Prize (Soviet Union): Alexander Tvardovsky for Za Dalyu dal ... ("Space Beyond Space")
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- May 2 – Lisa Bellear (died 2006), Australian indigenous poet
- May 4 – Ishita Bhaduri Indian Bengali poet and writer
- Date not known:
- Gitaujali Badruddin
- Chen Kehua, Chinese poet and opthamologist in Taiwan.7
- Denise Duhamel
- Han Dong, Chinese
- Steven Heighton, Canadian novelist and poet
- Maggie Helwig, Canadian novelist and poet
- Jackie Kay, Scottish poet and novelist
- Swadesh Roy, Bengali journalist, essayist, poet, novelist and short-story writer
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- April 30 – Jessie R. Fauset (born 1885), novelist and poet1
- September 27 – Hilda Doolittle, aka "H.D.", 75, American poet, novelist and memoirist,1 of a heart attack
- December 24 – Robert Hillyer, 66 (born 1895), American poet1
- date not known – Kenneth Fearing, 58, American poet and writer
See also
Notes
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba bb bc bd be bf bg bh bi bj bk bl bm bn bo bp bq br bs bt bu bv bw bx by bz ca cb cc cd ce cf cg ch ci cj ck cl cm cn co cp Britannica Book of the Year 1962, covering events of 1961, published by the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1962; articles cited: "American Literature", "Canadian Literature", "English Literature", "French Literature", "German Literature", "Italian Literature", "Jewish Literature", "Latin American Literature", "Soviet Literature", "Spanish Literature", "Obituaries"
- ^ Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "Canadian Poetry" article, English "Anthologies" section, p 164
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n M. L. Rosenthal, The New Poets: American and British Poetry Since World War II, New York: Oxford University Press, 1967, "Selected Bibliography: Individual Volumes by Poets Discussed", pp 334-340
- ^ Web page titled "Archive / Edward Dorn (1929-1999)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved May 8, 2008
- ^ Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "German Poetry" article, "Criticism in German" section, p 474; source states "1960" but vast majority of academic sources on the Web say "1961" with second edition in 1962
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Britannica Book of the Year 1966, covering events of 1965, published by the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1966
- ^ Poetry International website Web page on Chen Kehua, retrieved November 22, 2008