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Events

January 26 – Raghunath Vishnu Pandit, an Indian poet who wrote in both Konkani and Marathi languages, publishes five books of poems this day^[1]
The Belfast Group, a discussion group of poets in Northern Ireland, is started by Philip Hobsbaum when he moves to Belfast this year. Before the meetings finally end in 1972, attendees at its meetings will include Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, James Simmons, Paul Muldoon, Ciaran Carson, Stewart Parker, Bernard MacLaverty and the critics Edna Longley and Michael Allen.
July-August — The Vancouver Poetry Conference is held in three weeks, involving about 60 people who attended discussions, workshops, lectures, and readings designed by Warren Tallman and Robert Creeley as a summer course at the University of British Columbia.^[2] According to Creeley:

"It brought together for the first time, a decisive company of then disregarded poets such as Denise Levertov, Charles Olson, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Duncan, Margaret Avison, Philip Whalen... together with as yet unrecognised younger poets of that time, Michael Palmer, Clark Coolidge and many more."^[2]

The Soviet government appeared to begin removing freedoms previously granted to writers and artists in a process that began in November 1962 and continued this year. Yet the government proved uncertain and the writers persistent. In March 1963 the gavel fell on the great debate," or so it appeared, wrote Harrison E. Salisbury, Moscow correspondent for The New York Times. Khrushchev announced that Soviet writers were the servants of the Communist Party and must reflect its orders. Among the authors he specifically targeted were the poets Yevgeny Yevtushenko and Andrei Voznesensky. Yevtushenko, on a tour of European cities earlier in the year, recited before large audiences, including a capacity audience at the Palais de Chaillot in Paris, and then returned home. "Literary Stalinists took over almost all the key publishing positions," Salisbury wrote. Yet the artists and writers who were criticized either refused to recant or did so in innocuous language. Alexander Tvardovsky, editor of the magazine Novy Mir, published three brutally frank stories by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, for instance. By midsummer, the effects of the announced crackdown appeared nil, with authors publishing essentially as before.^[3]

Works published in English

Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantial revisions listed separately:

Canada

Roy Daniells, The Chequered Shade, a collection of short poems, mostly sonnets
R. G. Everson, Blind Man's Holiday, a first book of poems
Eldon Grier, A Friction of Lights^[4]
Irving Layton, Balls for a One-Armed Juggler
Lionel Kearns, Songs of Circumstance^[4]
Gwendolyn MacEwen, The Rising Fire^[4]
Alfred Purdy, The Blur in Between^[4]

Anthologies

Frank Scott, translator and editor, St.-Denys Garneau and Anne Hébert
The Plough and the Pen: Writings From Hungary 1930-1956, translations of Hungarian populust poets and writers by eight Canadian poets, including Earle Birney, A. J. M. Smith and Raymond Souster

Ireland

Austin Clarke, Flight to Africa, Dublin: Dolmen Press^[5]
Denis Devlin, Selected Poems, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston^[5], Irish poet published in the United States
Richard Murphy, Sailing to an Island, including "The Poet on the Island",^[6] London: Faber and Faber;^[7] New York: Chilmark Press, 1965^[5] Irish work published in the United Kingdom

New Zealand

James K. Baxter, The Ballad of the Soap Powder Lock-Out, a light-hearted work written by a poet who was at this time a postal worker in New Zealand, in connection with a postal workers’ protest against delivering heavy samples of soap powder
Alistair Campbell, Sanctuary of Spirits
Keith Sinclair, A Time to Embrace

United Kingdom

Patricia Beer, The Survivors^[8]
Edwin Bronk, With Love From Judas,^[3] Losestoft, Suffolk: Scorpion Press
W. H. Davies, The Complete Poems of W. H. Davies, introduction by Sir Osbert Sitwell^[3]
T. S. Eliot, Collected Poems 1909–1962^[8]
Philip Hobsbaum and Edward Lucie-Smith, editors, A Group Anthology of young poets, many influenced by Ted Hughes, including George MacBeth, Peter Porter, David Wevill, and Peter Redgrove^[3]
James Kirkup, Refusal to Conform^[8]
Laurence Lerner, The Directions of Memory^[3]
George MacBeth, The Broken Places,^[3] Lowestoft, Suffolk: Scorpion Press^[5]
Norman MacCaig, A Round of Applause^[3]
Louis MacNeice, The Burning Perch (posthumous)^[3]
Richard Murphy, Sailing to an Island, London: Faber and Faber;^[7] New York: Chilmark Press, 1965^[5] Irish
Wilfred Owen, The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen, edited and introduced by C. Day Lewis^[3]
F. T. Prince, The Doors of Stone^[3]
Peter Redgrove, At the White Monument, and Other Poems^[8], London: Routledge and Kegan Paul^[5]
R.S. Thomas, The Bread of Truth^[3]
Anthony Thwaite, The Owl in the Tree,^[3] London: Oxford University Press^[5]
Charles Tomlinson, A Peopled Landscape, London: Oxford University Press^[5]

United States

Conrad Aiken, The Morning Song of Lord Zero^[3]
John Malcolm Brinnin, Selected Poems^[9]
Gwendolyn Brooks, Selected Poems^[3]
John Ciardi, In Fact^[9]
Evan S. Connell (then known as "Evan S. Connell Jr."), Notes From a Bottle Found on the Beach at Carmel^[3]
E.E. Cummings, 73 Poems, posthumously published (died 1962)^[3]
Babette Deutsch, Collected Poems, 1919-1962
Denis Devlin, Selected Poems, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston^[5], Irish poet published in the United States
Alan Dugan, Poems 2^[9]
Allen Ginsberg, Reality Sandwiches, San Francisco: City Lights Books^[5] 6
Paul Goodman, The Lordly Hudson^[3]
Michael Hamburger, Weather and Season, London: Routledge and Keagan Paul; New York: Atheneum^[5]
Daniel G. Hoffman, The City of Satisfactions^[9]
John Hollander, Various Owls^[9]
Robinson Jeffers, The Beginning and the End and Other Poems, posthumously published (died 1962)^[9]
Donald Justice, A Local Storm^[9]
H. P. Lovecraft, Collected Poems
W. S. Merwin, The Moving Target^[9]
Howard Nemerov, The Next Room of the Dream^[3]
Lou B. ("Bink") Noll, The Center of the Circle, a first volume of poetry^[3]
Mary Oliver, No Voyage, and Other Poems (first edition; later released in an expanded edition in 1965)
Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar, an autobiographical novel published under the pseudonym "Victoria Lucas"
Henry Rago, [2] A Sky of Light Summer, New York: Macmillan^[5]
John Crowe Ransom, Selected Poems, revised and enlarged edition^[9]
Kenneth Rexroth, Natural Numbers^[9]
Adrienne Rich, Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law, her third volume of poetry, gains the poet national prominence for her lyric voice, mostly in free verse, and for her treatment of feminist-related themes.
Theodore Roethke, Sequence, Sometimes Metaphysical^[9]
Carl Sandburg, Honey and Salt^[9]
Anne Sexton, All My Pretty Ones^[3]
Louis Simpson, At the End of the Open Road, Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press^[5]
William Stafford, Traveling Through the Dark^[3]
Jesse Stuart, Hold April^[3]
May Swenson, To Mix With Time^[3]
John Updike, Telephone Poles, and Other Poems^[3]
Mark Van Doren, Collected and New Poems, 1924-1963^[3]
David Wagoner, The Nesting Ground^[9]
William Carlos Williams, Paterson,^[9] all five books of this long poem first published together
James Wright, The Branch Will Not Break, Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press^[5]

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States

Louis Zukofsky, Bottom: On Shakespeare a work of literary philosophy
Robert Bly's "A Wrong Turning in American Poetry" published in Choice

Other in English

Chris Wallace-Crabbe (Australia):
- In Light and Darkness, Sydney: Angus & Robertson
- Editor, Six Voices: Contemporary Australian Poets, Sydney: Angus & Robertson; American Edition, Westport, Connecticut: 1979 (anthology)

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:

Denmark

Inger Christensen, Græs: digte ("Grass")^[10]
Ivan Malinovski, Romerske Bassiner ("Roman Pools")^[11]
Jørgen Sonne, Krese ("Cycles")^[11]

Finland

Lassi Nummi, Kuutsimittaa^[3]
Aila Meriluoto, Asumattomiin^[3]

French language

Canada

Ronald Desprês, Les Cloisons en vertige^[3]
Alfred Desrochers, Le Retour de Titus^[3]
Alain Grandbois, Poèmes^[3]
Gatien Lapointe, Ode au Saint-Laurent^[3]
Wilfred Lemoine, Sauf-conduits^[3]
Pierre Perrault, Toutes isles^[3]
Jean-Guy Pilon, Pour saluer une ville^[3]

France

Louis Aragon, Le Fou d'Elsa^[12]
P. Bealu, Amour me cele, celle que j'aime^[3]
Jacques Dupin, Gravir^[12]
Pierre Emmanuel, pen name of Noël Mathieu, La Nouvelle Naissance^[13]
Leon-Paul Fargue, Poesies, a collection of the author's early books published here posthumously (died 1947) with a preface by Saint-John Perse^[12]
Maurice Fombeure, Quel est ce coeur?^[3]
Paul Gilson, Enigmarelle^[3]
Eugène Guillevic, Sphère^[13]
Edmond Jabès, Le Livre des Questions^[12]
Denis Roche, Récits complets^[12]
Saint-John Perse:
- Au souvenir de Valery Larbaud, Liège: Editions Dynamo^[14]
- Poésie^[12]
- Silence pour Claudel, Liège: Editions Dynamo^[14]
Victor Segalen, Ode, suivi de Thibet^[12]
An anthology of Hungarian poetry translated by poets Jean Rousselot, Jean Follain, and Eugène Guillevic^[3]

German

Christa Reinig, Gedichte (East Germany)
Erich Fried, Reich der Steine a volume of cycles of poetry
Rupert Hirschenauer and Albrecht Weber, editors, Wege zum Gedicht, 2 volumes (second volume, on the ballad, published this year, previous volume published in 1956), scholarship^[15]

Hebrew

Nathan Alterman, a four-volume edition of his writing^[3]
Yehuda Amichai, a book of poetry^[3]
Y. Bat-Miriam, a book of poetry^[3]
J. Lichtenbaum, a book of poetry^[3]
J. Rabinow, a book of poetry^[3]
J. Ratosh, a book of poetry^[3]
D. Rokeah, a book of poetry^[3]
S. Shalom, a book of poetry^[3]
A. Tur-Malkah, a book of poetry^[3]

India

Nilmani Phookan, Surya Heno Nami Ahe Ei Nadiyedi ("The sun is said to come descending by this river"), Assamese language^[16]
Harumal Isardas Sadarangani, Ruha D'ino Relo, Sindhi-language^[1]

Spanish language

Latin America

Carlos Albert, editor, 13 poetas Argentinos de hoy, an anthology from the publisher Editorial Goyanarte (Argentina)^[3]
Alfonso Alcalde, Variaciones sobre el tema del amor y de la muerte (Chile)^[3]
Jorge Carrera Andrade, Angel planetario (Ecuador)^[3]
Mario Benedetti, Uruguay:
- Inventario, Poesía 1950–1958 ("Inventory, Poems 1950–1958")^[17]
- Poemas del hoyporhoy ("Poems of Today"), Uruguay^[17]
Esther de Cáceres, Los Cantos del destierro^[3]
Roland Cárdenas, En el invierno de la provincia^[3]
Lupo Hernández Rueda, Muerte y memoria (Dominican Republic)^[3]
Francisco Monterde, Sakura, including poetry inspired by epigrams and haiku (Mexico)^[3]

Swedish

Solveig von Schoultz, Sänk ditt ljus^[3]

Yiddish

E. Ayzikovich, a new book of poems^[3]
Sore Birnboym, a new book of poems^[3]
A. Glants-Leyeles, Amerike un ikh ("America and I") (United States)^[3]
Yirmiyohu Hesheles, Lider ("Poems")^[3]
L. Kusman, a new book of poems^[3]
I. M. Levin, a new book of poems^[3]
M. K. Likhtshteyn, a new book of poems^[3]
Nosn Mark, a new book of poems^[3]
Leyb Olitsky, a new book of poems^[3]
Efroyim Oyerbakh, Der step vakht ("The Steppe Is Awake"), with Hassidic mysticism as an inspiration (United States) ^[3]
Nakhmen Raf, a new book of poems^[3]
Eliyohu Reyzman, a new book of poems^[3]
M. Shafir, a new book of poems^[3]
Moyshe Shklar, a new book of poems^[3]
Yaykev Fridman, Nefilim, drama in the form of a symbolic poem
Hersh Leyb Yung, a new book of poems^[3]

Other

Manuel Bandeira, Estrêla da tarde, a selection from previous works (Brazil)^[3]
Ascensio Ferreira, Catimbó e outros poemas, a collection of three previous books (Brazil)^[3]

Awards and honors

Nobel Prize in Literature: Giorgos Seferis

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"): Howard Nemerov appointed this year.
American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in Poetry, William Carlos Williams
National Book Award for Poetry: William Stafford, Traveling Through the Dark
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: William Carlos Williams: Pictures from Breughel
Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Ezra Pound and Allen Tate

Births

May 26 - Simon Armitage, English poet^[18]
December 24 - Naja Marie Aidt, Dainish poet and writer

Also:
- Lynn Crosbie, Canadian poet and novelist
- He Xiaozhu, Chinese-Hmong poet, novelist and short story writer^[19]
- John Kinsella, Australian poet ^[20]
- Don Paterson, Scottish poet^[21]
- Claudia Rankine, American poet born in Jamaica and raised there and in New York City.
- Richard Sanger
- Lutz Seiller, German^[22]

Deaths

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

January 29 – Robert Frost, 88, American poet
February 11 – Sylvia Plath by suicide
March 4 – William Carlos Williams, 79
April 25^[23] – Christopher Vernon Hassall
May 6 – Mantarō Kubota 久保田万太郎 (born 1889), Japanese author, playwright and poet
August 1 – Theodore Roethke, 55, American poet and winner of the 1954 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
September 3 – Louis MacNeice, 55, British poet, playwright and producer,^[3] of pneumonia
October 11 — Jean Cocteau, 74, French poet, playwright, novelist, painter, designer, producer and critic^[3]
December 2 – Sasaki Nobutsuna 佐佐木信綱 (born 1872), Japanese, Showa period tanka poet and scholar of the Nara and Heian periods
December 24 – Tristan Tzara, 67, French poet (native of Romania) and a founder of Dadaism^[3]

Also:
- Eva Dobell (born 1867) English poet, nurse, and editor best known for her verses related to World War I soldiers
- Evelyn Scott (born 1893), American poet, novelist and playwright

References

^ ^a ^b Das, Sisir Kumar and various, History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956: struggle for freedom: triumph and tragedy, Volume 2, 1995, p 514, published by Sahitya Akademi, ISBN 9788172017989, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008
^ ^a ^b Slought Foundation, Philadelphia: Contemporary Art and Theory
^ ^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 Britannica Book of the Year 1964 (covering events of 1963), published 1963 by The Encyclopaedia Britannica, "Literature" article, pp 508-519
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Gustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books
^ ^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
^ Crotty, Patrick, Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology, Belfast, The Blackstaff Press Ltd., 1995, ISBN 0856405612
^ ^a ^b [1]Irish Poets Online/ Author/ Richard Murphy" at the Irish Poets Online Web site, accessed October 20, 2007
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press ("If the title page is one year later than the copyright date, we used the latter since publishers frequently postdate books published near the end of the calendar year." — from the Preface, p vi)
^ Web page titled "Inger Christensen (b. 1935)" at Pegasos website, retrieved January 7, 2009
^ ^a ^b "Danish Poetry" article, p 273, in Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Auster, Paul, editor, The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets, New York: Random House, 1982 ISBN 0394521978
^ ^a ^b Bree, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983
^ ^a ^b Web page titled "Saint-John Perse: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1960: Bibliography" at the Nobel Prize Website, retrieved July 20, 2009. Archived 2009-07-24.
^ 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
^ George, K. M., editor, Modern Indian Literature, an Anthology: An Anthology: Surveys and Poems, p 65, published by Sahitya Akademi, 1992, ISBN 9788172013240, retrieved January 8, 2009
^ ^a ^b Web page titled "Biblioteca de autores contemporaneos / Mario Benedetti - El autor" (in Spanish), retrieved May 27, 2009. Archived 2009-05-30.
^ Web page titled "Simon Armitage (1963- )" at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed April 24, 2008
^ Simon Patten, "Han Dong", article, Poetry International website, retrieved November 22, 2009
^ Web page titled "John Kinsella (1963- )" at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed April 24, 2008
^ Web page titled "Don Paterson (1963- )" at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed April 24, 2008
^ Hofmann, Michael, editor, Twentieth-Century German Poetry: An Anthology, Macmillan/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006
^ John Wakeman, Stanley Kunitz, World Authors, 1950-1970: A Companion Volume to Twentieth Century Authors Wilson (publisher), 1975, page 619

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