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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:
Canada
- C. F. Klinck and W. H. New, editors, Literary History of Canada, first of four volumes (fourth volume published in 1990, scholarship, Canada2
- Al Purdy, The Cariboo Horses, Canada3
- Phyllis Webb, Naked Poems3
New Zealand
- Charles Brasch: (year uncertain, but thought to be this year) Twice Sixty, Wellington: Printed at the Wai-te-ata Press (Single poem; broadsheet)4
- Charles Doyle, editor, Recent Poetry in New Zealand, anthology
- Kendrick Smithyman, A Way of Saying: A Study of New Zealand Poetry,5 Auckland & London: Collins, criticism
United Kingdom
- 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 Press6
- Donald Davie, The Poems of Doctor Zhivago1
- D. J. Enright, The Old Adam,1 London: Chatto and Windus with Hogarth Press6
- Harry Fainlight, Sussicran, London: Turret Books6
- Roy Fuller, Buff1
- David Gascoyne, Collected Poems1
- Robert Graves, Collected Poems (1965 version)1
- Seamus Heaney:
- Death of a Naturalist
- Eleven Poems, Queen's University
- John Heath-Stubbs, Selected Poems1
- George MacBeth, A Doomsday Book, a mix of poems and poem-games,1 Lowestoft, Suffolk: Scorpion Press6
- Norman MacCaig, Measures, London: Chatto and Windus with Hogarth Press6
- Richard Murphy, Sailing to an Island, London: Faber and Faber; New York: Chilmark Press6, Irish poet
- Sylvia Plath, Ariel, London: Faber and Faber (New York: Harper & Row, 1966), American poet in the United Kingdom6
- 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: Macmillan6
- Ted Walker, Fox on a Barn Door1
- Hugo Williams, Symptoms of Loss: Poems, Oxford University Press
- David Wright, Adam at Evening, London: Hodder and Stoughton6
Anthologies
- Matthew Hodgart, The Faber Book of Ballads1
- I. M. Parsons, Men Who March Away (poems of World War I)1
- Robin Skelton, Poetry of the Thirties1
- James Reeves, The Cassell Book of English Poetry1
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
United States
- A.R. Ammons:
- George Barker, Collected Poems, New York: October House6
- 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:
- 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 Editore6
- 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:
- 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: Scribners6
- Edwin Muir, Collected Poems, New York: Oxford University Press6
- 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: Macmillan6
- 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
- Theodore Roethke, On the Poet and his Craft (published posthumously)1
- Chard Powers Smith, Where the Light Falls, about Edward Arlington Robinson1
Other in English
- P. L. Brent, editor, Young Commonwealth Poets 1965 (anthology published in the United Kingdom)
- Denis Devlin, Collected Poems,1 Dublin: Dolmen Press6 Ireland
- A. L. Hendriks, On This Mountain (West Indian)
- Geoffrey Lehmann and Les Murray, The Ilex Tree, Australia8
- 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), Australia9
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
- Jørgen Gustava Brandt, Etablissementet 1
- Klaus Rifbjerg, Amagerdigle1
- Ivan Malinovski, Poetomatic1
Anthologies
- Poul Borum, editor, a volume of modern poetry1
- Torben Brostrøm, Den nye poesi, a volume of modern poetry (a new version, first published in 1962)1
- Jess Ørnsbo, editor, a volume of modern poetry1
Finland
- Pertti Nieminen, Silmissä maailman maismat ("The World in his Eyes"), colorful, humorous fables in the form of poetry1
- Arvo Turtainen, translation of Leaves of Grass1
- Pentti Saarikoski, Kuljen missä kuljen ("Traveling Man")1
French language
Canada
- Jacques Brault, Mémoire1
- Paul Chamberland, L'Afficheur hurle1
- Gilbert Choquette, L'Honneur de vivre1
- Cécile Cloutier, Cuivre et soìes1
- Paul-Marie Lapointe, Pour les âmes1
- Fernand Oulette, Le Soliel sous la mort1
France
- Roger Giroux, L'Arbre le temps, which won the Max Jacob Prize1
- R. Lorno, Légendaire, a book of verses in a style vaguely like Verlaine; the book won the Apollinaire Prize.1
- Pierre Jean Jouve:
- Yves Bonnefoy, Pierre écrite1
- Loys Masson, La Dame de Pavoux1
- Robert Sabatier, Les Poisons délectables1
Criticism
- J. P. Richard, Onze Etudes sur la poésie moderne1
Hebrew
- N. Alterman, Hagigat Kayitz ("Summer Celebration")1
- Yonathan Ratosh, Shirai Memesh ("Poems of Tangibility")1
- Mattityahu Shoham, Ketavim ("Writings")1
- Moshe Dor, Sirpad Umatehet ("Briar and Metal")1
- I. Pincas, Aruhat Erev be-Ferrara ("Supper in Ferrara")1
- A. Broides, le-Eretz ha-Moked ("Toward the Blazing Land")1
United States
- Moses Feinstein, a book of poems and sonnets1
- G. Preil, Mivhar Shirim ("A Selection of Poems"), introduction by A. Shabatay1
- Yaffa Eliach, Eishet ha-Dayag ("Fisherman's Wife"), a long, narrative poem1
- A. Zeitlin, Hazon ve-Hazon Medinah ("A State and a State Envisioned")1
Italy
- Attilio Giuliani:
- Roberto Roversi, Dopo Campoformio, collection1
- Carlo Villa, Siamo esseri antichi1
- Vittorio Sereni, Gli strumenti umani1
- Giovanni Giudici, La vita in versi1
Portuguese
Brazil
- Carlos Drummond de Andrade, complete works1
- Cassiano Ricardo, Jeremias sem chorar1
- Mauro Mota, Canto au meio1
Criticism
- Cassiano Ricardo, Algumas reflexões sôbre poética de vanguarda1
Spanish
Spain
- Ramón Garciasol, Fuente serena1
- Diego Jesús Jiménez, La ciudad, which won the Premio Adonais prize1
- José Hierro, El libro de las alucinaciones1
Latin America
- Victor García Robles, Oíd Mortales (Argentina), winner of the Cuban Casa de las Américas Prize in poetry
- J. Bañuelos, O. Oliva, J. A. Shelley, E. Zepeda, and J. Labastida (all in Mexico), Ocupación de la palabra, a collection of their poems
- Carlos Medellín, El aire y las colinas (Colombia)
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
Yiddish
- 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
- Majken Johansson, Liksom överlämnad (Sweden), her first volume in seven years1
- Bengt Emil Johnson, Gubbdrunkning (Sweden)1
- Boris Pasternak, collected poems published in the Soviet Union, not as complete as the collection published by the University of Michigan in 1961, but the closest to complete available to Soviet readers1
- Lo Fu (Luo Fu),Death of a Stone Cell Chinese (Taiwan) 10
- Einar Skjæraasen, "Sang i september" the first poem to appear since 1956 from one of Norway's most popular poets1
- Umashankar Joshi, Mahaprasthan, a "dialogue-poem" (Indian, writing in Gujarati)11
Awards and honors
Canada
- See 1965 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
United Kingdom
- Eric Gregory Award: John Fuller, Derek Mahon, Michael Longley, Norman Talbot
- Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Philip Larkin
United States
- Bollingen Prize: Horace Gregory
- Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (later the post would be called "Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress"): Stephen Spender appointed this year.
- National Book Award for Poetry: Theodore Roethke, The Far Field
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: John Berryman: 77 Dream Songs
- Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Marianne Moore
Other
- Danish Academy 1965 literature prize: Erik Knudsen, poet and dramatist
Births
- November 23 — Marcel Beyer, German12
- date not known:
- Patience Agbabi, performance poet
- Michael Crummey, Canadian novelist and poet
- Adeena Karasick
- Timothy Liu
- Jay Ruzesky
- R.M. Vaughan
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.
- ^ 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 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
- ^ 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
- ^ [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
- ^ 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
- ^ Hofmann, Michael, editor, Twentieth-Century German Poetry: An Anthology, Macmillan/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006
