Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events- Among the many books of poetry published this year, Robert Lowell's For the Union Dead is greeted with particular acclaim. The book was received with "general jubilation" from critics, according to Raymond Walters Jr., associate editor of the New York Times Book Review. "These verses [...] convinced many observers that its author was now the pre-eminent U.S. poet."
[Britannica Book of the Year 1965 (covering events of 1964), published by The Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1965]
- The publication in the United Kingdom of The Complete Poems of D. H. Lawrence in two volumes is "a major publishing event of 1964".
- A surprise best-seller in the United Kingdom was John Lennon's In His Own Write, a compendium of nonsense poems, sketches and drawings by one of the Beatles.
- The "Shakespeare Quartercentenary", the 400th anniversary of the birth of William Shakespeare, is celebrated in lecture series, exhibitions, dramatic and musical programs and other events as well as special publications (Shakespeare issues and supplements), reprinting of standard works on the playwright and poet, and even commemorative postage stamps. The American Association of Advertising Agencies even suggests that Shakespeare quotations should be used in ads. Celebrations of various sorts occur in the United Kingdom, the United States, France, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and elsewhere.
- The 75th birthday of Anna Akhmatova, who was severely persecuted during the Stalin era, was celebrated with special observances and the publication of new collections of her verse.
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- Russian poet Joseph Brodsky is convicted of "parisitism" in a Soviet court, which sends him into exile near the Arctic Circle.
- Poetry Australia literary magazine founded
Works published in EnglishListed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately: - G. Dutton, The Literature of Australia
[Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "Australian Poetry" article, Anthologies section, p 108]
- T. Inglish Moore, and Douglas Stewart, editors, Poetry in Australia, 2 volumes, Sydney: Angus and Robertson
- R. Ward, Penguin Book of Australian Ballads, anthology
- Leonard Cohen, Flowers for Hitler, including "The Only Tourist in Havana Turns his Thoughts Homeward"
- John Robert Colombo, Poesie / Poetry 64
[Gustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books]
- Raymond Souster, The Colour of the Times, 250 poems collected from a dozen of his previous volumes
Anthologies- Poetry of Mid-Century 1940/1960, edited by Milton Wilson, included the work of 10 well-known Canadian poets:
Criticism, scholarship and biography in Canada- Northrop Frye, Fables of Identity, 16 essays on "various works and authors in the central tradition of English mythopoeic poetry"
- Fleur Adcock, Eye of the Hurricane, Wellington: Reed (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963)
[ at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, 2008]
- Charles Brasch: Ambulando: Poems, Christchurch: Caxton Press
[ at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, 2008]
- Samuel Beckett, translator from the original French, "Comment C'est 1961, How It Is,
[Cox, Michael, editor, ]The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6 Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
- Donald Davie, Events and Wisdoms,
[ London: Routledge and Kegan Paul (Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1965)][ ]
- Ian Hamilton Finlay, Telegrams from My Windmill, Edinburgh: Wild Hawthorn Press
[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
- Zulfikar Ghose, The Loss of India
[ by a Pakistani, published in the United Kingdom]
- John Lennon, In His Own Write, containing nonsensical poems, sketches and drawings; a best seller by the member of the Beatles
- Peter Porter, Poems Ancient & Modern,
[ Lowestoft, Suffolk: Scorpion Press]
- * "Words and the Poet" (lecture)
Criticism, scholarship, and biography in the United Kingdom- Poetry of the Thirties, a Penguin Books anthology; including the last published appearance during the lifetime of W. H. Auden of his, "September 1, 1939", a poem which he was famous for, but which he hated; the poem appeared in the edition with a note about this and four other early poems: "Mr. W. H. Auden considers these five poems to be trash which he is ashamed to have written."
- Conrad Aiken, A Seizure of Limericks
[Ludwig, 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)
- * Hands Up!, Totem Press
[Web page titled at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved May 8, 2008]
- * From Gloucester Out, Matrix Press
- Galway Kinnell, Flower Herding on Mount Monadnock, Boston: Houghton Mifflin
- Robert Lowell, For the Union Dead
[ New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux][ (for more information, see "Events" section, above)]
- Ezra Pound, editor, Confucius to Cummings: An Anthology of Poetry
- * The Far Field,
[ Garden City, New York: Doubleday]
- * Sequence, Sometimes Metaphysical
- * (translator), 100 Poems from the Japanese
Criticism, scholarship, and biography in the United States- Hugh Kenner, editor, Seventeenth Century Poetry: The Schools of Donne & Jonson, Canadian writing and published in the United States
Other in English- Lawrence Bantleman, Man's Fall and Woman's Fall out, Calcutta: Writers Workshop; India, Indian poetry in English
[Naik, M. K., , p. 230, (published by Abhinav Publications, 1984, ISBN 0391032860, ISBN 9780391032866), retrieved via Google Books, June 12, 2009]
- Denis Devlin, Collected Poems, including "Renewal by Her Element" (see also Collected Poems 1989), Ireland
[Crotty, Patrick, ]Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology, Belfast, The Blackstaff Press Ltd., 1995, ISBN 0856405612
- Zulfikar Ghose, The Loss of India
[ Pakistani poet, published in the United Kingdom]
Works in other languagesListed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately: French- * Series of discussions with F. Crémieux on the philosophical and literary ideas of the poet
- * Il ne m'est Paris que d'Elsa, a collection of poems
- * a "lengthy and ambitious historical poem"
- * Commune Presence
[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 0394521978
- * Les Matinaux
[Brée, Germaine, ]Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983
- Roger Giroux, L'arbre temps, winner of the Prix Max Jacob, the author's sole published book during his lifetime
- A. Marissel, La Nouvelle parabole, winner of the first Louise Labé Prize
Anthologies- Dan Pagis, Shehut Mauhereth ("Belated Lingering")
- David Avidan, Masheu Bishvil Mishehu ("Something for Someone")
- Amir Gilboa, Kehulim Vaadumin ("The Blues and the Reds")
- Eldad Andan, Lo Bishmahot kalot ("Not with Joys Lightly")
- Aaron Zeitlin, Min ha-Adam Vomaila ("From Man and Higher"), comprising two dramatic poems by this American publishing in Israel
- Chaim Brandwein, be-Tzel ha-Argaman ("In the Shadow of the Purple"), a first book of poems by this American publishing in Israel
- Abraham Regelson, Hakukot Otiotaich ("Engraved Are Thy Letters"), by an American poet living in Israel
- Gruppo '63 (published this spring), an anthology of poems, critical essays, and passages from plays and novels by writers who had rebelled in recent years against standard conventions in literature.
- Alexander Mezhirov, Прощание со снегом ("Farewell to the Snow"), Russia, Soviet Union
[Shrayer, Maxim, , p 879, ]An Anthology of Jewish-Russian Literature: Two Centuries of Dual Identity in Prose and Poetry, publisher: M.E. Sharpe, 2007, ISBN 076560521X, ISBN 9780765605214, retrieved via Google Books on May 27, 2009
Spanish language- Jorge Carrera Andrade, Floresta de los Guacamayos (Ecuador), published in Nicaragua while he was ambassador to the United States
AnthologiesCriticism, scholarship, and biography in Latin America- Rubén Darío periodista, a collection of his journalism compiled by the Nicaragua Ministry of Public Education
Spain- Fernando Quiñones, En vida, winner of the Leopoldo Panero Prize by the Instituto de Cultura Hispánica
Criticism, scholarship and biography in Spain- Books published for the centenary year of Miguel de Unamuno (died 1936), an essayist, novelist, poet, playwright and philosopher:
Other- Sean O Riordain, Brosna, including "Claustrophobia", "Reo" and "Fiabhras", Gaelic-language, Ireland
[Crotty, Patrick, ]Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology, Belfast, The Blackstaff Press Ltd., 1995, ISBN 0856405612
- Hijam Anganhal Singh, Khamba Thoibi Sherireng, abdidged form of the popular Khamba Thoibi folk ballad, sung on festive occasions and about the last incarnation of Khamba and Thoibi; one of the first epics in modern Manipuri poetry; written in 1940 but first published this year; India
[Das, Sisir Kumar, "A Chronology of Literary Events / 1911–1956", in Das, Sisir Kumar and various, , p 723, published by Sahitya Akademi, 1995, ISBN 9788172017989, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008]
Awards and honors- * No poetry award for English this year
OtherBirths- March 12 – Abbas Al Akkad عباس محمود العقاد (born 1889), Egyptian, Arabic-language writer and poet, a founder of the Divan school of poetry
- * Rafael Campo, gay, Cuban-American poet, doctor, and author
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