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Nelly Sachs (1891–1970) German-Swedish poet and dramatist who won the Nobel Prize in Literature this year

Events

• Raymond Souster founds the League of Canadian Poets

• Philip Hobsbaum, who had founded The Belfast Group in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 1963, departs for Glasgow, and the Belfast Group meetings lapsed for a while, but then was reconstituted in 1968 by Michael Allen, Arthur Terry, and Seamus Heaney. At one time or another, the grouping also includes Michael Longley, James Simmons, Paul Muldoon, Ciaran Carson, Stewart Parker, Bernard MacLaverty and the critic Edna Longley. Meetings will be held at Seamus and Marie Heaney's house on Ashley Avenue. The Belfast Group will last until 1972.

• Russian poet Joseph Brodsky returns to Leningrad from the exile near the Arctic Circle where he had been sent when a Soviet court in 1964 convicted him of "parisitism".

• Starting this year and continuing for a decade, Bulgarian censors prevent publication of works by Konstantin Pavlov, poet and screenwriter who was defiant against his country's communist regime; his popularity didn't wane, as Bulgarians clandestinely copied and read his poems.^[1]

• Ted Hughes and Daniel Weissbort found Modern Poetry in Translation (MPT), a British journal focusing on the art of translating poetry. Later defunct, the magazine was relaunched in 2004 under editors David and Helen Constantine.^[2]

Works published in English

Chilean poet Pablo Neruda recording poems at the U.S. Library of Congress this year

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

• Margaret Avison, The Dumbfounding^[3]
• Earle Birney, Selected Poems^[4]
• George Bowering, The Silver Wire^[4]
• Leonard Cohen, The Parasites of Heaven
• John Robert Colombo, Miraculous Montages^[4]
• Robert Finch, Silverthorn Bush and Other Poems
• Lakshni Gill, During Rain I Plant Chrysanthemums
• Ralph Gustafson, Sift in an Hourglass^[4]
• George Johnston, Home Free^[4]
• Raymond Souster, editor, New Wave Canada, anthology of seven young writers^[4]
• Gwendolyn MacEwen, A Breakfast for Barbarians^[4]
• F. R. Scott, Selected Poems^[4]
• Richard Outram, Exultante Jubilee
• A. J. M. Smith, and F. R. Scott, editors, The Oxford Book of Canadian Verse, second edition (see also, first edition 1958)^[4]
• Miriam Waddington, The Glass Trumpet^[4]

Ireland

• Austin Clarke, Mnemosyne Lay in Dust, Dublin: Dolmen Press^[5]
• Seamus Heaney, Death of a Naturalist, Faber & Faber, Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom
• Thomas Kinsella, Wormwood, Dublin: Dolmen Press;^[5] book widely available in the United Kingdom
• Louis MacNeice, The Collected Poems of Louis MacNeice, edited by E. R. Dodds,^[6] including "Mayfly", "Snow", "Autumn Journal XVI", "Meeting Point", "Autobiography", "the Libertine", "Western Landscape", "Autumn Sequel XX", "The Once-in-Passing", "House on a Cliff", "Soap Suds", "The Suicide" and "Star-gazer", Faber and Faber, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom,^[7]
• John Montague, All Legendary Obstacles, Dublin: Dolmen Press^[5]

United Kingdom

• W. H. Auden, English poet published in the United States:
  • About the House, first published in the United States, 1965^[8]
  • Collected Shorter Poems 1927–57^[8]
• Karen Gershon, Selected Poems
• Gavin Bantock, Christ
• George Barker, Dreams of a Summer Night
• John Betjeman, High and Low^[8]
• Basil Bunting, Briggflatts^[8]
• Lawrence Durrell, The Ikons, and Other Poems^[8]
• Tom Earley, A Welshman in Bloomsbury
• Gavin Ewart, Pleasures of the Flesh^[8]
• Elaine Feinstein, In a Green Eye,^[8] Goliard Press
• Robert Graves, Collected Poems^[6]
• J. C. Hall, The Burning Hare
• Seamus Heaney, Death of a Naturalist, Faber & Faber, Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom
• Philip Hobsbaum, In Retreat
• Christopher Isherwood, Exhumations, stories, articles and poetry;^[8] an English writer living in and published in the United States
• Elizabeth Jennings, The Mind Has Mountains^[8]
• Thomas Kinsella, Wormwood,^[8] Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
• Philip Larkin, The North Ship^[6]
• Richard Logue, Logue's ABC^[8]
• Norman MacCaig, Surroundings^[8]
• Louis MacNeice, The Collected Poems of Louis MacNeice, edited by E. R. Dodds,^[6] including "Mayfly", "Snow", "Autumn Journal XVI", "Meeting Point", "Autobiography", "the Libertine", "Western Landscape", "Autumn Sequel XX", "The Once-in-Passing", "House on a Cliff", "Soap Suds", "The Suicide" and "Star-gazer", Faber and Faber, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom,^[7]
• Ruth Pitter, Still by Choice^[8]
• Sir Herbert Read, Collected Poems, Horizon Press^[6]
• Peter Redgrove, The Force and Other Poems, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul^[5]
• Jon Silkin, New and Selected Poems
• Stevie Smith, The Frog Prince, and Other Poems^[8]
• Gillian Smyth, The Nitrogen Dreams of a Wide Girl
• Gary Snyder, A Range of Poems, London: Fulcrum Press, American^[5]
• R.S. Thomas, Pietà,^[8] Welsh
• Anthony Thwaite and John Hollander publish the first anthology of double dactyls, Jiggery Pokery
• Charles Tomlinson, American Scenes, and Other Poems, London: Macmillan^[5]
• David Wevill, A Christ of the Ice Floes

United States

• A.R. Ammons, Northfield Poems
• John Ashbery, Rivers and Mountains
• Ted Berrigan, Some Things
• Paul Blackburn,
  • 16 Sloppy Haiku and a Lyric for Robert Reardon
  • Sing Song
  • translator, Poem of the Cid
• Gwendolyn Brooks, We Real Cool
• Robert Creeley, Poems 1950-1965^[9]
• Robert Duncan, The Years as Catches^[6]
• Randall Jarrell (died 1965), The Lost World (published posthumously)
• Josephine Jacobsen, The Animal Inside
• LeRoi Jones, Black Art
• Stanley Kunitz, The Testing Tree^[6]
• James Merrill, Nights and Days
• Sylvia Plath, Ariel, New York: Harper & Row (London: Faber and Faber 1965) American poet in the United Kingdom^[5]
• A. K. Ramanujan, The Striders (Indian poet living in the United States)
• Kenneth Rexroth, Collected Shorter Poems
• Adrienne Rich, Necessities of Life, W. W. Norton & Company^[6]
• Theodore Roethke, Roethke: Collected Poems
• Anne Sexton, Live Or Die^[6]
• Louis Simpson, Selected Poems (West Indian poet living in the United States)
• Gary Snyder, A Range of Poems, London: Fulcrum Press^[5]
• William Stafford, The Rescued Year
• Robert Penn Warren, Selected Poems, New and Old: 1923-1966
• Louis Zukofsky, All: the collected short poems 1956–1964, W. W. Norton & Company^[6]

Criticism, scholarship, biography

• Wallace Stevens, Letters of Wallace Stevens (posthumous), edited by Holly Stevens (his daughter)^[10]

Other in English

• James K. Baxter, Pig Island Letters (New Zealand)
• Louise Bennett, Jamaica Labrish, Jamaica^[11]
• John Pepper Clark, A Reed in the Tide (Nigeria)
• Leela Dharmaraj, Slum Silhouette and Other Poems, Calcutta: Writers Workshop; India, Indian poetry in English^[12]
• Keith Harrison, Points in a Journey (Australia)

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

• Benny Anderson (poet), Portrætgalleri
• Thorkild Bjørnvig, Vibrationer
• Poul Borum, Dagslys
• Jørgen Gustava Brandt, Der er æg i mit skæg (prose sketches and poetry)
• Knud Holst, Samexistens
• Henrik Nordbrandt, Digte
• Bundgård Povlsen, Døgndrift

Finland

• Paavo Haavikko, Puut, kaikki heidän vihreytensä, ("The Trees, All Their Greenness")
• Eeva-Liisa Manner, Kirjoitettu kivi ("The Inscribed Stone"), poems and translations from contemporary Spanish poets
• Pentti Saarikoski, Ääneen ("Out Loud")

French language

Canada

• Roger Brien:
  • Prométhée
  • Le Jour se lève
• Roland Giguère, L'Age de la parole
• Marie Laberge, D'un Cri à l'autre
• Rina Lasnier, L'Arbre blanc
• Suzanne Paradis, Le Visage offensé
• Gemma Tremblay, Cratères sous la niege

France

• Louis Aragon:
  • Elégie a Pablo Neruda^[13]
  • Les Poetes^[13]
• L. Brauquier, a book of poetry
• P. Chabaneix, a book of poetry
• René Char:
  • Recherche de la base et du sommet, Retour amont^[14]
  • Retour Amont^[13]
• Michel Déguy:
  • Actes^[14]
  • Ouï-dire^[14]
• Pierre Emmanuel, Ligne de faîte
• Andre Frenaud, Les Rois Mages, revised edition (first edition, 1943)^[13]
• Pierre Emmanuel, pen name of Noël Mathieu, Ligne de faîte^[14]
• Gérard Genette, Figures I, one of three volumes of a work of critical scholarship in poetics – general theory of literary form and analysis of individual works — the Figures volumes are concerned with the problems of poetic discourse and narrative in Stendhal, Flaubert and Proust and in Baroque poetry (see also Figures II 1969, Figures III 1972)^[14]
• Eugène Guillevic, Avec^[14]
• Robert Marteau, Travaux sur la terre^[13]
• A. Miatlev, Thanathème
• Jean-Claude Renard, La Terre du sacré, received the 1966 Prix Sainte-Beuve^[14]
• A. Richaud, Je ne suis pas mort
• P. Seghers, Dialogue
• J. Tortel, Les Villes ouvertes
• Dominique Tron, Stéréophonies
• Boris Vian, a book of poetry

Belgium

• R. Goffin, a book of poetry in the publishing series "Poètes d'Aujourd'hui", French language, published in Belgium

Germany

West Germany

• Günter Eich, Anlässe und Steingärten
• Beda Allemann, editor, Ars poetica: Texte von Dichtern des 20. Jahrhunderts zur Poetik, 51 essays, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, (criticism)^[15]
• Walter Naumann, Traum und Tradition in der deutschen Lyrik, Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer (criticism)^[15]

Translations

• Oswald de Andrade (Brazil), translations of his:
  • Livro de Ensaios
  • Gálaxias

East Germany

• Wolf Biermann, Die Drahtharfe
• Volker Braun, Vorläufiges

Hebrew

Israel

• Reuven Ben-Yosef, Shehafim Mamtinim ("Waiting Gulls") American-born poet
• David Fogel, collected poems, with an introduction by D. Pagis
• S. Halkin, Maavar Yabok ("Crossing Jabbok")
• C. Schirmann, a book of poetry: a compilation of new poems from the Genizah
• Shin Shalom, a book of his complete works
• N. Zach, Kol ha-Halav veha-Devash ("All the Milk and Honey")

Italy

• Alfonso Gatto, La storia delle vittime (winner of the Premio Viareggio prize)
• Dacia Maraini, Crudeltà all'aria aperta
• Antonio Porta, I rapporti
• Giovanni Raboni, Le case della Vetra
• Sergio Salvi, Le croci di Cartesio
• Roberto Sanesi, Rapporto informativo

Norway

• Georg Johannesen, Nye dikt
• Sigmund Skard, Haustraun
• Einar Skjæraasen, Bumerke (posthumous)
• Ragnvald Skrede, Grunnmalm
• Stein Mehren, Tids Alder
• Jan Erik Vold, Hekt

Portuguese language

Brazil

• Oswald de Andrade, Complete Works, a new edition (posthumous)
• Manuel Bandiera, Estrêla da Vida Inteira, an anthology of his poems, commemorating his 80th birthday
• João Cabral de Melo Neto, A Educação pela Pedra
• Mário Faustino, Poesía
• Ferreira Gullar, Luta Corporal e Outros Poemas
• Mário da Silva Brito, Poemário da Silva Brito

Russia

• Pavel Antokolski, two volumes of poems to celebrate his 70th birthday
• David Kugoltinov, a book of poems translated from Kalmuk published in the "Soviet Poetry Library" series
• Robert Rozhdestvenski, The Radius of Action, including "Letter to the Thirtieth Century"

Spanish language

Mexico

• José López Bermùdez, Canto a Morelos (Mexico)
• Rubén Bonifaz Nuño, Siete de espadas (Mexico)
• Octavio Paz, "Vrindaban" and "Madurai" two poems on a Hindu theme by the Mexican ambassador to India
• José Emilio Pacheco, El reposo del fuego (Mexico)
• Ramón López Velarde, Suave Patria (Mexico)

Spain

• Jaime Gil de Biedma:
  • En favor de Venus, a collection
  • Moralidades, a larger collection published in Mexico
• Carlos Barral, Figuración y fuga
• Alfonso Canales, Aminadab
• Gloria Fuertes, Ni tiro, veneno, ni navaja
• Dionisio Ridruejo, Cuaderno Catalán
• Joaquín Caro Romero, El tiempo en el espejo

Yiddish

• Israel Emiot, a collection of poems
• Yankev Glatshteyn, A Jew from Lublin
• Gabriel Preil, a collection of poems
• Khava Rosenfarb, a collection of poems
• Meyer Shtiker, a collection of poems
• Moyshe Tayf (alternate English spelling: "Moshe Teif"), a collection of poems
• Leyb Vaserman, a collection of poems

Other languages

• Klaus Høeck, Yggdrasil, 1966. Nuancer ^[16]
• Gita Parikh, Purvi; Indian poet writing in Gujarati^[17]
• Nizar Qabbani, Drawing with Words, Syrian poet writing in Arabic
• Giorgos Seferis, Τρία Κρυφά Ποιήματα (Three Hidden Poems) (Greece)
• Wisława Szymborska: 101 wierszy ("101 Poems"), Poland

Awards and honors

• Nobel Prize for Literature: Nelly Sachs, a German poet, writing in German but living in Sweden and a Swedish subject, shared the prize with novelist and short story writer Shmuel Yosef Agnon of Israel.

Awards in Canada

• See 1966 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

Awards in France

• Prix des Critiques: René Char, for his work as a whole^[14]
• Grand Prix de Poésie de l'Académie Française: Pierre Jean Jouve^[14]

Awards in the United Kingdom

• Cholmondeley Award: Ted Walker, Stevie Smith
• Eric Gregory Award: Robin Fulton, Seamus Heaney, Hugo Williams

Awards in the 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"): James Dickey appointed this year.
• National Book Award for Poetry: James Dickey, Buckdancer's Choice
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Richard Eberhart, Selected Poems
• Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Archibald MacLeish and John Berryman

Awards in Spain

• Premio de la Crítica (a nonmonetary award by a jury of journalist-critics): Claudio Rodriguez, Alianza y condena
• Premio Adonais for verse: Vincente García Hernández, Los pájaros

Other

• Nordic Council's literature prize: Gunnar Ekelöf, Diwan över fursten av Engion (Sweden)

Births

• August 10 – Christian Bök, Canadian experimental poet
• October 7 – Sherman Alexie Native American poet and author
• Also:
  • Maurice Manning (Poet)
  • Constance Merritt (poet)
  • Michael Redhill
  • Natasha Trethewey
  • Christian Wiman (poet)
  • Dimitris P. Kraniotis, Greek
  • Dimitris Lyacos, Greek
  • Woeser (also written Öser; full name: Tsering Woeser) Tibetan: ཚེ་རིང་འོད་ཟེར་; Wylie: tshe-ring 'od-zer; simplified Chinese: 唯色; pinyin: Wéisè, Tibetan poet and essayist
  • Volker Sielaff, German^[18]
  • Yi Sha, China^[19]

Deaths

Grave of Anna Akhmatova

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

• January 22 – Jun Kawada 川田 順 (born 1882), Japanese, Showa period tanka poet and entrepreneur
• January 23 – Berton Braley, 83
• March 5 — Anna Akhmatova, 76, Russian poet
• March 17 – Einar Skjæraasen, Norway
• May 14 – Georgia Douglas Johnson, 86, of a stroke
• June 1 – Inge Müller (born 1925), East German
• June 7 – Jean Arp, 78, French sculptor, painter and poet, leader in Dadaism
• June 10 – Henry Treese, 55
• June 27 – Arthur David Waley, 76, noted translator of Chinese poetry and an English Orientalist and Sinologist
• July 11 – Delmore Schwartz, 52, American, of a heart attack
• July 25 – Frank O'Hara, 40, American poet and key member of the New York School of poetry.
• August 14:
  • Raymond Duncan, 91
  • Alfred Kreymborg, 82, American poet, novelist, playwright, literary editor and anthologist
• August 29 – Melvin Tolson, 68, American Modernist poet, educator, columnist, and politician
• September 25 – Mina Loy, 73, British-born American artist, poet, Futurist and actor
• September 28 – André Breton, 70, French poet, essayist and theorist; the leading exponent of Surrealism in literature

• Also:
  • John Cournos (born 1881), Russian-American Imagist poet, but better known for his novels, short stories, essays, criticism and translations of Russian literature; wrote under the pen name "John Courtney"
  • Tristan Klingsor, pseudonym of Léon Leclère (born August 8, 1874 – died sometime in August), French poet, painter and musician; part of the Fantaisiste group of French poets
  • W.W.E. Ross
  • Jun Tanaka 田中純 (born 1890), Japanese, Showa period poet
  • Arnold Wall (born 1869), New Zealand

See also

Poetry portal

• Poetry
• List of poetry awards
• List of years in poetry

Notes

1. ^ No byline, [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/30/books/30pavlov.html?scp=10&sq=died%20poet&st=cse "Konstantin Pavlov, Bulgarian Poet, Is Dead at 75", obituary, Associated Press, September 30, 2008, as it appeared on the website of The New York Times, retrieved December 11, 2008
2. ^ Web page titled "Modern Poetry in Translation" at the website of Poetry Library Southbank Centre, retrieved December 14, 2008
3. ^ Roberts, Neil, editor, A Companion to Twentieth-century Poetry, Part III, Chapter 3, "Canadian Poetry", by Cynthia Messenger, Blackwell Publishing, 2003, ISBN 9781405113618, retrieved via Google Books, January 3, 2009
4. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j} Gustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books
5. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h} 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
6. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j} Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, editors, The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, W. W. Norton & Company, 1973, ISBN 0393093573
7. ^ ^{a b} Crotty, Patrick, Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology, Belfast, The Blackstaff Press Ltd., 1995, ISBN 0856405612
8. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o} Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
9. ^ Everett, Nicholas, "Robert Creeley's Life and Career" at the Modern American Poetry website, accessed May 1, 2008
10. ^ Web page titled "Wallace Stevens (1879 - 1955)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved April 9, 2009. Archived 2009-05-04.
11. ^ "Selected Timeline of Anglophone Caribbean Poetry" in Williams, Emily Allen, Anglophone Caribbean Poetry, 1970–2001: An Annotated Bibliography, page xvii and following pages, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002, ISBN 9780313317477, retrieved via Google Books, February 7, 2009
12. ^ Naik, M. K., Perspectives on Indian poetry in English, p. 230, (published by Abhinav Publications, 1984, ISBN 0391032860, ISBN 9780391032866), retrieved via Google Books, June 12, 2009
13. ^ ^{a b c d e} 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
14. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i} Bree, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983
15. ^ ^{a b} 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
16. ^ Web page titled [stage=5&tx_lfforfatter_pi2[uid]=115&tx_lfforfatter_pi2[lang]=_eng "Bibliography of Klaus Høeck"], website of the Danish Arts Agency / Literature Centre, retrieved January 1, 2010
17. ^ Mohan, Sarala Jag, Chapter 4: "Twentieth-Century Gujarati Literature" (Google books link), in Natarajan, Nalini, and Emanuel Sampath Nelson, editors, Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, ISBN 9780313287787, retrieved December 10, 2008
18. ^ Hofmann, Michael, editor, Twentieth-Century German Poetry: An Anthology, Macmillan/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006
19. ^ Web page/article titled "Yi Sha" at Poetry International retrieved November 22, 2008