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1965 poetry literature
Events
June 11 – International Poetry Incarnation, a performance poetry event, is staged at the Royal Albert Hall in London before an audience of 7,000, with members of the Beat Generation featuring; Adrian Mitchell reads "To Whom It May Concern"
Meic Stephens founds Poetry Wales
Russian poet Anna Akhmatova is allowed to travel outside the Soviet Union to Sicily and England in order to receive the Taormina prize and an honorary doctoral degree from the University of Oxford
The Belfast Festival at Queen's publishes pamphlets this year and next by some of the members of The Belfast Group of poets, including Seamus Heaney and Michael Longley, which attracts some notice
In Spain, two new periodical reviews are founded:
Poesía para todos, started by younger Spanish poets and illustrated by renowned paintersBritannica Book of the Year 1966 (covering "Events of 1965"), 1966, published by Encyclopædia Britannica Inc.
Los sesenta, launched by Max Aub and with editors including the poets Jorge Guillén and Rafael Alberti. The second number is published in homage to the Unamuno
In the British Isles, the centenary of the birth of W. B. Yeats brings forth a number of critical works, prominent among them Thomas Parkinson's book W. B. Yeats: The Later Poetry, and Conor Cruise O'Brien's long essay addressing Yeats' relationship to Fascism, published in In Excited Reverie, edited by A. N. Jeffares and K. G. Cross
African-American poet Dudley Randall founds Broadside Press in Detroit, which publishes many leading African-American writers
Paul Éluard's 1926 book of poems, Capitale de la douleur ("Capital of Pain"), influences Jean-Luc Godard's French film Alphaville (released May 5) which has quotations from the book
The periodical Modern Poetry in Translation is launched by Ted Hughes, Daniel Weissbort and George Theiner in Britain
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 Lehmann and Les Murray, The Ilex Tree, Australiahttp://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoet.do?poetId=216 Les Murray The Poetry Archive 2007-10-15 https://web.archive.org/web/20071013031215/http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoet.do?poetId=216 2007-10-13 dead
John Thompson, editor, Australian Poetry, Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 76 pp"Thompson, John, Australian Poetry 1965" [web page]. International League of Antiquarian Booksellers. Retrieved 2009-02-16.
Judith Wright, Preoccupations in Australian Poetry (scholarship), AustraliaPreminger, Alex Brogan, T. V. F. The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics 1993 Princeton University Press; MJF Books Australian Poetry 108 (Anthologies section) etal
Canada
John Glassco, editor, English Poetry in QuebecGustafson Ralph The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse Revised 1967 Baltimore, Maryland Penguin Books
Daryl Hine, The Wooden Horse
Lionel Kearns, Listen George
C. F. Klinck and W. H. New, editors, Literary History of Canada, first of four volumes (fourth volume published in 1990, scholarship, CanadaPreminger, Alex Brogan, T. V. F. The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics 1993 Princeton University Press; MJF Books Canadian Poetry 164 (English "Anthologies" section) etal
Irving Layton, Collected Poems
Tom Marshall, The Beast with Three Backs, Quarry Press
John Newlove, Moving in Alone, Contact Press
Al Purdy, The Cariboo Horses, CanadaRoberts, Neil, ed. (2003). A Companion to Twentieth-century Poetry, Part III, Chapter 3, "Canadian Poetry", by Cynthia Messenger, Blackwell Publishing. 978-1-4051-1361-8. Retrieved via Google Books 2009-01-03.
Raymond Souster, Ten Elephants on Yonge Street
Wilfred Watson, Naked Poems
Phyllis Webb, Naked Poems
India in English
Dom Moraes John Nobody ( Poetry in English )Mehrotra, Arvind Krishna 2003 https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780231128100 registration A History of Indian literature in English 250 Columbia University Press 0-231-12810-X 2010-07-18
Nissim Ezekiel:
The Exact Name: Poems 1960–1964 ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, IndiaLal, P., Modern Indian Poetry in English: An Anthology & a Credo, p 193, 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").
The Unfinished Man, poems written in 1959; ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, IndiaVinayak 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
P. Lal, "Charge!" They Said ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India .Lal, P., Modern Indian Poetry in English: An Anthology & a Credo, p 581, 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").
Kamala Das, Summer of Calcutta: Fifty Poems ( Poetry in English ), Delhi: Rajinder Paul
Roshen Alkazi, Seventeen Poems (see also Seventeen More Poems 1970); Calcutta: Writers Workshop, IndiaLal, P., Modern Indian Poetry in English: An Anthology & a Credo, p 12, 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").
Deb Kumar Das, Through A Glass Darkly: Poems ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, IndiaNaik, 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
T. V. Datareyan, Silver Box and Other Poems ( Poetry in English ), Bombay: StrandLal, P., Modern Indian Poetry in English: An Anthology & a Credo, p 116, 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").
Vinayaka Krishna Gokak, In Life's Temple ( Poetry in English ), Madras: Blackie and Son
S. R. Mokashi-Punekar, The Captive ( Poetry in English ), preface by Herbert ReadLal, P., Modern Indian Poetry in English: An Anthology & a Credo, p 339, 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").
Ireland
Denis Devlin, Collected Poems, Dublin: Dolmen Press
Seamus Heaney, Northern Ireland native Irish poet with books published originally in the United Kingdom:
Death of a Naturalist
Eleven Poems, Queen's University
Richard Murphy, Sailing to an Island, London: Faber and Faber; New York: Chilmark Press, Irish poet with books published originally in the United Kingdom
New Zealand
Charles Brasch: (year uncertain, but thought to be this year) Twice Sixty, Wellington: Printed at the Wai-te-ata Press (Single poem; broadsheet)http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/subjects/nzp/nzlit2/brasch.htm Charles Brasch New Zealand Literature File University of Auckland Library 2008-04-26 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20060928202053/https://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/subjects/nzp/nzlit2/brasch.htm 2006-09-28
Charles Doyle, editor, Recent Poetry in New Zealand, anthology
Kendrick Smithyman, A Way of Saying: A Study of New Zealand Poetry,Preminger, Alex Brogan, T. V. F. The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics 1993 Princeton University Press; MJF Books New Zealand Poetry 837 ("History and Criticism" section) etal Auckland & London: Collins, criticism
South Africa
Patrick Cullinan, North
Ruth Miller (South African poet), Floating Island, Cape Town"Women Writing Africa – A Bibliography of Anglophone Women Writers – A selection of titles proposed by Tony Simoes da Silva, University of Wollongong, Australia" [web page] at Discipline of European Languages and Studies, French, The University of Western Australia [website]. Retrieved 2009-02-16.
David Wright, Adam at Evening, London: Hodder and Stoughton, including "By the Effigy of St. Cecilia"; South African poet with works published originally in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Alan Bold, Society InebriousCox, Michael The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature Oxford University Press 2004 0-19-860634-6 https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm
George Mackay Brown, The Year of the Whale, Scottish poet
Basil Bunting:
Loquitur (Fulcrum Press)
The Spoils (Morden Tower Bookroom)
Christopher Caudwell, Poems
Tony Connor, Lodgers London: Oxford University Press London: Chatto and Windus with Hogarth PressM. L. Rosenthal M. L. Rosenthal The New Poets: American and British Poetry Since World War II https://archive.org/details/newpoetsamerican00rose registration New York Oxford University Press 1967 Selected Bibliography: Individual Volumes by Poets Discussed 334–340
Donald Davie, The Poems of Doctor Zhivago
C. Day-Lewis, The Room and Other Poems
Paul Dehn, The Fern on the Rock: Collected Poems, 1935–1965
D. J. Enright, The Old Adam, London: Chatto and Windus with Hogarth Press
Harry Fainlight, Sussicran, London: Turret Books
Roy Fuller, Buff
David Gascoyne, Collected Poems
Robert Graves, Collected Poems (1965 version)
Michael Hamburger, In Flashlight
Seamus Heaney, Northern Ireland native published in the United Kingdom:
Death of a Naturalist
Eleven Poems, Queen's University
John Heath-Stubbs, Selected Poems
George MacBeth, A Doomsday Book, a mix of poems and poem-games, Lowestoft, Suffolk: Scorpion Press
Norman MacCaig, Measures, London: Chatto and Windus with Hogarth Press
Richard Murphy, Sailing to an Island, London: Faber and Faber; New York: Chilmark Press, Irish poet
Sylvia Plath, Ariel, London: Faber and Faber (New York: Harper & Row, 1966), American poet in the United Kingdom
Kathleen Raine, The Hollow Hill, and Other Poems 1960–4
Alan Ross, North from Sicily
Vernon Scannell, Walking Wounded
Jon Silkin, Nature with Man
C. H. Sisson, Numbers
Sir Osbert Sitwell, Poems about People or England Reclaimed (collected from three previous volumes)
Iain Crichton Smith, The Law and the Grace
Bernard Spencer, Collected Poems
Stephen Spender, Selected Poems
John Wain, Wildtrack, Wildtrack, London: Macmillan
Ted Walker, Fox on a Barn Door
Hugo Williams, Symptoms of Loss: Poems, Oxford University Press
David Wright, Adam at Evening, London: Hodder and Stoughton, including "By the Effigy of St. Cecilia"; South African poet with works published originally in the United Kingdom
Anthologies
P. L. Brent, editor, Young Commonwealth Poets 1965
Matthew Hodgart, The Faber Book of Ballads
I. M. Parsons, Men Who March Away (poems of World War I)
Robin Skelton, Poetry of the Thirties
James Reeves, The Cassell Book of English Poetry
C. V. Wedgwood, editor, New Poems 1965: A PEN Anthology, London: HutchinsonLal, P., Modern Indian Poetry in English: An Anthology & a Credo, p 594, 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").
Criticism and scholarship in the United Kingdom
Bernard Bergozi, Heroes' Twilight on the literature of World War I
Anthony Burgess, Here Comes Everybody on the work of James Joyce
Donald Davie, Ezra Pound: Poet as Sculptor
Patricia Hutchins, Ezra Pound's Kensington: An Exploration 1885–1913
Conor Cruise O'Brien, a long essay which addressed W. B. Yeats' relationship to Fascism, published in In Excited Reverie, edited by A. N. Jeffares and K. G. Cross.
Harold Owen, Journey from Obscurity, Volume III, autobiography by the brother of poet Wilfred Owen, giving "a few interesting glimpses of the poet", according to William Leslie Webb, literary editor of The Guardian
Thomas Parkinson, W.B. Yeats: The Later Poetry
United States
A.R. Ammons:
Corsons Inlet
Tape for the Turn of the Year
George Barker, Collected Poems, New York: October House
Ted Berrigan, Living With Chris
Elizabeth Bishop, Questions of Travel (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)
Hayden Carruth, Nothing for Tigers
Edgar Bowers, The Astronomers
Louis Coxe, The Last Hero
E.E. Cummings, Fairy Tales (posthumous)
Ed Dorn:
Idaho Out, Fulcrum Presshttp://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=1837 Archive: Edward Dorn (1929-1999) Poetry Foundation 2008-05-08
Geography, Fulcrum Press
Robert Duncan, Roots and Branches
Paul Engle, A Woman Unashamed
Jean Garrigue, Country Without Maps, including "Pays Perdu"
Allen Ginsberg, Jukebox All'Idrogeno, Milan: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore
Donald Hall, A Roof of Tiger Lilies
John Hollander, Visions from the Ramble
E. Y. Harburg, Irreverent Rhymes
Lee Harwood, title illegible (sic) published by Bob Cobbing's Writers Forum
Paul Horgan, Songs After Lincoln
David Ignatow, Figures of the Human
Randall Jarrell:
Little Friend, Little Friend
The Lost World, a book of 22 poems, reviewers gave it a mixed reception, New York: Macmillan
John Knoepfle, Rivers into Islands
Philip Larkin, The Whitsun Weddings
Stanley McNail, Something Breathing
Gabriela Mistral, Selected Poems translated from Spanish
Samuel French Morse, The Changes
Howard Moss, Finding Them Lost, New York: Scribners
Edwin Muir, Collected Poems, New York: Oxford University Press
Mary Oliver, No Voyage, and Other Poems (expanded from first edition in 1963)
George Oppen, This in Which
Sylvia Plath, Ariel, including "Daddy", (posthumous)
David Ray, X-Rays
Charles Reznikoff, the first of his Testimony collections
David Shapiro, January
Jon Silkin, Nature with Man
Clark Ashton Smith, Poems in Prose
Hollis Summers, Seven Occasions
Melvin Tolson, Harlem Gallery
Mona Van Duyn, A Time of Bees
Theodore Weiss, The Medium: New Poems, New York: Macmillan
Samuel Yellen, New and Selected Poems
Marya Zaturenska, Collected Poems
Louis Zukofsky, ALL: The Collected Short Poems, 1923–1958 (Norton)
Criticism and scholarship in the United States
Theodore Roethke, On the Poet and his Craft (published posthumously)
Chard Powers Smith, Where the Light Falls, about Edward Arlington Robinson
Other in English
P. L. Brent, editor, Young Commonwealth Poets 1965 (anthology published in the United Kingdom)
A. L. Hendriks, On This Mountain (Caribbean)
Frank Kobina Parkes, Songs from the Wilderness (Ghanaian living in the United Kingdom)
Derek Walcott, The Castaway (Caribbean)https://books.google.com/books?id=-jzJb96uTdQC&q=Timeline+poetry&pg=PR17 Selected Timeline of Anglophone Caribbean Poetry Williams, Emily Allen Anglophone Caribbean Poetry, 1970-2001: An Annotated Bibliography xvii & ff Westport, Connecticut Greenwood Publishing Group 2002 978-0-313-31747-7 2009-02-07
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:
Denmark
Jørgen Gustava Brandt, Etablissementet
Klaus Rifbjerg, Amagerdigle ("Amager Poems")Danish Poetry 270–274 Preminger, Alex Brogan, T. V. F. The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics 1993 New York MJF Books/Fine Communications etal
Ivan Malinovski, Poetomatic
Anthologies
Poul Borum, editor, a volume of modern poetry
Torben Brostrøm, Den nye poesi, a volume of modern poetry (a new version, first published in 1962)
Jess Ørnsbo, editor, a volume of modern poetry
Finland
Pertti Nieminen, Silmissä maailman maisemat ("The World in his Eyes"), colorful, humorous fables in the form of poetry
Arvo Turtainen, translation of Leaves of Grass
Pentti Saarikoski, Kuljen missä kuljen ("Traveling Man")
French language
Canada
Jacques Brault, Mémoire
Paul Chamberland, L'Afficheur hurle
Gilbert Choquette, L'Honneur de vivre
Cécile Cloutier, Cuivre et soìes
Paul-Marie Lapointe, Pour les âmes
Fernand Oulette, Le Soleil sous la mort
France
Yves Bonnefoy, Pierre écrite
Andrée Chedid, Double-PaysBrée, Germaine (1983). Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Roger Giroux, L'Arbre le temps, which won the Max Jacob Prize
Edmond Jabès, Le Retour au LivreAuster, Paul 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 https://archive.org/details/randomhousebooko00aust
Pierre Jean Jouve:
The "definitive edition" of his poetry
Ténèbre
R. Lorno, Légendaire, a book of verses in a style vaguely like Verlaine; the book won the Apollinaire Prize.
Loys Masson, La Dame de Pavoux
Saint-John Perse, Pour Dante, Paris: Gallimard"Saint-John Perse: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1960: Bibliography" at the Nobel Prize Website, retrieved July 20, 2009. 2009-07-24.
Marcelin Pleynet, Comme
Francis Ponge:
Pour un Malherbe
Tome Premier
Robert Sabatier, Les Poisons délectables
Jean Tortel, Les Villes découvertes
Criticism
J. P. Richard, Onze Etudes sur la poésie moderne
Switzerland
Maurice Chappaz, Chant de la Grande Dixence
Hebrew
N. Alterman, Hagigat Kayitz ("Summer Celebration")
Yonathan Ratosh, Shirai Memesh ("Poems of Tangibility")
Mattityahu Shoham, Ketavim ("Writings")
Moshe Dor, Sirpad Umatehet ("Briar and Metal")
I. Pincas, Aruhat Erev be-Ferrara ("Supper in Ferrara")
A. Broides, le-Eretz ha-Moked ("Toward the Blazing Land")
United States
Moses Feinstein, a book of poems and sonnets
G. Preil, Mivhar Shirim ("A Selection of Poems"), introduction by A. Shabatay
Yaffa Eliach, Eishet ha-Dayag ("Fisherman's Wife"), a long, narrative poem
A. Zeitlin, Hazon ve-Hazon Medinah ("A State and a State Envisioned")
India
Listed in alphabetical order by first name:
Chandiroor Divakaran, Radha, Malayalam-language
Nilmani Phookan, Nirjanatar Sabda, Guwahati, Assam: Dutta Barua; Assamese-languagehttp://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=2731 Nilmani Phookan Poetry International 2010-07-16 2011-07-21 https://web.archive.org/web/20110721052731/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=2731 dead
Nirendranath Chakravarti, Nirokto Korobi, Kolkata: Surabhi Prokashoni; Bengali-languagehttp://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=11144 Nirendranath Chakravarti Poetry International 2010-07-15 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20120214214239/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=11144 2012-02-14
Kunwar Narain, Atmajayee, a short epic poem, New Delhi: Bharatiya Jnanpith; Hindi-languagehttp://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=2726 https://web.archive.org/web/20110920055309/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=2726 dead September 20, 2011 Kunwar Narain Poetry International 2010-07-12
Umashankar Joshi, Mahaprasthan, a "dialogue-poem"; Gujarati-languageMohan Sarala Jag https://books.google.com/books?id=1lTnv6o-d_oC&q=Urdu+poets&pg=PA100 Chapter 4: Twentieth-Century Gujarati Literature Natarajan, Nalini Nelson, Emanuel Sampath Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India Westport, Connecticut Greenwood Publishing Group 1996 978-0-313-28778-7 2008-12-10
Italy
Alfredo Giuliani:
Povera Juliet, a complete collection of his poetry
editor, Novissimi, a new and enlarged edition of the 1961 anthology-cum-manifesto "increasingly regarded as the principal event in Italian poetry in recent times"
Roberto Roversi, Dopo Campoformio, collection
Carlo Villa, Siamo esseri antichi
Vittorio Sereni, Gli strumenti umani
Giovanni Giudici, La vita in versi
Portuguese
Brazil
Carlos Drummond de Andrade, complete works
Cassiano Ricardo, Jeremias sem chorar
Mauro Mota, Canto au meio
Criticism
Cassiano Ricardo, Algumas reflexões sôbre poética de vanguarda
Spanish
Spain
Ramón Garciasol, Fuente serena
Diego Jesús Jiménez, La ciudad, winner of the Premio Adonais prize
José Hierro, El libro de las alucinaciones
Justo Jorge Padrón, Trazos de un paréntesis
Latin America
Alaíde Foppa, Guirnalda de primavera ("Spring wreath") (Guatemalan poet published in Mexico)Cocco Elisa Alaíde Foppa: una vita da dissidente Alaíde Foppa: a dissident's life Cuadernos del Hipogrifo 2023 20 11–25 https://www.revistaelhipogrifo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/11-25.pdf 2025-05-27 it 2420-918X
Victor García Robles, Oíd Mortales (Argentina), winner of the Cuban Casa de las Américas Prize in poetry
J. Bañuelos, O. Oliva, J. A. Shelley, E. Zepeda, and J. Labastida (all in Mexico), Ocupación de la palabra, a collection of their poems
Carlos Medellín, El aire y las colinas (Colombia)
Criticism
José Emilio Pacheco, Poesía mexicana del siglo XIX, which Jose Francisco Vazquez-Amaral called (in 1966) "the first reliable work of its kind to deal with that important period of Mexican poetry".
Yiddish
editor(s) not known, Horizons, a poetry anthology published in the Soviet Union
Kadia Molodowsky, Light from the Thorn Tree
Berish Vaynshteyn, Destined Poems
Robert Frost, a volume of his poems in Yiddish (published in Israel), translated by Meyer-Ziml Tkatsh
Leyb Olitski pl Lejb Olicki he לייב אוליצקי, a book of poems (published in Israel)
Arye Shamri he אריה שמרי, a book of poems (published in Israel)
Moshe Yungman he משה יונגמן, a book of poems (published in Israel)
Leyzer Aykhenrand de Lajzer Ajchenrand, a book of poems (published in Israel)
Malka Heifetz Tussman, a book of poems (published in Israel)
Other
Dritëro Agolli, Shtigje malesh dhe trotuare ("Mountain paths and sidewalks") (Albania)
Stratis Haviaras, Βερολίνο ("Berlin", Greece)
Majken Johansson, Liksom överlämnad (Sweden), her first volume in seven years
Bengt Emil Johnson, Gubbdrunkning (Sweden)
Sarah and Rainer Kirsch, Gespräch mit dem Saurier: Gedichte, East Germany
Luo Fu, Death of a Stone Cell, China (Taiwan)Balcom John http://china.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=9223 Lo Fu Poetry International 2008-11-22 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20110101081326/http://china.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=9223 2011-01-01
Alexander Mezhirov, Ладожский лёд ("Ice of Lake Ladoga"), Russia, Soviet UnionShrayer Maxim https://books.google.com/books?id=8a392rarhCsC Aleksandr Mezhirov 879 An Anthology of Jewish-Russian Literature: Two Centuries of Dual Identity in Prose and Poetry M.E. Sharpe 2007 978-0-7656-0521-4 2009-05-27
Boris Pasternak, collected poems published in the Soviet Union, not as complete as the collection published by the University of Michigan in 1961, but the closest to complete available to Soviet readers
Einar Skjæraasen, "Sang i september" the first poem to appear since 1956 from one of Norway's most popular poets
Awards and honors
Canada
See 1965 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
United Kingdom
Eric Gregory Award: John Fuller, Derek Mahon, Michael Longley, Norman Talbot
Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Philip Larkin
United States
Bollingen Prize: Horace Gregory
Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (later the post would be called "Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress"): Stephen Spender appointed this year.
National Book Award for Poetry: Theodore Roethke, The Far Field
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: John Berryman: 77 Dream Songs
Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Marianne Moore
Other
Danish Academy 1965 literature prize: Erik Knudsen, poet and dramatist
Births
May 30 – Guadalupe Grande (died 2021), Spanish poet
June 1 – Adeena Karasick, Canadian poet and performance artist
September 6 – Christopher Nolan (died 2009), Irish poet and authorhttp://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-christopher-nolan25-2009feb25,0,6227089.story Christopher Nolan dies at 43; Irish poet and novelist Associated Press Los Angeles Times 2009-02-25 2009-02-27
November 1 – Kirsten Hammann, DenmarkLambæk Nielsen, Michael, translated by Russell Dees. (2005). "Author Profile: Kirsten Hammann". Danish Arts Agency Literature Centre. Retrieved 2010-01-01.
November 18 – Michael Crummey, Canadian novelist and poet
November 23 – Marcel Beyer, GermanHofmann, Michael Twentieth-Century German Poetry: An Anthology Macmillan/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2006
Also:
Patience Agbabi, Black English performance poet
Paul Farley, English poet
Timothy Liu, American poet
Jay Ruzesky, Canadian poet
R. M. Vaughan, Canadian poet and writer
Tony Walsh, English poet
Sonja Yelich, New Zealand poet
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 4 – T. S. Eliot, 76, American/British poet
January 28 – Motokichi Takahashi 高橋元吉 (born 1893), Japanese, Taishō and Shōwa period poet
February 2 – Richard Blackmur, 61, American literary critic and poet
March 13 – Fan Noli, 83, Albanian writer, scholar, archbishop and politician (Prime Minister)
March 17 – Nancy Cunard, 69, English writer, editor and publisher
June 5 – Eleanor Farjeon, 84, English poet and author
June 22 – Piaras Béaslaí, 84, Irish writer and poet
July 10 – Jacques Audiberti 66, French playwright, poet and novelist and exponent of the Theatre of the Absurd
August 17:
Jack Spicer (born 1925), American poet often identified with the San Francisco Renaissance
Jun Takami 高見順 pen-name of Takama Yoshioa (born 1907), Japanese, Shōwa period novelist and poet
August 24 – Fuyue Anzai 安西 冬衛 (born 1898) Japanese poet and co-founder of the magazine Shi To Shiron ("Poetry and Poetics")
October 15 or October 14 – Randall Jarrell, 51, American author, writer and poet, in a highway accident;
June 22 – Joseph Auslander, 67, American poet, of a heart attack
September 2 – Johannes Bobrowski (born 1917), East German lyric poet, fiction writer, adaptor and essayist
November 28 – Aslaug Vaa (born 1889), Norway
Also – Brian Higgins (born 1930), British poet, mathematician and rugby league player
See also
Poetry
Poetry
List of poetry awards
List of years in poetry
Notes
Category:20th-century poetry
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