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Overview of the events of 1961 in poetry
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 16 – English poet Robert Graves is appointed Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford in succession to W. H. Auden .[ 2]
February – American poet in London Sylvia Plath suffers a miscarriage. Several of her poems, including "Parliament Hill Fields", address this event.[ 3]
November – Liverpool poets Roger McGough , Adrian Henri and Brian Patten first meet, in a basement coffee bar on the city's Mount Pleasant .[ 4]
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.[ 5] Kyk-over-al magazine in Guyana ceases publication[ 6]
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:
Earle Birney , Ice Cod Bell on Stone [ 7] Arthur Bourinot , Poems: Paul Bunyan, Three Lincoln Poems and Other Verse [ 7] Leonard Cohen , The Spice-Box of Earth [ 7] Robert Finch
Dover Beach Revisited , a meditation on the significance of Matthew Arnold [ 7] Acis in Oxford and Other Poems [ 7] Ralph Gustafson , Rivers Among Rocks [ 7] Daryl Hine , The Devil's Picture Books [ 7] D. G. Jones , The Sun is Axeman [ 8] Irving Layton , The Swinging Flesh [ 7] Eli Mandel and Jean Guy Pilon , Poetry 62 , an anthology[ 7] Gwendolyn MacEwen :
Selah . Toronto: Aleph Press.The Drunken Clock . Toronto: Aleph Press.[ 9] D. Pacey, Creative Writing in Canada , revised edition (scholarship)[ 10]
Dorothy Roberts , Twice to Flame [ 7] Lila Ray , Entrance ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta : Writers Workshop , India .[ 12] Harindranath Chattopadhyaya , Masks and Farewells , Bombay: Asia[ 13] Ira De , The Hunt and Other Poems ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta : Writers Workshop , India . (revised edition 1968 )[ 13] Sarojini Naidu , The Feather of the Dawn , posthumously published (died in 1949 ), edited by her daughter, Padmaja Naidu [ 14] Trilok Chandra , A Hundred and One Flowers [ 13] James K. Baxter , Howrah Bridge and Other Poems , London: Oxford University Press, New Zealand poet published in the United KingdomThomas Blackburn , A Smell of Burning [ 7] Alan Brownjohn , The Railings [ 7] Charles Causley , Johnny Alleluia [ 7] Jack Clemo , The Map of Clay [ 15] Padraic Colum , Irish Elegies [ 15] Donald Davie , New and Selected Poems , Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press[ 11] Paul Dehn , Quake, quake, quake: a leaden treasury of English verse Ian Hamilton Finlay , Glasgow Beasts, An a Burd , Edinburgh: Wild Flounder Press[ 11] Roy Fisher , City [ 15] John Fuller , Fairground Music [ 7] Robert Graves , More Poems 1961 [ 7] Thom Gunn , My Sad Captains, and Other Poems ,[ 15] [ 11] Geoffrey Hill , "Ovid in the Third Reich ", "Locust Songs" and "Annunciations"[ 16] Ralph Hodgson , Collected Poems [ 7] David Holbrook , Imaginings [ 7] Graham Hough , Legends and Pastorals [ 7] Elizabeth Jennings , Song for a Birth or a Death, and Other Poems [ 15] 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"[ 7] Hugh MacDiarmid , pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve, The Kind of Poetry I Want [ 15] Louis MacNeice , Solstices [ 7] John Masefield , Bluebells, and Other Verse [ 15] John Montague , The Nature of Cold Weather , London: MacGibbon and Kee[ 11] Peter Porter , Once Bitten, Twice Bitten , by an Australian living in England,[ 7] [ 11] Peter Redgrove , The Collector , London: Routledge and Kegan PaulSiegfried Sassoon , Collected Poems [ 7] C. H. Sisson , The London Zoo [ 15] Iain Crichton Smith , Thistles and Roses [ 7] Jon Stallworthy , The Astronomy of Love [ 15] Gillian Stoneham , When That April [ 7] R.S. Thomas , Tares ,[ 7] 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,[ 7] [ 11]
Lee Anderson , Nags Head [ 7] Helen Bevington , When Found, Make a Verse Of [ 7] Paul Blackburn , The Nets Harold Bloom , John Hollander , editors, The Wind and the Rain Philip Booth , The Islanders [ 17] Joseph Payne Brennan , The Wind of Time , Hawk & Whippoorwill Press August Derleth John Ciardi , In the Stoneworks [ 7] Leonard Cohen , The Spice-Box of Earth Donald Davidson , The Long Street [ 17] 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[ 7] Ed Dorn , The Newly Fallen , Totem Press[ 18] Alan Dugan , Poems [ 17] Abbie Houston Evans , Fact of Crystal [ 7] Lawrence Ferlinghetti , Starting from San Francisco [ 17] Arthur Freeman, Apollonian Poems [ 7]
George Garrett , Abraham's Knife [ 17] Allen Ginsberg :
Empty Mirror: Early Poems , New York: Totem/Corinth[ 11] Kaddish and Other Poems , San Francisco: City Lights Books[ 11] Horace Gregory , Medusa in Gramercy Park [ 17] Thom Gunn , My Sad Captains ,[ 7] [ 11] Briton Daryl Hine , Heroics [ 17] John Hollander , The Untuning of the Sky (also see Harold Bloom/John Hollander item above)John Holmes , The Fortune Teller [ 7] David Ignatow , Say Pardon [ 7] LeRoi Jones , Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note Carolyn Kizer , The Ungrateful Garden , Bloomington: Indiana University Press[ 7] [ 11] Maxine Kumin , Halfway [ 17] Denise Levertov , The Jacob's Ladder , New York: New Directions[ 11] Philip Levine , On the Edge [ 17] Robert Lowell , Imitations [ 17] W. S. Merwin :
Translator, Some Spanish Ballads , London: Abelard (American edition: Spanish Ballads , 1961, New York: Doubleday Anchor)[ 19]
Editor, West Wind: Supplement of American Poetry , London: Poetry Book Society[ 19] Pablo Neruda , Odas elementales , translated by C. Lozano and with an introduction by Fernando Alegría [ 7] Lorine Niedecker , My Friend Tree (published with help from Ian Hamilton Finlay )John Nist , editor, Modern Brazilian Poetry [ 7] Charles Olson :
The Maximus Poems [ 7] The Distances [ 7] Hyam Plutzik , Horatio , a narrative monologue basically in blank verse[ 7] Theodore Roethke , I Am! Says the Lamb [ 17] May Sarton , Cloud, Stone, Sun, Vine [ 17] Peter Viereck , The Tree Witch [ 7] John Hall Wheelock , The Gardener [ 7] Richard Wilbur , Advice to a Prophet [ 7] James Wright and Robert Bly , translators, Twenty Poems of Georg Trakl (Austrian poet writing in German ), The Sixties Press
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 ,[ 7] A. D. Hope , Poems (Australia )[ 7] 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
Andre du Bouchet , Dans la chaleur vacante [ 21] Aimé Césaire ,Cadastre , Martinique author published in France;[ 21] Jean Cocteau , Le Cérémonial espagnol de Phoenix [ 7] Michel Deguy , Poemes de la presqu'ile [ 21] Max Pol Fouchet , Demeure le Secret [ 7] Eugène Guillevic , Carnac [ 22] Henri Michaux , Connaisance par les gouffres (Life Through Darkness: Exploration Through Drugs"), Paris: Gallimard[ 23] Marie Noël , Chants d'arrière-saison [ 7] Francis Ponge , Le Grand Recueil , three volumes[ 21] Raymond Queneau , Cent mille milliards de poèmes [ 22] Georges Schéhadé , Nocturnes [ 22] Léopold Sédar Senghor , Nocturnes [ 7] Jean Tardieu , Choix de poèmes [ 7]
J. Akavyahu , Manginot Hazot ("Midnight Music")[ 26] Anonymous poet from a Soviet Bloc country, Behilokah Halail ("As the Night Is Taken"), the poems were clandestinely smuggled into Israel and published[ 26]
K. A. Bertini , Shevil Kahol ("Blue Path")[ 26] A. Broides , El ha-Shahar ha-Gonuz ("Toward the Hidden Dawn")[ 26] Yonah David , Shirim Le-lo Ahava ("Poems on Nonlove")[ 26] Israel Efros , Bain Hofim Nistarim ("Among Hidden Shores")[ 26] Hayim Guri , Shoshanat ha-Ruhot ("Rose of the Winds")[ 26] Yosef Lichtenbaum , ba-Mishor ha-Govoha ("On a High Plain")[ 26] E. Lisitzky , Kemo ha-Yom Rad ("As the Day Wanes") published in the United States[ 26] Anda Pinkerfield-Amir , Gadish ve-Omer ("Sheaf and Measure")[ 26] Gabriel Preil , Mapat Erew ("Map of Evening"), published in the United States[ 26] T. Ribner , Shirim Limzo Et ("Poems in Search of Time")[ 26] Rena Shani , Ir Zara ("Strange City")[ 26] Nathan Zakh , Shirim Shonim ("Various")[ 26]
B. Kurzweil , Bialik ve- Tchernichovsky — Mehkarim be-Shiratam , about aspects of the works of two important poets of the Hebrew literary renaissance[ 7] Listed in alphabetical order by first name:
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"[ 26]
Portuguese language
Portugal
Spanish language
Anthologies in Spain
Anthologies in Latin America
Israel
Y Fridman , Di legende fun Neyakh Grin ("The Legend of Noah Green")[ 7] L. Fuks , editor, Schemuelbuch , a scholarly edition of this old Yiddish epic[ 7] Avrom Lev , a book of poetry[ 7] Leyb Olitsky , a book of poetry[ 7] Y Papernikov , a book of poetry[ 7] Rikude Potash , a book of poetry[ 7] Arye Shamri , Funken fun tikun ("Sparks of Salvation")[ 7] Avrom Sutzkever , Di gaystike erd ("The Spiritual Soil")[ 7]
Yiddish works published elsewhere
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 PakistanAlexander Mezhirov , Ветровое стекло ("Windshield" or "Windscreen"), Russia , Soviet Union[ 33] Nizar Qabbani , My Beloved , Syrian poet writing in Arabic Klaus Rifbjerg , Camouflage , Denmark [ 34]
Awards and honors
Other
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:
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
April 30 – Jessie Redmon Fauset , 79 (born 1885 ), American novelist and poet[ 7]
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,[ 7]
December 24 – Robert Hillyer , 66 (born 1895 ), American poet[ 7]
See also
Notes
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^ "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^ 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"^ Gustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse , revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books
^ "Gwendolyn MacEwen Archived 2011-06-07 at the Wayback Machine ," Canadian Women Poets, BrockU.ca, Web, Apr. 22, 2001.
^ 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
^ 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^ Vinayak Krishna Gokak, The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965) , p 323ISBN 81-260-1196-3 , retrieved August 10, 2010
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^ Web page titled "Archive / Edward Dorn (1929-1999)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved May 8, 2008
^ a b Web page titled "W. S. Merwin (1927- )" at the Poetry Foundation Web site, retrieved June 8, 2010
^ 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
^ a b c d Auster, Paul, editor, The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets , New York: Random House, 1982 ISBN 0-394-52197-8
^ a b c Brée, Germaine , Twentieth-Century French Literature , translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983^ Rigaud-Drayton, Margaret, Henri Michaux: Poetry, Painting and the Universal Sign
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^ 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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