1958 in poetry

none Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). 1958 poetry literature Events April 18 — American poet Ezra Pound's indictment for treason is dismissed.Ackroyd, Peter, Ezra Pound, Thames and Hudson Ltd., London, 1980, "Chronology" chapter, p 118 He is released from St. Elizabeths Hospital, an insane asylum in Maryland, after spending 12 years there (starting in 1946) and returns to Italy. June 29 — A monument to Vladimir Mayakovsky is unveiled in the centre of Moscow and becomes a focus for informal poetry readings. Brazilian manifesto for concrete poetry, which focuses on visual and other sensory qualities. Writers Workshop, a Calcutta, India-based literary publisher, is founded this year by the poet P. Lal with several other writers. 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: Donald Hall et al., editors, New Poets of England and America David Cecil and Allen Tate, Modern Verse in English (anthology) Canada Earle Birney, Selected Poems Louis Dudek: Laughing StalksGustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books En Mexico John Glassco, The Deficit Made Flesh Ralph Gustafson, The Penguin Book of Canadian VerseBritannica Book of the Year 1960, covering events of 1959, published by Encyclopædia Britannica, 1960; "Canadian Literature" article mentioned this book as a "late 1958 anthology" Irving Layton, A Laughter in the Mind."Irving Layton: Publications https://web.archive.org/web/20110714042105/http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/layton/pub.htm 2011-07-14 ," Canadian Poetry Online, Web, May 7, 2011. E. J. Pratt, The Collected Poems of E. J. Pratt. Toronto: Macmillan. (introduction by Northrop Frye)"Bibliography," Selected Poems of E. J. Pratt, Peter Buitenhuis ed., Toronto: Macmillan, 1968, 207-208. James Reaney, A Suit of Nettles. Governor General's Award 1958. F. R. Scott and A.J.M. Smith, The Blasted Pine, a satirical miscellany A. J. M. Smith and F. R. Scott, editors, The Oxford Book of Canadian Verse (see also the edition of 1966) Raymond Souster, Crepe-Hanger's Carnival: Selected Poems 1955-58 Toronto: Contact Press."Notes on Life and Works https://web.archive.org/web/20110817195614/http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/513.html 2011-08-17 ," Selected Poetry of Raymond Souster, Representative Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 7, 2011. Miriam Waddington, The Season's Lovers Criticism, scholarship and biography in Canada L.M. Lande, Old Lamps Aglow R.E. Rashley, Poetry in Canada Ireland Thomas Kinsella, Another September, Dublin, Dolmen 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 Patrick MacDonogh, One Landscape Still Donagh MacDonagh and Lennox Robinson editors, The Oxford Book of Irish Verse, XVIIth century-XXth century (anthology) India, in English Sarojini Naidu, The Sceptred Flute—Songs of India ( Poetry in English ), Allahabad: Kitabistan, published posthumously (died 1949)Vinayak Krishna Gokak, The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965), p 313, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), 81-260-1196-3, retrieved August 6, 2010 Dilip Kumar Roy, The Immortals of the Bhagvat ( Poetry in English ),Amrita Paresh Patel, "24. Selected Poems of Dilip Kumar Roy: A Study", p 267, in Indian English Poetry: Critical Perspectives, edited by Jaydipsinh Dodiya, 2000, Delhi: Prabhat Kumar Sharma for Sarup & Sons, 81-7625-111-9, retrieved via Google Books on July 17, 2010 United Kingdom A. Alvarez, The End of ItCox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, 0-19-860634-6 John Betjeman, Collected Poems, London: John Murray; Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1959 Michael Hamburger, The Dual Site, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul John Heath-Stubbs, Helen in Egypt, and Other Plays Elizabeth Jennings, A Sense of the World George Rostrevor Hamilton, Collected Poems John Heath-Stubbs, The Triumph of the Muse Elizabeth Jennings, A Sense of the World, London: André Deutsch Thomas Kinsella, Another September Irish poet published in the United Kingdom Dom Moraes, A Beginning, his first book of poems (winner of the Hawthornden Prize), Indian at this time living in the United Kingdom James Reeves, The Talking Skull Michael Roberts, Collected Poems Alan Ross, To Whom It May Concern John Silkin, The Two Freedoms Sir Osbert Sitwell, On the Continent (see also England Reclaimed 1927 and Wrack at Tidesend 1952) John Smith, Excursus in Autumn, including "Two Men Meet, Each Believing the Other to be of a Higher Rank" A.S.J. Tessimond, Selection R.S. Thomas, Poetry for Supper C.A. Trypanis, a book of poetry David Wright, Monologue of a Deaf Man, London: André Deutsch Andrew Young, Out of the World and Back: into Hades, & A Travller in Time: two poems United States Conrad Aiken, Sheepfold HillLudwig, 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) Djuna Barnes, The Antiphon a surrealist verse play John Berryman, His Thoughts Made Pockets & the Plane Buckt John Ciardi, I marry You; a Sheaf of Love Poems Gregory Corso: Gasoline Bomb Louis Coxe, The Wilderness and Other Poems E.E. Cummings, 95 Poems Lawrence Ferlinghetti, A Coney Island of the Mind, New DirectionsRichard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, editors, The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, W. W. Norton & Company, 1973, 0-393-09357-3 George Garrett, The Sleeping Gypsy Donald Hall, The Dark Houses Anthony Hecht, The Seven Deadly Sins John Hollander, A Crackling of Thorns, Yale University Press Rolfe Humphries, editor, New Poems by American Poets (anthology) Stanley Kunitz, Selected Poems: 1928–1958 Denise Levertov, Overland to the Islands, Highlands, North Carolina: Jonathan Williams Archibald MacLeish, J.B., a verse play William Meredith, The Open Sea and Other Poems Howard Nemerov, Mirrors and Windows Kenneth Patchen: Poem-scapes Hurrah for Anything When We Were Here Together Theodore Roethke, Words for the Wind, Garden City, New York: Doubleday Muriel Rukeyser, Body of Waking Winfield Townley Scott, The Dark Sister Karl Shapiro, Poems of a Jew, New York: Random House Eli Siegel, Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana: Poems nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.Fischer Complete Historical Handbook of the Pulitzer Prize System 1917-2000, Part F, Vol. 17: Documentation 2003 Walter de Gruyter Munchen, Germany 3-598-30170-7 Clark Ashton Smith, Spells and Philtres William Jay Smith, Poems 1947-1957 May Swenson, A Cage of Spines Charles Tomlinson, Seeing Is Believing, New York: McDowell, Obolensky John Updike, The Carpentered Hen and Other Tame Creatures Mona Van Duyn, Valentines to the Wide World David Wagoner, A Place to Stand William Carlos Williams, Paterson, Book V Other in English James K. Baxter, In Fires of No Return, published by Oxford University Press, giving Baxter international recognition, New Zealand Peter Bland, Three Poets, New ZealandWeb page titled "The Contemporary Scene" in An Encyclopedia of New Zealand, 1966 website, accessed April 21, 2008 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: Spanish language Chile Efraín Barqueto, La Compañera Alfonso Calderón, El Pais Jubiloso ("Jubilant Country")"Chile National Literature Prize Winner Alfonso Calderon Dies" https://web.archive.org/web/20111228235620/http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=341019&CategoryId=13003 2011-12-28 , obituary, August 8, 2009, Latin American Herald Tribune, retrieved September 4, 2009. Archived 2009-09-07. Vincente Huidobro, Ataigle, French translation Gabriela Mistral, Poesías completas, Madrid : AguilarWeb page titled "The Nobel Prize in Literature 1945/Gabriela Mistral/Bibliography", Nobel Prize website, retrieved September 22, 2010 Pablo Neruda, Complete Works Others from Latin America José Ramón, Antología poética, Argentina Rubén Vela, Veranos, Argentina Spain Jorge Guillén: Viviendo Maremágnum Miguel de Unamuno, Cincuenta poesías inéditas (written 1899–1927, now published for the first time) Portuguese language Portugal Herberto Hélder, pt O Amor em Visita Eugénio de Andrade, pt Coração do dia Alexandre O'Neill, pt No Reino da Dinamarca Mário Cesariny, pt Alguns Mitos Maiores e Alguns Mitos Menores Postos à Circulação pelo Autor French language French Canada Ollivier Mercier-Gouin, Poèmes et Chansons Ronald Després, Silences à nourrir de sang Roger Brien, Vols et plongées Alain Grandbois, L'Étoile pourpre Roland Giguère, Le défaut des ruines est d'avoir des habitants France Yves Bonnefoy, Hier régnant désert Pierre Emmanuel, Versant de l'âge Vincente Huidobro, Altaigle (translation from Spanish) Philippe Jaccottet, L'IgnorantAuster, 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 Pierre Jean Jouve, Inventions Raymond Queneau: Le chien à la mandoline Cent mille milliards de poèmes Roger-Arnould Rivière, Déserts Georges Schéhadé, EthiopiquesBree, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983 Hebrew Sh. Shalom: Ben Tehelet ve-Lavan ("Amidst the Blue and White") Shirai Kommiut Israel ("Poems on the Rise of Israel") Yehoshua Rabinow, Shirat Amitai ("Amitai's Song") I. Shalev, Eloha Hanoshek Lohamim P. Elad, Mizrah Shemesh ("East of the Sun") David Rokeah, Kearar Aleh Shaham ("Juniper on Granite") T. Carmi, ha-Yam ha-Aharon ("The Last Sea") Y. Amihai, be-Merhak Shtai Tikvot ("At a Distance of Two Hopes") Ephraim Lisitzky, Anshai Midot ("Virtuous Men") India Listed in alphabetical order by first name: Buddhidhari Singha, Madhumati, Maithili Nalini Bala Devi, Yuga-devata, Indian, Assamese-languageDas, Sisir Kumar, "A Chronology of Literary Events / 1911–1956", p 620, in Das, 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 Gopal Prasad Rimal, Yo Prem! ("This Love"), NepaliDas, 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 K. S. Narasimha Swami, Silalate, Kannada Other Dritëro Agolli, Në rrugë dolla ("I went out on the street") (Albania) Ko Un, Hyondae Munhak (South Korea) Meyer Stiker, Yidishe landshaft ("Yiddish Landscape"), his second book of poems (Yiddish)Britannica Book of the Year 1960, covering events of 1959, published by the Encyclopædia Britannica, 1960; "Jewish Literature", pp 372-373; "[...] Meyer Shtiker, whose second collection of verse Yidishe landshaft ("Yiddish Landscape") was published in 1958." Luo Fu, River of the Soul Chinese (Taiwan)Balcom, John, "Lo Fu" https://web.archive.org/web/20110101081326/http://china.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=9223 2011-01-01 , article on Poetry International website, retrieved November 22, 2008 Awards and honors United Kingdom Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Francis Cornford Foyle Prize for Poetry: Dame Edith Sitwell, Collected Poems Guinness Poetry Awards: Ted Hughes, The Thought Fox Thomas Kinsella, Thinking of Mr. D David Wright, A Thanksgiving 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"): Robert Frost appointed this year. National Book Award for Poetry: Robert Penn Warren, Promises: Poems, 1954-1956 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Stanley Kunitz, Selected Poems 1928-1958 Bollingen Prize: E.E. Cummings Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Robinson Jeffers Harper's Eugene F. Saxton Fellowship; Conrad Hilberry Huntington Hartford Foundation Award: Robert Frost Jewish Book Council's Harry Kovner Memorial poetry awards: I.J. Schwartz for contributions to Yiddish poetry; Aaron Zeitlin for Bein Ha-Esh Yeha-Yesha Yale Series of Younger Poets award: William Dickey for Of the Festivity American Academy of Arts and Letters American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in Poetry: Conrad Aiken Marjorie Peabody Waite Award: Dorothy Parker Poetry Magazine Levinson prize: Stanley Kunitz Oscar Blumenthal prize: Siydney Goodsir Smith Eunice Tiejens prize: Mona Van Duyn Bess Hokin prize: Charles Tomlinson Union League Civic and Arts Foundation prize: Jean Garrigue Vachel Lindsay prize : Hayden Carruth Harriet Monroe Poetry Prize: Stanley Kunitz Poetry Society of America Shelley Memorial Award: Kenneth Rexroth Alexander Droutzkoy Memorial gold medal: Robert Frost Walt Whitman Award: James E. Miller, Jr. Reynolds Lyric Award: John Fandel William Rose Benet Memorial Award: Robert A. Wallace Edna St. Vincent Millay Award: Robert Penn Warren Poetry Chap-Book Award: Arthur Waley Emily S. Hamblen Memorial award: Sir Geoffrey Keynes for The Complete Writings of William Blake Arthur Davison Ficke Memorial award: Ulrich Trobetzkoy Laura Speyer Memorial award: Mary A. Winter Borestone Mountain Poetry Award: John Hall Wheelock, Poems Old and New France Grand Prix Littéraire de la Ville de Paris: Maurice Fonbeure for poetry Grand Prix de Poésie de l'Académie française: Mme. Gérard d'Houville Other Mondadori, Viareggio poetry prize (Italy): S. Quasimodo, La terra impareggiabile Canada: Governor General's Award, poetry or drama: A Suit of Nettles, James Reaney"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: January 5 – Harold Rhenisch, Canadian poet April 15: Anne Michaels, Canadian poet and novelist Benjamin Zephaniah (died 2023), British dub poet August 29 – Michael Jackson (died 2009), American pop singer, songwriter, poet and author November 27 – Andrew Waterhouse (suicide 2001), English poet and environmentalist Also: Jill Battson, Canadian poet Lionel Fogarty (died 2026), Australian poet and political activist James Lasdun, English poet and fiction writer Subodh Sarkar, Bengali poet, writer, editor and academic in India Margaret Smith, American poet, musician and artist Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January 3 – Gerald William Bullett, 64, English author and critic January 15 – Brian Howard, 52 (born 1905), English poet and writer, suicide March 13 – Vallathol Narayana Menon (born 1878), Indian, Malayalam language poet March 24 – Seumas O'Sullivan (born 1879), Irish May 5 – James Branch Cabell, 79, whose 52 books included poetry, of a cerebral hemorrhage (to help people remember the pronunciation of his name, he composed the ditty, "Tell the rabble my name is CA-bell.") June 10 – Angelina Weld Grimke (born 1880), African American lesbian journalist and poetAudre Lorde, 'A burst of light: Living with cancer', A Burst of Light, Ithaca, NY: Firebrand Books, 1988, page 73 June 25 or 28According to Encyclopædia Britannica. – Alfred Noyes, 77 (born 1880), English poet September 8 – Geoffrey Winthrop Young, 81 (born 1876), English mountaineer, poet and educator September 11 – Robert W. Service, 84 (born 1874), Scots-Canadian poet who wrote The Cremation of Sam McGee October 29 – Zoë Akins, 72, American poet and dramatist who won the 1935 Pulitzer Prize for her drama version of Edith Wharton's The Old Maid November 12 – Masamune Atsuo 正宗敦夫 (born 1881), Japanese poet and academic December 20 – Sir John Collings Squire, British poet, writer, historian and influential literary editor Also: Emil Barth (born 1900), German Francis Carco, French poet and novelist Yves Gérard le Dantec, French See also Poetry Poetry List of poetry awards List of years in poetry Notes Category:20th-century poetry *