1967 in poetry
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| Years in poetry: | 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 |
| Years in literature: | 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 |
| Decades in poetry: | 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s |
| Centuries in poetry: | 19th century 20th century 21st century |
| Centuries: | 19th century · 20th century · 21st century |
| Decades: | 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s |
| Years: | 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 |
Contents |
[edit] Events
- Cecil Day-Lewis is selected as the new Poet Laureate of the UK.
[edit] Works published
- Margaret Atwood, The Circle Game
- Ted Hughes, Wodwo
- Wole Soyinka, Idanre, and Other Poems
[edit] Awards and honors
[edit] Canada
- See 1967 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
[edit] United Kingdom
- Cholmondeley Award: Seamus Heaney, Brian Jones, Norman Nicholson
- Eric Gregory Award: Angus Calder, Marcus Cumberlege, David Harsent, David Selzer, Brian Patten
- Frost Medal: Marianne Moore
- Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Charles Causley
[edit] United States
- Bollingen Prize: Robert Penn Warren
- National Book Award for Poetry: James Merrill, Nights and Days
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Anne Sexton: Live or Die
[edit] Births
- Saskia Hamilton
- Karen Volkman
[edit] Deaths
- March 16 — Thomas MacGreevy 72, poet, director of the National Gallery of Ireland and member of the first Irish Arts Council
- March 30 — Jean Toomer, 72, American poet, novelist and important figure of the Harlem Renaissance
- May 8 — Margaret Larkin, 67
- May 12 — John Masefield, 88, English poet writer, and Poet Laureate
- May 22 — Langston Hughes, 65, American poet, of heart failure
- June 7 — Dorothy Parker, 73, American writer and poet known for her caustic wit, of a heart attack
- July 19 — Odel Shepard, 82
- July 22 — Carl Sandburg, 89, American historian and poet, of a heart attack
- September 1 — Siegfried Sassoon, 80, English poet, author
- September 5 — David C. DeJong, at 62
- October 8 — Vernon Watkins, 61, Welsh poet and painter
- November 30 — Patrick Kavanagh, 62, Irish poet, of pneumonia
- date not known:
- Christopher Okigko
- V. Penelope Pelizzon
