1964 in poetry

none Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). 1964 poetry literature Events March 23 – A surprise best-seller in the United Kingdom is John Lennon's In His Own Write, a compendium of nonsense writing, sketches and drawings by one of the Beatles, published today.John Lennon's In His Own Write is published The Beatles Bible https://www.beatlesbible.com/1964/03/23/john-lennon-in-his-own-write-published/ 2022-07-13 2022-10-31 March 29 (Easter Day) – Adrian Mitchell reads "To Whom It May Concern" to Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament protesters in Trafalgar Square, London. April 23 – The "Shakespeare Quartercentenary", the 400th anniversary of the birth of William Shakespeare falling around this date, is celebrated throughout the year in lecture series, exhibitions, dramatic and musical programs and other events as well as special publications (Shakespeare issues and supplements), reprinting of standard works on the playwright and poet, and the issue of commemorative postage stamps. The American Association of Advertising Agencies suggests that Shakespeare quotations should be used in advertisements. Celebrations of various kinds occur in the United Kingdom, the United States, France, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and elsewhere. The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust opens the Shakespeare Centre, housing its library and research facilities, in Stratford-upon-Avon (England). June The 75th birthday of Anna Akhmatova, who was severely persecuted during the Stalin era, is celebrated around this time with special observances and the publication of new collections of her verse. After the murder of American civil rights activist Andrew Goodman, poet Mary Doyle Curran finds and publishes a poem he had written for her college class, "A Corollary to a Poem by A. E. Housman."In The Massachusetts Review and The New York Times – 'What Disaster . . .' https://www.nytimes.com/1964/12/28/archives/what-disaster-.html The New York Times 1964-12-28 December – Poetry Australia literary magazine founded. John Berryman's 77 Dream Songs, published this year, wins the 1965 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. Russian poet Joseph Brodsky is convicted of "parasitism" in a Soviet court, which sends him into exile near the Arctic Circle. Among the many books of poetry published this year, Robert Lowell's For the Union Dead is greeted with particular acclaim. The book is received with "general jubilation" from critics, according to Raymond Walters Jr., associate editor of the New York Times Book Review. "These verses [...] convinced many observers that its author was now the pre-eminent U.S. poet."Britannica Book of the Year 1965 (covering events of 1964), published by The Encyclopædia Britannica, 1965. The publication in the United Kingdom of The Complete Poems of D. H. Lawrence in two volumes is "a major publishing event of 1964". 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: Australia Geoffrey Dutton, The Literature of AustraliaPreminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "Australian Poetry" article, Anthologies section, p 108 Gwen Harwood, Poems, Australian poet published in the United Kingdom T. Inglis Moore, and Douglas Stewart, editors, Poetry in Australia, 2 volumes, Sydney: Angus and Robertson"Select General Bibliography for Representative Poetry On-Line" https://web.archive.org/web/20081228024118/http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/display_rpo/bibliography_2001.html 2008-12-28 web page for Representative Poetry On-Line website of the University of Toronto, retrieved January 1, 2009 Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker), We Are Going : Poems, first book of verse by an Aboriginal Australian We Are Going by Oodgeroo Noonuccal National Library of Australia https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/450251 15 January 2026 David Rowbotham, All the Room, Australian poetry prize winner R. Ward, Penguin Book of Australian Ballads, anthology Judith Wright, Five Senses selected poems; Australian poet published in the United Kingdom Canada Earle Birney: Near False Creek Mouth. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart. Two Poems. Halifax."Earle Birney: Published Works https://web.archive.org/web/20110313081519/http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/birney/pub.htm 2011-03-13 ," Canadian Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 3, 2011. George Bowering, Points on the Grid Leonard Cohen, Flowers for Hitler, including "The Only Tourist in Havana Turns his Thoughts Homeward" John Robert Colombo, Poesie / Poetry 64Gustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books Pierre Coupey, Bring Forth the Cowards Phyllis Gotlieb, Within the Zodiac, her first work John Glassco, A Point of Sky Irving Layton, The Laughing Rooster Dorothy Livesay, The Colour of God's Face. Gwendolyn MacEwen, The Rising Fire Eli Mandel, Black and Secret Man F. R. Scott, Events and Signals. Toronto: Ryerson Press."F. R. Scott: Publications https://web.archive.org/web/20130408081000/http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/scott_fr/pub.htm 2013-04-08 ," Canadian Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 7, 2011. Raymond Souster, The Colour of the Times, 250 poems collected from a dozen of his previous volumes. Governor General's Award 1964. David Wevill, Birth of a Shark, a first collection; Canadian poet published in the United Kingdom Anthologies in Canada Poetry of Mid-Century 1940/1960, edited by Milton Wilson, included the work of 10 well-known Canadian poets: Margaret Avison Earle Birney Leonard Cohen Irving Layton Jay Macpherson Kenneth McRobbie Alden Nowlan P. K. Page James Reaney Raymond Souster Poésie/Poetry 64, edited by John Robert Colombo and Jacques Godbout;an anthology of lesser-known poets, including: Margaret Atwood George Bowering Frank Davey K. V. Hertz Harry Howith Lionel Kearns John Newlove Gwendolyn MacEwen Henry Moskovitch Myra von Riedemann Criticism, scholarship and biography in Canada Northrop Frye, Fables of Identity, 16 essays on "various works and authors in the central tradition of English mythopoeic poetry" Roy Daniells, Milton, Mannerism and Baroque India, in English Monika Varma, Dragonflies Draw Flame ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India.Lal, P., Modern Indian Poetry in English: An Anthology & a Credo, p 560, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, second edition, 1971 (however, on page 597 an "editor's note" states contents "on the following pages are a supplement to the first edition" and is dated "1972") Lawrence Bantleman, Man's Fall and Woman's Fall out (according to another source the last word in the title is "Fallout"Vinayak Krishna Gokak, The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965), p 323, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), 81-260-1196-3, retrieved August 10, 2010), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India.Naik, M. K., M1 Perspectives on Indian poetry in English, p. 230, (published by Abhinav Publications, 1984, 0-391-03286-0, 978-0-391-03286-6), retrieved via Google Books, June 12, 2009 M. R. Bhagavan, Poems ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India. Mohinder Monga, Through the Night, Raptly ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India.Vinayak Krishna Gokak, The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965), p 325, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), 81-260-1196-3, retrieved August 10, 2010 Leslie de Noronha, Poems ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India.Lal, P., Modern Indian Poetry in English: An Anthology & a Credo, p 384, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, second edition, 1971 (however, on page 597 an "editor's note" states contents "on the following pages are a supplement to the first edition" and is dated "1972") G. V. Subbaramayya, Lover's Fulfilment and Other Poems, Tenali: Rishi Publications Viresh Chander Dutt, The Voice of Ancient India, Calcutta: Kalyan Chander Dutt A. K. Ramanujan, translator, Fifteen Tamil Love Poems, translated from the original Tamil; Calcutta: Writers Workshop, IndiapLal, P., Modern Indian Poetry in English: An Anthology & a Credo, p 445, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, second edition, 1971 (however, on page 597 an "editor's note" states contents "on the following pages are a supplement to the first edition" and is dated "1972") New Zealand Fleur Adcock, Eye of the Hurricane, Wellington: Reed (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963)Web page titled "Fleur Adcock: New Zealand Literature File" https://web.archive.org/web/20061221161150/http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/subjects/nzp/nzlit2/adcock.htm 2006-12-21 at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, 2008 Charles Brasch: Ambulando: Poems, Christchurch: Caxton PressWeb page titled "Charles Brasch: New Zealand Literature File" https://web.archive.org/web/20060928202053/http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/subjects/nzp/nzlit2/brasch.htm September 28, 2006 at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, 2008 Alistair Campbell, Wild Honey, London: Oxford University Press United Kingdom Samuel Beckett, translator from the original French, "Comment C'est" 1961, How It Is,Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, 0-19-860634-6 Irish poet published in the United Kingdom Sir John Betjeman, Ring of Bells Thomas Blackburn, A Breathing Space Donald Davie, Events and Wisdoms, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul (Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1965) Patric Dickinson, This Cold Universe Keith Douglas, Selected Poems (posthumous), edited by Ted Hughes Lawrence Durrell, Selected Poems: 1953–1963, edited by Alan Ross Gavin Ewart, Londoners Ian Hamilton Finlay, Telegrams from My Windmill, Edinburgh: Wild Hawthorn PressM. 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 Zulfikar Ghose, The Loss of India by a Pakistani, published in the United Kingdom Robert Graves, Man Does, Woman Is Ian Hamilton, Pretending Not to Sleep Tony Harrison, Earthworks Gwen Harwood, Poems, Australian poet published in the United Kingdom Philip Hobsbaum, The Place's Fault Elizabeth Jennings, Recoveries Patrick Kavanagh, Collected Poems, London: MacGibbon and Kee Philip Larkin, The Whitsun Weddings, London: Faber and Faber D. H. Lawrence, The Complete Poems in two volumes (posthumous), edited by Vivian de Sola Pinto and F. Warren Roberts, with poems in chronological order and an introduction by Pinto. John Lennon, In His Own Write, containing nonsensical poems, sketches and drawings; a best seller by the member of the Beatles C. S. Lewis, Poems Douglas Livingstone, Sjambok by a Rhodesian poet Edward Lucie-Smith, Confessions and Histories John Masefield, Old Raiger, and Other Verse Adrian Mitchell, Poems Peter Porter, Poems Ancient & Modern, Lowestoft, Suffolk: Scorpion Press Peter Redgrove, At the White Monument Nathaniel Tarn, Old Savage/Young City R.S. Thomas: The Bread of Truth "Words and the Poet" (lecture) David Wevill, Birth of a Shark, a first collection; Canadian poet published in the United Kingdom Judith Wright, Five Senses selected poems; Australian poet published in the United Kingdom Criticism, scholarship, and biography in the United Kingdom Poetry of the Thirties, a Penguin Books anthology; including the last published appearance during the lifetime of W. H. Auden of his, "September 1, 1939", a poem which he was famous for, but which he hated; the poem appeared in the edition with a note about this and four other early poems: "Mr. W. H. Auden considers these five poems to be trash which he is ashamed to have written." G. Hartmann, Wordsworth's Poetry, 1787-1814Preminger, Alex, and Brogan, T.V.F., editors, The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Princeton University Press, 1993, "English Poetry" article, "History and Criticism" section, p 353 United States Conrad Aiken, A Seizure of LimericksLudwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press ("If the title page is one year later than the copyright date, we used the latter since publishers frequently postdate books published near the end of the calendar year." — from the Preface, p vi) A. R. Ammons, Expressions of Sea Level Ted Berrigan, The Sonnets Holt, Rinehart & Winston Wendell Berry, The Broken Ground John Berryman, 77 Dream Songs, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Joseph Payne Brennan, Nightmare Need John Ciardi, Person to Person Peter Davison, The Breaking of the Day James Dickey: Helmets Two Poems of the Air Ed Dorn: Hands Up!, Totem PressWeb page titled "Archive / Edward Dorn (1929-1999)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved May 8, 2008 From Gloucester Out, Matrix Press Horace Gregory, Collected Poems Donald Hall, A Roof of Tiger Lilies, New York: Viking Robert Duncan, Roots and Branches Richard Eberhart, The Qyuarry Jean Garrigue, Country Without Maps Donald Hall, A Roof of Tiger Lilies LeRoi Jones, The Dead Lecturer, New York: Grove Press Galway Kinnell, Flower Herding on Mount Monadnock, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Denise Levertov, O Taste and See, New York: New Directions Robert Lowell, For the Union Dead New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (for more information, see "Events" section, above) William Meredith, The Wreck of the Thresher and Other Poems Vladimir Nabokov, translator, Eugene Onegin by Aleksandr Pushkin Frank O'Hara, Lunch Poems Elder Olson, Collected Poems Ezra Pound, editor, Confucius to Cummings: An Anthology of PoetryAckroyd, Peter, Ezra Pound, Thames and Hudson Ltd., London, 1980, "Bibliography" chapter, p 121 Kenneth Rexroth: Natural Numbers (translator), 100 Poems from the Japanese Theodore Roethke (died 1963): The Far Field, Garden City, New York: Doubleday Sequence, Sometimes Metaphysical M. L. Rosenthal, Blue Boy on Skates E. N. Sargent, The African Boy Anne Sexton, Selected Poems Karl Shapiro, The Bourgeois Poet, New York: Random House Jack Spicer, Language Mark Strand, Sleeping With One Eye Open Robert Sward, Kissing the Dancer and Other Poems Mark Van Doren, Collected and New Poems Donald Wandrei, Poems for Midnight Criticism, scholarship, and biography in the United States Phyllis Grosskurth, John Addington Symonds: A Biography (Canadian scholar publishing in the United States), winner of the 1964 Governor General's Awards in Canada Hugh Kenner, editor, Seventeenth Century Poetry: The Schools of Donne & Jonson, Canadian writing and published in the United States Vladimir Nabokov, Notes on Prosody, Russian native writing and published in the United States Other in English Kofi Awoonor, Rediscovery and Other Poems, Ghanaian poet published in Ghana Samuel Beckett, translator from the original French, Comment C'est 1961, How It Is, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom Denis Devlin, Collected Poems, including "Renewal by Her Element" (see also Collected Poems 1989), IrelandCrotty, Patrick, Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology, Belfast, The Blackstaff Press Ltd., 1995, 0-85640-561-2 Zulfikar Ghose, The Loss of India Pakistani poet, published in the United Kingdom Eoghan Ó Tuairisc, Ireland The Weekend of Dermot and Grace Lux Aeterna, including Hiroshima Mass Hone Tuwhare, No Ordinary Sun, Māori poet writing in English, New Zealand Works 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: Danish Inger Christensen, Graess Klaus Rifbjerg, Portraet Knud Holst, Trans Jørgen Sonne, Krese French Canada, in French Marie-Claire Blais, Existences, Québec: Éditions GarneauWeb page titled "Marie-Claire Blais" https://web.archive.org/web/20110706164535/http://www.academiedeslettresduquebec.ca/marieclaire_blais.html 2011-07-06 at L’Académie des lettres du Québec website (in French), retrieved October 20, 2010 Jacques Brault, Mémoire Paul Chamberland, L'Afficheur hurle Gilbert Choquette, L'Honneur de vivre Cécile Cloutier, Cuivre et soies Paul-Marie Lapointe, Pour les âmes Fernand Oullette, Le Soliel sous la mort France Louis Aragon, near simultaneous publication of four works: Series of discussions with F. Crémieux on the philosophical and literary ideas of the poet Il ne m'est Paris que d'Elsa, a collection of poems a "lengthy and ambitious historical poem" Le Voyage en Hollande René Char: Commune PresenceAuster, Paul, editor, The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets, New York: Random House, 1982 0-394-52197-8 Les MatinauxBrée, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983 Michel Deguy, Biefs Jean Follain, Appareil de la terre Roger Giroux, L'arbre temps, winner of the Prix Max Jacob, the author's sole published book during his lifetime Edmond Jabès, Le Livre de Yukel A. Marissel, La Nouvelle parabole, winner of the first Louise Labé Prize Pierre Oster, La Grande Année Marcelin Pleynet, Paysages en deux suivis de Les Lignes de la prose Jean-Pierre Richard, Onze Etudes sur la poésie moderne, criticism Denis Roche, Les Idées centésimales de Miss Elanize Anthologies J. L. Bédouin, editor, La Poésie surréaliste G. E. Clancier, editor, Panorama critique de Chénier á Baudelaire German Erich Fried, Warngedichte Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Blindenschrift Walter Höllerer, Der andere Gast Günter Eich, Zu den Akten Hebrew Yaakov Cahan, the collected works Esther Rab, Shirai- Leah Goldberg, Im ha-Laila Hazeh ("On This Night") Daliah Rivikovich, Horef Kasheh ("Hard Winter") Dan Pagis, Shehut Mauhereth ("Belated Lingering") David Avidan, Masheu Bishvil Mishehu ("Something for Someone") Amir Gilboa, Kehulim Vaadumin ("The Blues and the Reds") Eldad Andan, Lo Bishmahot kalot ("Not with Joys Lightly") B. Mordecai, Nefilim ba-Aretz ("Giants on Earth") Aaron Zeitlin, Min ha-Adam Vomaila ("From Man and Higher"), comprising two dramatic poems by this American publishing in Israel Chaim Brandwein, be-Tzel ha-Argaman ("In the Shadow of the Purple"), a first book of poems by this American publishing in Israel Abraham Regelson, Hakukot Otiotaich ("Engraved Are Thy Letters"), by an American poet living in Israel Italian Bartolo Cattafi, L'osso, l'anima Corrado Costa, Pseudobaudelaire avant-garde poetry Eugenio Miccini, Sonetto minore avant-garde poetry Elio Pagliarani, La lezione di fisica avant-garde poetry Pier Paulo Pasolini, Poesia in forma di rosa Lamberto Pignotti, La nozione dell'uomo avant-garde poetry Antonio Porta, Aprire avant-garde poetry Edoardo Sanguineti, Triperuno avant-garde poetry Cesare Vivaldi, Dettagli avant-garde poetry Gruppo '63 (published this spring), an anthology of poems, critical essays, and passages from plays and novels by writers who had rebelled in recent years against standard conventions in literature. Norwegian Ernst Orvil, Kontakt Astrid Hjertenaes Andersen, Frokost 'i det grønne Harald Sverdrup, Sang til solen Russian Bella Akhmadulina, "published an extensive sheaf of nonpolitical, impressionistic verse", according to Harrison E. Salisbury Alexander Mezhirov, Прощание со снегом ("Farewell to the Snow"), Russia, Soviet UnionShrayer, Maxim, "Aleksandr Mezhirov", p 879, An Anthology of Jewish-Russian Literature: Two Centuries of Dual Identity in Prose and Poetry, publisher: M.E. Sharpe, 2007, 0-7656-0521-X, 978-0-7656-0521-4, retrieved via Google Books on May 27, 2009 Andrei Voznesensky, "a number of poems, including several devoted to Lenin", according to Harrison E. Salisbury Portuguese language Brazil Lupe Cotrim Garaude, O poeta e o mundo, her fourth collection Spanish language Latin America Jorge Carrera Andrade, Floresta de los Guacamayos (Ecuador), published in Nicaragua while he was ambassador to the United States Jorge Luis Borges, El otro, el mismo (Argentina) Arturo Corcuera, Primavera triunfante (Peru) Gonzalo Rojas, Contra la muerte (Chile) Pablo Neruda, Memorial de Isla Negra (Chile), the first of his 5-volume poetic memoir Roque Vallejos, Los arcángeles ebrios (Paraguay) Sarah Bollo (Uruguay): Diana transfigurada Tierra y Cielo Anthologies Instituto Torcuato Di Tella, Poesía argentina (sic), including selections from 10 Argentinian poets, most born in the 1920s or later Oscar Echeverri Mejía and Alfonso Bonilla-Naar, editors, 21 años de poesía colombiana (sic), with poems from the more prominent Colombian poets in the two decades from 1942 to 1963 Criticism, scholarship, and biography in Latin America Raúl Silva Castro, Pablo Neruda, an analysis of his poetry Jorge Carrera Andrade, Interpretación de Rubén Darío (Nicaragua) Luis Alberto Cabrales, Rubén Darío, breve biografía (Nicaragua) Rubén Darío periodista, a collection of his journalism compiled by the Nicaragua Ministry of Public Education Spain Jorge Guillén, Tréboles José García Nieto, La hora undécima Gerardo Diego, La suerte o la muerte Fernando Quiñones, En vida, winner of the Leopoldo Panero Prize by the Instituto de Cultura Hispánica Criticism, scholarship and biography in Spain Gabriel Celaya, Exploración de la poesía José Francisco Cirré, La poesía de José Moreno Villa Books published for the centenary year of Miguel de Unamuno (died 1936), an essayist, novelist, poet, playwright and philosopher: Manuel García Blanco es, América y Unamuno Julio César Chaves, Unamuno y América Julio García Morejón, Unamuno y Portugal Sebastián de la Nuez, Unamuno en Canarias Ricardo Gullón, Autobiografías de Unamuno Yiddish Mordechai Gebirtig, a new edition of the poet's works Itzhak Katzenelson, a new edition of the poet's works Abraham Sutzkever, a two-volume edition of the poet's works Joseph Rubinstein, Khurbn Polyn ("Polish Jewry: a Lament") Binem Heller, a book of poems Jacob Zonshayn pl Jakub Zonszajn, a book of poems Paltiel Tsibulski, a book of poems Joseph Papiernikov he יוסף פפירניקוב, a book of poems I. Manik, a book of poemsJune 2025 Israel Goichberg, a book of poems Rosa Gutman, a book of poems Aleph Katz, a book of poems Other Breyten Breytenbach, Die ysterkoei moet sweet ("The Iron Cow Must Sweat"), South African in Afrikaans Ernst Enno, Väike luuleraamat, Estonia Lars Forstell, Röster (Sweden) Ismail Kadare, Përse mendohen këto male ("What Are These Mountains Musing On?"), Albania Eeva Liisa Manner, Niin vaihtuivat vuoden ajat (Finland) Sean O Riordain, Brosna, including "Claustrophobia", "Reo" and "Fiabhras", Gaelic-language, Ireland Rituraj, Main Angiras, Alwar: Kavita Prakashan; India, Hindi-languageWeb page titled "Rituraj" https://web.archive.org/web/20120406234851/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=12940 2012-04-06 at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 12, 2010 Hijam Anganhal Singh, Khamba Thoibi Sherireng, abridged form of the popular Khamba Thoibi folk ballad, sung on festive occasions and about the last incarnation of Khamba and Thoibi; one of the first epics in modern Meitei poetry; written in 1940 but first published this year; IndiaDas, Sisir Kumar, "A Chronology of Literary Events / 1911–1956", in Das, Sisir Kumar and various, History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956: struggle for freedom: triumph and tragedy, Volume 2, p 723, published by Sahitya Akademi, 1995, 978-81-7201-798-9, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008 Arvo Turtiainen, Runoja 1934-1964 (Finland) Awards and honors Australia Grace Leven Prize for Poetry: David Rowbotham, All the Room Canada 1964 Governor General's Awards: No poetry award for English this year Poetry award (French): Gratien Lapointe, Ode au Saint-Laurent United Kingdom Eric Gregory Award: Robert Nye, Ken Smith, Jean Symons, Ted Walker Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: R. S. Thomas United States Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (later the post would be called "Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress"): Reed Whittemore appointed this year. National Book Award for Poetry: John Crowe Ransom, Selected Poems Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Louis Simpson: At The End Of The Open Road Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Elizabeth Bishop Presidential Medal of Freedom awarded by President Lyndon Johnson to 30 people, including Carl Sandburg Other Danish Academy's literature prize: Erik Knudsen, a poet and playwright Critics' Prize for Poetry (Spain): María Elvira Lacaci Leopoldo Panero Prize, given by the Instituto de Cultura Hispánica (Spain): Fernando Quiñones, for En vida Births February 18 – David Biespiel, American poet, editor and critic May 7 – Kathy Shaidle, Canadian author, columnist and poet July 7 – Karina Galvez, Ecuadorian poet July 11 – Craig Charles, English actor, presenter and performance poet Also: Rafael Campo, gay Cuban-American poet, doctor and author Beth Gylys, American poet and professorhttp://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=82517 Raphael Campo (1964- ) Poetry Foundation 2008-04-24 Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January 5 – Leslie Holdsworth Allen (born 1879), Australian academic and poet January 22 – Zora Cross (born 1890), Australian poet March 1 – Davíð Stefánsson, (born 1895), Icelandic poet March 12 – Abbas Al Akkad عباس محمود العقاد (born 1889), Egyptian, Arabic-language writer and poet, a founder of the Divan school of poetry April 5 – Tatsuji Miyoshi 三好達治 (born 1900), Japanese, Shōwa period literary critic, editor and poet April 26 – E. J. Pratt, 81 (born 1882), Canadian poet May 5 – Nagata Mikihiko 長田幹彦 (born 1887), Japanese, Shōwa period poet, playwright and screenwriter June 7 – Takamure Itsue 高群逸枝 (born 1894), Japanese poet, writer, feminist, anarchist, ethnologist and historian September 18 – Clive Bell, 83 (born 1881), English critic October 10 – Oscar Williams, 64 (born 1900), American poet and anthologist December 9 – Dame Edith Sitwell, 77 (born 1887), English poet and critic, heart attack December 29 – Rofū Miki 三木 露風, pen name of Masao Miki, 75 (born 1889), Japanese Symbolist poet and writer See also Poetry Poetry List of poetry awards List of years in poetry Notes Category:20th-century poetry *