• Source: 1963 in poetry

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The woman is perfected.
Her dead

Body wears the smile of accomplishment...—Opening lines of "Edge" by Sylvia Plath, written days before her suicide




Events


January 26 – Raghunath Vishnu Pandit, an Indian poet who writes in both Konkani and Marathi languages, publishes five books of poems this day
February 11 – American-born poet Sylvia Plath (age 30) commits suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning in her London flat (in a house lived in by W. B. Yeats as a child) during the cold winter of 1962–63 in the United Kingdom about a month after publication of her only novel, the semi-autobiographical The Bell Jar and six days after writing (probably) her last poem, "Edge".
July–August – The Vancouver Poetry Conference is held over a three-week period, involving about 60 people who attend discussions, workshops, lectures, and readings designed by Warren Tallman and Robert Creeley as a summer course at the University of British Columbia. According to Creeley:
"It brought together for the first time a decisive company of then disregarded poets such as Denise Levertov, Charles Olson, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Duncan, Margaret Avison, Philip Whalen... together with as yet unrecognised younger poets of that time, Michael Palmer, Clark Coolidge and many more."
The Belfast Group, a discussion group of poets in Northern Ireland, is started by Philip Hobsbaum when he moves to Belfast this year. Before the meetings finally end in 1972, attendees at its meetings will include Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, James Simmons, Paul Muldoon, Ciaran Carson, Stewart Parker, Bernard MacLaverty and the critics Edna Longley and Michael Allen.
The Soviet government appears to begin removing freedoms previously granted to writers and artists in a process that began in November 1962 and continues this year. Yet the government proves uncertain and the writers persistent. In March 1963 "the gavel fell on the great debate", or so it appears, writes Harrison E. Salisbury, Moscow correspondent for The New York Times. Khrushchev announces that Soviet writers are the servants of the Communist Party and must reflect its orders. Among the authors he specifically targets are the poets Yevgeny Yevtushenko and Andrei Voznesensky. Yevtushenko, on a tour of European cities earlier in the year, recites before large audiences, including a capacity audience at the Palais de Chaillot in Paris, and then returns home. "Literary Stalinists took over almost all the key publishing positions", Salisbury writes. Yet the artists and writers who are criticized either refuse to recant or do so in innocuous language. Alexander Tvardovsky, editor of the magazine Novy Mir, publishes three brutally frank stories by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, for instance. By midsummer, the effects of the announced crackdown appear nil, with authors publishing essentially as before. After the Union of Soviet Writers rebukes Voznesensky, he replies "with what is regarded as a classic nonconfessional confession", according to Voznesensky's 2010 obituary in the Times: "It has been said that I must not forget the strict and severe words of Nikita Sergeyevich [Khrushchev]. I will never forget them. He said 'work'. This word is my program." He continues, "What my attitude is to Communism — what I am myself — this work will show."
Russian poet Anna Akhmatova's Requiem, an elegy about suffering of Soviet people under the Great Purge, composed 1935–61, is first published complete in book form, without her knowledge, in Munich.
Ukrainian writer Vasyl Symonenko's Kurds'komu bratovi is written and begins to circulate in samizdat.




Works published in English


Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantial revisions listed separately:




= Canada

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Roy Daniells, The Chequered Shade, a collection of short poems, mostly sonnets
R. G. Everson, Blind Man's Holiday, a first book of poems
Eldon Grier, A Friction of Lights
Irving Layton, Balls for a One-Armed Juggler.
Lionel Kearns, Songs of Circumstance
Wilson MacDonald, The Angels Of The Earth. Toronto: Nelson.
Gwendolyn MacEwen, The Rising Fire
Al Purdy, The Blur in Between
James Reaney, The Dance of Death at London, Ontario.



Anthologies in Canada

Frank Scott, translator and editor, Saint-Denys Garneau and Anne Hébert
The Plough and the Pen: Writings From Hungary 1930-1956, translations of Hungarian populist poets and writers by eight Canadian poets, including Earle Birney, A.J.M. Smith and Raymond Souster




= Ireland

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Austin Clarke, Flight to Africa, Dublin: Dolmen Press
Denis Devlin, Selected Poems, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Irish poet published in the United States
Richard Murphy, Sailing to an Island, including "The Poet on the Island", London: Faber and Faber; New York: Chilmark Press, 1965 Irish work published in the United Kingdom




= New Zealand

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James K. Baxter, The Ballad of the Soap Powder Lock-Out, a light-hearted work written by a poet who was at this time a postal worker in New Zealand, in connection with a postal workers’ protest against delivering heavy samples of soap powder
Alistair Campbell, Sanctuary of Spirits
Keith Sinclair, A Time to Embrace




= United Kingdom

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Patricia Beer, The Survivors
Edwin Bronk, With Love From Judas, Lowestoft, Suffolk: Scorpion Press
W. H. Davies, The Complete Poems of W. H. Davies, introduction by Sir Osbert Sitwell
C. Day-Lewis, translation, The Eclogues of Virgil (see also his translations The Georgics of Virgil 1940 and The Aenid of Virgil 1952)
Lawrence Durrell, editor, New Poems 1963: A P.E.N. Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, London: Hutchinson & Co. Ltd.
T. S. Eliot, Collected Poems 1909–1962
Michael Hamburger, Weather and Season, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul; New York: Atheneum
Philip Hobsbaum and Edward Lucie-Smith, editors, A Group Anthology of young poets, many influenced by Ted Hughes, including George MacBeth, Peter Porter, David Wevill, and Peter Redgrove
James Kirkup, Refusal to Conform
Laurence Lerner, The Directions of Memory
George MacBeth, The Broken Places, Lowestoft, Suffolk: Scorpion Press
Norman MacCaig, A Round of Applause
Louis MacNeice, The Burning Perch (posthumous)
John Clark Milne, Poems (posthumous)
Richard Murphy, Sailing to an Island, London: Faber and Faber; New York: Chilmark Press, 1965 Irish
Margaret O'Donnell, editor, An Anthology of Commonwealth Verse, London: Blackie & Son
Wilfred Owen (killed 1918), The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen, edited and introduced by C. Day-Lewis
F. T. Prince, The Doors of Stone
Peter Redgrove, At the White Monument, and Other Poems, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul
Bernard Spencer, With Luck Lasting
R. S. Thomas, The Bread of Truth
Anthony Thwaite, The Owl in the Tree, London: Oxford University Press
Charles Tomlinson, A Peopled Landscape, London: Oxford University Press
Rosemary Tonks, Notes on Cafés and Bedrooms




= United States

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Conrad Aiken, The Morning Song of Lord Zero
John Malcolm Brinnin, Selected Poems
Gwendolyn Brooks, Selected Poems
John Ciardi, In Fact
Evan S. Connell (at this time known as "Evan S. Connell Jr."), Notes From a Bottle Found on the Beach at Carmel
E.E. Cummings, 73 Poems, posthumously published (died 1962)
Babette Deutsch, Collected Poems, 1919-1962
Denis Devlin, Selected Poems, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Irish poet published in the United States
Alan Dugan, Poems 2
Allen Ginsberg, Reality Sandwiches, San Francisco: City Lights Books 6
Edward Gorey, The Gashlycrumb Tinies
Daniel G. Hoffman, The City of Satisfactions
John Hollander, Various Owls
Robinson Jeffers, The Beginning and the End and Other Poems, posthumously published (died 1962)
Donald Justice, A Local Storm
H. P. Lovecraft, Collected Poems
W. S. Merwin:
The Moving Target, New York: Atheneum
Translator, The Song of Roland
Howard Nemerov, The Next Room of the Dream
Lou B. ("Bink") Noll, The Center of the Circle, a first volume of poetry
Mary Oliver, No Voyage, and Other Poems (first edition; later released in an expanded edition in 1965)
Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar, an autobiographical novel published under the pseudonym "Victoria Lucas"
Henry Rago, [2] A Sky of Light Summer, New York: Macmillan
John Crowe Ransom, Selected Poems, revised and enlarged edition
Kenneth Rexroth, Natural Numbers
Adrienne Rich, Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law, her third volume of poetry, gains the poet national prominence for her lyric voice, mostly in free verse, and for her treatment of feminist-related themes
Theodore Roethke, Sequence, Sometimes Metaphysical
Carl Sandburg, Honey and Salt
Anne Sexton, All My Pretty Ones
Louis Simpson, At the End of the Open Road, Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press
William Stafford, Traveling Through the Dark
Jesse Stuart, Hold April
May Swenson, To Mix With Time
John Updike, Telephone Poles, and Other Poems
Mark Van Doren, Collected and New Poems, 1924-1963
David Wagoner, The Nesting Ground
William Carlos Williams, Paterson, all five books of this long poem first published together
James Wright, The Branch Will Not Break, Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press



Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States

Louis Zukofsky, Bottom: On Shakespeare a work of literary philosophy
Robert Bly's "A Wrong Turning in American Poetry" published in Choice




= Other in English

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Viresh Chander Dutt, Poems and Meditations, Calcutta: self-published; India, Indian poetry in English
James McAuley, Australia:
James McAuley (Australian Poets series), Sydney: Angus & Robertson
The Six Days of Creation (An Australian Letters publication)
Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Australia:
In Light and Darkness, Sydney: Angus & Robertson
Editor, Six Voices: Contemporary Australian Poets, Sydney: Angus & Robertson; American Edition, Westport, Connecticut: 1979 (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:




= Denmark

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Inger Christensen, Græs: digte ("Grass")
Ivan Malinovski, Romerske Bassiner ("Roman Pools")
Jørgen Sonne, Krese ("Cycles")




= Finland

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Aila Meriluoto, Asumattomiin
Lassi Nummi, Kuutsimittaa




= French language

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Canada, in French

Marie-Claire Blais, Pays voilés, Québec: Éditions Garneau
Ronald Desprês, Les Cloisons en vertige
Alfred Desrochers, Le Retour de Titus
Alain Grandbois, Poèmes
Gatien Lapointe, Ode au Saint-Laurent
Wilfred Lemoine, Sauf-conduits
Pierre Perrault, Toutes isles
Jean-Guy Pilon, Pour saluer une ville
Edmond Robillard, Blanc et noir: Poèmes de nature et de grâce, Montréal: Éditions du Lévrier



France

Louis Aragon, Le Fou d'Elsa
P. Bealu, Amour me cele, celle que j'aime
Jacques Dupin, Gravir
Pierre Emmanuel, pen name of Noël Mathieu, La Nouvelle Naissance
Leon-Paul Fargue, Poesies, a collection of the author's early books published here posthumously (died 1947) with a preface by Saint-John Perse
Maurice Fombeure, Quel est ce coeur?
Paul Gilson, Enigmarelle
Eugène Guillevic, Sphère
Edmond Jabès, Le Livre des Questions
Saint-John Perse:
Au souvenir de Valery Larbaud, Liège: Editions Dynamo
Oiseaux
Poésie
Silence pour Claudel, Liège: Editions Dynamo
Denis Roche, Récits complets
Victor Segalen, Ode, suivi de Thibet
An anthology of Hungarian poetry translated by poets Jean Rousselot, Jean Follain, and Eugène Guillevic




= German

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Erich Fried, Reich der Steine a volume of cycles of poetry
Rupert Hirschenauer and Albrecht Weber, editors, Wege zum Gedicht, 2 volumes (second volume, on the ballad, published this year, previous volume published in 1956), scholarship
Peter Huchel, Chausseen, Chausseen: Gedichte (East Germany)
Christa Reinig, Gedichte (East Germany)




= Hebrew

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Nathan Alterman, a four-volume edition of his writing
Yehuda Amichai, a book of poetry
Y. Bat-Miriam, a book of poetry
J. Lichtenbaum, a book of poetry
J. Rabinow, a book of poetry
J. Ratosh, a book of poetry
D. Rokeah, a book of poetry
S. Shalom, a book of poetry
A. Tur-Malkah, a book of poetry




= India

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Listed in alphabetical order by first name:

Indra Dev Bhojvani, also known as "Indur"; Sindhi-language:
Bijilyun Thyun Barsani
Praha Bakhun Kadhyun
Nilmani Phookan, Surya Heno Nami Ahe Ei Nadiyedi ("The sun is said to come descending by this river"), Assamese language
Harumal Isardas Sadarangani, Ruha D'ino Relo, Sindhi-language




= Spanish language

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Latin America

Carlos Albert, editor, 13 poetas Argentinos de hoy, an anthology from the publisher Editorial Goyanarte (Argentina)
Alfonso Alcalde, Variaciones sobre el tema del amor y de la muerte (Chile)
Jorge Carrera Andrade, Angel planetario (Ecuador)
Mario Benedetti (Uruguay):
Inventario, Poesía 1950–1958 ("Inventory, Poems 1950–1958")
Poemas del hoyporhoy ("Poems of Today"), Uruguay
Esther de Cáceres, Los Cantos del destierro
Roland Cárdenas, En el invierno de la provincia
Arturo Corcuera, Noé delirante (Peru)
Lupo Hernández Rueda, Muerte y memoria (Dominican Republic)
Francisco Monterde, Sakura, including poetry inspired by epigrams and haiku (Mexico)




= Swedish

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Solveig von Schoultz, Sänk ditt ljus




= Yiddish

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E. Ayzikovich, a new book of poems
Sore Birnboym, a new book of poems
Yaykev Fridman, Nefilim, drama in the form of a symbolic poem
A. Glants-Leyeles, Amerike un ikh ("America and I") (United States)
Yirmiyohu Hesheles, Lider ("Poems")
L. Kusman, a new book of poems
I. M. Levin, a new book of poems
M. K. Likhtshteyn, a new book of poems
Nosn Mark, a new book of poems
Leyb Olitsky, a new book of poems
Efroyim Oyerbakh, Der step vakht ("The Steppe Is Awake"), with Hassidic mysticism as an inspiration (United States)
Nakhmen Raf, a new book of poems
Eliyohu Reyzman, a new book of poems
M. Shafir, a new book of poems
Moyshe Shklar, a new book of poems
Hersh Leyb Yung, a new book of poems




= Other

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Nanni Balestrini, Come si agisce (Italy)
Manuel Bandeira, Estrêla da tarde, a selection from previous works (Brazil)
Ascensio Ferreira, Catimbó e outros poemas, a collection of three previous books (Brazil)
Stratis Haviaras, Η κυρία με την πυξίδα (Lady with a Compass, Greece)




Awards and honors


Nobel Prize in Literature: Giorgos Seferis




= United Kingdom

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Eric Gregory Award: Ian Hamilton, Stewart Conn, Peter Griffith, David Wevill
Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: William Plomer
Newdigate Prize: not awarded




= United States

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February 19 - Robert Frost wins Bollingen Prize
Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (later the post would be called "Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress"): Howard Nemerov appointed this year.
American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in Poetry, William Carlos Williams
National Book Award for Poetry: William Stafford, Traveling Through the Dark
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: William Carlos Williams: Pictures from Breughel
Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Ezra Pound and Allen Tate




Births


May 19 – Michael Symmons Roberts, English
May 26 – Simon Armitage, English poet laureate and playwright
August 7 – Lynn Crosbie, Canadian poet and novelist
September 4 – Claudia Rankine, American poet born in Jamaica and raised there and in New York City.
December 24 – Naja Marie Aidt, Danish poet and writer
Also:
He Xiaozhu, Chinese-Hmong poet, novelist and short story writer
Michael Derrick Hudson, American poet and librarian
John Kinsella, Australian
Don Paterson, Scottish poet, writer and musician
Fiona Sampson, English
Lutz Seiller, German




Deaths


Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

January 29 – Robert Frost, 88, American poet
February 11 – Sylvia Plath, 30, American-born poet, by suicide
March 4 – William Carlos Williams, 79, American poet
April 18 – Lady Margaret Sackville, 81, English poet and children's author
April 25 – Christopher Hassall, 51, English lyricist
May 6 – Mantarō Kubota 久保田万太郎 (born 1889), Japanese author, playwright and poet
August 1 – Theodore Roethke, 55, American poet and winner of the 1954 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
August 3 – Evelyn Scott (born 1893), American poet, novelist and playwright
September 3
Eva Dobell, 87, English poet, nurse, and editor best known for her verses related to World War I soldiers
Louis MacNeice, 55, British poet, playwright and producer, of pneumonia
September 10 – Bernard Spencer, 53 English poet, apparently in accident
October 11 – Jean Cocteau, 74, French poet, playwright, novelist, painter, designer, producer and critic
November 22 – Patrick MacGill, 73, Irish-born "navvy poet" and journalist
December 2 – Sasaki Nobutsuna 佐佐木信綱 (born 1872), Japanese, Shōwa period tanka poet and scholar of the Nara and Heian periods
December 24 – Tristan Tzara, 67, French poet (native of Romania) and a founder of Dadaism




See also



Poetry
List of poetry awards
List of years in poetry




References

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• Chairil Anwar
• James Charles Stuart
• G. Sankara Kurup
• Majapahit
• Korina
• Epigram
• Burton Raffel
• Poedjangga Baroe
• Robert Frost
• Sylvia Plath
• 1963 in poetry
• Ci (poetry)
• 1963
• American poetry
• Bollingen Prize
• Sylvia Plath
• Epic poetry
• United States Poet Laureate
• The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry
• Robert Frost