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Events
- Writers in the Soviet Union this year were allowed to publish criticism of Joseph Stalin and were given more freedom generally, although many were severely criticized for doing so. The poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko, in the poem, The Heirs of Stalin, wrote that more guards should be placed at Stalin's tomb, "lest Stalin rise again, and with Stalin the past". He also condemns anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union. His poetry readings attracted hundreds and thousands of enthusiastic young people, to the point where police were often summoned to preserve order and disperse the crowds long after midnight. Other young poets also went beyond the previous limits of Soviet censorship: Andrei Voznesensky, Robert Rozhdestvensky, and Bella Akhmadulina (who had divorced Yevtushenko). Alexander Tvardovsky, editor of the literary monthly New World, supported many of the young writers. By the end of the year, the young writers had gained power in the official writers' unions which controlled much of the literary culture of the Soviet Union, and some publications which had attacked them were printing their work.1
- American poet Robert Frost visits Russian poet Anna Akhmatova in her dacha
- Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath separate
- Michigan Quarterly Review is founded.
- October — Dame Edith Sitwell read from her poetry at a concert at Royal Festival Hall in London given in honor of her 75th birthday.1
- Composer Benjamin Britten's War Requiem, included settings for Wilfred Owen's poems
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:
English Canada
- D. G. Jones, The Sun is Axeman1
- A. J. M. Smith, Collected Poems1
- Raymond Souster, Place of Meeting1
Anthologies
- Irving Layton, editor, Love Where the Nights Are Long1
- Editors of the Tamarack Review, a selection from its past issues, The First Five Years, including poetry1
Biography, criticism and scholarship
- A translation of The Journal of St. Denys Garneau1
- Canadian critics and poets, Masks of Poetry1
United Kingdom
- Dannie Abse, Poems, Golders Green, including "The Abandoned",1 London: Hutchinson2
- Edmund Blunden, A Hong Kong House1
- Ronald Bottrall, Collected Poems1
- Tony Connor, With Love Somehow, London: Oxford University Press2
- Patrick Creagh, A Row of Pharaohs1
- Allen Curnow, A Small Room with Large Windows (Oxford University Press), selected poems by this New Zealand poet published in the United Kingdom3
- D. J. Enright, Addictions, London: Chatto and Windus with Hogarth Press2
- Roy Fuller, Collected Poems 1936-1961, London: André Deutsch12
- Robert Graves, New Poems 19621
- Thom Gunn, Fighting Terms, a revision of a collection from the 1950s1 including "My Sad Captains"
- Thom Gunn and Ted Hughes, Selected poems by Thom Gunn and Ted Hughes, Faber
- Richard Kell, Control Tower1
- C. Day Lewis, The Gate, including "Not Proven" and "The Disabused"1
- Norman MacCaig, A Round of Applause, London: Chatto and Windus with Hogarth Press1
- Vernon Scannell, A Sense of Danger1
- Dame Edith Sitwell, The Outcasts1
- Stevie Smith, Selected Poems1
- Derek Walcott, In a Green Night the "most striking" first collection of poetry of 1962, according to Howard Sergeant, editor of Outposts (writing for publication in 1963). Walcott had already gained recognition with his plays.1
Anthologies
- Al Alvarez, editor, The New Poetry an anthology that provoked controversy with its omissions and inclusions1
- James Reeves, editor, Georgian Poetry1
United States
- Brother Antoninus, The Hazards of Holiness, 1957-19601
- John Ashbery, The Tennis Court Oath
- Robert Bly, Silence in the Snowy Fields, Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press2
- Robert Creeley, For Love: Poems 1950-1960, collected lyrics from his seven previous volumes, New York: Scribner's4
- James Dickey, Drowning With Others1
- William Everson (also known as Brother Antoninus, The Hazards of Holiness, Garden City, New York: Doubleday2
- Ian Hamilton Finlay, The Dancers Inherit the Party, Ventura California an dWorcester, England: Migrant Press* Robert Creeley, For Love: Poems 1950-1960, New York: Scribner's2 British poet
- Robert Frost, In the Clearing, his first collection of new poems in 15 years1
- Paul Goodman, The Lordly Hudson: Collected Poems, New York: Macmillan2
- John Hollander, Movie-Going
- Hugh Kenner, editor, T. S. Eliot: A Collection of Critical Essays (Prentice-Hall), Canadian writing and published in the United States; criticism
- Kenneth Koch, Thank You
- Denise Levertov, The Jacob's Ladder1
- Hugh MacDiarmid, Collected Poems, New York: Macmillan,1 Briton publishing in the United States2
- Norman Mailer, Deaths for the Ladies1
- James Merrill, Water Street1
- Christopher Middleton, torse 3, New York: Harcourt, Brace2
- Ogden Nash, Everyone But Thee and Me, light verse1
- Howard Nemerov, The Next Room of the Dream, University of Chicago Press2
- Charles Reznikoff, By the Waters of Manhattan: Selected Verse
- David Ross, Three Ages of Lake Light, his first book of poems1
- Muriel Rukeyser, Waterlily Fire: Poems 1935-1962,1
- James Schevill, Private Dooms and Public Destinations: Poems 1945-1962, Denver: Alan Swallow2
- Anne Sexton, All My Pretty Ones, including "The Truth the Dead Know", Boston: Houghton Mifflin2
- Edith Shiffert, In Open Woods, her first book of poems1
- William Stafford, Traveling Through the Dark, New York: Harper & Row2
- Reed Whittemore, The Boy from Iowa
- Theodore Weiss, Gunsight, New York University Press2
- William Carlos Williams, Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems
Other in English
- Kendrick Smithyman, Inheritance, New Zealand
- Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Eight Metropolitan Poems, Adelaide: Australian Letters, 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:
French language
French Canada
- Gérard Bessette, Poèmes temporels
- Gilles Hénault, Sémaphore1
France
- André du Bouchet, Dans la chaleur vacante1
- René Char, La Parole en Archipel, writings from the last eight years1
- Pierre Emmanuel, Evangéliaire1
- André Frénard, Il n'y a pas de Paradis1
- Jean Follain, Poèmes et Pros choisis, displaying some similarities to haiku1
- Jean Grosjean, Apocalypse1
- Stéphane Mallarmé, Pour un tombeau d'Anatole, an abandoned and previously unpublished work, consisting of notes and drafts of an elegy the poet expected to write on his dead son (posthumous); edited by J. P. Richard1
- Francis Ponge, Le Grand Recueil in three volumes1
- Jean Claude Renard:
- Michel Sager, XXI poèmes nocturnes1
Criticism and scholarship
- J. P. Richard, L'Univers imaginaire de Mallarmé1
Germany
- G. Benn, Lyrik des expressionistischen Jahrzehnts, anthology5
- Marie-Luise Kaschnitz, Dein Schweigen-meine Stimmen
- Hilde Domin, Rückkehr der Schiffe
- Wilhelm Lehmann, Abschiedslust, Gedichte aus den Jahren 1957-1961, 37 poems
- Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Viele schöne Kinderreime, 777 poems for children
Hebrew
- Anonymous author from the Soviet Union, Zion Halo Tishali, poems originally written in Russian and clandestinely sent to Israel, edited and translated by A. Shlonsky and M. Sharett1
- Avigdor Hameiri, Belivnat ha-Sapir ("Clear-cut Sapphire"), collected poems1
- Levi Ben-Amittai, Matana Mimidbar ("Gift of the Desert")1
- Yitzahak Ogen, Shirim ("Poems")1
- P. Elad-Lander, Ke'raiah ha-Sadeh ("As the Fragrance of the Field")1
- A. Halfi, Mul Kohavim ve-Afar ("Against Stars and the Dust")1
- A. Meyrowitz, Avnai Bait ("Stones of a House")1
- D. Avidan, Shirai Lahatz ("Poems of Pressure")1
- Uri Bernstein, Beoto ha-Heder Beoto ha-Or ("In the Same Room, In the Same Light")
- T. Carmi, Nehash ha-Nehoshet ("Brass Serpent")1
- J. Lichtenbaum, Shiratenu ("Our Poetry"), a two-volume anthology of Hebrew poetry from the end of the eighteenth century1
- J. J. Schwartz, Kentucky, the only volume of Hebrew poetry published in the United States, according to The Britannica Book of the Year 1963 (covering events of 1962)1
Spanish language
Latin America
- Héctor Rojas Herazo, Mascando las tinieblas en el odio (Colombia)1
- Alberto Hidalgo, Historia peruana verdadera1
- José Martí, Versos (Cuban), posthumous; with an introduction by Eugenio Florit
- Pablo Neruda, a bilingual anthology of his selected verse; with an introduction by Louis Monguió1
- Rubén Bonifaz Nuño, Fuego de pobres (Mexico)1
- Carlos Pellicer, Material poético (Mexico)1
Spain
- Jorge Guillén, Lenguaje y poesía1
- A collaboration of 50 poets and 14 illustrators, Versos para Antonio Machado (published in France)1
Yiddish
- Eliyohu Bokher, Bovo-bukh ("Buovo d'Antona") (posthumous) a sixteenth-century epic poem translated into modern Yiddish by Moyshe Knaphes1
- Yaykev Glatshteyn, Di freyd fun yidishn vort ("The Joy of the Yiddish World)1
- N. I. Gotlib, a book of poetry1
- Chaim Grade, Der mench fun fayer ("The Man of Fire")1
- Rokhl Korn, a book of poetry1
- Kadye Molodovsky, editor, Lider fun khurbn ("Poems of the Catastrophe"), an anthology in which emphasized the theme of the Holocaust1
- Shloyme Shenhud, a book of poetry1
- A. N. Shtensl, a book of poetry1
- I. J. Shvarts, a book of poetry1
- I. Taubes, a book of poetry1
- Meyer Ziml Tkach, a book of poetry1
- Shneyer Vaserman, a book of poetry1
- Avrom Zak, a book of poetry1
- Reyzl Zhykhlinsky, a book of poetry1
Other
- Inger Christensen, Lys: digte ("Light"), Denmark6
- A. Gatto, Carlomagno nella grotta Italy1
- Wisława Szymborska: Sól ("Salt"), Poland
- P. Volponi, Memoriale, Italy1
Awards and honors
United Kingdom
- Eric Gregory Award: Donald Thomas, James Simmons, Brian Johnson, Jenny Joseph
- Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Christopher Fry
United States
- Bollingen Prize: John Hall Wheelock and Richard Eberhart
- National Book Award for Poetry: Alan Dugan, Poems
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Alan Dugan: Poems
- Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: John Crowe Ransom
- Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition: Jack Gilbert: Monolithos
Births
- October 9 — Durs Grunbein, German
- December 6 — Julia Kasdorf, is an American poet
- date not known:
- Elizabeth Alexander, American poet7
- Paul Beatty, African-American poet and author
- Stacy Doris
- Glyn Maxwell, British poet8
- Virgil Suárez
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 20 – Robinson Jeffers, 85 (born 1887), American poet and playwright1
- March 18 – George Sylvester Viereck, 77 (born 1884), American poet and novelist, as well as a pro-German propagandist during both World War I and World War II1
- May 26 – Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, 83 (died 1878), English poet
- June 2 – Vita Sackville-West, 70 (born 1892), English novelist and poet1
- June 22 – John Holmes, 58, American educator and poet1
- July 27 – Richard Aldington, 70, English writer and poet
- August 9 – Herman Hesse, 95, Swiss novelist and poet in German1
- August 18 – Rosemary Carr Benét, 65(?), poet and widow of Stephen Vincent Benét1
- September 3 – E.E. Cummings, at 67 (born 1894), American poet,1 of a stroke;
- November 3 – Ralph Hodgson, 91 (born 1871), English poet1
- December 3 – Dame Mary Gilmore, 97, Australian socialist, poet and journalist
- Date not known:
- Alan Mulgan (born 1881), New Zealand
- William Stanley Braithwaite (born 1878), American
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 Britannica Book of the Year 1963, covering events of 1962, published by The Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1963
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o 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
- ^ Allen Curnow Web page at the New Zealand Book Council website, accessed April 21, 2008
- ^ David Perkins, "Robert Creeley's Life and Career" at the Modern American Poetry website, accessed May 1, 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, "Anthologies in German" section, pp 473-474
- ^ Web page titled "Inger Christensen (b. 1935)" at Pegasos website, retrieved January 7, 2009
- ^ Web page titled "Elizabeth Alexander" at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed April 24, 2008
- ^ "Glyn Maxwell (1962 - )" at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed April 24, 2008
