Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
January 1 – Cecil Day-Lewis is announced as the new Poet Laureate of the UK. May 19 – The Last Poets, originally comprising Felipe Luciano, Gylan Kain and David Nelson, form at Marcus Garvey Park in East Harlem, New York City, on Malcolm X's birthday. November 23 – Roy Fuller is elected professor of poetry at Oxford University (with 385 votes) to succeed Edmund Blunden, who unexpectedly left. Other nominees were Kathleen Raine, Enid Starkie and Yevgeni Yevtushenko. The Arvon Foundation is established by young poets John Fairfax and John Moat in the UK to promote creative writing. The Belfast Group, a grouping of poets in Belfast, Northern Ireland, which was started in 1963 in poetry and lapsed in 1966 when founder Philip Hobsbaum left for Glasgow, is reconstituted this year by Michael Allen, Arthur Terry, and Seamus Heaney. At various times, the group also includes Michael Longley, James Simmons, Paul Muldoon, Ciaran Carson, Stewart Parker, Bernard MacLaverty and the critic Edna Longley. Meetings are held at Seamus and Marie Heaney's house on Ashley Avenue. The group will last until 1972. The first translations and book-length discussion of Enheduanna's work is published.Hallo, William W.; Van Dijk, J.J.A. (1968). The Exaltation of Inanna. New Haven: Yale University Press. She is a Sumerian priestess and poet of the 23rd century BC and the earliest named author known to history. The Honest Ulsterman, a long-running Northern Ireland literary magazine, is established this year by James Simmons. It is then edited for 20 years by Frank Ormsby.
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 Leonard Cohen, Selected Poems, 1956-1968 Irving Layton, The Shattered Plinths, 60 new poems."Irving Layton: Publications ," Canadian Poetry Online, Web, May 7, 2011. Dennis Lee, Civil Elegies. Toronto: Anansi."Dennis Lee: Publications ," Canadian Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, Apr. 19, 2011. Dorothy Livesay, The Documentaries."Dorothy Livesay (1909-1996): Works" , Canadian Women Poets, Brock University. Web, Mar. 18, 2011. Poems from the 1930s and 1940s, and including "Roots", a long poem Pat Lowther, This Difficult Flowering Jay Macpherson, The Boatman and Other Poems. Toronto: Oxford UP."Jay Macpherson, 1931-", Canadian Women Poets," BrockU.ca, Web, Apr. 10, 2011 E. J. Pratt, Selected Poems of E. J. Pratt, Peter Buitenhuis ed., Toronto: Macmillan.Selected Poems of E. J. Pratt, Peter Buitenhuis ed., Toronto: Macmillan, 1968. Al Purdy, Wild Grape Wine Joe Rosenblatt, Winter of the Luna Moth. Toronto: Anansi."Joe Rosenblatt: Publications ," Canadian Poetry Online. Web, Mar. 22, 2011. W.W.E. Ross, Shapes & sounds: poems of W. W. E. Ross (with a portrait by Dennis Burton, a memoir by Barry Callaghan, and an editorial note by Raymond Souster and John Robert Colombo). (Toronto: Longman's)"Shapes & sounds: poems of W. W. E. Ross," OpenLibrary.org, Web, Apr. 8, 2011 Raymond Souster, Lost and Found: Uncollected Poems. Toronto: Clarke, Irwin."Notes on Life and Works ," Selected Poetry of Raymond Souster, Representative Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 7, 2011.
Anthologies in Canada Mary Alice Downie and Barbara Robertson, editors, The Wind Has Wings, anthology of 77 Canadian poems for children Dennis Lee, editor, T.O. Now, anthology of 13 "apprentice poets living in Toronto"
India in English R. ParthasarathyPoetry from Leeds ( Poetry in English ). Leeds: Oxford University Press, UK 1968. G. S. Sharat Chandra, Bharat Natyam Dancer and Other Poems ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India .Naik, M. K., Perspectives on Indian poetry in English, p. 230, (published by Abhinav Publications, 1984, , ), retrieved via Google Books, June 12, 2009 Deb Kumar Das, The Eye of Autumn: An Experiment in Poetry ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India' Ira De, The Hunt and Other Poems, revised edition, ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India (see also first edition 1961) Gauri Deshpande, Between Births ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India Indira Devi Dhanrajgir, Partings in Mimosa, Hyderabad Guari Deshpande, Between Births ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, IndiaP. Lal (1971), p 138 Paul Jacob, Sonnets ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, IndiaP. Lal (1971), p 218 S. R. Mokashi-Punekar, P. Lal: An Appreciation( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, IndiaP. Lal (1971), p 339 Dom Moraes, My Son's Father, autobiographyP. Lal (1971), p 335 Srinavas Rayaprol, Bones & Distances( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, IndiaP. Lal (1971), p 472 Pradip Sen, And Then the Sun, revised edition (first edition, 1960, ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, IndiaP. Lal (1971), p 512 Vinay K. Varma, Poppies and AshesP. Lal (1971), p 572 Swami Vivekananda, Search of God and Other Poems, Calcutta: Advaita AshramR. Saraswathi, "The Theme of Love in Sri Aurobindo's Savitri", p 64, in Indian English Poetry: Critical Perspectives, edited by Jaydipsinh Dodiya, 2000, Delhi: Prabhat Kumar Sharma for Sarup & Sons, , retrieved via Google Books on July 17, 2010 Suniti Namjoshi and Sarojini Namjoshi, translators, Poems of Govindagraj, translated from Marathi, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, IndiaWeb page titled "Suniti Namjoshi" , Poetry International website, retrieved July 28, 2010
United Kingdom W. H. Auden: Collected Longer Poems Secondary Worlds, lecture given in October Selected Poems Dannie Abse, A Small Desperation Kingsley Amis, A Look Round the Estate Edward Brathwaite, Masks Basil Bunting, Collected Poems Charles Causley, Underneath the Water Stewart Conn, Stoats in Sunlight Tony Connor, Kon in Springtime Maureen Duffy, Lyrics for the Dog Hour D. J. Enright, Unlawful Assembly Gavin Ewart, The Deceptive Grin of the Gravel Porters James Fenton, Our Western Furniture Roy Fuller, New Poems William R. P. George - Cerddi'r Neraig Zulfikar Ghose, Jets from Orange Robert Graves, Poems 1965–1968 Harry Guest, Arrangements John Heath-Stubbs, Satires and Epigrams Adrian Henri, Tonight at Noon John Hewitt, Northern Irish poet published in the United Kingdom, The Day of the Corncrake Norman Jackson, Beyond the Habit of Sense A. Norman Jeffares, A New Commentary On The Poems Of W.B. Yeats, criticism James Kirkup, Paper Windows George MacBeth, The Night of Stones Norman MacCaig, Rings on a Tree Derek Mahon, Night-Crossing, Oxford University Press Adrian Mitchell, Out Loud Edwin Morgan, The Second Life, his first collection and the first in Britain to be typeset by computerBritannica Book of the Year 1969, covering events of 1968, published in 1969, "Literature" article, "English" subsection, page 473 Richard Murphy, The Battle of Aughrim Ruth Pitter, Poems 1926–1966 J. H. Prynne, Kitchen Poems Edith Anne Robertson, Translations Into the Scots Tongue of Poems By Gerard Manley Hopkins Muriel Spark, Collected Poems Volume 1 R. S. Thomas, Not That He Brought Flowers J. R. R. Tolkien, The Road Goes Ever On, first published in the United States 1967 Vernon Watkins, Fidelities
Anthologies in the United Kingdom John Bishop, Music and Sweet Poetry, poems about music Rodney Hall and Thomas Shapcott, editors, New Impulses in Australian Poetry Howard Sergeant, Poetry from Africa (published in the United Kingdom), including work from Gabriel Okara (Nigeria), Gaston Bart-Williams (Sierra Leone), Kwesi Brew (Ghana) and David Rubadiri (Malawi) Jean Sergeant and Howard Sergeant, Poems from Hospital Joan Murray Simpson, Without Adam: The Femina Anthology of Poetry, poems by women
United States James Agee, The Collected Poems of James Agee, including 60 poems previously unpublished in books (posthumous) A. R. Ammons, Selected Poems Paul Blackburn, In. On. Or About The Premises Gwendolyn Brooks, In the Mecca Raymond Carver, Near Klamath Stanley Cooperman, The Day of the Parrot and Other Poems Robert Creeley, Pieces Ed Dorn and Gordon Brotherston, translators, Our Word: Guerilla Poems From Latin America, GrossmanWeb page titled "Archive / Edward Dorn (1929-1999)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved May 8, 2008 Ed Dorn, Gunslinger, Black Sparrow Press Robert Duncan, Bending the Bow Allen Ginsberg, T.V. Baby Poems John Hollander, Types of Shape Etheridge Knight, Poems from Prison Rod McKuen, Lonesome Cities Archibald MacLeish, The Wild Wicked Old Man and Other Poems Ogden Nash, There's Always Another Windmill Howard Nemerov, The Winter Lightning: Selected Poems Lorine Niedecker, North Central (Fulcrum Press: London) Ned O'Gorman, The Harversters' Vase George Oppen, Of Being Numerous Kenneth Rexroth, Collected Longer Poems Charles Reznikoff, second Testimony collection Aram Saroyan, Aram Saroyan, Random House Karl Shapiro, Selected Poems (more than 200, including 25 previously unpublished) L. E. Sissman, Dying: An Introduction Mark Strand, Reasons for Moving, Canadian native published in the United States Alice Walker, Once
Anthologies in the United States Paul Carroll, editor, The Young American Poets, anthology of 54 poets LeRoi Jones and Larry Neal, editors, Black Fire, an anthology of African-American poetry Phyllis McGinley, editor, Wonders and Surprises, anthology for juveniles, including poems by Elinor Wylie, E. B. White, Langston Hughes and T. S. Eliot
Other in English Edward Brathwaite, Masks, second part of his The Arrivants trilogy, which also includes Rights of Passage (1967) and Islands (1969), Caribbean"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 Kendrick Smithyman, Flying to Palmerston, Christchurch: Auckland University & Oxford University Press, New Zealand R. Hall and T. Shapcott, editors, New Impulses in Australian Poetry, anthology, AustraliaPreminger, 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 Richard Murphy, The Battle of Aughrim, IrelandCrotty, Patrick, Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology, Belfast, The Blackstaff Press Ltd., 1995,
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:
Denmark Per Højholt, Turbo Hans Jørgen Nielsen, Fra luften i munden Thorkild Bjørnvig, Ravnen
French language
Canada, in French Jean-Guy Pilon, Comme eau retenue : poèmes 1954-1963, Montréal: l'HexagoneWeb page titled "Jean-Guy Pilon" at L’Académie des lettres du Québec website (in French), retrieved October 20, 2010 Yves Préfontaine, Pays sans parole
France P. Albert-Birot, Poètes d'aujourd'hui (posthumous), edited by J. Follain Marc Alyn, La Nuit majeure J. Berthet: Poèsiepures Quelconqueries J. Bancal, L'Épreuve du feu André du Bouchet, OU LE SOLEILAuster, Paul, editor, The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets, New York: Random House, 1982 A. Bosquet, Quatre Testaments et autres poèmes Andrée Chedid, Contre–ChantBree, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983 Rene Char, Dans la pluie giboyeuse C. Fourcade, De Lumière et de nuit L. Foucher, Argyne et les Gypaètes, third part of a trilogy André Frénaud, La Sainte Face Armel Lubin, Feux contre feux