1965 in poetry

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Events

* Meic Stephens founds Poetry Wales
* Russian poet Anna Akhmatova was allowed to travel outside the Soviet Union to Sicily and England in order to receive the Taormina prize and an honorary doctoral degree from Oxford University
* The Belfast Festival at Queen's published pamphlets this year and next by some of the members of The Belfast Group of poets, including Seamus Heaney and Michael Longley, which attracted some notice.
* In Spain, two new periodical reviews were 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 Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc.]
**"Los sesenta", launched by Max Aub and with editors including the poets Jorge Guillén and Rafael Alberti. The second number was published in homage to the Unamuno.
* In the British Isles, the centenary of the birth of W. B. Yeats brought 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 which addressed W. B. Yeats' relationship to Fascism, published in "In Excited Reverie", edited by A. N. Jeffares and K. G. Cross.

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:

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) [http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/subjects/nzp/nzlit2/brasch.htm Web page titled "Charles Brasch: New Zealand Literature File"] at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, [2008]
* Charles Doyle, editor, "Recent Poetry in New Zealand", anthology
* Kendrick Smithyman, "A Way of Saying: A Study of New Zealand Poetry",Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, "The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics", 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "New Zealand Poetry" article, "History and Criticism" section, p 837] Auckland & London: Collins, criticism

=United Kingdom=

* 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 PressM. 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]
* Donald Davie, "The Poems of Doctor Zhivago"
* 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)
* Seamus Heaney:
** "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
* Alan Ross, "North from Sicily"
* Vernon Scannell, "Walking Wounded"
* Jon Silkin, "Nature with Man"
* 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

Anthologies

* 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"

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 PressWeb page titled [http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=1837"Archive / Edward Dorn (1929-1999)"] at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved May 8, 2008]
** "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"
* 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"
* Jon Silkin, "Nature with Man"
* Clark Ashton Smith, "Poems in Prose"
* Hollis Summers, "Seven Occasions"
* Melvin Tolson, "Harlem Gallery"
* Mona Van Duyn, "A Time of Bees"
* Theodore Weiss, "The Medium: New Poems", New York: Macmillan
* Samuel Yellen, "New and Selected Poems"
* Marya Zaturenska, "Collected Poems"
* Louis Zukofsky, "ALL: The Collected Short Poems, 1923-1958" (Norton)

Criticism and scholarship in the United States

* Theodore Roethke, "On the Poet and his Craft" (published posthumously)
* Chard Powers Smith, "Where the Light Falls", about Edward Arlington Robinson

Other in English

* P. L. Brent, editor, "Young Commonwealth Poets 1965" (anthology published in the United Kingdom)
* Denis Devlin, "Collected Poems", Dublin: Dolmen Press Ireland
* A. L. Hendriks, "On This Mountain" (West Indian)
* C. F. Klinck and W. H. New, editors, "Literary History of Canada", first of four volumes (fourth volume published in 1990, scholarship, Canada [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]
* Geoffrey Lehmann and Les Murray, "The Ilex Tree", Australia [http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoet.do?poetId=216] Les Murray Web page at The Poetry Archive Web site, accessed October 15, 2007]
* Dom Moraes, "John Nobody" India
* Frank Kobina Parkes, "Songs from the Wilderness" (Ghanaian living in England)
* Derek Walcott, "The Castaway" (West Indian)
* David Wright, "Adam at Evening", including "By the Effigy of St. Cecilia" (South Africa)
* J. Wright, "Preoccupations in Australian Literature" (scholarship), 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]

Works published in other languages

=Denmark=

* Jørgen Gustava Brandt, "Etablissementet"
* Klaus Rifbjerg, "Amagerdigle"
* Ivan Malinovski, "Poetomatic"

Anthologies

* Poul Borum, editor, a volume of modern poetry
* Torben Brostrøm, "Den nye poesi", a volume of modern poetry (a new version, first published in 1962)
* Jess Ørnsbo, editor, a volume of modern poetry

=Finland=

* Pertti Nieminen, "Silmissä maailman maismat" ("The World in his Eyes"), colorful, humorous fables in the form of poetry
* Arvo Turtainen, translation of "Leaves of Grass"
* Pentti Saarikoski, "Kuljen missä kuljen" ("Traveling Man")

French language

=Canada=

* Jacques Brault, "Mémoire"
* Paul Chamberland, "L'Afficheur hurle"
* Gilbert Choquette, "L'Honneur de vivre"
* Cécile Cloutier, "Cuivre et soìes"
* Paul-Marie Lapointe, "Pour les âmes"
* Fernand Oulette, "Le Soliel sous la mort"

=France=

* Roger Giroux, "L'Arbre le temps", which won the Max Jacob Prize
* R. Lorno, "Légendaire", a book of verses in a style vaguely like Verlaine; the book won the Apollinaire Prize.
* Pierre Jean Jouve:
** The "definitive edition" of his poetry
** "Ténèbre"
* Yves Bonnefoy, "Pierre écrite"
* Loys Masson, "La Dame de Pavoux"
* Robert Sabatier, "Les Poisons délectables"

Criticism

* J. P. Richard, "Onze Etudes sur la poésie moderne"

=Hebrew=

* N. Alterman, "Hagigat Kayitz" ("Summer Celebration")
* Yonathan Ratosh, "Shirai Memesh" ("Poems of Tangibility")
* Mattityahu Shoham, "Ketavim" ("Writings")
* Moshe Dor, "Sirpad Umatehet" ("Briar and Metal")
* I. Pincas, "Aruhat Erev be-Ferrara" ("Supper in Ferrara")
* A. Broides, "le-Eretz ha-Moked" ("Toward the Blazing Land")

United States

* Moses Feinstein, a book of poems and sonnets
* G. Preil, "Mivhar Shirim" ("A Selection of Poems"), introduction by A. Shabatay
* Yaffa Eliach, "Eishet ha-Dayag" ("Fisherman's Wife"), a long, narrative poem
* A. Zeitlin, "Hazon ve-Hazon Medinah" ("A State and a State Envisioned")

=Italy=

* Attilio Giuliani:
** "Povera Juliet", a complete collection of his poetry
** editor, "Novissimi", a new and enlarged edition of the 1961 anthology-cum-manifesto "increasingly regarded as the principal event in Italian poetry in recent times"
* Roberto Roversi, "Dopo Campoformio", collection
* Carlo Villa, "Siamo esseri antichi"
* Vittorio Sereni, "Gli strumenti umani"
* Giovanni Giudici, "La vita in versi"

Portuguese

Brazil

* Carlos Drummond de Andrade, complete works
* Cassiano Ricardo, "Jeremias sem chorar"
* Mauro Mota, "Canto au meio"

Criticism

* Cassiano Ricardo, "Algumas reflexões sôbre poética de vanguarda"

panish

pain

* Ramón Garciasol, "Fuente serena"
* Diego Jesús Jiménez, "La ciudad", which won the Premio Adonais prize
* José Hierro, "El libro de las alucinaciones"

Latin America

* Victor García Robles, "Oíd Mortales" (Argentina), winner of the Cuban Casa de las Américas Prize in poetry
* J. Bañuelos, O. Oliva, J. A. Shelley, E. Zepeda, and J. Labastida (all in Mexico), "Ocupación de la palabra", a collection of their poems
* Carlos Medellín, "El aire y las colinas" (Colombia)

Criticism

* José Emilio Pacheco, "Poesía mexicana del siglo XIX", which Jose Francisco Vazquez-Amaral called (in 1966) "the first reliable work of its kind to deal with that important period of Mexican poetry".

=Yiddish=

* editor(s) not known, "Horizons", a poetry anthology published in the Soviet Union
* Kadye Molodovski, "Light from the Thorn Tree"
* Berish Vaynshteyn, "Destined Poems"
* Robert Frost, a volume of his poems in Yiddish (published in Israel), translated by Meyer-Ziml Tkatsh
* L. Olitski, a book of poems (published in Israel)
* A. Shamri, a book of poems (published in Israel)
* M. Yungman, a book of poems (published in Israel)
* Leyzer Aykhenrand, a book of poems (published in Israel)
* Malke Tuzman, a book of poems (published in Israel)

Other

* Majken Johansson, "Liksom överlämnad" (Sweden), her first volume in seven years
* Bengt Emil Johnson, "Gubbdrunkning" (Sweden)
* Boris Pasternak, collected poems published in the Soviet Union, not as complete as the collection published by the University of Michigan in 1961, but the closest to complete available to Soviet readers
* Einar Skjæraasen, "Sang i september" the first poem to appear since 1956 from one of Norway's most popular poets

Awards and honors

=Canada=

* See 1965 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

=United Kingdom=

* Eric Gregory Award: John Fuller, Derek Mahon, Michael Longley, Norman Talbot
* Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Philip Larkin

United States

* Bollingen Prize: Horace Gregory
* Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (later the post would be called "Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress"): Stephen Spender appointed this year.
* National Book Award for Poetry: Theodore Roethke, "The Far Field"
* Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: John Berryman: "77 Dream Songs"
* Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Marianne Moore

Other

* Danish Academy 1965 literature prize: Erik Knudsen, poet and dramatist

Births

* November 23 — Marcel Beyer, German [Hofmann, Michael, editor, "Twentieth-Century German Poetry: An Anthology", Macmillan/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006]
*date not known:
** Patience Agbabi, performance poet
** Michael Crummey, Canadian novelist and poet
** Adeena Karasick
** Timothy Liu
** Jay Ruzesky
** R.M. Vaughan

Deaths

*January 4 — T. S. Eliot, 76, American/British poet
* February 2 — Richard Blackmur, 61, American literary critic and poet
* March 17 — Nancy Cunard, 69, English writer, editor and publisher
* June 5 — Eleanor Farjeon, 84, poet poet and author
* July 10 — Jacques Audiberti 66, French playwright, poet and novelist and exponent of the Theatre of the Absurd
*August 17 — Jack Spicer, American poet often identified with the San Francisco Renaissance
* October 15 or October 14 — Randall Jarrell, 51, American author, writer and poet, in a highway accident;
* June 22 — Joseph Auslander, 67, of a heart attack
* September 2 — Johannes Bobrowski (born 1917), German poet, narrative writer, adaptor and essayist
* November 28 — Aslaug Vaa, of Norway

ee also

* Poetry
* List of poetry awards
* List of years in poetry

Notes