| content |
| List of years in poetry (table) |
|---|
| … 1951 . 1952 . 1953 . 1954 . 1955 . 1956 . 1957 … 1958 1959 1960 -1961- 1962 1963 1964 … 1965 . 1966 . 1967 . 1968 . 1969 . 1970 . 1971 … In literature: 1958 1959 1960 -1961- 1962 1963 1964 |
| Related time period or subjects |
| … 1958 . 1959 . 1960 - 1961 - 1962 . 1963 . 1964 … … 1930s . 1940s . 1950s -1960s- 1970s . 1980s . 1990s |
| Art . Archaeology . Architecture . Literature . Music . Science +... |
Contents |
Events
- Robert Frost recites a poem of his at United States President John F. Kennedy's inauguration.1
- Sylvia Plath suffers a miscarriage
- Keith and Rosmarie Waldrop buy a secondhand printing press and start Burning Deck magazine in the United States.
- Tish literary magazine, founded in Vancouver, British Columbia. It was published intermittently until 1969. Poets associated with the magazine include Frank Davey, Fred Wah, George Bowering, and, briefly, pbNichol when he lived in Vancouver.2
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 Stone3
- Arthur Bourinot, Poems: Paul Bunyan, Three Lincoln Poems and Other Verse3
- Leonard Cohen, The Spice-Box of Earth3
- Robert Finch
- Dover Beach Revisited, a meditation on the significance of Matthew Arnold3
- Acis in Oxford and Other Poems3
- Ralph Gustafson, Rivers Among Rocks3
- Daryl Hine, The Devil's Picture Books3
- Irving Layton, The Swinging Flesh3
- Eli Mandel and Jean Guy Pilon, Poetry 62, an anthology3
- D. Pacey, Creative Writing in Canada, revised edition (scholarship)4
- Dorothy Roberts, Twice to Flame3
Ireland
- Austin Clarke, Later Poems, Dublin: Dolmen Press, Ireland5
- 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 Burning3
- Alan Brownjohn, The Railings3
- Charles Causley, Johnny Alleluia3
- Donald Davie, New and Selected Poems, Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press5
- Ian Hamilton Finlay, Glasgow Beasts, An a Burd, Edinburgh: Wild Flounder Press 5
- John Fuller, Fairground Music3
- Allen Ginsberg:
- Robert Graves, More Poems 19613
- Thom Gunn, My Sad Captains,3 London: Faber and Faber; University of Chicago Press5
- Ralph Hodgson, Collected Poems3
- David Holbrook, Imaginings3
- Graham Hough, Legends and Pastorals3
- Edward Jennings, Song for a Birth or a Death3
- Edward Lucie-Smith, A Tropical Childhood, including "The Witnesses", "The Fault", and "On Looking at Stubb's Anatomy of the Horse"3
- Louis MacNeice, Solstices3
- {{John Montague]], The Nature of Cold Weather, London: MacGibbon and Kee5
- Peter Porter, Once Bitten, Twice Bitten, by an Australian living in England,3 Northwood, Middlesex: Scorpion Press5
- Peter Redgrove, The Collector, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul
- Siegfried Sassoon, Collected Poems3
- Iain Crichton Smith, Thistles and Roses3
- Gillian Stoneham, When That April3
- R.S. Thomas, Tares3
- 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,3 London: Macmillan5
Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom
- William Empson, Milton's God3
- Doris Landley Moore, The Late Lord Byron3
United States
- Lee Anderson, Nags Head3
- Helen Bevington, When Found, Make a Verse Of3
- Paul Blackburn, The Nets
- Harold Bloom, John Hollander, editors, The Wind and the Rain
- John Ciardi, In the Stoneworks3
- 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 tale3
- Ed Dorn, The Newly Fallen, Totem Press6
- Abbie Houston Evans, Fact of Crystal3
- Arthur Freeman, Apollonian Poems3
- Allen Ginsberg, Kaddish and Other Poems
- Thom Gunn, My Sad Captains,3 London: Faber and Faber; University of Chicago Press5 Briton
- John Hollander, The Untuning of the Sky (also see Harold Bloom/John Hollander item above)
- John Holmes, The Fortune Teller3
- David Ignatow, Say Pardon3
- LeRoi Jones, Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note
- Carolyn Kizer, The Ungrateful Garden, Bloomington: Indiana University Press35
- Denise Levertov, The Jacob's Ladder, New York: New Directions5
- Pablo Neruda, Odas elementales, translated by C. Lozano and with an introduction by Fernando Alegría3
- Lorine Niedecker, My Friend Tree (published with help from Ian Hamilton Finlay)
- John Nist, editor, Modern Brazilian Poetry3
- Charles Olson:
- Hyam Plutzik, Horatio, a narrative monologue basically in blank verse3
- Peter Viereck, The Tree Witch3
- John Hall Wheelock, The Gardener3
- Richard Wilbur, Advice to a Prophet3
- 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 Whitman3
- Walter Lowenfels, editor, Walt Whitman's Civil War, Whitman's writing about the war3
- Edwin Haviland Miller, The Correspondence of Walt Whitman (1842-1875, in two volumes)3
- Archibald MacLeish, Poetry and Experience (autobiography)3
Other in English
- Allen Curnow, editor, Penguin Book of New Zealand Verse,3
- A. D. Hope, Poems (Australia)3
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 jour3
- Paul Marie Lapointe, Choix de poèmes3
- Jean Guy Pilon, La Mouette et le large3
France
- Jean Cocteau, Le Cérémonial espagnol de Phoenix3
- Max Pol Fouchet, Demeure le Secret3
- Marie Noël, Chants d'arrière-saison3
- Léopold Sédar Senghor, Nocturnes3
- Jean Tardieu, Choix de poèmes3
Criticism, scholarship and biography in France
- André Berry, editor, Anthologie de la poésie occitane3
- Yves Bonnefoy, Rimbaud3
Germany
- Clemens Hesselhaus, editor, Deutsche Lyrik der Moderne: von Nietzsche bis Yvan Goll Düsseldorf: August Bagel an anthology73
Criticism, scholarship and biography in Germany
- Wilhelm Emrich, Protest und Verheissung (criticism)3
- Walter Jens, Deutsche Literatur der Gegenwart (criticism)3
Hebrew
- J. Akavyahu, Manginot Hazot ("Midnight Music")8
- Anonymous poet from a Soviet Bloc country, Behilokah Halail ("As the Night Is Taken"), the poems were clandestinely smuggled into Israel and published8
- K. A. Bertini, Shevil Kahol ("Blue Path")8
- A. Broides, El ha-Shahar ha-Gonuz ("Toward the Hidden Dawn")8
- Yonah David, Shirim Le-lo Ahava ("Poems on Nonlove")8
- Israel Efros, Bain Hofim Nistarim ("Among Hidden Shores")8
- Hayim Guri, Shoshanat ha-Ruhot ("Rose of the Winds")8
- Yosef Lichtenbaum, ba-Mishor ha-Govoha ("On a High Plain")8
- E. Lisitzky, Kemo ha-Yom Rad ("As the Day Wanes") published in the United States8
- Anda Pinkerfield-Amir, Gadish ve-Omer ("Sheaf and Measure")8
- Gabriel Preil, Mapat Erew ("Map of Evening"), published in the United States8
- T. Ribner, Shirim Limzo Et ("Poems in Search of Time")8
- Rena Shani, Ir Zara ("Strange City")8
- Nathan Zakh, Shirim Shonim ("Various")8
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 renaissance3
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"8
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 ingleses3
- Miguel Hernández, a "complete" collection of poems (posthumous)3
- Gerardo Diego, Glosa a Villamediana3
Anthologies in Spain
- Jimenez Martos, editor, Nuevos poetas españoles, mostly on the work of the "Generation of '54"3
- Rafael Montesinos, editor, Poesía taurina contemporánea, including verse by Miguel Hernández, Diego and García Lorca3
Latin America
- Roque Dalton, La ventana en rel rostro (El Salvador)3
- Hernando Domínguez de Camargo, Obras de Hernando Domínguez de Camargo (posthumous)3
- Octavio Paz, Libertad bajo palabra collected poems previously published from 1935 to 1958 in a volume using the title of an earlier book of his3
- Carlos A. Velazco, El corazón de silencio3
Anthologies in Latin America
- Anuario del cuento mexicano (Mexico)3
- Ginés de Albareda and F. Garfias, editors, Antología de la poesía hispanoamericana, Volume 8, devoted to Chilean poetry3
Yiddish
Israel
- Y Fridman, Di legende fun Neyakh Grin ("The Legend of Noah Green")3
- L. Fuks, editor, Schemuelbuch, a scholarly edition of this old Yiddish epic3
- Avrom Lev, a book of poetry3
- Leyb Olitsky, a book of poetry3
- Y Papernikov, a book of poetry3
- Rikude Potash, a book of poetry3
- Arye Shamri, Funken fun tikun ("Sparks of Salvation")3
- Avrom Sutzkever, Di gaystike erd ("The Spiritual Soil")3
Elsewhere
- Efrayim Oyerbakh, Di vayse shtot ("The White City")3
- I. L. Kalushiner, a book of poetry3
- Yisroel Emiot, In nigun ayngehert ("Listening to the Melody")3
- David Sfard, A zegl in vint ("A Sail in the Wind") (Poland)3
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.9
- 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 poet3
- September 27 – Hilda Doolittle, aka "H.D.", 75, American poet, novelist and memoirist,3 of a heart attack
- December 24 – Robert Hillyer, 66 (born 1895), American poet3
- date not known – Kenneth Fearing, 58, American poet and writer
See also
Notes
- ^ Garner, Dwight, "The Intersection of Poetry and Politics", article, The New York Times, December 25, 2008, retrieved same day
- ^ 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
- ^ 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
