1965 in poetry
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| Years in poetry: | 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 |
| Years in literature: | 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 |
| 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: | 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 |
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[edit] 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 a certain amount of publicity.
[edit] Works published
- A.R. Ammons:
- Corsons Inlet
- Tape for the Turn of the Year
- Ted Berrigan, Living With Chris
- Elizabeth Bishop, Questions of Travel (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)
- Basil Bunting, Loquitur (Fulcrum Press), The Spoils (Morden Tower Bookroom)
- E.E. Cummings, Fairy Tales (posthumous)
- Randall Jarrell, Little Friend, Little Friend
- Lee Harwood, title illegible (sic) published by Bob Cobbing's Writers Forum
- Seamus Heaney, Death of a Naturalist
- Philip Larkin, The Whitsun Weddings
- Stanley McNail, Something Breathing
- Mary Oliver, No Voyage, and Other Poems (expanded from first edition in 1963)
- George Oppen, This in Which
- Sylvia Plath, Ariel, including "Daddy," published posthumously
- Charles Reznikoff, the first of his Testimony collections
- Jon Silkin, Nature with Man
- Clark Ashton Smith, Poems in Prose
- Melvin Tolson, Harlem Gallery
- Hugo Williams, Symptoms of Loss: Poems, Oxford University Press
- Louis Zukofsky, ALL: The Collected Short Poems 1923-1958 (Norton)
[edit] Awards and honors
[edit] Canada
- See 1965 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
[edit] United Kingdom
- Eric Gregory Award: John Fuller, Derek Mahon, Michael Longley, Norman Talbot
- Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Philip Larkin
[edit] 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
[edit] Births
- date not known:
- Patience Agbabi, performance poet
- Michael Crummey, Canadian novelist and poet
- Adeena Karasick
- Jay Ruzesky
- R.M. Vaughan
- Timothy Liu
[edit] Deaths
- 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*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
