Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events January 20 – Robert Frost recites his poem "The Gift Outright" at the Inauguration of John F. Kennedy as President of the United States. February 16 – English poet Robert Graves is appointed Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford in succession to W. H. Auden. February – American poet in London Sylvia Plath suffers a miscarriage. Several of her poems, including "Parliament Hill Fields", address this event. November – Liverpool poets Roger McGough, Adrian Henri and Brian Patten first meet, in a basement coffee bar on the city's Mount Pleasant. 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.Roberts, Neil, editor, A Companion to Twentieth-century Poetry, Part III, Chapter 3, "Canadian Poetry", by Cynthia Messenger, Blackwell Publishing, 2003, , retrieved via Google Books, January 3, 2009 Kyk-over-al magazine in Guyana ceases publication"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, , retrieved via Google Books, February 7, 2009
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 StoneBritannica 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" Arthur Bourinot, Poems: Paul Bunyan, Three Lincoln Poems and Other Verse Leonard Cohen, The Spice-Box of Earth Robert Finch Dover Beach Revisited, a meditation on the significance of Matthew Arnold Acis in Oxford and Other Poems Ralph Gustafson, Rivers Among Rocks Daryl Hine, The Devil's Picture Books D. G. Jones, The Sun is AxemanGustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books Irving Layton, The Swinging Flesh Eli Mandel and Jean Guy Pilon, Poetry 62, an anthology Gwendolyn MacEwen: Selah. Toronto: Aleph Press. The Drunken Clock. Toronto: Aleph Press."Gwendolyn MacEwen ," Canadian Women Poets, BrockU.ca, Web, Apr. 22, 2001. D. Pacey, Creative Writing in Canada, revised edition (scholarship)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 Dorothy Roberts, Twice to Flame
Ireland Austin Clarke, Later Poems, Dublin: Dolmen Press, IrelandM. 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 Thomas Kinsella: Downstream, Dublin: Dolmen Press Poems and Translations, New York: Atheneum
India in English Lila Ray, Entrance( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India.Vinayak Krishna Gokak, The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965), p 323, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), , retrieved August 10, 2010 Harindranath Chattopadhyaya, Masks and Farewells, Bombay: Asia Ira De, The Hunt and Other Poems ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India. (revised edition 1968) Sarojini Naidu, The Feather of the Dawn, posthumously published (died in 1949), edited by her daughter, Padmaja NaiduLal, P., Modern Indian Poetry in English: An Anthology & a Credo, p 362, 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") Trilok Chandra, A Hundred and One FlowersNaik, M. K., Perspectives on Indian poetry in English, p. 230, (published by Abhinav Publications, 1984, , ), retrieved via Google Books, June 12, 2009
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 Alan Brownjohn, The Railings Charles Causley, Johnny Alleluia Jack Clemo, The Map of Clay Padraic Colum, Irish Elegies Donald Davie, New and Selected Poems, Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press Paul Dehn, Quake, quake, quake: a leaden treasury of English verse Ian Hamilton Finlay, Glasgow Beasts, An a Burd, Edinburgh: Wild Flounder Press Roy Fisher, City John Fuller, Fairground Music Robert Graves, More Poems 1961 Thom Gunn, My Sad Captains, and Other Poems, London: Faber and Faber; University of Chicago Press Geoffrey Hill, "Ovid in the Third Reich", "Locust Songs" and "Annunciations" Ralph Hodgson, Collected Poems David Holbrook, Imaginings Graham Hough, Legends and Pastorals Elizabeth Jennings, Song for a Birth or a Death, and Other Poems 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" Hugh MacDiarmid, pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve, The Kind of Poetry I Want Louis MacNeice, Solstices John Masefield, Bluebells, and Other Verse John Montague, The Nature of Cold Weather, London: MacGibbon and Kee Peter Porter, Once Bitten, Twice Bitten, by an Australian living in England, Northwood, Middlesex: Scorpion Press Peter Redgrove, The Collector, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul Siegfried Sassoon, Collected Poems C. H. Sisson, The London Zoo Iain Crichton Smith, Thistles and Roses Jon Stallworthy, The Astronomy of Love Gillian Stoneham, When That April R.S. Thomas, Tares, 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, London: Macmillan
Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom William Empson, Milton's God Doris Landley Moore, The Late Lord Byron
United States Lee Anderson, Nags Head Helen Bevington, When Found, Make a Verse Of Paul Blackburn, The Nets Harold Bloom, John Hollander, editors, The Wind and the Rain Philip Booth, The IslandersLudwig, 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) Joseph Payne Brennan, The Wind of Time, Hawk & Whippoorwill Press August Derleth John Ciardi, In the Stoneworks Leonard Cohen, The Spice-Box of Earth Donald Davidson, The Long Street 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 Ed Dorn, The Newly Fallen, Totem PressWeb page titled "Archive / Edward Dorn (1929-1999)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved May 8, 2008 Alan Dugan, Poems Abbie Houston Evans, Fact of Crystal Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Starting from San Francisco Arthur Freeman, Apollonian Poems George Garrett, Abraham's Knife Allen Ginsberg: Empty Mirror: Early Poems, New York: Totem/Corinth Kaddish and Other Poems, San Francisco: City Lights Books Horace Gregory, Medusa in Gramercy Park Thom Gunn, My Sad Captains, London: Faber and Faber; University of Chicago Press Briton Daryl Hine, Heroics John Hollander, The Untuning of the Sky (also see Harold Bloom/John Hollander item above) John Holmes, The Fortune Teller David Ignatow, Say Pardon LeRoi Jones, Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note Carolyn Kizer, The Ungrateful Garden, Bloomington: Indiana University Press Maxine Kumin, Halfway Denise Levertov, The Jacob's Ladder, New York: New Directions Philip Levine, On the Edge Robert Lowell, Imitations W. S. Merwin: Translator, Some Spanish Ballads, London: Abelard (American edition: Spanish Ballads, 1961, New York: Doubleday Anchor)Web page titled "W. S. Merwin (1927- )" at the Poetry Foundation Web site, retrieved June 8, 2010 Editor, West Wind: Supplement of American Poetry, London: Poetry Book Society Pablo Neruda, Odas elementales, translated by C. Lozano and with an introduction by Fernando Alegría Lorine Niedecker, My Friend Tree (published with help from Ian Hamilton Finlay) John Nist, editor, Modern Brazilian Poetry Charles Olson: The Maximus Poems The Distances Hyam Plutzik, Horatio, a narrative monologue basically in blank verse Theodore Roethke, I Am! Says the Lamb May Sarton, Cloud, Stone, Sun, Vine Peter Viereck, The Tree Witch John Hall Wheelock, The Gardener Richard Wilbur, Advice to a Prophet 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 Roger Asselineau, The Evolution of Walt Whitman Walter Lowenfels, editor, Walt Whitman's Civil War, Whitman's writing about the war Edwin Haviland Miller, The Correspondence of Walt Whitman (1842–1875, in two volumes) Archibald MacLeish, Poetry and Experience (autobiography)
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, A. D. Hope, Poems (Australia) 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 Paul Marie Lapointe, Choix de poèmes Jean-Guy Pilon: La Mouette et le large Recours au pays, Montréal: l'HexagoneWeb page titled "Jean-Guy Pilon" at L’Académie des lettres du Québec website (in French), retrieved October 20, 2010
France Andre du Bouchet, Dans la chaleur vacanteAuster, Paul, editor, The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets, New York: Random House, 1982 Aimé Césaire,Cadastre, Martinique author published in France; Paris: Editions du Seuil Jean Cocteau, Le Cérémonial espagnol de Phoenix Michel Deguy, Poemes de la presqu'ile Max Pol Fouchet, Demeure le Secret Eugène Guillevic, CarnacBrée, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983 Henri Michaux, Connaisance par les gouffres (Life Through Darkness: Exploration Through Drugs"), Paris: GallimardRigaud-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 Marie Noël, Chants d'arrière-saison Francis Ponge, Le Grand Recueil, three volumes Raymond Queneau, Cent mille milliards de poèmes Georges Schéhadé, Nocturnes Léopold Sédar Senghor, Nocturnes Jean Tardieu, Choix de poèmes