Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). [edit] Events - FIELD magazine founded at Oberlin College
- Charles Bukowski quits his day job as a Post Office clerk in Los Angeles to embark on a writing career after being promised a $100 stipend from Black Sparrow Press. He said at the time: "I have one of two choices — stay in the post office and go crazy ... or stay out here and play at writer and starve. I decided to starve."[1]
- Howard Nemerov named Edward Mallinckrodt Distringuished University Professor of English and Distinguished Poet in Residence at Washington University in St. Louis, posts which he will hold until his death in 1991
- The Kenyon Review is closed by Kenyon College after 30 years; it will be restarted by the college in 1979.
- Sir Arthur Bliss writes a cantata "The world is charged with the grandeur of God", from Gerard Manley Hopkins' sonnet of the same first line
- Louise Bogan, retires after 38 years as poetry critic for The New Yorker
- Tish literary magazine, founded in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in 1961 and published intermittently thereafter, prints its last issue. Poets associated with the magazine include Frank Davey, Fred Wah, George Bowering, and, briefly, pbNichol when he lived in Vancouver.[2]
- Alexander Tvardovsky, editor of Novy Mir, a Soviet literary magazine, is under attack this year and threatened with dismissal for "spreading cosmopolitan ideas", for "mocking the Soviet peoples' most sacred feelings" and for "denigrating Soviet patriotism". He responded that he was the "real patriot" and was opposed to "reactionary, nationalistic, neo-Slavophil" literary currents.[3]
[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: - Milton Acorn, I've Tasted My Blood
- George Bowering, The Gangs of Kosmos
- Phyllis Gotlieb, Ordinary, Moving
- Ralph Gustafson, Ixion's Wheel
- Irving Layton, The Whole Bloody Bird, mix of verse and prose observations about living in the Middle East and Canada, and a selection of aphorisms
- Gwendolyn MacEwen, The Shadow Maker
- Tom Marshall, The Silences of Fire
- Alden Nowlan, The Mysterious Naked Man
- Michael Ondaatje, The Man with Seven Toes, Toronto: Coach House Press[4]
- Raymond Souster, So Far So Good
- Miriam Waddington, Say Yes
- W. H. Auden, City Without Walls[5]
- Alan Bold, A Perpetual Motion Machine[5]
- Alan Brownjohn, Sandgrains on a Tray[5]
- Basil Bunting, Collected Poems
- Charles Causley, Figure of 8[5]
- Barry Cole, Moonsearch
- Donald Davies, Essex Poems 1963–67[5]
- Douglas Dunn, Terry Street[5]
- Thom Gunn, Poems 1950–1966[5]
- David Harsent, A Violent Country
- James Fenton, Put Thou Thy Tears Into My Bottle, poetry[6]
- Roy Fisher, Collected Poems
- Seamus Heaney, Northern Irish poet published in the United Kingdom:
- John Hewitt, Collected Poems
- Molly Holden, To Make me Grieve
- Roger McGough, Watchwords
- Adrian Henri, Tonight at Noon
- Anselm Hollo, The Coherences
- Elizabeth Jennings, The Animals' Arrival
- Laurence Lerner, Selves
- Christopher Logue, Numbers
- Michael Longley, No Continuing City[5]
- Hugh MacDiarmid, pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve, A Clyack-Sheaf[5]
- Roger McGough, Watchwords[5]
- Brian Patten, Notes to the Hurrying Man[5]
- Iain Crichton Smith, From Bourgeois Land
- Jon Stallworthy, Root and Branch[5]
- Edward Storey, North Bank Night
- David Sutton, Out on a Limb
- Charles Tomlinson, The Way of a World[5]
- Sydney Tremayne, The Turning Sky
- Vernon Watkins, Uncollected Poems, introduction by Kathleen Raine;[5] Welsh poet, posthumous
- Kenneth White, translator, Selected Poems, translated from the original French of André Breton; publisher: Jonathan Cape[7]
[edit] Children of Albion poetry anthology Children of Albion: Poetry of the Underground in Britain, edited by Michael Horovitz, was the first anthology to present a wide-ranging selection of the new British Poetry Revival movement. Poems from these writers were included in it: - W. H. Auden, City without Walls
- Ted Berrigan, Peace: Broadside
- John Berryman:
- The Dream Songs (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
- His Toy, His Dream His Rest (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
- Elizabeth Bishop, The Complete Poems (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)
- Paul Blackburn, Two New Poems
- Louise Bogan, The Blue Estuaries
- Lucille Clifton, Good Times, selected as one of the year's best books by The New York Times
- Robert Creeley, Pieces[8]
- Ed Dorn:
- Gunslinger: Book II, Black Sparrow Press[9]
- The Midwest Is That Space Between the Buffalo Statler and the Lawrence Eldridge, T. Williams[9]
- The Cosmology of Finding Your Spot, Cottonwood[9]
- Twenty-four Love Songs, Frontier Press[9]
- Ed Dorn and Gordon Brotherston, translators, Jose Emilio Pacheco, Tree Between Two Walls, Black Sparrow Press[9]
- LeRoi Jones, editor, Black Magic: Poetry, 1961-1967
- Hugh Kenner, The Invisible Poet: T. S. Eliot (revised from the 1959 edition), Canadian writing and published in the United States (criticism)
- James Merrill, The Fire Screen
- Vladimir Nabokov, Poems and Problems, ISBN 0-07-045724-7
- Lorine Niedecker, T & G: Collected Poems, 1936-1966
- Ron Padgett, Great Balls of Fire, Holt, Rinehart & Winston
- Charles Reznikoff, By the Well of Living & Seeing and The Fifth Book of the Maccabees
- Aram Saroyan, Pages, Random House
- James Schuyler, Freely Espousing
- Gary Snyder, Smokey the Bear Sutra
- Louis Zukofsky, in collaboration with his wife, Celia, publishes an experimental Latin translation Catullus
[edit] Other English language - James K. Baxter, Rock Woman, New Zealand
- Charles Brasch: Not Far Off: Poems, Christchurch: Caxton Press, New Zealand[10]
- Edward Brathwaite, Islands, third part of his The Arrivants trilogy, which also includes Rights of Passage (1967) and Masks (1968), Caribbean[11]
- Les Murray, The Weatherboard Cathedral, Australia[12]
- Wole Soyinka, Poems from Prison (Nigeria)
- Derek Walcott, The Gulf, Caribbean[11]
[edit] Works published in other languages Listed 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 - Louis Aragon, Les Chambres[13]
- M. Beguey, La Rose ardente
- G. Belloni, La Route du feu
- Luc Bérimont, Un Feu vivant
- M. Berry, Isabelle
- Philippe Chabaneix, Les matins et les soirs
- René Char, La Pluie giboyeuse
- Andrée Chedid:
- Contre-chat
- Seul le Visage
- Michel Deguy, Figurations[7]
- P. Dumaine, Inscriptions
- Jacques Dupin, L'embrasure[7]
- Pierre Emmanuel, pen name of Noël Mathieu, Notre Père[13]
- Gérard Genette, Figures II, one of three volumes of a work of critical scholarship in poetics – general theory of literary form and analysis of individual works — the Figures volumes are concerned with the problems of poetic discourse and narrative in Stendhal, Flaubert and Proust and in Baroque poetry (see also Figures I 1966, Figures III 1972)[13]
- Eugene Guilleveic, Ville[7]
- R. Houdelot, Amour en profil perdu
- Philippe Jaccottet:
- Leçons[7]
- L'Entretien des muses, a prose account of poetry writing[13]
- Edmond Jabès, Elya[7]
- Michel Leiris, Note sans mémoire, Gallimard[13]
- Loys Masson, La Croix de rose rouge (posthumous)
- Saint-John Perse, Chanté par celle qui fut là [...], Paris: privately printed by Robert Blanchet[14]
- Raymond Queneau, Fendre les flots[7]
- Jean-Claude Renard, La Braise et la Rivière[13]
- S. de Ricard, Les Chemins perdus
- Robert Sabatier won the Grand Prix de Poésie for:
- Les Poisons délectables
- Les Châteaux des millions d'années
[edit] Anthologies - Marc Alyn, editor, La Nouvelle Poésie française
- J. Loisy, editor, Un Certain Choix de poèmes
- Hilde Domin, editor, Doppelinterpretationen: Das zeitgenössische deutsche Gedicht zwischen Autor und Leser, Frankfurt and Bonn: Athenaum (scholarship)[15]
- H. Lamprecht, editor, Deutschland, Deutschland: Politische Gedichte, anthology[16]
- Albrecht Schöne, Über politische Lyrik im 20. Jahrhundert, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht (scholarship)[15]
[edit] Hebrew - P.Naveh, editor, Lol Shirai Yaakov Frances, the works of a seventeenth-century Italian Hebrew poet
- Rachel u-Michtaveha, Shirai Rachel u-Michtaveha (posthumous)
- A. Broides, Mivhar Shirim
- D. Chomsky, ba-Et u-Veona
- K. A. Bertini, Bakbuk Al Pnai ha-Mayim
- Y. Amichai, Ahshav be-Raash
- Y. Mar, Panim le-Kan (posthumous)
- D. Ravikovich, ha-Sefer ha-Shelishi
- N. Stuchkoff, compiler, Otzar ha-Safa ha-Ivrit (United States)
- G. Churgin, Ojkai Mahshava (United States)
- R. Ben-Yosef, (An American Jew living in Israel) Derech Eretz
[edit] Portuguese [edit] Spanish poetry [edit] Mexico - Octavio Paz, Ladera Este
- R. Bonifaz Nuño, El ala del tigre
- Rosario Castellanos, Materia memorable
- Carlos Pellicer, Antología
- Efraín Huerta, a collection
- M. Michelena, a collection
- M. Guardia, a collection
- Gabriel Zaid, a book of new poetry
- Homero Aridjis, a book of new poetry
- M. A. Montes de Oca, a book of new poetry
- Juan Bañuelos, a book of new poetry
- José Emilio Pacheco, a book of new poetry
[edit] Other Latin America [edit] Yiddish [edit] Other Yiddish - Poet Yankev Glatshteyn in an essay, said the poet should be a spokesman for his generation, and his poetry should be a poetry of involvement.
[edit] Awards and honors [edit] Births [edit] Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: - February 19 – Kazimierz Wierzynski, 74, Polish poet
- March 12 – André Salmon, 87, French poet, critic and novelist
- March 25 – Max Eastman, 86, American poet and editor
- April 22 – Rolfe Humphries, 74, of emphysema;
- May 4 – Sir Osbert Sitwell, 76, of a heart attack
- May 26 – Henry Rago,[18] American poet and editor of Poetry
- July 11 – Guilherme de Almeida, called the "prince of Brazilian poetry"
- July 23 – Floyd Bell, 82, of a heart ailment;
- October 21 – Jack Kerouac, influential Beat Generation American poet, writer, novelist
- Also:
- Loys Masson (born 1915), French poet
- Vivian de Sola Pinto, British poet, memoirist, literary critic and historian
- W. R. Rodgers (born 1909), Irish poet, essayist, book reviewer, radio broadcaster, script writer, lecturer, teacher and Presbyterian minister
[edit] See also - ^ [1] Poets Graves Web site, Web page titled "Charles Bukowski", accessed November 11, 2006
- ^ 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
- ^ 1970 Britannica Book of the Year, covering events of 1969, "Literature" article, "Soviet" section, page 485
- ^ Web page titled "Archive: Michael Ondaatje (1943- )" at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed May 7, 2008
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ [2]Web page titled "Books by Fenton" at the James Fenton Web site, accessed October 11, 2007
- ^ a b c d e f g 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
- ^ Everett, Nicholas, "Robert Creeley's Life and Career" at the Modern American Poetry website, accessed May 1, 2008
- ^ a b c d e Web page titled "Archive / Edward Dorn (1929-1999)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved May 8, 2008
- ^ Web page titled "Charles Brasch: New Zealand Literature File" at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, 2008
- ^ a b "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
- ^ [3]Les Murray Web page at The Poetry Archive Web site, accessed October 15, 2007
- ^ a b c d e f Bree, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983
- ^ sjpnpl>Web page titled "Saint-John Perse: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1960: Bibliography" at the Nobel Prize Website, retrieved July 20, 2009. Archived 2009-07-24.
- ^ a b Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "German Poetry" article, "Criticism in German" section, p 474; Source states "1969" but sources on the Web state the first edition was in "1966" and a paperback edition was published in 1969
- ^ Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "German Poetry" article, "Anthologies in German" section, pp 473-474
- ^ Web page titled "Inger Christensen (b. 1935)" at Pegasos website, retrieved January 7, 2009
- ^ http://www.henryrago.com
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