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[edit] Events
- The Belfast Group, a grouping of poets in Belfast, Northern Ireland, which was started in 1963 in poetry, lapsed in 1966 when founder Philip Hobsbaum left for Glasgow, is reconstituted this year 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 are held at Seamus and Marie Heaney's house on Ashley Avenue. The group will last until 1972.
- The Honest Ulsterman, a long running Northern Ireland literary magazine, is established this year by James Simmons. It was then edited for 20 years by Frank Ormsby.
- November 23 — Roy Fuller was elected professor of poetry at Oxford University (with 385 votes) to succeed Edmund Blunden, who unexpectedly left the post. Other nominees: Kathleen Raine, Enid Starkie, and Yevgeni Yevtushenko.
[edit] Works published in English
- Howard Sergeant, Poetry from Africa (published in the United Kingdom), including work from Gabriel Okara (Nigeria), Gaston Bart-Williams (Sierra Leone), Kwesi Brew (Ghana) and David Rubadiri (Malawi)
- Joe Rosenblatt, Winter of the Luna Moon
- Irving Layton, The Shattered Plinths, 60 new poems
- Leonard Cohen, Selected Poems, 1956-1968
- Alfred Purdy, Wild Grape Wine
- Dorothy Livesay, The Documentaries, poems from the 1930s and 1940s, and including "Roots", a long poem
[edit] Anthologies
- Mary Alice Downie and Barbara Robertson, editors, The Wind Has Wings, anthology of 77 Canadian poems for children
- Dennis Lee, editor, T. O. Now, anthology of 13 "apprentice peots living in Toronto"
- Dannie Abse, A Small Desperation
- Kingsley Amis, A Look Round the Estate
- Edward Brathwaite, Masks
- Charles Causley, Underneath the Water
- Stewart Conn, Stoats in Sunlight
- Tony Connor, Kon in Springtime
- Maureen Duffy, Lyrics for the Dog Hour
- D. J. Enright, Unlawful Assembly
- Roy Fuller, New Poems
- William R. P. George - Cerddi'r Neraig
- Zulfikar Ghose, Jets from Orange
- Norman Jackson, Beyond the Habit of Sense
- George MacBeth, The Night of Stones
- Adrian Mitchell, Out Loud
- Edwin Morgan, The Second Life, his first collection and the first in Britain to be typeset by computer[1]
- Richard Murphy, The Battle of Aughrim
- Muriel Spark, Collected Poems Volume 1
- R.S. Thomas, Not That He Brought Flowers
[edit] Anthologies
- John Bishop, Music and Sweet Poetry, poems about music
- Rodney Hall and Thomas Shapcott, editors, New Impulses in Australian Poetry
- Jean Sergeant and Howard Sergeant, Poems from Hospital
- Joan Murray Simpson, Without Adam: The Femina Anthology of Poetry, poems by women
- James Agee, The Collected Poems of James Agee, including 60 poems previously unpublished in books (posthumous)
- A. R. Ammons, Selected Poems
- Paul Blackburn, In. On. Or About The Premises
- Gwendolyn Brooks, In the Mecca
- Raymond Carver, Near Klamath
- Stanley Cooperman, The Day of the Parrot and Other Poems
- Allen Ginsberg, T.V. Baby Poems
- LeRoi Jones and Larry Neal, editors, Black Fire, an anthology of African-American poetry
- Archibald MacLeish, The Wild Wicked Old Man and Other Poems
- Rod McKuen, Lonesome Cities
- Ogden Nash, There's Always Another Windmill
- Howard Nemerov, The Winter Lightning: Selected Poems
- Lorine Niedecker, North Central (Fulcrum Press: London)
- Ned O'Gorman, The Harversters' Vase
- George Oppen, Of Being Numerous
- Charles Reznikoff, second Testimony collection
- Kenneth Rexroth, Collected Longer Poems
- Karl Shapiro, Selected Poems (more than 200, including 25 previously unpublished)
- Alice Walker, Once
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[edit] Works published in other languages
- Per Højholt, Turbo
- Hans Jørgen Nielsen, Fra luften i munden
- Thorkild Bjørnvig, Ravnen
[edit] French language
- J. Roubaud, E
- Marc Alyn, La Nuit majeure
- A. Bosquet, Quatre Testaments et autres poèmes
- Denis Roche, Eros ènergumène
- L. Foucher, Argyne et les Gypaètes, third part of a trilogy
- Armel Lubin, Feux contre feux
- R. Queneau, Battre la campagne
- G. Puel, La Lumière du jour
- J. Berthet:
- Poèsiepures
- Quelconqueries
- C. Fourcade, De Lumière et de nuit
- F. Millepierres, Cheval noir et cheval blanc
- J. Bancal, L'Épreuve du feu
- P. Albert-Birot, Poètes d'aujourd'hui (posthumous), edited by J. Follain
- Yves Préfontaine, Pays sans parole
- A. Shlonsky, Mishiai ha-Perozdor ha-Aroch ("From the Poems of the Long Corridor")
- A. Gilboa, Lichtov Siftai Yeshainim ("To Write from the Lips of the Sleepers")
- H. Guri, Tenua le-Maga ("A Move to Touch")
- A. Halfi, Mivhar Shirimx ("Selected Poems")
- A. Kovner, Ahot Ketana ("Little Sister")
- B. Galai, Massa Zafonah ("Northward Journey")
- D. Pagis, Shirai Levi Ibn Altabban (prose), a study of the Medieval Hebrew poet's work
- Giorgio Vigolo, La luce ricorda, collection of poems from 1923 and after
- Sergio Solmi, Dal balcone
- Giovanni Testori, L'amore
- Giuseppe Guglielmi, Panglosse blandimentis oramentis coeteris meretriciis
- Andrea Zalzotto, La beltà
- Franco Fortini, Una volta per sempre
- Angela Giannitrapani, Professione di poesia
- Arnulf Øverland, De hundrede fioliner: Dikt i utvalg (posthumous)
- Tor Obrestad, Vårt daglige brød
- Arnljot Eggen, Roller og røynd
- Hallvard Lie, Norsk verslære, a scholarly study on Norwegian poetry
[edit] Portugese language
- João Cabral de Melo Neto, Complete Works
- Augusto de Campos, Haroldo de Campos and Boris Schnaiderman, editors:
- An anthology of modern Russian poetry from Symbolism to the present in Portugese
- Traduzir e Trovar, an anthology of translated poetry, including poetry from France, Italy and England.
[edit] Criticism and theory
- Augusto de Campos, O balanço da Bossa, a study of the relationship of Brazilian popular music to "vanguardist" poetry
- Luiz Costa Lima, Lira e Antilira, essays on modern Brazilian poetry
- Décio Pignatari, Informação, Linguagem, Communicação, critical study of vanguardist art and mass culture
- A. Tvardovski, Selected Lyrics 1959-67
- A. Mezhov, Horseshoe
- Robert Rozhdestvenski, Poem from Various Points of View
- Yarlov Smelyakov, December, poems published serially in the periodical Friendship Between the Peoples last year and this year
[edit] Spanish language
- Nicanor Parra, Canciones rusas (Chile)
- Emma Godoy, a book interpreting of "Muerte sin fin" by José Gorostiza (Mexico)
- Lars Forssell, a book of poetry
- Johannes Edfelt, a book of poetry
- Petter Bergman, a book of poetry
- Lars Gustalfsson, a book of poetry
[edit] United States
- Yaykev Glatshteyn, a book of poems
- Aron Tseytlin, Poems of the Holocaust and Poems of Faith
- Efroyim Oyerbakh, a book of poems
- I.J. Shvarts, a book of poems
- Itsik Manger, a book of poems
- Eliezer Grinberg, a book of poems
- Rokhl Korn, a book of poems
- A. Glants-Leyeles, I Do Remember (posthumous)
[edit] Israel
- Malke Loker, a book of poems
- Leyb Olitski, a book of poems
- Avrom Lev, a book of poems
- I. Manik, a book of poems
- Binem Heler, a book of poems
- Rivke Basman, a book of poems
- Abraham Sutzkever, Square Letters and Miracles
[edit] Soviet Union
- Itsik Fefer, a book of poems
- Zyame Telesin, a book of poems
- Mendl Lifshits, a book of poems
[edit] Poland
- Eliyohu Reyzman, a book of poems
- P. Tsibulski, a book of poems (posthumous)
[edit] Awards and honors
[edit] Births
[edit] Deaths
- January 14 — Dorothea Mackellar, 82, Australian poet and writer
- January 20 — David Stacton, 42
- January 25 — Yvor Winters, 67, American literary critic and poet
- February 16 — Jaime Sabartés, Spanish poet and longtime secretary to Pablo Picasso
- March 16 — Gunnar Ekelöf, 60, Swedish poet
- March 25 — Arnulf Øverland, 78, Norwegian poet
- April 26 — Donald Davidson, 74, American poet, essayist, social and literary critic, and author who organized the Nashville circle of poets called the Fugitives and an overlapping group, the Southern Agrarians.
- April 28 — Winfield Townley Scott, 58, American poet
- May — Erik Lindegren 58, Swedish poet
- May 9 — George Hill Dillon, 62
- June 1 — Witter Bynner, 86, American poet, writer and scholar
- June 12 — Sir Herbert Edward Read, at 74, English poet and critic of literature and art.
- June 14 — Salvatore Quasimodo, 66, Italian poet
- November 17 — Mervyn Peake, 57, British modernist writer, artist, poet and illustrator.
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