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[edit] Events
- 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".
[edit] 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:
- Margaret Avison, The Dumbfounding
- Earle Birney, Selected Poems
- Leonard Cohen, The Parasites of Heaven
- Robert Finch, Silverthorn Bush and Other Poems
- Lakshni Gill, During Rain I Plant Chrysanthemums
- Ralph Gustafson, Sift in an Hourglass
- George Johnston, Home Free
- Gwendolyn MacEwen, A Breakfast for Barbarians
- Richard Outram, Exultante Jubilee
- Miriam Waddington, The Glass Trumpet
- Karen Gershon, Selected Poems
- Gavin Bantock, Christ
- George Barker, Dreams of a Summer Night
- Basil Bunting, Briggflatts
- Tom Earley, A Welshman in Bloomsbury
- Gavin Ewart, Pleasures of the Flesh
- J. C. Hall, The Burning Hare
- Seamus Heaney, Death of a Naturalist, Faber & Faber
- Philip Hobsbaum, In Retreat
- Elizabeth Jennings, The Mind Has Mountains
- Norman MacCaig, Surroundings, London: Chatto and Windus with Hogarth Press[1]
- Ruth Pitter, Still by Choice
- Sir Herbert Read, Collected Poems (posthumous?)
- Peter Redgrove, The Force and Other Poems, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul[1]
- Jon Silkin, New and Selected Poems
- Gillian Smyth, The Nitrogen Dreams of a Wide Girl
- Gary Snyder, A Range of Poems, London: Fulcrum Press, American[1]
- Elaine Feinstein, In a Green Eye, Goliard Press
- R.S. Thomas, Pietà
- Anthony Thwaite and John Hollander publish the first anthology of double dactyls, Jiggery Pokery
- Charles Tomlinson, American Scenes, London: Macmillan[1]
- David Wevill, A Christ of the Ice Floes
- 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[2]
- Randall Jarrell (died 1965), The Lost World (published posthumously)
- Josephine Jacobsen, The Animal Inside
- LeRoi Jones, Black Art
- James Merrill, Nights and Days
- Sylvia Plath, Ariel, New York: Harper & Row (London: Faber and Faber 1965) American poet in the United Kingdom[1]
- A. K. Ramanujan, The Striders (Indian poet living in the United States)
- Kenneth Rexroth, Collected Shorter Poems
- Theodore Roethke, Roethke: Collected Poems
- Louis Simpson, Selected Poems (West Indian poet living in the United States)
- Gary Snyder, A Range of Poems, London: Fulcrum Press[1]
- William Stafford, The Rescued Year
- Robert Penn Warren, Selected Poems, New and Old: 1923-1966
[edit] Criticism, scholarship, biography
- Wallace Stevens, Letters of Wallace Stevens (posthumous), edited by Holly Stevens
[edit] Other in English
[edit] Works published in other languages
[edit] French language
- L. Brauquier, a book of poetry
- P. Chabaneix, a book of poetry
- René Char, Retour amont
- M. Déguy, Oui-Dire
- Pierre Emmanuel, Ligne de faîte
- R. Goffin, a book of poetry in the publishing series "Poètes d'Aujourd'hui" (Belgium)
- Eugène Guillevic, Avec
- A. Richaud, Je ne suis pas mort
- J. C. Renard, Dans la Terre du Sacre
- A. Miatlev, Thanathème
- P. Seghers, Dialogue
- J. Tortel, Les Villes ouvertes
- Dominique Tron, Stéréophonies
- Boris Vian, a book of poetry
[edit] 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)[3]
- Walter Naumann, Traum und Tradition in der deutschen Lyrik, Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer (criticism)[3]
[edit] Translations
[edit] East Germany
[edit] Mexico
[edit] Awards and honors
[edit] Births
[edit] Deaths
- March 5 — Anna Akhmatova, 76, Russian poet
- January 23 — Berton Braley, 83
- 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:
- 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
- Date not known:
- 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
- Arnold Wall (born 1869), New Zealand
[edit] See also
- ^ a b c d e f g h i 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
- ^ Everett, Nicholas, "Robert Creeley's Life and Career" at the Modern American Poetry website, accessed May 1, 2008
- ^ 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
- ^ Hofmann, Michael, editor, Twentieth-Century German Poetry: An Anthology, Macmillan/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006
