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1961 in poetry
| This is part of the List of years in poetry | |
| Years in poetry: | 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 |
| Years in literature: | 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 |
| Decades in poetry: | 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s |
| Centuries in poetry: | 19th century 20th century 21st century |
| Centuries: | 19th century · 20th century · 21st century |
| Decades: | 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s |
| Years: | 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 |
Events
- Sylvia Plath suffers a miscarriage
- Keith and Rosmarie Waldrop buy a secondhand printing press and start Burning Deck magazine in the United States.
Works published in English
Canada
- Earle Binney, Ice Cod Bell on Stone[1]
- Arthur Bourinot, Poems: Paul Bunyan, Three Lincoln Poems and Other Verse[1]
- Leonard Cohen, The Spice-Box of Earth[1]
- Robert Finch
- Dover Beach Revisited, a meditation on the significance of Matthew Arnold[1]
- Acis in Oxford and Other Poems[1]
- Ralph Gustafson, Rivers Among Rocks[1]
- Daryl Hine, The Devil's Picture Books[1]
- Irving Layton, The Swinging Flesh[1]
- Eli Mandel and Jean Guy Pilon, Poetry 62, an anthology[1]
- Dorothy Roberts, Twice to Flame[1]
Ireland
Austin Clarke , Later Poems, Dublin: Dolmen Press, Ireland[2]- Thomas Kinsella:
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[1]
- Alan Brownjohn, The Railings[1]
- Charles Causley, Johnny Alleluia[1]
- Donald Davie, New and Selected Poems, Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press[2]
- Ian Hamilton Finlay, Glasgow Beasts, An a Burd, Edinburgh: Wild Flounder Press [2]
- John Fuller, Fairground Music[1]
- Allen Ginsberg:
- Robert Graves, More Poems 1961[1]
- Thom Gunn, My Sad Captains,[1] London: Faber and Faber; University of Chicago Press[2]
- Ralph Hodgson, Collected Poems[1]
- David Holbrook, Imaginings[1]
- Graham Hough, Legends and Pastorals[1]
- Edward Jennings, Song for a Birth or a Death[1]
- Edward Lucie-Smith, A Tropical Childhood, including "The Witnesses", "The Fault", and "On Looking at Stubb's Anatomy of the Horse"[1]
- Louis MacNeice, Solstices[1]
- {{John Montague]], The Nature of Cold Weather, London: MacGibbon and Kee[2]
- Peter Porter, Once Bitten, Twice Bitten, by an Australian living in England,[1] Northwood, Middlesex: Scorpion Press[2]
- Peter Redgrove, The Collector, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul
- Siegfried Sassoon, Collected Poems[1]
- Iain Crichton Smith, Thistles and Roses[1]
- Gillian Stoneham, When That April[1]
- R.S. Thomas, Tares[1]
- 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,[1] London: Macmillan[2]
Criticism, scholarship and biography
- William Empson, Milton's God[1]
- Doris Landley Moore, The Late Lord Byron[1]
United States
- Lee Anderson, Nags Head[1]
- Helen Bevington, When Found, Make a Verse Of[1]
- Paul Blackburn, The Nets
- John Ciardi, In the Stoneworks[1]
- Leonard Cohen, The Spice-Box of Earth
- August Derleth, editor, Fire and Sleet and Candlelight
- Hilda Doolittle (H.D.), Helen in Egypt, a long retelling of the tale in lyrical prose and verse of the Helen of Troy tale[1]
- Abbie Houston Evans, Fact of Crystal[1]
- Arthur Freeman, Apollonian Poems[1]
- Allen Ginsberg, Kaddish and Other Poems
- Thom Gunn, My Sad Captains,[1] London: Faber and Faber; University of Chicago Press[2] Briton
- John Holmes, The Fortune Teller[1]
- David Ignatow, Say Pardon[1]
- LeRoi Jones, Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note
- Carolyn Kizer, The Ungrateful Garden, Bloomington: Indiana University Press[1][2]
- Denise Levertov, The Jacob's Ladder, New York: New Directions[2]
- Pablo Neruda, Odas elementales, translated by C. Lozano and with an introduction by Fernando Alegría[1]
- Lorine Niedecker, My Friend Tree (published with help from Ian Hamilton Finlay)
- John Nist, editor, Modern Brazilian Poetry[1]
- Charles Olson:
- Hyam Plutzik, Horatio, a narrative monologue basically in blank verse[1]
- Peter Viereck, The Tree Witch[1]
- John Hall Whelock, The Gardener[1]
- Richard Wilbur, Advice to a Prophet[1]
Criticism, scholarship and biography
- Roger Asselineau, The Evolution of Walt Whitman[1]
- Walter Lowenfels, editor, Walt Whitman's Civil War, Whitman's writing about the war[1]
- Edwin Haviland Miller, The Correspondence of Walt Whitman (1842-1875, in two volumes)[1]
- Archibald MacLeish, Poetry and Experience (autobiography)[1]
Other in English
- Allen Curnow, editor, Penguin Book of New Zealand Verse,[1]
- A. D. Hope, Poems (Australia)[1]
Works published in other languages
French language
Canada
- Rina Lasnier, Mémoire sans jour[1]
- Paul Marie Lapointe, Choix de poèmes[1]
- Jean Guy Pilon, La Mouette et le large[1]
France
- Jean Cocteau, Le Cérémonial espagnol de Phoenix[1]
- Max Pol Fouchet, Demeure le Secret[1]
- Marie Noël, Chants d'arrière-saison[1]
- Léopold Sédar Senghor, Nocturnes[1]
- Jean Tardieu, Choix de poèmes[1]
Criticism, scholarship and biography
- André Berry, editor, Anthologie de la poésie occitane[1]
- Yves Bonnefoy, Rimbaud[1]
Germany
- Clemens Hesselhaus, editor, Deutsche Lyric von Nietzsche bis Yvan Goll, an anthology[1]
Criticism, scholarship and biography
- Walter Jens, Deutsche Literatur der Gegenwart (criticism)[1]
- Wilhelm Emrich, Protest und Verheissung (criticism)[1]
Hebrew
- J. Akavyahu, Manginot Hazot ("Midnight Music")[3]
- Anonymous poet from a Soviet Bloc country, Behilokah Halail ("As the Night Is Taken"), the poems were clandestinely smuggled into Israel and published[3]
- K. A. Bertini, Shevil Kahol ("Blue Path")[3]
- A. Broides, El ha-Shahar ha-Gonuz ("Toward the Hidden Dawn")[3]
- Yonah David, Shirim Le-lo Ahava ("Poems on Nonlove")[3]
- Israel Efros, Bain Hofim Nistarim ("Among Hidden Shores")[3]
- Hayim Guri, Shoshanat ha-Ruhot ("Rose of the Winds")[3]
- Yosef Lichtenbaum, ba-Mishor ha-Govoha ("On a High Plain")[3]
- E. Lisitzky, Kemo ha-Yom Rad ("As the Day Wanes") published in the United States[3]
- Anda Pinkerfield-Amir, Gadish ve-Omer ("Sheaf and Measure")[3]
- Gabriel Preil, Mapat Erew ("Map of Evening"), published in the United States[3]
- T. Ribner, Shirim Limzo Et ("Poems in Search of Time")[3]
- Rena Shani, Ir Zara ("Strange City")[3]
- Nathan Zakh, Shirim Shonim ("Various")[3]
Criticism, scholarship and biography
- B. Kurzweil, Bialik ve- Tchernichovsky — Mehkarim be-Shiratam, about aspects of the works of two important poets of the Hebrew literary renaissance[1]
Italy
- Attilio Giuliani, editor, Novissimi, an anthology-cum-manifesto of five poets which, by 1965, was "increasingly regarded as the principal event in Italian poetry in recent times"[3]
Portuguese language
Portugal
- Herberto Hélder, A Colher na Boca ("The Spoon in the Mouth")
- Mário Cesariny:
- Poesia
- Planisfério e Outros Poemas
Spanish language
Spain
- María Victoria Atencia, Cañada de los ingleses[1]
- Miguel Hernández, a "complete" collection of poems (posthumous)[1]
- Gerardo Diego, Glosa a Villamediana[1]
Anthologies
- Jimenez Martos, editor, Nuevos poetas españoles, mostly on the work of the "Generation of '54"[1]
- Rafael Montesinos, editor, Poesía taurina contemporánea, including verse by Miguel Hernández, Diego and García Lorca[1]
Latin America
- Roque Dalton, La ventana en rel rostro (El Salvador)[1]
- Hernando Domínguez de Camargo, Obras de Hernando Domínguez de Camargo (posthumous)[1]
- Octavio Paz, Libertad bajo palabra collected poems previously published from 1935 to 1958 in a volume using the title of an earlier book of his[1]
- Carlos A. Velazco, El corazón de silencio[1]
Anthologies
- Anuario del cuento mexicano (Mexico)[1]
- Ginés de Albareda and F. Garfias, editors, Antología de la poesía hispanoamericana, Volume 8, devoted to Chilean poetry[1]
Yiddish
Israel
- Y Fridman, Di legende fun Neyakh Grin ("The Legend of Noah Green")[1]
- L. Fuks, editor, Schemuelbuch, a scholarly edition of this old Yiddish epic[1]
- Avrom Lev, a book of poetry[1]
- Leyb Olitsky, a book of poetry[1]
- Y Papernikov, a book of poetry[1]
- Rikude Potash, a book of poetry[1]
- Arye Shamri, Funken fun tikun ("Sparks of Salvation")[1]
- Avrom Sutzkever, Di gaystike erd ("The Spiritual Soil")[1]
Elsewhere
- Efrayim Oyerbakh, Di vayse shtot ("The White City")[1]
- I. L. Kalushiner, a book of poetry[1]
- Yisroel Emiot, In nigun ayngehert ("Listening to the Melody")[1]
- David Sfard, A zegl in vint ("A Sail in the Wind") (Poland)[1]
Awards and honors
United Kingdom
United States
- Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (later the post would be called "Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress"): Louis Untermeyer appointed this year.
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Phyllis McGinley: Times Three: Selected Verse From Three Decades
- Bollingen Prize: Yvor Winters
- National Book Award for Poetry: Randall Jarrell, The Woman at the Washington Zoo
- Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Horace Gregory
Other
- Lenin Prize (Soviet Union): Alexander Tvardovsky for Za Dalyu dal ... ("Space Beyond Space")
Births
- date not known:
- Gitaujali Badruddin
- Denise Duhamel
- Steven Heighton, Canadian novelist and poet.
- Maggie Helwig, Canadian novelist and poet.
- Jackie Kay, Scottish poet and novelist.
Deaths
- April 30 — Jessie R. Fauset (born 1885), novelist and poet[1]
- September 27 — Hilda Doolittle, aka "H.D.", 75, American poet, novelist and memoirist,[1] of a heart attack
- December 24 — Robert Hillyer, 66, American poet[1]
- date not known — Kenneth Fearing, 58, American poet and writer
See also
Notes
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- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n 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
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