Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). [edit] Events [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 Atwood, The Circle Game, won a Governor General's award and "sold out immediately"[1]
- John Robert Colombo, Abracadabra[2]
- D. G. Jones, Phrases from Orpheus[2]
- Dorothy Livesay, The Unquiet Bed, Canadian and African experiences
- E. W. Mandel, An Idiot Joy[2]
- Michael Ondaatje, The Dainty Monsters, Toronto: Coach House Press[3]
- P. K. Page, Cry Ararat!: Poems New and Selected[4]
- Al Purdy, North of Summer,[2] a diary in verse recounting his stay on Baffin Island
- A. J. M. Smith:
- Editor, A Book of Modern Canadian Verse, anthology[2]
- Poems: New and Collected
- Raymond Souster, editor, New Wave Canada anthology of younger poets
- Miriam Waddington, The Glass Trumpet
- George Woodcock, Selected Poems of George Woodcock, Toronto: Clarke, Irwin, Canada[5]
- Lawrence Bantleman:
- Kanchenjunga, Calcutta: Writers Workshop[6]
- New Poems, Calcutta: Writers Workshop[6]
- O. P. Bhagat, Another Planet, New Delhi: Lakshmi Books[6]
- Sukanta Chaudhuri, Poems, Calcutta: Writers Workshop[6]
- Margaret Chatterjee, The Spring and the Spectacle, Calcutta: Writers Workshop[6]
- Harindranath Chattopadhyaya, Virgins and Vineyards, Bombay: Pearl Pub.[6]
- Sankara Krishna Chettur, Golden Stars and Other Poems, Madras: Higginbotham[6]
- Kamala Das, The Descendants, Calcutta: Writers Workshop[6]
- Raul De Loyola Furtado, Selected Poems, third edition, revised; Bombay: published by Philip Furdado (first edition 1942; second edition, revised 1947)[6]
- Fleur Adcock, Tigers, London: Oxford University Press (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963)[7]
- James K. Baxter:
- The Lion Skin: Poems
- Aspects of Poetry in New Zealand, critical study
- The Man on the Horse, critical study
- Alistair Campbell, Blue Rain: Poems, Wellington: Wai-te-ata Press
- Fleur Adcock, Tigers; a New Zealander living in and published in the United Kingdom[8]
- Kingsley Amis, A Look Round the Estate[8]
- Patricia Beer, Just Like the Resurrection
- Martin Bell, Collected Poems, 1937-1966
- D. M. Black, With Decorum
- Alan Brownjohn, The Lions' Mouths[8]
- Geoffrey Grigson, A Skull in Salop, and Other Poems[8]
- Thom Gunn, Touch[8]
- Ted Hughes, Wodwo, a collection of poems, a radio play and five stories
- T. S. Eliot, Poems Written in Early Youth, a second edition of the 1950 book of poems edited and privately printed by John Hayward (posthumous)
- Janet Frame, English The Pocket Mirror
- Bryn Griffith, The Stones Remember
- Thom Gunn, Touch
- Elizabeth Jennings, Collected Poems, 1967
- P. J. Kavanagh, On the Way to the Depot[8]
- Thomas Kinsella, Nightwalker, and Other Poems[8]
- George MacBeth, The Colour of Blood
- Hugh MacDiarmid, pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve; a Scot:
- A Lap of Honour, with some poems "previously almost unobtainable"[1]
- Collected Poems, a revised edition
- Roger McGough, Frinck: A Day in the Life Of; and Summer with Monica[8]
- Leslie Norris, Finding Gold
- Brian Patten, Little Johnny's Confession[8]
- Tom Pickard, High on the Walls, used "Geordie" (Newcastle) slang
- Anthony Thwaite, The Stones of Emptiness
- Vernon Watkins, Selected Poems, 1930-60[8]
[edit] Anthologies - Edward Lucie-Smith, editor, The Liverpool Scene anthology featuring work by the Mersey Beat poets Adrian Henri, Roger McGough and Brian Patten (publisher: Donald Carroll)
- The Mersey Sound, 10th volume in the Penguin "Modern Poets Series", including work by Liverpudlians Adrian Henri, Roger McGough, Brian Patten
- Stephen Bann, Concrete Poetry, poems originally written in English, German, Spanish and Portuguese
- Howard Sergeant, Commonwealth Poems of Today, covering 24 Commonwealth countries, published in the United Kingdom
- Duncan Glen, editor, Poems Addressed to Hugh MacDiarmid
- W. H. Auden, Collected Shorter Poems, 1927-1957, first published in the United Kingdom in 1966; English native published in the United States
- Ted Berrigan, Ron Padgett and Joe Brainard, Bean Spasms, in which no authors were listed for individual poems, although some were written by one poet, some in collaboration.
- Ted Berrigan, Many Happy Returns
- John Berryman, Berryman's Sonnets (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
- Paul Blackburn:
- The Reardon Poems
- The Cities
- Gwendolyn Brooks, The bitch
- Robert Creeley, Words[9]
- Ed Dorn, The North Atlantic Turbine, Fulcrum Press[10]
- Robert Lowell, Near the Ocean, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux[11]
- Carl Rakosi, Amulet (Rakosi's first published volume since 1941)
- Marianne Moore, Complete Poems
- J. R. R. Tolkien, The Road Goes Ever On, English writer, but this book first published in the United States; published in the United Kingdom in 1968[8]
- Reed Whittemore, Poems, New and Selected
- James Wright, Shall We Gather at the River
[edit] Other in English - Edward Brathwaite, Rights of Passage, first part of his The Arrivants trilogy, which also includes Masks (1968) and Islands (1969), Caribbean[12]
- Dom Moraes, Beldam & Others, a pamphlet of verse, India
- Chris Wallace-Crabbe, The Rebel General, Sydney: Angus & Robertson, Australia
- Lenrie Peters, Satellites (Gambia)
- Judith Wright, The Other Half, Australia
[edit] Works published in other languages Listed by language and often by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately: [edit] French language - Anne-Marie Albiach, Flammigere[13]
- P. Chaullet, Soudaine écorce
- Lucienne Desnoues, Les Ors
- Jean Daive, Décimale blanche[13]
- R. Dubillard, Le dirai que je suis tombé
- Jean Follain, D'Après tout[13]
- M. Fombeure, À Chat petit
- Jean Grosjean, Élegies, which won the Prix des Critiques[14]
- Eugene Guilleveic, Euclidiennes[13]
- Edmond Jabès, Yael[13]
- Philippe Jaccottet, Airs[13]
- J. Lebrau, Du Cyprès tourne l'ombre
- Francis Ponge:
- Raymond Queneau, Courir les rues[13]
- Charles le Quintrec, Stances du verbe amour
- Jacques Roubaud, Σ,[13] forms of "sonnets" arranged in a way reflecting the moves of the Japanese board game Go, and with the suggestion that the order might be rearranged;[15] the title comes from the mathematical symbol for "belonging"[16]
- Lilaine Wouters, Le Gel
[edit] Critical studies [edit] German language - B. Pomerantz, Shirim ("Poems"), introduction by N. Peniel (posthumous)
- N. Shtern, Bain ha-Arpilim ("Amid the Mists"), preface by A. Broides
- T. Carmi, ha-Unikorn Mistakel ba-Mareh ("The Unicorn Looks into the Mirror")
- Ori Bernstein, be-Ona ha-Kezarah ("In the Brief Season")
- Yaoz Kast, a book of collected poems
- Ozer Rabin, Shuv ve-shuv ("Again and Again")
- A. Aldon, a book of poems
- S. Pilus, a book of poems
- S. Tanny, Ad Shehigia ha-Yom (title translated by the author as "The Moment Came")
- D. Chomsky, Ezov ba-Even ("The Moss on the Stone")
[edit] United States [edit] Portuguese language [edit] Spanish language [edit] United States [edit] Soviet Union - Lo Fu (poet) (Luo Fu),Poems from Beyond, Chinese (Taiwan) [17]
- Einar Skjæraasen, "Sang i september" the first poem to appear since 1956 from one of Norway's most popular poets[1]
- Pentti Saarikoski, Laulu laululta pois ("Going Away, Song by Song"), a book-length poem (Finland)
- Umashankar Joshi, Abhijna (Indian, writing in Gujarati)[18]
- Alexander Mezhirov, Подкова ("Podkova"), Russia, Soviet Union
- Wisława Szymborska, Poland:
- Sto pociech ("No End of Fun")
- Poezje wybrane ("Selected Poetry")
[edit] Awards and honors [edit] Births [edit] Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: - March 16 – Thomas MacGreevy 72 (born 1893), Irish 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 10 – Margaret Larkin, 67 [22]
- May 12 – John Masefield, 88 (died 1978), English poet writer, and Poet Laureate
- May 22 – Langston Hughes, 65 (born 1902), African American poet, of heart failure
- June 7 – Dorothy Parker, 73, American writer and poet known for her caustic wit, of a heart attack
- June 23 – Sakae Tsuboi 壺井栄 (born 1899), novelist and poet
- July 13 – Yoshino Hideo 吉野秀雄 (born 1902), Japanese, Showa period tanka poet
- July 19 – Odel Shepard, 82
- July 22 – Carl Sandburg, 89, American historian and poet, of a heart attack
- July 25 – Pierre Albert Birot, 91, French poet and writer
- September (exact date not known) — Augusto Casimiro, 78, Portuguese poet and founder of the Seara Nova literary review
- 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 17 – Bo Bergman, 98, Swedish poet
- November 30 – Patrick Kavanagh, 62 (born 1904), Irish poet and novelist, of pneumonia
[edit] See also [edit] References - ^ a b c Britannica Book of the Year 1968, covering events of 1967, published by The Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1968, "Literature" article, "Canadian" section, page 483
- ^ a b c d e Gustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books
- ^ Web page titled "Archive: Michael Ondaatje (1943- )" at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed May 7, 2008
- ^ Roberts, Neil, editor, A Companion to Twentieth-century Poetry, Part III, Chapter 3, "Canadian Poetry", by Cynthia Messenger, Blackwell Publishing, 2003, ISBN 9781405113618, retrieved via Google Books, January 3, 2009
- ^ Web page titled "The Works of George Woodcock" at the Anarchy Archives website, which states: "This list is based on The Record of George Woodcock (issued for his eightieth birthday) and Ivan Avakumovic's bibliography in A Political Art: Essays and Images in Honour of George Woodcock, edited by W.H. New, 1978, with additions to bring it up to date"; accessed April 24, 2008
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Naik, M. K., Perspectives on Indian poetry in English, p. 230, (published by Abhinav Publications, 1984, ISBN 0391032860, ISBN 9780391032866), retrieved via Google Books, June 12, 2009
- ^ Web page titled "Fleur Adcock: New Zealand Literature File" at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, 2008
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ Everett, Nicholas, "Robert Creeley's Life and Career" at the Modern American Poetry website, accessed May 1, 2008
- ^ Web page titled "Archive / Edward Dorn (1929-1999)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved May 8, 2008
- ^ 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
- ^ "Selected Timeline of Anglophone Caribbean Poetry" in Williams, Emily Allen, Anglophone Caribbean Poetry, 1970–2001: An Annotated Bibliography, page xvii and following pages, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002, ISBN 9780313317477, retrieved via Google Books, February 7, 2009
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Auster, Paul, editor, The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets, New York: Random House, 1982 ISBN 0394521978
- ^ Brée, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983
- ^ Web page titled [http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/rift/rift04/roub0401.html "E /by Jacques Roubaud / Translated by Katheryn McDonald" at the website of the "Electronic Poetry Center" of the State University of New York at Buffalo, retrieved September 2, 2009
- ^ Taylor, John, [http://www.dalkeyarchive.com/article/show/136 "Reading Jacques Roubaud", Context, No. 2 (not dated), at the website of the Dalkey Archive Press / University of Illinous, Urbana-Champaigne, retrieved September 2, 2009
- ^ Balcom, John, "Lo Fu", article on Poetry International website, retrieved November 22, 2008
- ^ Mohan, Sarala Jag, Chapter 4: "Twentieth-Century Gujarati Literature" (Google books link), in Natarajan, Nalini, and Emanuel Sampath Nelson, editors, Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, ISBN 9780313287787, retrieved December 10, 2008
- ^ Web page titled "Chris Albani (1967- )" at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed April 24, 2008
- ^ Web page titled "Lisa Jarnot (1967- )" at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed April 24, 2008
- ^ Web page titled "Diane Theil (1967- )" at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed April 24, 2008
- ^ "Margaret Larkin, Writer, 67, Dead". New York Times May 11, 1967: 47.
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