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1967 in poetry
Events
Works published in English
Margaret Atwood , The Circle Game , won a Governor General's award and "sold out immediately"[1] Raymond Souster , editor, New Wave Canada anthology of younger poetsA. J. M. Smith , editor, Modern Canadian Verse , anthologyA. J. M. Smith , Poems: New and Collected Margaret Avison , The Dumbfounding Alfred Purdy , North of Summer , a diary in verse recounting his stay on Baffin IslandDorothy Livesay , The Unquiet Bed , Canadian and African experiencesMichael Ondaatje , The Dainty Monsters , Toronto: Coach House Press[2] Miriam Waddington , The Glass Trumpet George Woodcock , Selected Poems of George Woodcock , Toronto: Clarke, Irwin, Canada [3]
Fleur Adcock , Tigers , London: Oxford University Press (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963 )[4] James K. Baxter :
The Lion Skin: Poems Aspects of Poetry in New Zealand , critical studyThe Man on the Horse , critical study
Alistair Campbell , Blue Rain: Poems , Wellington: Wai-te-ata Press
Fleur Adcock , Tigers (a New Zealander living in the United Kingdom)Joseph Brodsky : Elegy for John Donne and Other Poems , selected, translated, and introduced by Nicholas William Bethell , London: Longman[5] Russian -American (but published in the United Kingdom)Ted Hughes , Wodwo , a collection of poems, a radio play and five storiesT. S. Eliot , Poems Written in Early Youth , a second edition of the 1950 book of poems edited and privately printed by John Hayward George MacBeth , The Colour of Blood U.S. Poet Robert Lowell , Near the Ocean published in the United Kingdom early in the year
Roger McGough :
Frinck A Life in the Day of Summer with Monika
Brian Patten , Little Johnny's Confession Tom Pickard , High on the Walls , used "Geordie" (Newcastle) slangD. M. Black , With Decorum Bryn Griffith , The Stones Remember Leslie Norris , Finding Gold Martin Bell , Collected Poems, 1937-1966 Thom Gunn , Touch Anthony Thwaite , The Stones of Emptiness Patricia Beer , Just Like the Resurrection Elizabeth Jennings , Collected Poems, 1967 Vernon Watkins , Selected Poems, 1930-60 Hugh MacDiarmid :
,A Lap of Honour , with some poems "previously almost unobtainable"[1]
Collected Poems , a revised edition
Anthologies
Edward Lucie-Smith , editor, The Liverpool Scene anthology featuring work by the Mersey Beat poets Adrian Henri , Roger McGough and Brian Patten (publisher: Donald Carroll)The Mersey Sound , 10th volume in the Penguin "Modern Poets Series", including work by Liverpudlians Adrian Henri , Roger McGough , Brian Patten Stephen Bann , Concrete Poetry , poems originally written in English, German, Spanish and PortugueseHoward Sergeant , Commonwealth Poems of Today , covering 24 Commonwealth countries, published in the United KingdomDuncan Glen , editor, Poems Addressed to Hugh MacDiarmid
W. H. Auden , Collected Shorter Poems, 1927-1957 Ted Berrigan , Ron Padgett and Joe Brainard , Bean Spasms , in which no authors were listed for individual poems, although some were written by one poet, some in collaboration.Ted Berrigan , Many Happy Returns John Berryman , Berryman's Sonnets (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux)Paul Blackburn :
The Reardon Poems The Cities
Gwendolyn Brooks , The bitch Robert Creeley , Words [6] Ed Dorn , The North Atlantic Turbine , Fulcrum Press[7] Robert Lowell , Near the Ocean , New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux[8] Carl Rakosi , Amulet (Rakosi's first published volume since 1941 )Marianne Moore , Complete Poems Reed Whittemore , Poems, New and Selected James Wright , Shall We Gather at the River
Other in English
Edward Brathwaite , Rights of Passage (West Indies)Dom Moraes , Beldam & Others , a pamphlet of verse, India Chris Wallace-Crabbe , The Rebel General , Sydney: Angus & Robertson, Australia Lenrie Peters , Satellites (Gambia)Judith Wright , The Other Half , Australia
Works published in other languages
French language
M. Fombeure , À Chat petit Raymond Queneau , courir les rues J. Follain , D'après tout J. Lebrau , Du Cyprès tourne l'ombre Charles le Quintrec , Stances du verbe amour P. Jaccottet , Airs P. Chaullet , Soudaine écorce Lucienne Desnoues , Les Ors Lilaine Wouters , Le Gel R. Dubillard , Le dirai que je suis tombé
Critical studies
German language
B. Pomerantz , Shirim ("Poems"), introduction by N. Peniel (posthumous)N. Shtern , Bain ha-Arpilim ("Amid the Mists"), preface by A. Broides T. Carmi , ha-Unikorn Mistakel ba-Mareh ("The Unicorn Looks into the Mirror")Ori Bernstein , be-Ona ha-Kezarah ("In the Brief Season")Yaoz Kast , a book of collected poemsOzer Rabin , Shuv ve-shuv ("Again and Again")A. Aldon , a book of poemsS. Pilus , a book of poemsS. Tanny , Ad Shehigia ha-Yom (title translated by the author as "The Moment Came")D. Chomsky , Ezov ba-Even ("The Moss on the Stone")
United States
Portuguese language
Spanish language
United States
Soviet Union
Other
Awards and honors
Births
Deaths
March 16 — Thomas MacGreevy 72, poet, director of the National Gallery of Ireland and member of the first Irish Arts CouncilMarch 30 — Jean Toomer , 72, American poet, novelist and important figure of the Harlem Renaissance May 10 — Margaret Larkin , 67 [12] May 12 — John Masefield , 88, English poet writer, and Poet LaureateMay 22 — Langston Hughes , 65, American poet, of heart failureJune 7 — Dorothy Parker , 73, American writer and poet known for her caustic wit, of a heart attackJuly 19 — Odel Shepard , 82July 22 — Carl Sandburg , 89, American historian and poet, of a heart attackJuly 25 — Pierre Albert Birot , 91, French poet and writerSeptember (exact date not known) — Augusto Casimiro , 78, Portuguese poet and founder of the Seara Nova literary review
September 1 — Siegfried Sassoon , 80, English poet, authorSeptember 5 — David C. DeJong , at 62October 8 — Vernon Watkins , 61, Welsh poet and painterNovember 17 — Bo Bergman , 98, Swedish poetNovember 30 — Patrick Kavanagh , 62, Irish poet, of pneumoniadate not known:
See also
References
^ a b Britannica Book of the Year 1968 , covering events of 1967, published by The Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1968, "Literature" article, "Canadian" section, page 483
^ "Archive: Michael Ondaatje (1943- )" at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed May 7 , 2008 ^ Web page titled "The Works of George Woodcock" at the Anarchy Archives website, which states: "This list is based on The Record of George Woodcock (issued for his eightieth birthday) and Ivan Avakumovic's bibliography in A Political Art: Essays and Images in Honour of George Woodcock, edited by W.H. New, 1978, with additions to bring it up to date"; accessed April 24 , 2008 ^ Web page titled "Fleur Adcock: New Zealand Literature File" at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26 , 2008 ^ [1] Web page titled "Joseph Brodsky / Nobel Prize in Literature 1987 / Bibliography" at the "Official Web Site of the Nobel Foundation", accessed October 18 , 2007 ^ "Robert Creeley's Life and Career" at the Modern American Poetry website, accessed May 1 , 2008 ^ "Archive / Edward Dorn (1929-1999)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved May 8 , 2008 ^ 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 "Chris Albani (1967- )" at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed April 24 , 2008 ^ Web page titled "Lisa Jarnot (1967- )" at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed April 24 , 2008 ^ Web page titled "Diane Theil (1967- )" at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed April 24 , 2008 ^ "Margaret Larkin, Writer, 67, Dead" . New York Times
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