Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
- Meic Stephens founds Poetry Wales
- Russian poet Anna Akhmatova was allowed to travel outside the Soviet Union to Sicily and England in order to receive the Taormina prize and an honorary doctoral degree from Oxford University
- The Belfast Festival at Queen's published pamphlets this year and next by some of the members of The Belfast Group of poets, including Seamus Heaney and Michael Longley, which attracted some notice.
- In Spain, two new periodical reviews were founded:
- Poesía para todos, started by younger Spanish poets and illustrated by renowned painters1
- Los sesenta, launched by Max Aub and with editors including the poets Jorge Guillén and Rafael Alberti. The second number was published in homage to the Unamuno.1
- In the British Isles, the centenary of the birth of W. B. Yeats brought forth a number of critical works, prominent among them Thomas Parkinson's book, W.B. Yeats: The Later Poetry, and Conor Cruise O'Brien's long essay which addressed W. B. Yeats' relationship to Fascism, published in In Excited Reverie, edited by A. N. Jeffares and K. G. Cross.1
- Dudley Randall, African American poet (1914-2000), founds Broadside Press in Detroit, which published many leading African American writers
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:
- Charles Brasch: (year uncertain, but thought to be this year) Twice Sixty, Wellington: Printed at the Wai-te-ata Press (Single poem; broadsheet)2
- Charles Doyle, editor, Recent Poetry in New Zealand, anthology
- Kendrick Smithyman, A Way of Saying: A Study of New Zealand Poetry,3 Auckland & London: Collins, criticism
- Basil Bunting:
- Loquitur (Fulcrum Press)
- The Spoils (Morden Tower Bookroom)
- Christopher Caudwell, Poems1
- Tony Connor, Lodgers1 London: Oxford University Press1 London: Chatto and Windus with Hogarth Press4
- Donald Davie, The Poems of Doctor Zhivago1
- D. J. Enright, The Old Adam,1 London: Chatto and Windus with Hogarth Press4
- Harry Fainlight, Sussicran, London: Turret Books4
- Roy Fuller, Buff1
- David Gascoyne, Collected Poems1
- Robert Graves, Collected Poems (1965 version)1
- Seamus Heaney:
- John Heath-Stubbs, Selected Poems1
- George MacBeth, A Doomsday Book, a mix of poems and poem-games,1 Lowestoft, Suffolk: Scorpion Press4
- Norman MacCaig, Measures, London: Chatto and Windus with Hogarth Press4
- Richard Murphy, Sailing to an Island, London: Faber and Faber; New York: Chilmark Press4, Irish poet
- Sylvia Plath, Ariel, London: Faber and Faber (New York: Harper & Row, 1966), American poet in the United Kingdom4
- Alan Ross, North from Sicily1
- Vernon Scannell, Walking Wounded1
- Jon Silkin, Nature with Man1
- Sir Osbert Sitwell, Poems about People or England Reclaimed (collected from three previous volumes)1
- Iain Crichton Smith, The Law and the Grace1
- Bernard Spencer, Collected Poems1
- Stephen Spender, Selected Poems1
- John Wain, Wildtrack,1 Wildtrack, London: Macmillan4
- Ted Walker, Fox on a Barn Door1
- Hugo Williams, Symptoms of Loss: Poems, Oxford University Press
- David Wright, Adam at Evening, London: Hodder and Stoughton4
Anthologies
Criticism and scholarship in the United Kingdom
- Bernard Bergozi, Heroes' Twilight on the literature of World War I1
- Anthony Burgess, Here Comes Everybody on the work of James Joyce1
- Donald Davie, Ezra Pound: Poet as Sculptor1
- Patricia Hutchins, Ezra Pound's Kensington: An Exploration 1885-19131
- Conor Cruise O'Brien, a long essay which addressed W. B. Yeats' relationship to Fascism, published in In Excited Reverie, edited by A. N. Jeffares and K. G. Cross.1
- Harold Owen, Journey from Obscurity, Volume III, autobiography by the brother of poet Wilfred Owen, giving "a few interesting glimpses of the poet", according to William Leslie Webb, literary editor of The Guardian1
- Thomas Parkinson, W.B. Yeats: The Later Poetry1
- A.R. Ammons:
- Corsons Inlet1
- Tape for the Turn of the Year1
- George Barker, Collected Poems, New York: October House4
- Ted Berrigan, Living With Chris
- Elizabeth Bishop, Questions of Travel (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)
- Hayden Carruth, Nothing for Tigers1
- Edgar Bowers, The Astronomers1
- Louis Coxe, The Last Hero1
- E.E. Cummings, Fairy Tales (posthumous)
- Ed Dorn:
- Idaho Out, Fulcrum Press5
- Geography, Fulcrum Press5
- Robert Duncan, Roots and Branches
- Paul Engle, A Woman Unashamed1
- Jean Garrigue, Country Without Maps, including "Pays Perdu"1
- Allen Ginsberg, Jukebox All'Idrogeno, Milan: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore4
- Donald Hall, A Roof of Tiger Lilies1
- John Hollander, Visions from the Ramble
- Lee Harwood, title illegible (sic) published by Bob Cobbing's Writers Forum
- Paul Horgan, Songs After Lincoln1
- David Ignatow, Figures of the Human1
- Randall Jarrell:
- Little Friend, Little Friend
- The Lost World, a book of 22 poems, reviewers gave it a mixed reception,1 New York: Macmillan4
- John Knoepfle, Rivers into Islands1
- Philip Larkin, The Whitsun Weddings
- Stanley McNail, Something Breathing
- Gabriela Mistral, Selected Poems translated from Spanish1
- Samuel French Morse, The Changes1
- Howard Moss, Finding Them Lost,1 New York: Scribners4
- Edwin Muir, Collected Poems, New York: Oxford University Press4
- Mary Oliver, No Voyage, and Other Poems (expanded from first edition in 1963)
- George Oppen, This in Which
- Sylvia Plath, Ariel, including "Daddy," (posthumous)
- David Ray, X-Rays1
- Charles Reznikoff, the first of his Testimony collections
- David Shapiro, January1
- Jon Silkin, Nature with Man
- Clark Ashton Smith, Poems in Prose
- Hollis Summers, Seven Occasions1
- Melvin Tolson, Harlem Gallery
- Mona Van Duyn, A Time of Bees1
- Theodore Weiss, The Medium: New Poems, New York: Macmillan4
- Samuel Yellen, New and Selected Poems1
- Marya Zaturenska, Collected Poems1
- Louis Zukofsky, ALL: The Collected Short Poems, 1923-1958 (Norton)1
Criticism and scholarship in the United States
Other in English
- P. L. Brent, editor, Young Commonwealth Poets 1965 (anthology published in the United Kingdom)
- Denis Devlin, Collected Poems,1 Dublin: Dolmen Press4 Ireland
- A. L. Hendriks, On This Mountain (West Indian)
- C. F. Klinck and W. H. New, editors, Literary History of Canada, first of four volumes (fourth volume published in 1990, scholarship, Canada6
- Geoffrey Lehmann and Les Murray, The Ilex Tree, Australia7
- Dom Moraes, John Nobody India
- Frank Kobina Parkes, Songs from the Wilderness (Ghanaian living in England)
- Derek Walcott, The Castaway (West Indian)
- David Wright, Adam at Evening, including "By the Effigy of St. Cecilia" (South Africa)
- J. Wright, Preoccupations in Australian Literature (scholarship), Australia8
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:
Anthologies
French language
Criticism
United States
Portuguese
Brazil
Criticism
Spanish
Spain
Latin America
Criticism
- José Emilio Pacheco, Poesía mexicana del siglo XIX, which Jose Francisco Vazquez-Amaral called (in 1966) "the first reliable work of its kind to deal with that important period of Mexican poetry".1
- editor(s) not known, Horizons, a poetry anthology published in the Soviet Union1
- Kadye Molodovski, Light from the Thorn Tree1
- Berish Vaynshteyn, Destined Poems1
- Robert Frost, a volume of his poems in Yiddish (published in Israel), translated by Meyer-Ziml Tkatsh1
- L. Olitski, a book of poems (published in Israel)1
- A. Shamri, a book of poems (published in Israel)1
- M. Yungman, a book of poems (published in Israel)1
- Leyzer Aykhenrand, a book of poems (published in Israel)1
- Malke Tuzman, a book of poems (published in Israel)1
Other
Awards and honors
Other
- Danish Academy 1965 literature prize: Erik Knudsen, poet and dramatist
Births
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 4 — T. S. Eliot, 76, American/British poet
- February 2 — Richard Blackmur, 61, American literary critic and poet
- March 17 — Nancy Cunard, 69, English writer, editor and publisher
- June 5 — Eleanor Farjeon, 84, poet poet and author
- July 10 — Jacques Audiberti 66, French playwright, poet and novelist and exponent of the Theatre of the Absurd
- August 17 — Jack Spicer, American poet often identified with the San Francisco Renaissance
- October 15 or October 14 — Randall Jarrell, 51, American author, writer and poet, in a highway accident;
- June 22 — Joseph Auslander, 67, of a heart attack
- September 2 — Johannes Bobrowski (born 1917), German poet, narrative writer, adaptor and essayist
- November 28 — Aslaug Vaa, of Norway
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 cq cr cs ct cu cv cw cx cy cz da db dc dd de df dg dh di dj dk dl dm dn Britannica Book of the Year 1966 (covering "Events of 1965"), 1966, published by Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc.
- ^ Web page titled "Charles Brasch: New Zealand Literature File" at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, [[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, "New Zealand Poetry" article, "History and Criticism" section, p 837
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p 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
- ^ a b 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, "Canadian Poetry" article, English "Anthologies" section, p 164
- ^ [1]Les Murray Web page at The Poetry Archive Web site, accessed October 15, 2007
- ^ Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "Australian Poetry" article, Anthologies section, p 108
- ^ Balcom, John, "Lo Fu", article on Poetry International website, retrieved November 22, 2008
- ^ Hofmann, Michael, editor, Twentieth-Century German Poetry: An Anthology, Macmillan/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006
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