1967 in poetry

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Contents 1 Events 2 Works published in English 2.1 Canada 2.2 New Zealand 2.3 United Kingdom 2.3.1 Anthologies 2.4 United States 2.5 Other in English 3 Works published in other languages 3.1 Denmark 3.2 French language 3.3 France 3.3.1 Critical studies 3.4 German language 3.4.1 Germany 3.5 Hebrew 3.5.1 Israel 3.5.2 United States 3.6 Italy 3.7 Portuguese language 3.7.1 Brazil 3.8 Spanish language 3.8.1 Latin America 3.8.2 Spain 3.9 Yiddish 3.9.1 Israel 3.9.2 United States 3.9.3 Soviet Union 3.10 Other 4 Awards and honors 4.1 Canada 4.2 United Kingdom 4.3 United States 4.4 France 5 Births 6 Deaths 7 See also 8 References

[edit] Events

• Cecil Day-Lewis is selected as the new Poet Laureate of the UK.

[edit] Works published in English

• Pentti Saarikoski, Helsinki a selection of poetry in translation from Finnish
• Wole Soyinka, Idanre, and Other Poems

[edit] Canada

• Margaret Atwood, The Circle Game, won a Governor General's award and "sold out immediately"^[1]
• Raymond Souster, editor, New Wave Canada anthology of younger poets
• A. J. M. Smith, editor, Modern Canadian Verse, anthology
• A. J. M. Smith, Poems: New and Collected
• Margaret Avison, The Dumbfounding
• Alfred Purdy, North of Summer, a diary in verse recounting his stay on Baffin Island
• Dorothy Livesay, The Unquiet Bed, Canadian and African experiences
• Michael Ondaatje, The Dainty Monsters, Toronto: Coach House Press^[2]
• Miriam Waddington, The Glass Trumpet
• George Woodcock, Selected Poems of George Woodcock, Toronto: Clarke, Irwin, Canada^[3]

[edit] New Zealand

• Fleur Adcock, Tigers, London: Oxford University Press (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963)^[4]
• James K. Baxter:
  • The Lion Skin: Poems
  • Aspects of Poetry in New Zealand, critical study
  • The Man on the Horse, critical study
• Alistair Campbell, Blue Rain: Poems, Wellington: Wai-te-ata Press

[edit] United Kingdom

• Fleur Adcock, Tigers (a New Zealander living in the United Kingdom)
• Joseph Brodsky: Elegy for John Donne and Other Poems, selected, translated, and introduced by Nicholas William Bethell, London: Longman^[5] Russian-American (but published in the United Kingdom)
• Ted Hughes, Wodwo, a collection of poems, a radio play and five stories
• T. S. Eliot, Poems Written in Early Youth, a second edition of the 1950 book of poems edited and privately printed by John Hayward
• George MacBeth, The Colour of Blood
• U.S. Poet Robert Lowell, Near the Ocean published in the United Kingdom early in the year
• Roger McGough:
  • Frinck
  • A Life in the Day of
  • Summer with Monika
• Brian Patten, Little Johnny's Confession
• Tom Pickard, High on the Walls, used "Geordie" (Newcastle) slang
• D. M. Black, With Decorum
• Bryn Griffith, The Stones Remember
• Leslie Norris, Finding Gold
• Martin Bell, Collected Poems, 1937-1966
• Thom Gunn, Touch
• Anthony Thwaite, The Stones of Emptiness
• Patricia Beer, Just Like the Resurrection
• Elizabeth Jennings, Collected Poems, 1967
• Vernon Watkins, Selected Poems, 1930-60
• Hugh MacDiarmid:
  • ,A Lap of Honour, with some poems "previously almost unobtainable"^[1]
  • Collected Poems, a revised edition

[edit] Anthologies

• Edward Lucie-Smith, editor, The Liverpool Scene anthology featuring work by the Mersey Beat poets Adrian Henri, Roger McGough and Brian Patten (publisher: Donald Carroll)
• The Mersey Sound, 10th volume in the Penguin "Modern Poets Series", including work by Liverpudlians Adrian Henri, Roger McGough, Brian Patten
• Stephen Bann, Concrete Poetry, poems originally written in English, German, Spanish and Portuguese
• Howard Sergeant, Commonwealth Poems of Today, covering 24 Commonwealth countries, published in the United Kingdom
• Duncan Glen, editor, Poems Addressed to Hugh MacDiarmid

[edit] United States

• W. H. Auden, Collected Shorter Poems, 1927-1957
• Ted Berrigan, Ron Padgett and Joe Brainard, Bean Spasms, in which no authors were listed for individual poems, although some were written by one poet, some in collaboration.
• Ted Berrigan, Many Happy Returns
• John Berryman, Berryman's Sonnets (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
• Paul Blackburn:
  • The Reardon Poems
  • The Cities
• Gwendolyn Brooks, The bitch
• Robert Creeley, Words^[6]
• Ed Dorn, The North Atlantic Turbine, Fulcrum Press^[7]
• Robert Lowell, Near the Ocean, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux^[8]
• Carl Rakosi, Amulet (Rakosi's first published volume since 1941)
• Marianne Moore, Complete Poems
• Reed Whittemore, Poems, New and Selected
• James Wright, Shall We Gather at the River

[edit] Other in English

• Edward Brathwaite, Rights of Passage (West Indies)
• Dom Moraes, Beldam & Others, a pamphlet of verse, India
• Chris Wallace-Crabbe, The Rebel General, Sydney: Angus & Robertson, Australia
• Lenrie Peters, Satellites (Gambia)
• Judith Wright, The Other Half, Australia

[edit] Works published in other languages

[edit] Denmark

• Jørgen Gustava Brandt, Ateliers
• Jens Ørnsbo, a new collection of poems
• Klaus Rifbjerg, Fædrelandssang
• Henrik Nordbrandt, Miniaturer

[edit] French language

[edit] France

• M. Fombeure, À Chat petit
• Raymond Queneau, courir les rues
• J. Follain, D'après tout
• J. Lebrau, Du Cyprès tourne l'ombre
• Charles le Quintrec, Stances du verbe amour
• P. Jaccottet, Airs
• P. Chaullet, Soudaine écorce
• Lucienne Desnoues, Les Ors
• Lilaine Wouters, Le Gel
• R. Dubillard, Le dirai que je suis tombé

[edit] Critical studies

• P. de Boisdeffre, La Poésie française de Baudelaire á nos jours
• René Étiemble, Poètes ou faiseurs, a critical study
• M. Guiney, La Poésie de Pierre Reverdy
• G. Sadoul, Aragon
• A. Alter, J. C. Renard

[edit] German language

• Paul Celan, Atemwende

[edit] Germany

• Günter Grass, Ausgefragt (West Germany)
• Karl Mickel, Vita nova mea (East Germany)

[edit] Hebrew

[edit] Israel

• B. Pomerantz, Shirim ("Poems"), introduction by N. Peniel (posthumous)
• N. Shtern, Bain ha-Arpilim ("Amid the Mists"), preface by A. Broides
• T. Carmi, ha-Unikorn Mistakel ba-Mareh ("The Unicorn Looks into the Mirror")
• Ori Bernstein, be-Ona ha-Kezarah ("In the Brief Season")
• Yaoz Kast, a book of collected poems
• Ozer Rabin, Shuv ve-shuv ("Again and Again")
• A. Aldon, a book of poems
• S. Pilus, a book of poems
• S. Tanny, Ad Shehigia ha-Yom (title translated by the author as "The Moment Came")
• D. Chomsky, Ezov ba-Even ("The Moss on the Stone")

[edit] United States

• Israel Efros, collected poems, four volumes
• Eliezer D. Friedland, Shirim be-Sulam Minor ("Poems in a Minor Key")
• Avraham Marthan, Shavot ha-Sirot Im Erev ("The Birds Return at Evening")
• Yizhak Finkel, Maginah Morikah ("Verdant Melody")

[edit] Italy

• Lino Curci, Gli operai della terra
• Antonio Veneziano, Ottave (posthumous)
• Carlo Vallini, Un giorno (posthumous)
• Enrico Falqui, editor, Tutte le poesie della "Voce", anthology

[edit] Portuguese language

[edit] Brazil

• José Paulo Paes, Anatomías
• Affonso Avila, Resíduos Seiscentista em Minas, a study of the barique poetry of Minas Gerais

[edit] Spanish language

[edit] Latin America

• Rosamel del Valle, a book of poetry, posthumous (Chile)
• Humberto Díaz Casanueva, El sol ciego (Chile)

[edit] Spain

• Gastón Basquero, Memorial de un testigo (Cuban resident of Spain)
• Gabriel Celaya, Lo que faltaba: Precedido de la linterna sorda y Música de baile
• Manuel Tuñón de Lara, Antonio Machado, poeta del pueblo a critical study

[edit] Yiddish

• Dovid Sfard, Barefoot Steps (Poland)

[edit] Israel

• Yankev Fridman, Loving Kindness
• Rikude Potash, a book of poems (posthumous)

[edit] United States

• Rokhl Korn, a book of poems
• Avrom Zak, a book of poems
• M. M. Shafir, a book of poems
• L. Faynberg, a book of poems
• Sholem Shtern, a book of poems
• M. Frid-Vaninger, a book of poems
• M. Olitsky, a book of poems

[edit] Soviet Union

• Leyb Kvitko, a book of selected poems
• Shimon Halkin, My Treasury

[edit] Other

• Pentti Saarikoski, Laulu laululta pois ("Going Away, Song by Song"), a book-length poem (Finland)
• Wisława Szymborska, Poland:
  • Sto pociech ("No End of Fun")
  • Poezje wybrane ("Selected Poetry")

[edit] Awards and honors

[edit] Canada

• See 1967 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

[edit] United Kingdom

• Cholmondeley Award: Seamus Heaney, Brian Jones, Norman Nicholson
• Eric Gregory Award: Angus Calder, Marcus Cumberlege, David Harsent, David Selzer, Brian Patten
• Frost Medal: Marianne Moore
• Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Charles Causley

[edit] United States

• Bollingen Prize: Robert Penn Warren
• National Book Award for Poetry: James Merrill, Nights and Days
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Anne Sexton: Live or Die
• Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Mark Van Doren

[edit] France

• Max Jacob Award: Édith Boissonnas, for L'Embellie
• Critics' Prize: J. Grosjean, Élégies
• Apollinaire Award: P. Gascar, Le Quatrième État de la matière

[edit] Births

• Chris Albani, Nigerian poet^[9]
• Saskia Hamilton
• Karen Volkman
• Sia Figiel, Samoan novelist, poet and painter
• Lisa Jarnot, American poet^[10]
• Diane Thiel, American poet and academic^[11]
• Matthew Zapruder, American poet and editor

[edit] Deaths

• March 16 — Thomas MacGreevy 72, poet, director of the National Gallery of Ireland and member of the first Irish Arts Council
• March 30 — Jean Toomer, 72, American poet, novelist and important figure of the Harlem Renaissance
• May 10 — Margaret Larkin, 67 ^[12]
• May 12 — John Masefield, 88, English poet writer, and Poet Laureate
• May 22 — Langston Hughes, 65, American poet, of heart failure
• June 7 — Dorothy Parker, 73, American writer and poet known for her caustic wit, of a heart attack
• July 19 — Odel Shepard, 82
• July 22 — Carl Sandburg, 89, American historian and poet, of a heart attack
• July 25 — Pierre Albert Birot, 91, French poet and writer
• September (exact date not known) — Augusto Casimiro, 78, Portuguese poet and founder of the Seara Nova literary review
• September 1 — Siegfried Sassoon, 80, English poet, author
• September 5 — David C. DeJong, at 62
• October 8 — Vernon Watkins, 61, Welsh poet and painter
• November 17 — Bo Bergman, 98, Swedish poet
• November 30 — Patrick Kavanagh, 62, Irish poet, of pneumonia
• date not known:
  • Christopher Okigko
  • V. Penelope Pelizzon

[edit] See also

• Poetry
• List of poetry awards
• List of years in poetry

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[edit] References

1. ^ ^{a b} Britannica Book of the Year 1968, covering events of 1967, published by The Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1968, "Literature" article, "Canadian" section, page 483
2. ^ Web page titled "Archive: Michael Ondaatje (1943- )" at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed May 7, 2008
3. ^ Web page titled "The Works of George Woodcock" at the Anarchy Archives website, which states: "This list is based on The Record of George Woodcock (issued for his eightieth birthday) and Ivan Avakumovic's bibliography in A Political Art: Essays and Images in Honour of George Woodcock, edited by W.H. New, 1978, with additions to bring it up to date"; accessed April 24, 2008
4. ^ Web page titled "Fleur Adcock: New Zealand Literature File" at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, 2008
5. ^ [1] Web page titled "Joseph Brodsky / Nobel Prize in Literature 1987 / Bibliography" at the "Official Web Site of the Nobel Foundation", accessed October 18, 2007
6. ^ Everett, Nicholas, "Robert Creeley's Life and Career" at the Modern American Poetry website, accessed May 1, 2008
7. ^ Web page titled "Archive / Edward Dorn (1929-1999)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved May 8, 2008
8. ^ 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
9. ^ Web page titled "Chris Albani (1967- )" at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed April 24, 2008
10. ^ Web page titled "Lisa Jarnot (1967- )" at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed April 24, 2008
11. ^ Web page titled "Diane Theil (1967- )" at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed April 24, 2008
12. ^ "Margaret Larkin, Writer, 67, Dead". New York Times May 11, 1967: 47.