1961 in poetry

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List of years in poetry (table)
In literature
1958
1959
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964

Events[]

  • January 20 – Robert Frost recites his poem "The Gift Outright" at the Inauguration of John F. Kennedy as President of the United States.[1]
  • February – American poet in London Sylvia Plath suffers a miscarriage. Several of her poems, including "Parliament Hill Fields", address this event.[2]
  • November – Liverpool poets Roger McGough, Adrian Henri and Brian Patten first meet, in a basement coffee bar on the city's Mount Pleasant.[3]
  • 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.[4]
  • Kyk-over-al magazine in Guyana ceases publication[5]

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 Stone[6]
  • Arthur Bourinot, Poems: Paul Bunyan, Three Lincoln Poems and Other Verse[6]
  • Leonard Cohen, The Spice-Box of Earth[6]
  • Robert Finch
    • Dover Beach Revisited, a meditation on the significance of Matthew Arnold[6]
    • Acis in Oxford and Other Poems[6]
  • Ralph Gustafson, Rivers Among Rocks[6]
  • Daryl Hine, The Devil's Picture Books[6]
  • D. G. Jones, The Sun is Axeman[7]
  • Irving Layton, The Swinging Flesh[6]
  • Eli Mandel and , Poetry 62, an anthology[6]
  • Gwendolyn MacEwen:
    • Selah. Toronto: Aleph Press.
    • The Drunken Clock. Toronto: Aleph Press.[8]
  • D. Pacey, Creative Writing in Canada, revised edition (scholarship)[9]
  • Dorothy Roberts, Twice to Flame[6]

Ireland[]

  • Austin Clarke, Later Poems, Dublin: Dolmen Press, Ireland[10]
  • Thomas Kinsella:
    • Downstream, Dublin: Dolmen Press[10]
    • Poems and Translations, New York: Atheneum[10]

India in English[]

  • , Entrance( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India.[11]
  • Harindranath Chattopadhyaya, Masks and Farewells, Bombay: Asia[12]
  • , The Hunt and Other Poems ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India. (revised edition 1968)[12]
  • Sarojini Naidu, The Feather of the Dawn, posthumously published (died in 1949), edited by her daughter, Padmaja Naidu[13]
  • , A Hundred and One Flowers[12]

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[6]
  • Alan Brownjohn, The Railings[6]
  • Charles Causley, Johnny Alleluia[6]
  • Jack Clemo, The Map of Clay[14]
  • Padraic Colum, Irish Elegies[14]
  • Donald Davie, New and Selected Poems, Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press[10]
  • Ian Hamilton Finlay, Glasgow Beasts, An a Burd, Edinburgh: Wild Flounder Press[10]
  • Roy Fisher, City[14]
  • John Fuller, Fairground Music[6]
  • Robert Graves, More Poems 1961[6]
  • Thom Gunn, My Sad Captains, and Other Poems,[14] London: Faber and Faber; University of Chicago Press[10]
  • Ralph Hodgson, Collected Poems[6]
  • David Holbrook, Imaginings[6]
  • Graham Hough, Legends and Pastorals[6]
  • Elizabeth Jennings, Song for a Birth or a Death, and Other Poems[14]
  • 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"[6]
  • Hugh MacDiarmid, pen name of Christohper Murray Grieve, The Kind of Poetry I Want[14]
  • Louis MacNeice, Solstices[6]
  • John Masefield, Bluebells, and Other Verse[14]
  • John Montague, The Nature of Cold Weather, London: MacGibbon and Kee[10]
  • Peter Porter, Once Bitten, Twice Bitten, by an Australian living in England,[6] Northwood, Middlesex: Scorpion Press[10]
  • Peter Redgrove, The Collector, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul
  • Siegfried Sassoon, Collected Poems[6]
  • C. H. Sisson, The London Zoo[14]
  • Iain Crichton Smith, Thistles and Roses[6]
  • Jon Stallworthy, The Astronomy of Love[14]
  • , When That April[6]
  • R.S. Thomas, Tares,[6] 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,[6] London: Macmillan[10]

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom[]

  • William Empson, Milton's God[6]
  • , The Late Lord Byron[6]

United States[]

  • , Nags Head[6]
  • Helen Bevington, When Found, Make a Verse Of[6]
  • Paul Blackburn, The Nets
  • Harold Bloom, John Hollander, editors, The Wind and the Rain
  • Philip Booth, The Islanders[15]
  • Joseph Payne Brennan, The Wind of Time, Hawk & Whippoorwill Press August Derleth
  • John Ciardi, In the Stoneworks[6]
  • Leonard Cohen, The Spice-Box of Earth
  • Donald Davidson, The Long Street[15]
  • August Derleth, editor, Fire and Sleet and Candlelight
  • Hilda Doolittle (H.D.), Helen in Egypt, a long retelling of the tale in lyrical prose and verse of the Helen of Troy tale[6]
  • Ed Dorn, The Newly Fallen, Totem Press[16]
  • Alan Dugan, Poems[15]
  • , Fact of Crystal[6]
  • Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Starting from San Francisco[15]
  • Arthur Freeman, Apollonian Poems[6]
  • George Garrett, Abraham's Knife[15]
  • Allen Ginsberg:
    • Empty Mirror: Early Poems, New York: Totem/Corinth[10]
    • Kaddish and Other Poems, San Francisco: City Lights Books[10]
  • Horace Gregory, Medusa in Gramercy Park[15]
  • Thom Gunn, My Sad Captains,[6] London: Faber and Faber; University of Chicago Press[10] Briton
  • Daryl Hine, Heroics[15]
  • John Hollander, The Untuning of the Sky (also see Harold Bloom/John Hollander item above)
  • John Holmes, The Fortune Teller[6]
  • David Ignatow, Say Pardon[6]
  • LeRoi Jones, Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note
  • Carolyn Kizer, The Ungrateful Garden, Bloomington: Indiana University Press[6][10]
  • Maxine Kumin, Halfway[15]
  • Denise Levertov, The Jacob's Ladder, New York: New Directions[10]
  • Philip Levine, On the Edge[15]
  • Robert Lowell, Imitations[15]
  • W. S. Merwin:
    • Translator, Some Spanish Ballads, London: Abelard (American edition: Spanish Ballads, 1961, New York: Doubleday Anchor)[17]
    • Editor, West Wind: Supplement of American Poetry, London: Poetry Book Society[17]
  • Pablo Neruda, Odas elementales, translated by and with an introduction by Fernando Alegría[6]
  • Lorine Niedecker, My Friend Tree (published with help from Ian Hamilton Finlay)
  • , editor, Modern Brazilian Poetry[6]
  • Charles Olson:
    • The Maximus Poems[6]
    • The Distances[6]
  • Hyam Plutzik, Horatio, a narrative monologue basically in blank verse[6]
  • Theodore Roethke, I Am! Says the Lamb[15]
  • May Sarton, Cloud, Stone, Sun, Vine[15]
  • Peter Viereck, The Tree Witch[6]
  • John Hall Wheelock, The Gardener[6]
  • Richard Wilbur, Advice to a Prophet[6]
  • 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[]

  • , The Evolution of Walt Whitman[6]
  • Walter Lowenfels, editor, Walt Whitman's Civil War, Whitman's writing about the war[6]
  • , The Correspondence of Walt Whitman (1842–1875, in two volumes)[6]
  • Archibald MacLeish, Poetry and Experience (autobiography)[6]

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,[6]
  • A. D. Hope, Poems (Australia)[6]
  • 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[6]
  • , Choix de poèmes[6]
  • Jean-Guy Pilon:
    • La Mouette et le large[6]
    • Recours au pays, Montréal: l'Hexagone[18]

France[]

Criticism, scholarship and biography in France[]
  • , editor, Anthologie de la poésie occitane[6]
  • Yves Bonnefoy, Rimbaud[6]
  • Saint-John Perse, Poésie: allocution au Banquet Nobel du 10 décembre 1960, Paris: Gallimard[22]

Germany[]

  • , editor, Deutsche Lyrik der Moderne: von Nietzsche bis Yvan Goll Düsseldorf: August Bagel an anthology[6][23]

Criticism, scholarship and biography in Germany[]

  • , Protest und Verheissung (criticism)[6]
  • Walter Jens, Deutsche Literatur der Gegenwart (criticism)[6]

Hebrew[]

  • , Manginot Hazot ("Midnight Music")[24]
  • Anonymous poet from a Soviet Bloc country, Behilokah Halail ("As the Night Is Taken"), the poems were clandestinely smuggled into Israel and published[24]
  • , Shevil Kahol ("Blue Path")[24]
  • , El ha-Shahar ha-Gonuz ("Toward the Hidden Dawn")[24]
  • , Shirim Le-lo Ahava ("Poems on Nonlove")[24]
  • , Bain Hofim Nistarim ("Among Hidden Shores")[24]
  • , Shoshanat ha-Ruhot ("Rose of the Winds")[24]
  • , ba-Mishor ha-Govoha ("On a High Plain")[24]
  • , Kemo ha-Yom Rad ("As the Day Wanes") published in the United States[24]
  • , Gadish ve-Omer ("Sheaf and Measure")[24]
  • Gabriel Preil, Mapat Erew ("Map of Evening"), published in the United States[24]
  • , Shirim Limzo Et ("Poems in Search of Time")[24]
  • , Ir Zara ("Strange City")[24]
  • Nathan Zakh, Shirim Shonim ("Various")[24]

Criticism, scholarship and biography in Hebrew[]

  • , Bialik ve- Tchernichovsky — Mehkarim be-Shiratam, about aspects of the works of two important poets of the Hebrew literary renaissance[6]

India[]

Listed in alphabetical order by first name:

  • , Yaden, Urdu-language[25]
  • Ayyappa Paniker, Kurukshetram (written 1952–1957), Malayalam-language[26]
  • Nirendranath Chakravarti; Bengali-language:
    • Prothom Nayok, Kolkata: Surabhi Prokashoni[27]
    • Ondhokar Baranda, Kolkata: Krittibaash Prokashoni[27]
  • , Parivesh Hum Tum, Allahabad: Bharti Bahandar, Leader Press; Hindi-language[28]

Italy[]

  • , editor, Novissimi, an anthology-cum-manifesto of five poets which, by 1965, was "increasingly regarded as the principal event in Italian poetry in recent times"[24]

Portuguese language[]

Portugal[]

  • , Aquele grande rio Eufrates ("That Great River, the Euphrates")[29]
  • Herberto Hélder, A Colher na Boca ("The Spoon in the Mouth")
  • Mário Cesariny:
    • Poesia
    • Planisfério e Outros Poemas

Spanish language[]

Spain[]

Anthologies in Spain[]
  • , editor, Nuevos poetas españoles, mostly on the work of the "Generation of '54"[6]
  • , editor, Poesía taurina contemporánea, including verse by Miguel Hernández, Diego and García Lorca[6]

Latin America[]

  • Arturo Corcuera, Sombra del jardín
  • Roque Dalton, La ventana en rel rostro (El Salvador)[6]
  • , Obras de Hernando Domínguez de Camargo (posthumous)[6]
  • 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[6]
  • , El corazón de silencio[6]
Anthologies in Latin America[]
  • Anuario del cuento mexicano (Mexico)[6]
  • Antonio Cisneros, Destierro, the author's first volume of poetry; Peru[30]
  • and , editors, Antología de la poesía hispanoamericana, Volume 8, devoted to Chilean poetry[6]

Yiddish[]

Israel[]

  • , Di legende fun Neyakh Grin ("The Legend of Noah Green")[6]
  • , editor, Schemuelbuch, a scholarly edition of this old Yiddish epic[6]
  • , a book of poetry[6]
  • , a book of poetry[6]
  • , a book of poetry[6]
  • , a book of poetry[6]
  • , Funken fun tikun ("Sparks of Salvation")[6]
  • Avrom Sutzkever, Di gaystike erd ("The Spiritual Soil")[6]

Yiddish works published elsewhere[]

  • , Di vayse shtot ("The White City")[6]
  • , a book of poetry[6]
  • , In nigun ayngehert ("Listening to the Melody")[6]
  • , A zegl in vint ("A Sail in the Wind") (Poland)[6]

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 Union[31]
  • Nizar Qabbani, My Beloved, Syrian poet writing in Arabic
  • Klaus Rifbjerg, Camouflage, Denmark[32]

Awards and honors[]

United Kingdom[]

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[]

Births[]

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

  • May 2 – Lisa Bellear (died 2006), Australian indigenous poet
  • 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
    • , Chinese poet and ophthalmologist in Taiwan[34]
    • 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[6]
  • June 26 – Kenneth Fearing, 58 (born 1902), American poet and writer
  • September 27 – Hilda Doolittle, aka "H.D.", 75 (born 1886), American poet, novelist and memoirist,[6] of a heart attack
  • December 24 – Robert Hillyer, 66 (born 1895), American poet[6]

See also[]

Notes[]

  1. ^ Garner, Dwight (2008-12-25). "The Intersection of Poetry and Politics". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-12-25.
  2. ^ Kirk, Connie Ann (2004). Sylvia Plath: A Biography. Westport, CN: Greenwood Press. p. 85. ISBN 0-313-33214-2.
  3. ^ Kynaston, David (2014). Modernity Britain: A Shake of the Dice, 1959–62. London: Bloomsbury. p. 342. ISBN 978-1-4088-4439-7.
  4. ^ Roberts, Neil, editor, A Companion to Twentieth-century Poetry, Part III, Chapter 3, "Canadian Poetry", by Cynthia Messenger, Blackwell Publishing, 2003, ISBN 978-1-4051-1361-8, retrieved via Google Books, January 3, 2009
  5. ^ "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 978-0-313-31747-7, retrieved via Google Books, February 7, 2009
  6. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba bb bc bd be bf bg bh bi bj bk bl bm bn bo bp bq br bs bt bu bv bw bx by bz ca cb cc cd ce cf cg ch ci cj ck cl cm cn Britannica 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"
  7. ^ Gustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books
  8. ^ "Gwendolyn MacEwen," Canadian Women Poets, BrockU.ca, Web, Apr. 22, 2001.
  9. ^ 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
  10. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k l m n M. 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
  11. ^ Vinayak Krishna Gokak, The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965), p 323, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), ISBN 81-260-1196-3, retrieved August 10, 2010
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  16. ^ Web page titled "Archive / Edward Dorn (1929-1999)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved May 8, 2008
  17. ^ Jump up to: a b Web page titled "W. S. Merwin (1927- )" at the Poetry Foundation Web site, retrieved June 8, 2010
  18. ^ Web page titled "Jean-Guy Pilon" Archived 2011-07-06 at the Wayback Machine at L’Académie des lettres du Québec website (in French), retrieved October 20, 2010
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  20. ^ Jump up to: a b c Brée, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983
  21. ^ Rigaud-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
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  31. ^ Shrayer, 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, ISBN 0-7656-0521-X, ISBN 978-0-7656-0521-4, retrieved via Google Books on May 27, 2009
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