• Source: 1964 in poetry

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      Events


      March 23 – A surprise best-seller in the United Kingdom is John Lennon's In His Own Write, a compendium of nonsense writing, sketches and drawings by one of the Beatles, published today.
      March 29 (Easter Day) – Adrian Mitchell reads "To Whom It May Concern" to Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament protesters in Trafalgar Square, London.
      April 23 – The "Shakespeare Quartercentenary", the 400th anniversary of the birth of William Shakespeare falling around this date, is celebrated throughout the year in lecture series, exhibitions, dramatic and musical programs and other events as well as special publications (Shakespeare issues and supplements), reprinting of standard works on the playwright and poet, and the issue of commemorative postage stamps. The American Association of Advertising Agencies suggests that Shakespeare quotations should be used in advertisements. Celebrations of various kinds occur in the United Kingdom, the United States, France, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and elsewhere. The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust opens the Shakespeare Centre, housing its library and research facilities, in Stratford-upon-Avon (England).
      June
      The 75th birthday of Anna Akhmatova, who was severely persecuted during the Stalin era, is celebrated around this time with special observances and the publication of new collections of her verse.
      After the murder of American civil rights activist Andrew Goodman, poet Mary Doyle Curran finds and publishes a poem he had written for her college class, "A Corollary to a Poem by A. E. Housman."
      December – Poetry Australia literary magazine founded.
      John Berryman's 77 Dream Songs, published this year, wins the 1965 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.
      Russian poet Joseph Brodsky is convicted of "parasitism" in a Soviet court, which sends him into exile near the Arctic Circle.
      Among the many books of poetry published this year, Robert Lowell's For the Union Dead is greeted with particular acclaim. The book is received with "general jubilation" from critics, according to Raymond Walters Jr., associate editor of the New York Times Book Review. "These verses [...] convinced many observers that its author was now the pre-eminent U.S. poet."
      The publication in the United Kingdom of The Complete Poems of D. H. Lawrence in two volumes is "a major publishing event of 1964".


      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 Dutton, The Literature of Australia
      Gwen Harwood, Poems, Australian poet published in the United Kingdom
      T. Inglis Moore, and Douglas Stewart, editors, Poetry in Australia, 2 volumes, Sydney: Angus and Robertson
      Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker), We Are Going: Poems, first book of verse by an Aboriginal Australian
      David Rowbotham, All the Room, Australian poetry prize winner
      R. Ward, Penguin Book of Australian Ballads, anthology
      Judith Wright, Five Senses selected poems; Australian poet published in the United Kingdom


      = Canada

      =
      Earle Birney:
      Near False Creek Mouth. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart.
      Two Poems. Halifax.
      George Bowering, Points on the Grid
      Leonard Cohen, Flowers for Hitler, including "The Only Tourist in Havana Turns his Thoughts Homeward"
      John Robert Colombo, Poesie / Poetry 64
      Pierre Coupey, Bring Forth the Cowards
      Phyllis Gotlieb, Within the Zodiac, her first work
      John Glassco, A Point of Sky
      Irving Layton, The Laughing Rooster
      Dorothy Livesay, The Colour of God's Face.
      Gwendolyn MacEwen, The Rising Fire
      Eli Mandel, Black and Secret Man
      F. R. Scott, Events and Signals. Toronto: Ryerson Press.
      Raymond Souster, The Colour of the Times, 250 poems collected from a dozen of his previous volumes. Governor General's Award 1964.
      David Wevill, Birth of a Shark, a first collection; Canadian poet published in the United Kingdom


      Anthologies in Canada


      Poetry of Mid-Century 1940/1960, edited by Milton Wilson, included the work of 10 well-known Canadian poets:

      Poésie/Poetry 64, edited by John Robert Colombo and Jacques Godbout;an anthology of lesser-known poets, including:


      Criticism, scholarship and biography in Canada


      Northrop Frye, Fables of Identity, 16 essays on "various works and authors in the central tradition of English mythopoeic poetry"
      Roy Daniells, Milton, Mannerism and Baroque


      = India, in English

      =
      Monika Varma, Dragonflies Draw Flame ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India.
      Lawrence Bantleman, Man's Fall and Woman's Fall out (according to another source the last word in the title is "Fallout"), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India.
      M. R. Bhagavan, Poems ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India.
      Mohinder Monga, Through the Night, Raptly ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India.
      Leslie de Noronha, Poems ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India.
      G. V. Subbaramayya, Lover's Fulfilment and Other Poems, Tenali: Rishi Publications
      Viresh Chander Dutt, The Voice of Ancient India, Calcutta: Kalyan Chander Dutt
      A. K. Ramanujan, translator, Fifteen Tamil Love Poems, translated from the original Tamil; Calcutta: Writers Workshop, Indiap


      = New Zealand

      =
      Fleur Adcock, Eye of the Hurricane, Wellington: Reed (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963)
      Charles Brasch: Ambulando: Poems, Christchurch: Caxton Press
      Alistair Campbell, Wild Honey, London: Oxford University Press


      = United Kingdom

      =
      Samuel Beckett, translator from the original French, "Comment C'est" 1961, How It Is, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
      Sir John Betjeman, Ring of Bells
      Thomas Blackburn, A Breathing Space
      Donald Davie, Events and Wisdoms, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul (Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1965)
      Patric Dickinson, This Cold Universe
      Keith Douglas, Selected Poems (posthumous), edited by Ted Hughes
      Lawrence Durrell, Selected Poems: 1953–1963, edited by Alan Ross
      Gavin Ewart, Londoners
      Ian Hamilton Finlay, Telegrams from My Windmill, Edinburgh: Wild Hawthorn Press
      Zulfikar Ghose, The Loss of India by a Pakistani, published in the United Kingdom
      Robert Graves, Man Does, Woman Is
      Ian Hamilton, Pretending Not to Sleep
      Tony Harrison, Earthworks
      Gwen Harwood, Poems, Australian poet published in the United Kingdom
      Philip Hobsbaum, The Place's Fault
      Elizabeth Jennings, Recoveries
      Patrick Kavanagh, Collected Poems, London: MacGibbon and Kee
      Philip Larkin, The Whitsun Weddings, London: Faber and Faber
      D. H. Lawrence, The Complete Poems in two volumes (posthumous), edited by Vivian de Sola Pinto and F. Warren Roberts, with poems in chronological order and an introduction by Pinto.
      John Lennon, In His Own Write, containing nonsensical poems, sketches and drawings; a best seller by the member of the Beatles
      C. S. Lewis, Poems
      Douglas Livingstone, Sjambok by a Rhodesian poet
      Edward Lucie-Smith, Confessions and Histories
      John Masefield, Old Raiger, and Other Verse
      Adrian Mitchell, Poems
      Peter Porter, Poems Ancient & Modern, Lowestoft, Suffolk: Scorpion Press
      Peter Redgrove, At the White Monument
      Nathaniel Tarn, Old Savage/Young City
      R.S. Thomas:
      The Bread of Truth
      "Words and the Poet" (lecture)
      David Wevill, Birth of a Shark, a first collection; Canadian poet published in the United Kingdom
      Judith Wright, Five Senses selected poems; Australian poet published in the United Kingdom


      Criticism, scholarship, and biography in the United Kingdom


      Poetry of the Thirties, a Penguin Books anthology; including the last published appearance during the lifetime of W. H. Auden of his, "September 1, 1939", a poem which he was famous for, but which he hated; the poem appeared in the edition with a note about this and four other early poems: "Mr. W. H. Auden considers these five poems to be trash which he is ashamed to have written."
      G. Hartmann, Wordsworth's Poetry, 1787-1814


      = United States

      =
      Conrad Aiken, A Seizure of Limericks
      A. R. Ammons, Expressions of Sea Level
      Ted Berrigan, The Sonnets Holt, Rinehart & Winston
      Wendell Berry, The Broken Ground
      John Berryman, 77 Dream Songs, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
      Joseph Payne Brennan, Nightmare Need
      John Ciardi, Person to Person
      Peter Davison, The Breaking of the Day
      James Dickey:
      Helmets
      Two Poems of the Air
      Ed Dorn:
      Hands Up!, Totem Press
      From Gloucester Out, Matrix Press
      Horace Gregory, Collected Poems
      Donald Hall, A Roof of Tiger Lilies, New York: Viking
      Robert Duncan, Roots and Branches
      Richard Eberhart, The Qyuarry
      Jean Garrigue, Country Without Maps
      Donald Hall, A Roof of Tiger Lilies
      LeRoi Jones, The Dead Lecturer, New York: Grove Press
      Galway Kinnell, Flower Herding on Mount Monadnock, Boston: Houghton Mifflin
      Denise Levertov, O Taste and See, New York: New Directions
      Robert Lowell, For the Union Dead New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (for more information, see "Events" section, above)
      William Meredith, The Wreck of the Thresher and Other Poems
      Vladimir Nabokov, translator, Eugene Onegin by Aleksandr Pushkin
      Frank O'Hara, Lunch Poems
      Elder Olson, Collected Poems
      Ezra Pound, editor, Confucius to Cummings: An Anthology of Poetry
      Kenneth Rexroth:
      Natural Numbers
      (translator), 100 Poems from the Japanese
      Theodore Roethke (died 1963):
      The Far Field, Garden City, New York: Doubleday
      Sequence, Sometimes Metaphysical
      M. L. Rosenthal, Blue Boy on Skates
      E. N. Sargent, The African Boy
      Anne Sexton, Selected Poems
      Karl Shapiro, The Bourgeois Poet, New York: Random House
      Jack Spicer, Language
      Mark Strand, Sleeping With One Eye Open
      Robert Sward, Kissing the Dancer and Other Poems
      Mark Van Doren, Collected and New Poems
      Donald Wandrei, Poems for Midnight


      Criticism, scholarship, and biography in the United States


      Phyllis Grosskurth, John Addington Symonds: A Biography (Canadian scholar publishing in the United States), winner of the 1964 Governor General's Awards in Canada
      Hugh Kenner, editor, Seventeenth Century Poetry: The Schools of Donne & Jonson, Canadian writing and published in the United States
      Vladimir Nabokov, Notes on Prosody, Russian native writing and published in the United States


      = Other in English

      =
      Kofi Awoonor, Rediscovery and Other Poems, Ghanaian poet published in Ghana
      Samuel Beckett, translator from the original French, Comment C'est 1961, How It Is, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
      Denis Devlin, Collected Poems, including "Renewal by Her Element" (see also Collected Poems 1989), Ireland
      Zulfikar Ghose, The Loss of India Pakistani poet, published in the United Kingdom
      Eoghan Ó Tuairisc, Ireland
      The Weekend of Dermot and Grace
      Lux Aeterna, including Hiroshima Mass
      Hone Tuwhare, No Ordinary Sun, Māori poet writing in English, New Zealand


      Works in other languages


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


      = Danish

      =
      Inger Christensen, Graess
      Klaus Rifbjerg, Portraet
      Knud Holst, Trans
      Jørgen Sonne, Krese


      = French

      =


      Canada, in French


      Marie-Claire Blais, Existences, Québec: Éditions Garneau
      Jacques Brault, Mémoire
      Paul Chamberland, L'Afficheur hurle
      Gilbert Choquette, L'Honneur de vivre
      Cécile Cloutier, Cuivre et soies
      Paul-Marie Lapointe, Pour les âmes
      Fernand Oullette, Le Soliel sous la mort


      France


      Louis Aragon, near simultaneous publication of four works:
      Series of discussions with F. Crémieux on the philosophical and literary ideas of the poet
      Il ne m'est Paris que d'Elsa, a collection of poems
      a "lengthy and ambitious historical poem"
      Le Voyage en Hollande
      René Char:
      Commune Presence
      Les Matinaux
      Michel Deguy, Biefs
      Jean Follain, Appareil de la terre
      Roger Giroux, L'arbre temps, winner of the Prix Max Jacob, the author's sole published book during his lifetime
      Edmond Jabès, Le Livre de Yukel
      A. Marissel, La Nouvelle parabole, winner of the first Louise Labé Prize
      Pierre Oster, La Grande Année
      Marcelin Pleynet, Paysages en deux suivis de Les Lignes de la prose
      Jean-Pierre Richard, Onze Etudes sur la poésie moderne, criticism
      Denis Roche, Les Idées centésimales de Miss Elanize


      Anthologies


      J. L. Bédouin, editor, La Poésie surréaliste
      G. E. Clancier, editor, Panorama critique de Chénier á Baudelaire


      = German

      =
      Erich Fried, Warngedichte
      Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Blindenschrift
      Walter Höllerer, Der andere Gast
      Günter Eich, Zu den Akten


      = Hebrew

      =
      Yaakov Cahan, the collected works
      Esther Rab, Shirai-
      Leah Goldberg, Im ha-Laila Hazeh ("On This Night")
      Daliah Rivikovich, Horef Kasheh ("Hard Winter")
      Dan Pagis, Shehut Mauhereth ("Belated Lingering")
      David Avidan, Masheu Bishvil Mishehu ("Something for Someone")
      Amir Gilboa, Kehulim Vaadumin ("The Blues and the Reds")
      Eldad Andan, Lo Bishmahot kalot ("Not with Joys Lightly")
      B. Mordecai, Nefilim ba-Aretz ("Giants on Earth")
      Aaron Zeitlin, Min ha-Adam Vomaila ("From Man and Higher"), comprising two dramatic poems by this American publishing in Israel
      Chaim Brandwein, be-Tzel ha-Argaman ("In the Shadow of the Purple"), a first book of poems by this American publishing in Israel
      Abraham Regelson, Hakukot Otiotaich ("Engraved Are Thy Letters"), by an American poet living in Israel


      = Italian

      =
      Bartolo Cattafi, L'osso, l'anima
      Corrado Costa, Pseudobaudelaire avant-garde poetry
      Eugenio Miccini, Sonetto minore avant-garde poetry
      Elio Pagliarani, La lezione di fisica avant-garde poetry
      Pier Paulo Pasolini, Poesia in forma di rosa
      Lamberto Pignotti, La nozione dell'uomo avant-garde poetry
      Antonio Porta, Aprire avant-garde poetry
      Edoardo Sanguineti, Triperuno avant-garde poetry
      Cesare Vivaldi, Dettagli avant-garde poetry
      Gruppo '63 (published this spring), an anthology of poems, critical essays, and passages from plays and novels by writers who had rebelled in recent years against standard conventions in literature.


      = Norwegian

      =
      Ernst Orvil, Kontakt
      Astrid Hjertenaes Andersen, Frokost 'i det grønne
      Harald Sverdrup, Sang til solen


      = Russian

      =
      Bella Akhmadulina, "published an extensive sheaf of nonpolitical, impressionistic verse", according to Harrison E. Salisbury
      Alexander Mezhirov, Прощание со снегом ("Farewell to the Snow"), Russia, Soviet Union
      Andrei Voznesensky, "a number of poems, including several devoted to Lenin", according to Harrison E. Salisbury


      = Portuguese language

      =


      Brazil


      Lupe Cotrim Garaude, O poeta e o mundo, her fourth collection


      = Spanish language

      =


      Latin America


      Jorge Carrera Andrade, Floresta de los Guacamayos (Ecuador), published in Nicaragua while he was ambassador to the United States
      Jorge Luis Borges, El otro, el mismo (Argentina)
      Arturo Corcuera, Primavera triunfante (Peru)
      Gonzalo Rojas, Contra la muerte (Chile)
      Pablo Neruda, Memorial de Isla Negra (Chile), the first of his 5-volume poetic memoir
      Roque Vallejos, Los arcángeles ebrios (Paraguay)
      Sarah Bollo (Uruguay):
      Diana transfigurada
      Tierra y Cielo


      = Anthologies

      =
      Instituto Torcuato Di Tella, Poesía argentina (sic), including selections from 10 Argentinian poets, most born in the 1920s or later
      Oscar Echeverri Mejía and Alfonso Bonilla-Naar, editors, 21 años de poesía colombiana (sic), with poems from the more prominent Colombian poets in the two decades from 1942 to 1963


      = Criticism, scholarship, and biography in Latin America

      =
      Raúl Silva Castro, Pablo Neruda, an analysis of his poetry
      Jorge Carrera Andrade, Interpretación de Rubén Darío (Nicaragua)
      Luis Alberto Cabrales, Rubén Darío, breve biografía (Nicaragua)
      Rubén Darío periodista, a collection of his journalism compiled by the Nicaragua Ministry of Public Education


      Spain


      Jorge Guillén, Tréboles
      José García Nieto, La hora undécima
      Gerardo Diego, La suerte o la muerte
      Fernando Quiñones, En vida, winner of the Leopoldo Panero Prize by the Instituto de Cultura Hispánica


      = Criticism, scholarship and biography in Spain

      =
      Gabriel Celaya, Exploración de la poesía
      José Francisco Cirré, La poesía de José Moreno Villa
      Books published for the centenary year of Miguel de Unamuno (died 1936), an essayist, novelist, poet, playwright and philosopher:
      Manuel García Blanco, América y Unamuno
      Julio César Chaves, Unamuno y América
      Julio García Morejón, Unamuno y Portugal
      Sebastián de la Nuez, Unamuno en Canarias
      Ricardo Gullón, Autobiografías de Unamuno


      = Yiddish

      =
      Mordkhay gebirtig, a new edition of the poet's works
      Itskhok Katzenelson, a new edition of the poet's works
      Abraham Sutzkever, a two-volume edition of the poet's works
      Joseph Rubinstein, Khurbn Polyn ("Polish Jewry: a Lament")
      Binem Heler, a book of poems
      Yankev Zonshayn, a book of poems
      P. Tsibulski, a book of poems
      I. Papiernikov, a book of poems
      I. Manik, a book of poems
      I. Goykhberg, a book of poems
      Rosa Gutman, a book of poems
      Aleph Katz, a book of poems


      = Other

      =
      Breyten Breytenbach, Die ysterkoei moet sweet ("The Iron Cow Must Sweat"), South African in Afrikaans
      Ernst Enno, Väike luuleraamat, Estonia
      Lars Forstell, Röster (Sweden)
      Ismail Kadare, Përse mendohen këto male ("What Are These Mountains Musing On?"), Albania
      Eeva Liisa Manner, Niin vaihtuivat vuoden ajat (Finland)
      Sean O Riordain, Brosna, including "Claustrophobia", "Reo" and "Fiabhras", Gaelic-language, Ireland
      Rituraj, Main Angiras, Alwar: Kavita Prakashan; India, Hindi-language
      Hijam Anganhal Singh, Khamba Thoibi Sherireng, abridged form of the popular Khamba Thoibi folk ballad, sung on festive occasions and about the last incarnation of Khamba and Thoibi; one of the first epics in modern Meitei poetry; written in 1940 but first published this year; India
      Arvo Turtiainen, Runoja 1934-1964 (Finland)


      Awards and honors




      = Australia

      =
      Grace Leven Prize for Poetry: David Rowbotham, All the Room


      = Canada

      =
      1964 Governor General's Awards:
      No poetry award for English this year
      Poetry award (French): Gratien Lapointe, Ode au Saint-Laurent


      = United Kingdom

      =
      Eric Gregory Award: Robert Nye, Ken Smith, Jean Symons, Ted Walker
      Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: R. S. Thomas


      = 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"): Reed Whittemore appointed this year.
      National Book Award for Poetry: John Crowe Ransom, Selected Poems
      Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Louis Simpson: At The End Of The Open Road
      Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Elizabeth Bishop
      Presidential Medal of Freedom awarded by President Lyndon Johnson to 30 people, including Carl Sandburg


      = Other

      =
      Danish Academy's literature prize: Erik Knudsen, a poet and playwright
      Critics' Prize for Poetry (Spain): María Elvira Lacaci
      Leopoldo Panero Prize, given by the Instituto de Cultura Hispánica (Spain): Fernando Quiñones, for En vida


      Births


      February 18 – David Biespiel, American poet, editor and critic
      May 7 – Kathy Shaidle, Canadian author, columnist and poet
      July 7 – Karina Galvez, Ecuadorian poet
      July 11 – Craig Charles, English actor, presenter and performance poet
      Also:
      Rafael Campo, gay Cuban-American poet, doctor and author
      Beth Gylys, American poet and professor


      Deaths


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

      January 5 – Leslie Holdsworth Allen (born 1879), Australian academic and poet
      January 22 – Zora Cross (born 1890), Australian poet
      March 1 – Davíð Stefánsson, (born 1895), Icelandic poet
      March 12 – Abbas Al Akkad عباس محمود العقاد (born 1889), Egyptian, Arabic-language writer and poet, a founder of the Divan school of poetry
      April 5 – Tatsuji Miyoshi 三好達治 (born 1900), Japanese, Shōwa period literary critic, editor and poet
      April 26 – E. J. Pratt, 81 (born 1882), Canadian poet
      May 5 – Nagata Mikihiko 長田幹彦 (born 1887), Japanese, Shōwa period poet, playwright and screenwriter
      June 7 – Takamure Itsue 高群逸枝 (born 1894), Japanese poet, writer, feminist, anarchist, ethnologist and historian
      September 18 – Clive Bell, 83 (born 1881), English critic
      October 10 – Oscar Williams, 64 (born 1900), American poet and anthologist
      December 9 – Dame Edith Sitwell, 77 (born 1887), English poet and critic, heart attack
      December 29 – Rofū Miki 三木 露風, pen name of Masao Miki, 75 (born 1889), Japanese Symbolist poet and writer


      See also



      Poetry
      List of poetry awards
      List of years in poetry


      Notes

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