1961 in poetry

none Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). 1961 poetry literature Events January 20 – Robert Frost recites his poem "The Gift Outright" at the Inauguration of John F. Kennedy as President of the United States.Garner Dwight https://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/25/books/25poet.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=print The Intersection of Poetry and Politics The New York Times 2008-12-25 2008-12-25 February 16 – English poet Robert Graves is appointed Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford in succession to W. H. Auden.Nigel Gross etal Collins Gem 1960s HarperCollins London 1999 0-00-472310-4 February – American poet in London Sylvia Plath suffers a miscarriage. Several of her poems, including "Parliament Hill Fields", address this event.Kirk Connie Ann 2004 Sylvia Plath: A Biography Westport, CN Greenwood Press 0-313-33214-2 85 November – Liverpool poets Roger McGough, Adrian Henri and Brian Patten first meet, in a basement coffee bar on the city's Mount Pleasant.David Kynaston David Kynaston Modernity Britain: A Shake of the Dice, 1959–62 2014 London Bloomsbury 978-1-4088-4439-7 342 Keith and Rosmarie Waldrop buy a secondhand printing press and start Burning Deck magazine in the United States. Tish literary magazine, founded in Vancouver, British Columbia. It is published intermittently until 1969. Poets associated with the magazine include Frank Davey, Fred Wah, George Bowering, and, briefly, bpNichol when he lives in Vancouver.Roberts, Neil, editor, A Companion to Twentieth-century Poetry, Part III, Chapter 3, "Canadian Poetry", by Cynthia Messenger, Blackwell Publishing, 2003, 978-1-4051-1361-8, retrieved via Google Books, January 3, 2009 Kyk-over-al magazine in Guyana ceases publication"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, 978-0-313-31747-7, retrieved via Google Books, February 7, 2009 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: Canada Earle Birney, Ice Cod Bell on StoneBritannica Book of the Year 1962, covering events of 1961, published by the Encyclopædia Britannica, 1962; articles cited: "American Literature", "Canadian Literature", "English Literature", "French Literature", "German Literature", "Italian Literature", "Jewish Literature", "Latin American Literature", "Soviet Literature", "Spanish Literature", "Obituaries" Arthur Bourinot, Poems: Paul Bunyan, Three Lincoln Poems and Other Verse Leonard Cohen, The Spice-Box of Earth Robert Finch Dover Beach Revisited, a meditation on the significance of Matthew Arnold Acis in Oxford and Other Poems Ralph Gustafson, Rivers Among Rocks Daryl Hine, The Devil's Picture Books D. G. Jones, The Sun is AxemanGustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books Irving Layton, The Swinging Flesh Eli Mandel and Jean Guy Pilon, Poetry 62, an anthology Gwendolyn MacEwen: Selah. Toronto: Aleph Press. The Drunken Clock. Toronto: Aleph Press."Gwendolyn MacEwen https://web.archive.org/web/20110607142055/http://www.brocku.ca/canadianwomenpoets/Macewen.htm 2011-06-07 ," Canadian Women Poets, BrockU.ca, Web, Apr. 22, 2001. D. Pacey, Creative Writing in Canada, revised edition (scholarship)Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "Canadian Poetry" article, English "Anthologies" section, p 164 Dorothy Roberts, Twice to Flame Ireland Austin Clarke, Later Poems, Dublin: Dolmen Press, IrelandM. 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 Thomas Kinsella: Downstream, Dublin: Dolmen Press Poems and Translations, New York: Atheneum India in English Lila Ray, Entrance( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India.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 Harindranath Chattopadhyaya, Masks and Farewells, Bombay: Asia Ira De, The Hunt and Other Poems ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India. (revised edition 1968) Sarojini Naidu, The Feather of the Dawn, posthumously published (died in 1949), edited by her daughter, Padmaja NaiduLal, P., Modern Indian Poetry in English: An Anthology & a Credo, p 362, 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") Trilok Chandra, A Hundred and One FlowersNaik, M. K., 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 United Kingdom James K. Baxter, Howrah Bridge and Other Poems, London: Oxford University Press, New Zealand poet published in the United Kingdom Thomas Blackburn, A Smell of Burning Alan Brownjohn, The Railings Charles Causley, Johnny Alleluia Jack Clemo, The Map of ClayCox, Michael The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature Oxford University Press 2004 0-19-860634-6 registration https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm Padraic Colum, Irish Elegies Donald Davie, New and Selected Poems, Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press Paul Dehn, Quake, quake, quake: a leaden treasury of English verse Ian Hamilton Finlay, Glasgow Beasts, An a Burd, Edinburgh: Wild Flounder Press Roy Fisher, City John Fuller, Fairground Music Robert Graves, More Poems 1961 Thom Gunn, My Sad Captains, and Other Poems, London: Faber and Faber; University of Chicago Press Geoffrey Hill, "Ovid in the Third Reich", "Locust Songs" and "Annunciations"Haynes Kenneth 2012 https://books.google.com/books?id=Ksj0g_RqMGcC&pg=PA177 A Bibliography of Geoffrey Hill Lyon John McDonald Peter Peter McDonald (critic) Geoffrey Hill: Essays on His Later Work Oxford Oxford University Press 177 978-0-19-958660-8 Ralph Hodgson, Collected Poems David Holbrook, Imaginings Graham Hough, Legends and Pastorals Elizabeth Jennings, Song for a Birth or a Death, and Other Poems Jenny Joseph, "Warning" Edward Lucie-Smith, A Tropical Childhood, and Other Poems, including "The Witnesses", "The Fault", and "On Looking at Stubb's Anatomy of the Horse" Hugh MacDiarmid, pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve, The Kind of Poetry I Want Louis MacNeice, Solstices John Masefield, Bluebells, and Other Verse John Montague, The Nature of Cold Weather, London: MacGibbon and Kee Peter Porter, Once Bitten, Twice Bitten, by an Australian living in England, Northwood, Middlesex: Scorpion Press Peter Redgrove, The Collector, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul Siegfried Sassoon, Collected Poems C. H. Sisson, The London Zoo Iain Crichton Smith, Thistles and Roses Jon Stallworthy, The Astronomy of Love Gillian Stoneham, When That April R.S. Thomas, Tares, Welsh Marina Tsvetayeva, The Selected Poems of Marina Tsvetayeva, translated by Elaine Feinstein, Oxford University Press, first of four editions (and a much-revised fifth edition) John Wain, Weep Before God, including "Time Was", which won second prize in the international Borestone Mountain Poetry Awards competition, London: Macmillan Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom William Empson, Milton's God Doris Landley Moore, The Late Lord Byron United States Lee Anderson, Nags Head Helen Bevington, When Found, Make a Verse Of Paul Blackburn, The Nets Harold Bloom, John Hollander, editors, The Wind and the Rain Philip Booth, The IslandersLudwig, 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) Joseph Payne Brennan, The Wind of Time, Hawk & Whippoorwill Press August Derleth John Ciardi, In the Stoneworks Leonard Cohen, The Spice-Box of Earth Donald Davidson, The Long Street August Derleth, editor, Fire and Sleet and Candlelight H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), Helen in Egypt, a long retelling of the tale in lyrical prose and verse of the Helen of Troy tale Ed Dorn, The Newly Fallen, Totem PressWeb page titled "Archive / Edward Dorn (1929-1999)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved May 8, 2008 Alan Dugan, Poems Abbie Houston Evans, Fact of Crystal Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Starting from San Francisco Arthur Freeman, Apollonian Poems George Garrett, Abraham's Knife Allen Ginsberg: Empty Mirror: Early Poems, New York: Totem/Corinth Kaddish and Other Poems, San Francisco: City Lights Books Horace Gregory, Medusa in Gramercy Park Thom Gunn, My Sad Captains, London: Faber and Faber; University of Chicago Press Briton Daryl Hine, Heroics John Hollander, The Untuning of the Sky (also see Harold Bloom/John Hollander item above) John Holmes, The Fortune Teller David Ignatow, Say Pardon LeRoi Jones, Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note Carolyn Kizer, The Ungrateful Garden, Bloomington: Indiana University Press Maxine Kumin, Halfway Denise Levertov, The Jacob's Ladder, New York: New Directions Philip Levine, On the Edge Robert Lowell, Imitations W. S. Merwin: Translator, Some Spanish Ballads, London: Abelard (American edition: Spanish Ballads, 1961, New York: Doubleday Anchor)Web page titled "W. S. Merwin (1927- )" at the Poetry Foundation Web site, retrieved June 8, 2010 Editor, West Wind: Supplement of American Poetry, London: Poetry Book Society Pablo Neruda, Odas elementales, translated by C. Lozano and with an introduction by Fernando Alegría Lorine Niedecker, My Friend Tree (published with help from Ian Hamilton Finlay) John Nist, editor, Modern Brazilian Poetry Charles Olson: The Maximus Poems The Distances Hyam Plutzik, Horatio, a narrative monologue basically in blank verse Theodore Roethke, I Am! Says the Lamb May Sarton, Cloud, Stone, Sun, Vine Peter Viereck, The Tree Witch John Hall Wheelock, The Gardener Richard Wilbur, Advice to a Prophet James Wright and Robert Bly, translators, Twenty Poems of Georg Trakl (Austrian poet writing in German), The Sixties Press Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States Roger Asselineau, The Evolution of Walt Whitman Walter Lowenfels, editor, Walt Whitman's Civil War, Whitman's writing about the war Edwin Haviland Miller, The Correspondence of Walt Whitman (1842–1875, in two volumes) Archibald MacLeish, Poetry and Experience (autobiography) Other in English James K. Baxter, Howrah Bridge and Other Poems, London: Oxford University Press, New Zealand poet published in the United Kingdom J. P. Clark, Poems (Nigeria) Allen Curnow, editor, Penguin Book of New Zealand Verse, A. D. Hope, Poems (Australia) Kenneth Slessor, The Penguin Book of Modern Australian Verse, Melbourne, Australia, anthology 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: French language Canada, in French Rina Lasnier, Mémoire sans jour Paul Marie Lapointe, Choix de poèmes Jean-Guy Pilon: La Mouette et le large Recours au pays, Montréal: l'HexagoneWeb page titled "Jean-Guy Pilon" https://web.archive.org/web/20110706164351/http://www.academiedeslettresduquebec.ca/jeanguy_pilon.html 2011-07-06 at L’Académie des lettres du Québec website (in French), retrieved October 20, 2010 France Andre du Bouchet, Dans la chaleur vacanteAuster, 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 Aimé Césaire,Cadastre, Martinique author published in France; Paris: Editions du Seuil Jean Cocteau, Le Cérémonial espagnol de Phoenix Michel Deguy, Poemes de la presqu'ile Max Pol Fouchet, Demeure le Secret Eugène Guillevic, CarnacBrée, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983 Henri Michaux, Connaisance par les gouffres (Life Through Darkness: Exploration Through Drugs"), Paris: GallimardRigaud-Drayton, Margaret, Henri Michaux: Poetry, Painting and the Universal Sign, Bibliography, p 165, Oxford University Press, 2005, retrieved via Google Books on August 10, 2009 Marie Noël, Chants d'arrière-saison Francis Ponge, Le Grand Recueil, three volumes Raymond Queneau, Cent mille milliards de poèmes Georges Schéhadé, Nocturnes Léopold Sédar Senghor, Nocturnes Jean Tardieu, Choix de poèmes Criticism, scholarship and biography in France André Berry, editor, Anthologie de la poésie occitane Yves Bonnefoy, Rimbaud Saint-John Perse, Poésie: allocution au Banquet Nobel du 10 décembre 1960, Paris: GallimardWeb page titled "Saint-John Perse: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1960: Bibliography" at the Nobel Prize Website, retrieved July 20, 2009. 2009-07-24. Germany Johannes Bobrowski, Sarmatische Zeit Clemens Hesselhaus, editor, Deutsche Lyrik der Moderne: von Nietzsche bis Yvan Goll Düsseldorf: August Bagel an anthologyPreminger, 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 "1960" but vast majority of academic sources on the Web say "1961" with second edition in 1962 Criticism, scholarship and biography in Germany Wilhelm Emrich, Protest und Verheissung (criticism) Walter Jens, Deutsche Literatur der Gegenwart (criticism) Hebrew J. Akavyahu, Manginot Hazot ("Midnight Music") Anonymous poet from a Soviet Bloc country, Behilokah Halail ("As the Night Is Taken"), the poems were clandestinely smuggled into Israel and published K. A. Bertini, Shevil Kahol ("Blue Path") A. Broides, El ha-Shahar ha-Gonuz ("Toward the Hidden Dawn") Yonah David, Shirim Le-lo Ahava ("Poems on Nonlove") Israel Efros, Bain Hofim Nistarim ("Among Hidden Shores") Hayim Guri, Shoshanat ha-Ruhot ("Rose of the Winds") Yosef Lichtenbaum, ba-Mishor ha-Govoha ("On a High Plain") E. Lisitzky, Kemo ha-Yom Rad ("As the Day Wanes") published in the United States Anda Pinkerfield-Amir, Gadish ve-Omer ("Sheaf and Measure") Gabriel Preil, Mapat Erew ("Map of Evening"), published in the United States T. Ribner, Shirim Limzo Et ("Poems in Search of Time") Rena Shani, Ir Zara ("Strange City") Nathan Zakh, Shirim Shonim ("Various") Criticism, scholarship and biography in Hebrew B. Kurzweil, Bialik ve- Tchernichovsky — Mehkarim be-Shiratam, about aspects of the works of two important poets of the Hebrew literary renaissance India Listed in alphabetical order by first name: Akhtarul Imam, Yaden, Urdu-languageDas, Sisir Kumar and various, History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956: struggle for freedom: triumph and tragedy, Volume 2, 1995, published by Sahitya Akademi, 978-81-7201-798-9, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008 Ayyappa Paniker, Kurukshetram (written 1952–1957), Malayalam-languagePaniker, Ayyappa, "Modern Malayalam Literature" chapter in George, K. M., editor, Modern Indian Literature, an Anthology, pp 231–255, published by Sahitya Akademi, 1992, retrieved January 10, 2009 Nirendranath Chakravarti; Bengali-language: Prothom Nayok, Kolkata: Surabhi ProkashoniWeb page title "Nirendranath Chakravarti" https://web.archive.org/web/20120214214239/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=11144 2012-02-14 , at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 15, 2010 Ondhokar Baranda, Kolkata: Krittibaash Prokashoni Kunwar Narain, Parivesh Hum Tum, Allahabad: Bharti Bahandar, Leader Press; Hindi-languageWeb page titled "Kunwar Narain" at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 12, 2010 Italy Attilio Giuliani, editor, Novissimi, an anthology-cum-manifesto of five poets which, by 1965, will be "increasingly regarded as the principal event in Italian poetry in recent times"Britannica Book of the Year 1966, covering events of 1965, published by Encyclopædia Britannica, 1966. Portuguese language Portugal Ruy de Moura Belo, Aquele grande rio Eufrates ("That Great River, the Euphrates")da Silva, Jaime H., "BELO, Ruy de Moura", article, p 184, Bleiberg, Germán, Dictionary of the literature of the Iberian peninsula, Volume 1, as retrieved from Google Books on September 6, 2011 Herberto Hélder, A Colher na Boca ("The Spoon in the Mouth") Mário Cesariny: Poesia Planisfério e Outros Poemas Spanish language Spain María Victoria Atencia, Cañada de los ingleses Miguel Hernández, a "complete" collection of poems (posthumous) Gerardo Diego, Glosa a Villamediana Anthologies in Spain Jimenez Martos, editor, Nuevos poetas españoles, mostly on the work of the "Generation of '54" Rafael Montesinos, editor, Poesía taurina contemporánea, including verse by Miguel Hernández, Diego and García Lorca Latin America Arturo Corcuera, Sombra del jardín Roque Dalton, La ventana en rel rostro (El Salvador) Hernando Domínguez de Camargo, Obras de Hernando Domínguez de Camargo (posthumous) Octavio Paz, Libertad bajo palabra collected poems previously published from 1935 to 1958 in a volume using the title of an earlier book of his Carlos A. Velazco, El corazón de silencio Anthologies in Latin America Anuario del cuento mexicano (Mexico) Antonio Cisneros, Destierro, the author's first volume of poetry; PeruWeb page titled "Antonio Cisneros-Peru" at the 2011 International Literary Festival in Berlin, retrieved August 29, 2011 Ginés de Albareda and F. Garfias, editors, Antología de la poesía hispanoamericana, Volume 8, devoted to Chilean poetry Yiddish Israel Jacob Friedmann he יעקב פרידמן (משורר) ru Фридман, Янкев, Di legende fun Neyakh Grin ("The Legend of Noah Green") Chaim Leib Fox, editor, Schemuelbuch, a scholarly edition of this old Yiddish epic Avrom Lev, a book of poetry Leyb Olitski pl Lejb Olicki he לייב אוליצקי, a book of poetry Joseph Papernikov, a book of poetry Rikuda Potash, a book of poetry Arye Shamri he אריה שמרי, Funken fun tikun ("Sparks of Salvation") Avrom Sutzkever, Di gaystike erd ("The Spiritual Soil") Yiddish works published elsewhere Ephraim Auerbach he אפרים אוירבך, Di vayse shtot ("The White City") I. L. Kalushiner, a book of poetry Israel Emiot, In nigun ayngehert ("Listening to the Melody") David Sfard pl Dawid Sfard, A zegl in vint ("A Sail in the Wind") (Poland) Other languages Dritëro Agolli, Hapat e mija në asfalt ("My steps on the pavement"), Albania Simin Behbahani, Marmar ("Marble"), Persia Syed Shamsul Haque, Ekoda Ek Rajje ("Once upon a time in a kingdom"), Bengali published in East Pakistan Alexander Mezhirov, Ветровое стекло ("Windshield" or "Windscreen"), 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 Nizar Qabbani, My Beloved, Syrian poet writing in Arabic Klaus Rifbjerg, Camouflage, Denmark"Danish Poetry" article, pp 270-274, in Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications Awards and honors United Kingdom Eric Gregory Award: Adrian Mitchell, Geoffrey Hill 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"): Louis Untermeyer appointed this year. Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Phyllis McGinley: Times Three: Selected Verse From Three Decades Bollingen Prize: Yvor Winters National Book Award for Poetry: Randall Jarrell, The Woman at the Washington Zoo Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Horace Gregory Other Lenin Prize (Soviet Union): Alexander Tvardovsky for Za Dalyu dal ... ("Space Beyond Space") Canada: Governor General's Award, poetry or drama: Acis in Oxford, Robert Finch"Cumulative List of Winners of the Governor General's Literary Awards https://web.archive.org/web/20110514183017/http://www.canadacouncil.ca/NR/rdonlyres/E22B9A3C-5906-41B8-B39C-F91F58B3FD70/0/cumulativewinners2010rev.pdf 2011-05-14 ", Canada Council. Web, Feb. 10, 2011. http://www.canadacouncil.ca/NR/rdonlyres/E22B9A3C-5906-41B8-B39C-F91F58B3FD70/0/cumulativewinners2010rev.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20110514183017/http://www.canadacouncil.ca/NR/rdonlyres/E22B9A3C-5906-41B8-B39C-F91F58B3FD70/0/cumulativewinners2010rev.pdf 2011-05-14 Births Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: May 2 – Lisa Bellear (died 2006), Australian indigenous poet May 4 – Ishita Bhaduri, Indian Poet and Author May 17 – Han Dong 韩东, Chinese poet and novelist June 5 – Swadesh Roy, Bengali journalist, essayist, poet, novelist and short-story writer August 14 – Steven Heighton, Canadian novelist and poet September 13 – Tom Holt, English historical and comic novelist and poet November 9 – Jackie Kay, Scottish poet and novelist December 20 – Sion Sono 園 子温, Japanese controversial avant-garde poet and filmmaker Also: Ifor ap Glyn, Welsh-language poet Gitaujali Badruddin Chen Kehua, Chinese poet and ophthalmologist in TaiwanPoetry International website Web page on Chen Kehua, retrieved November 22, 2008 Denise Duhamel, American Kenneth Goldsmith, American Maggie Helwig, English-born Canadian novelist, poet and Anglican priest Louis de Paor, Irish-language poet Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: April 30 – Jessie Redmon Fauset, 79 (born 1885), American novelist and poet June 26 – Kenneth Fearing, 58 (born 1902), American poet and writer September 27 – Hilda Doolittle, known as H.D., 75 (born 1886), American poet, novelist, and memoirist, of a heart attack December 24 – Robert Hillyer, 66 (born 1895), American poet See also Poetry List of poetry awards List of years in poetry Poetry Notes Category:20th-century poetry *