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[edit] Events
- Brazilian manifesto for concrete poetry, which focuses on visual and other sensory qualities
- Ezra Pound is released from St. Elizabeths Hospital, an insane asylum in Maryland, after spending 12 years there (starting in 1946).
[edit] Works published
[edit] English language
[edit] Canada
[edit] Poetry
- R.E. Rashley, Poetry in Canada
- L.M. Lande, Old Lamps Aglow
[edit] Ireland
[edit] United Kingdom
- John Betjeman, Collected Poems
- Michael Hamburger, The Dual Site
- George Rostrevor Hamilton, Collected Poems
- John Heath-Stubbs, The Triumph of the Muse
- Elizabeth Jennings, A Sense of the World
- James Reeves, The Talking Skull
- Michael Roberts, Collected Poems
- Alan Ross, a book of poetry
- John Silkin, The Two Freedoms
- John Smith, Excursus in Autumn, including "Two Men Meet, Each Believing the Other to be of a Higher Rank"
- A.S.J. Tessimond, Selection
- R.S. Thomas, Poetry for Supper
- C.A. Trypanis, a book of poetry
- David Wright, Monologue of a Deaf Man
[edit] United States
- Conrad Aiken, Sheepfold Hill
- Djuna Barnes, The Antiphon a surrealist verse play
- John Ciardi, I marry You; a Sheaf of Love Poems
- E.E. Cummings, 95 Poems
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti, A Coney Island of the Mind
- John Hollander, A Crackling of Thorns
- Rolfe Humphries, editor, New Poems by American Poets (anthology)
- Stanley Kunitz, Selected Poems, 1928-1958
- Archibald MacLeish, J.B., a verse play
- William Meredith, The Open Sea and Other Poems
- Howard Nemerov, Mirrors and Windows
- Kenneth Patchen:
- Poem-scapes
- Hurrah for Anything
- When We Were Here Together
- Theodore Roethke, Words for the Wind
- Muriel Rukeyser, Body of Waking
- Winfield Townley Scott, The Dark Sister
- Karl Shapiro, Poems of a Jew
- Eli Siegel, Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana: Poems
- Clark Ashton Smith, Spells and Philtres
- William Jay Smith, Poems 1947-1957
- William Carlos Williams, Paterson, Book V
[edit] Spanish language
[edit] Latin America
- Efraín Barqueto, La Compañera (Chile)
- Vincente Huidobro, Ataigle, French translation (Chilean)
- Pablo Neruda, Complete Works (Chile)
- José Ramón, Antología poética (Argentina)
- Rubén Vela, Veranos (Argentina)
[edit] French language
[edit] Canada
- Ollivier Mercier-Gouin, Poèmes et Chansons
- Ronald Després, Silences à nourrir de sang
- Roger Brien, Vols et plongées
- Alain Grandbois, L'Étoile pourpre
- Roland Giguère, Le défaut des ruines est d'avoir des habitants
[edit] France
- Yves Bonnefoy, Hier régnant désert
- Pierre Emmanuel, Versant de l'âge
- Vincente Huidobro, Altaigle (translation from Spanish)
[edit] Hebrew language
- Sh. Shalom:
- Ben Tehelet ve-Lavan ("Amidst the Blue and White")
- Shirai Kommiut Israel ("Poems on the Rise of Israel")
- Yehoshua Rabinow, Shirat Amitai ("Amitai's Song")
- I. Shalev, Eloha Hanoshek Lohamim
- P. Elad, Mizrah Shemesh ("East of the Sun")
- David Rokeah, Kearar Aleh Shaham ("Juniper on Granite")
- T. Carmi, ha-Yam ha-Aharon ("The Last Sea")
- Y. Amihai, be-Merhak Shtai Tikvot ("At a Distance of Two Hopes")
- Ephraim Lisitzky, Anshai Midot ("Virtuous Men")
[edit] Awards and honors
[edit] American Academy of Arts and Letters
[edit] Poetry Magazine
[edit] Poetry Society of America
- Grand Prix Littéraire de la Ville de Paris: Maurice Fonbeure for poetry
- Grand Prix de Poésie de l'Académie Française: Mme. Gérard d'Houville
- Mondadori, Viareggio poetry prize (Italy): S. Quasimodo, La terra impareggiabile
[edit] Births
[edit] Deaths
- January 3 — Gerald William Bullett, 64, British author and critic
- March 24 — Seamus O'Sullivan, Irish
- May 5 — James Branch Cabell, 79, whose 52 books included poetry, of a cerebral hemorrhage (to help people remember the pronunciation of his name, he composed the ditty, "Tell the rabble my name is CA-bell.")
- June 28 — Alfred Noyes, English poet (according to some sources, he died on June 25, but others, including Encyclopedian Britannica give June 28)
- September 11 — Robert W. Service, 84, Scots-Canadian poet who wrote The Cremation of Sam McGee
- October 29 — Zoë Akins, 72, American poet and dramatist who won the 1935 Pulitzer Prize for her drama version of Edith Wharton's The Old Maid
- December 20 — Sir John Collings Squire, British poet, writer, historian, and influential literary editor.
- Dates not known:
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