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Events June 11 – International Poetry Incarnation, a performance poetry event, is staged at the Royal Albert Hall in London before an audience of 7,000, with members of the Beat Generation featuring; Adrian Mitchell reads "To Whom It May Concern" Meic Stephens founds Poetry Wales Russian poet Anna Akhmatova is allowed to travel outside the Soviet Union to Sicily and England in order to receive the Taormina prize and an honorary doctoral degree from the University of Oxford The Belfast Festival at Queen's publishes pamphlets this year and next by some of the members of The Belfast Group of poets, including Seamus Heaney and Michael Longley, which attracts some notice In Spain, two new periodical reviews are founded: Poesía para todos, started by younger Spanish poets and illustrated by renowned paintersBritannica Book of the Year 1966 (covering "Events of 1965"), 1966, published by Encyclopædia Britannica Inc. Los sesenta, launched by Max Aub and with editors including the poets Jorge Guillén and Rafael Alberti. The second number is published in homage to the Unamuno In the British Isles, the centenary of the birth of W. B. Yeats brings forth a number of critical works, prominent among them Thomas Parkinson's book W. B. Yeats: The Later Poetry, and Conor Cruise O'Brien's long essay addressing Yeats' relationship to Fascism, published in In Excited Reverie, edited by A. N. Jeffares and K. G. Cross African-American poet Dudley Randall founds Broadside Press in Detroit, which publishes many leading African-American writers Paul Éluard's 1926 book of poems, Capitale de la douleur ("Capital of Pain"), influences Jean-Luc Godard's French film Alphaville (released May 5) which has quotations from the book The periodical Modern Poetry in Translation is launched by Ted Hughes, Daniel Weissbort and George Theiner in Britain
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:
Australia Geoffrey Lehmann and Les Murray, The Ilex Tree, Australia John Thompson, editor, Australian Poetry, Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 76 pp"Thompson, John, Australian Poetry 1965" [web page]. International League of Antiquarian Booksellers. Retrieved 2009-02-16. Judith Wright, Preoccupations in Australian Poetry (scholarship), Australia
Canada John Glassco, editor, English Poetry in Quebec Daryl Hine, The Wooden Horse Lionel Kearns, Listen George C. F. Klinck and W. H. New, editors, Literary History of Canada, first of four volumes (fourth volume published in 1990, scholarship, Canada Irving Layton, Collected Poems Tom Marshall, The Beast with Three Backs, Quarry Press John Newlove, Moving in Alone, Contact Press Al Purdy, The Cariboo Horses, CanadaRoberts, Neil, ed. (2003). A Companion to Twentieth-century Poetry, Part III, Chapter 3, "Canadian Poetry", by Cynthia Messenger, Blackwell Publishing. . Retrieved via Google Books 2009-01-03. Raymond Souster, Ten Elephants on Yonge Street Wilfred Watson, Naked Poems Phyllis Webb, Naked Poems
India in English Dom Moraes John Nobody ( Poetry in English ) Nissim Ezekiel: The Exact Name: Poems 1960–1964 ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, IndiaLal, P., Modern Indian Poetry in English: An Anthology & a Credo, p 193, 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"). The Unfinished Man, poems written in 1959; ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, IndiaVinayak 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 P. Lal, "Charge!" They Said ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India .Lal, P., Modern Indian Poetry in English: An Anthology & a Credo, p 581, 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"). Kamala Das, Summer of Calcutta: Fifty Poems ( Poetry in English ), Delhi: Rajinder Paul Roshen Alkazi, Seventeen Poems (see also Seventeen More Poems 1970); Calcutta: Writers Workshop, IndiaLal, P., Modern Indian Poetry in English: An Anthology & a Credo, p 12, 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"). Deb Kumar Das, Through A Glass Darkly: Poems ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, IndiaNaik, M. K., Perspectives on Indian poetry in English, p. 230, (published by Abhinav Publications, 1984, , ), retrieved via Google Books, June 12, 2009 T. V. Datareyan, Silver Box and Other Poems ( Poetry in English ), Bombay: StrandLal, P., Modern Indian Poetry in English: An Anthology & a Credo, p 116, 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"). Vinayaka Krishna Gokak, In Life's Temple ( Poetry in English ), Madras: Blackie and Son S. R. Mokashi-Punekar, The Captive ( Poetry in English ), preface by Herbert ReadLal, P., Modern Indian Poetry in English: An Anthology & a Credo, p 339, 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").
Ireland Denis Devlin, Collected Poems, Dublin: Dolmen Press Seamus Heaney, Northern Ireland native Irish poet with books published originally in the United Kingdom: Death of a Naturalist Eleven Poems, Queen's University Richard Murphy, Sailing to an Island, London: Faber and Faber; New York: Chilmark Press, Irish poet with books published originally in the United Kingdom
New Zealand Charles Brasch: (year uncertain, but thought to be this year) Twice Sixty, Wellington: Printed at the Wai-te-ata Press (Single poem; broadsheet) Charles Doyle, editor, Recent Poetry in New Zealand, anthology Kendrick Smithyman, A Way of Saying: A Study of New Zealand Poetry, Auckland & London: Collins, criticism
South Africa Patrick Cullinan, North Ruth Miller (South African poet), Floating Island, Cape Town"Women Writing Africa – A Bibliography of Anglophone Women Writers – A selection of titles proposed by Tony Simoes da Silva, University of Wollongong, Australia" [web page] at Discipline of European Languages and Studies, French, The University of Western Australia [website]. Retrieved 2009-02-16. David Wright, Adam at Evening, London: Hodder and Stoughton, including "By the Effigy of St. Cecilia"; South African poet with works published originally in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom Alan Bold, Society Inebrious George Mackay Brown, The Year of the Whale, Scottish poet Basil Bunting: Loquitur (Fulcrum Press) The Spoils (Morden Tower Bookroom) Christopher Caudwell, Poems Tony Connor, Lodgers London: Oxford University Press London: Chatto and Windus with Hogarth Press Donald Davie, The Poems of Doctor Zhivago C. Day-Lewis, The Room and Other Poems Paul Dehn, The Fern on the Rock: Collected Poems, 1935–1965 D. J. Enright, The Old Adam, London: Chatto and Windus with Hogarth Press Harry Fainlight, Sussicran, London: Turret Books Roy Fuller, Buff David Gascoyne, Collected Poems Robert Graves, Collected Poems (1965 version) Michael Hamburger, In Flashlight Seamus Heaney, Northern Ireland native published in the United Kingdom: Death of a Naturalist Eleven Poems, Queen's University John Heath-Stubbs, Selected Poems George MacBeth, A Doomsday Book, a mix of poems and poem-games, Lowestoft, Suffolk: Scorpion Press Norman MacCaig, Measures, London: Chatto and Windus with Hogarth Press Richard Murphy, Sailing to an Island, London: Faber and Faber; New York: Chilmark Press, Irish poet Sylvia Plath, Ariel, London: Faber and Faber (New York: Harper & Row, 1966), American poet in the United Kingdom Kathleen Raine, The Hollow Hill, and Other Poems 1960–4 Alan Ross, North from Sicily Vernon Scannell, Walking Wounded Jon Silkin, Nature with Man C. H. Sisson, Numbers Sir Osbert Sitwell, Poems about People or England Reclaimed (collected from three previous volumes) Iain Crichton Smith, The Law and the Grace Bernard Spencer, Collected Poems Stephen Spender, Selected Poems John Wain, Wildtrack, Wildtrack, London: Macmillan Ted Walker, Fox on a Barn Door Hugo Williams, Symptoms of Loss: Poems, Oxford University Press David Wright, Adam at Evening, London: Hodder and Stoughton, including "By the Effigy of St. Cecilia"; South African poet with works published originally in the United Kingdom
Anthologies P. L. Brent, editor, Young Commonwealth Poets 1965 Matthew Hodgart, The Faber Book of Ballads I. M. Parsons, Men Who March Away (poems of World War I) Robin Skelton, Poetry of the Thirties James Reeves, The Cassell Book of English Poetry C. V. Wedgwood, editor, New Poems 1965: A PEN Anthology, London: HutchinsonLal, P., Modern Indian Poetry in English: An Anthology & a Credo, p 594, 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").
Criticism and scholarship in the United Kingdom Bernard Bergozi, Heroes' Twilight on the literature of World War I Anthony Burgess, Here Comes Everybody on the work of James Joyce Donald Davie, Ezra Pound: Poet as Sculptor Patricia Hutchins, Ezra Pound's Kensington: An Exploration 1885–1913 Conor Cruise O'Brien, a long essay which addressed W. B. Yeats' relationship to Fascism, published in In Excited Reverie, edited by A. N. Jeffares and K. G. Cross. Harold Owen, Journey from Obscurity, Volume III, autobiography by the brother of poet Wilfred Owen, giving "a few interesting glimpses of the poet", according to William Leslie Webb, literary editor of The Guardian Thomas Parkinson, W.B. Yeats: The Later Poetry
United States A.R. Ammons: Corsons Inlet Tape for the Turn of the Year George Barker, Collected Poems, New York: October House Ted Berrigan, Living With Chris Elizabeth Bishop, Questions of Travel (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux) Hayden Carruth, Nothing for Tigers Edgar Bowers, The Astronomers Louis Coxe, The Last Hero E.E. Cummings, Fairy Tales (posthumous) Ed Dorn: Idaho Out, Fulcrum Press Geography, Fulcrum Press Robert Duncan, Roots and Branches Paul Engle, A Woman Unashamed Jean Garrigue, Country Without Maps, including "Pays Perdu" Allen Ginsberg, Jukebox All'Idrogeno, Milan: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore Donald Hall, A Roof of Tiger Lilies John Hollander, Visions from the Ramble E. Y. Harburg, Irreverent Rhymes Lee Harwood, title illegible (sic) published by Bob Cobbing's Writers Forum Paul Horgan, Songs After Lincoln David Ignatow, Figures of the Human Randall Jarrell: Little Friend, Little Friend The Lost World, a book of 22 poems, reviewers gave it a mixed reception, New York: Macmillan John Knoepfle, Rivers into Islands Philip Larkin, The Whitsun Weddings Stanley McNail, Something Breathing Gabriela Mistral, Selected Poems translated from Spanish Samuel French Morse, The Changes Howard Moss, Finding Them Lost, New York: Scribners Edwin Muir, Collected Poems, New York: Oxford University Press Mary Oliver, No Voyage, and Other Poems (expanded from first edition in 1963) George Oppen, This in Which Sylvia Plath, Ariel, including "Daddy", (posthumous) David Ray, X-Rays Charles Reznikoff, the first of his Testimony collections David Shapiro, January