- Source: 1967 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
Poetry International started by Ted Hughes and Patrick Garland
May 16 – the premiere at Taganka Theater in Moscow of a staged poetical performance Послушайте! ("Listen!"), based on the works of Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky. The show is in repertoire until April 1984, is revived in May 1987 and again in repertoire until June 1989.
Soviet authorities, acting through the Union of Soviet Writers, deny popular Russian poet Andrei Voznesensky permission to visit New York for a poetry reading at Lincoln Center, apparently because of remarks the poet made on a previous U.S. visit that were deemed pro-American, although the official reason is that Voznesensky's health is too poor for him to travel. In response, Voznesensky excoriates the literary union in a letter he sends to Pravda, which the newspaper refuses to publish. Nevertheless, copies of the letter, accusing the literary-union authorities of "lies, lies, lies, bad manners and lies", are distributed widely in literary circles. On July 2, Voznesensky strongly criticizes the literary union in a poem he reads at the Taganka Theater in Moscow. The union demands a retraction, but he refuses. According to Voznesensky's 2010 obituary in The New York Times, "The issue was ultimately smoothed over".
New Writers Press is founded by poets Michael Smith and Trevor Joyce with Smith's wife Irene in Dublin to publish poetry.
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:
Pentti Saarikoski, Helsinki, a selection of poetry in translation from Finnish
Wole Soyinka, Idanre, and Other Poems
= Canada
=Margaret Atwood, The Circle Game, won a Governor General's award and "sold out immediately"
John Robert Colombo, Abracadabra
Louis Dudek, Atlantis. Montreal: Delta Canada, 1967.
D. G. Jones, Phrases from Orpheus
Irving Layton, Periods of the Moon: Poems. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart.
Dennis Lee, Kingdom of Absence. Toronto: Anansi.
Dorothy Livesay, The Unquiet Bed.
Eli Mandel, An Idiot Joy, Governor General's Award 1967.
Michael Ondaatje, The Dainty Monsters, Toronto: Coach House Press
P. K. Page, Cry Ararat!: Poems New and Selected
Al Purdy, North of Summer, a diary in verse recounting his stay on Baffin Island
F. R. Scott, Trouvailles: Poems from Prose. Montreal: Delta Canada.
A. J. M. Smith:
Editor, A Book of Modern Canadian Verse, anthology
Poems: New and Collected
Raymond Souster, As Is. Toronto: Oxford University Press.
Raymond Souster, editor, New Wave Canada anthology of younger poets
Miriam Waddington, The Glass Trumpet
George Woodcock, Selected Poems of George Woodcock, Toronto: Clarke, Irwin, Canada
= India
=A. K. Ramanujan, The Striders, Delhi: Oxford University Press
Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, Woodcuts on Paper
Kamala Das, The Descendants, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India.
Lawrence Bantleman:
Kanchenjunga, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India.
New Poems, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India
Sukanta Chaudhuri, Poems, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India
Margaret Chatterjee, The Spring and the Spectacle, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India
A. Madhavan, Poems, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India
R. Rabindranath Menon, Dasavatara and Other Poems, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India
S. R. Mokashi-Punekar, The Pretender, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India
Mohinder Monga, Through the Night Raptly, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India
Tarpiti Mookerji, The Golden Road to Samarkand, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India
Suniti Namjoshi:
Poems, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India
The Jackass and the Lady, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India
Stanley P. Rajiva, The Permanent Element, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India
S. Santhi, Lamplight in the Sun, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India
O. P. Bhagat, Another Planet, New Delhi: Lakshmi Books
Sankara Krishna Chettur, Golden Stars and Other Poems, Madras: Higginbotham
Harindranath Chattopadhyaya, Virgins and Vineyards, Bombay: Pearl Pub.
Raul De Loyola Furtado, also known as Joseph Furtado (died 1947), Selected Poems, third edition, revised; Bombay: published by Philip Furdado (first edition 1942; second edition, revised 1947), posthumously published
Monika Varma, translator, A Bunch of Tagore Poems, Calcutta: Writers Workshop
Kushwant Singh, editor, The Asian PEN Anthology, Taplinger
= New Zealand
=Fleur Adcock, Tigers, London: Oxford University Press (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963)
James K. Baxter:
The Lion Skin: Poems
Aspects of Poetry in New Zealand, critical study
The Man on the Horse, critical study
Alistair Campbell, Blue Rain: Poems, Wellington: Wai-te-ata Press
= United Kingdom
=Fleur Adcock, Tigers; New Zealander living in and published in the United Kingdom
Kingsley Amis, A Look Round the Estate
Patricia Beer, Just Like the Resurrection
Martin Bell, Collected Poems, 1937–1966
D. M. Black, With Decorum
Alan Brownjohn, The Lions' Mouths
T. S. Eliot, Poems Written in Early Youth, a second edition of the 1950 book of poems edited and privately printed by John Hayward (posthumous)
Janet Frame, The Pocket Mirror
Bryn Griffiths, The Stones Remember, London: J. M. Dent
Geoffrey Grigson, A Skull in Salop, and Other Poems
Thom Gunn, Touch
Libby Houston, A Stained Glass Raree Show, London: Allison and Busby
Ted Hughes, Wodwo, a collection of poems, a radio play and five stories
Elizabeth Jennings, Collected Poems, 1967, London: Macmillan
P. J. Kavanagh, On the Way to the Depot
Thomas Kinsella, Nightwalker, and Other Poems
George MacBeth, The Colour of Blood
Hugh MacDiarmid, pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve; a Scot:
A Lap of Honour, with some poems "previously almost unobtainable"
Collected Poems, a revised edition
Roger McGough, Frinck: A Day in the Life Of; and Summer with Monica
Leslie Norris, Finding Gold
Brian Patten, Little Johnny's Confession
Tom Pickard, High on the Walls, used "Geordie" (Newcastle) slang
James Reeves, Selected Poems, London: Allison and Busby
Anthony Thwaite, The Stones of Emptiness
Rosemary Tonks, Iliad of Broken Sentences, London: The Bodley Head
Vernon Watkins, Selected Poems, 1930-60
Anthologies
Edward Lucie-Smith (ed.), The Liverpool Scene anthology featuring work by the Mersey Beat poets Adrian Henri, Roger McGough and Brian Patten (publisher: Donald Carroll)
The Mersey Sound, 10th volume in the Penguin Modern Poets series, including work by Liverpudlians Adrian Henri, Roger McGough, Brian Patten
Stephen Bann, Concrete Poetry, poems originally written in English, German, Spanish and Portuguese
Howard Sergeant, Commonwealth Poems of Today, covering 24 Commonwealth countries, published for The English Association by John Murray in the United Kingdom
Duncan Glen (ed.), Poems Addressed to Hugh MacDiarmid
Donald Allen and Robert Creeley (eds), The New Writing in the USA published by Penguin, including work by John Ashbery, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Frank O'Hara, Charles Olson, prose as well as poetry
= United States
=W. H. Auden, Collected Shorter Poems, 1927-1957, first published in the United Kingdom in 1966; English native published in the United States
Ted Berrigan, Ron Padgett and Joe Brainard, Bean Spasms, in which no authors were listed for individual poems, although some were written by one poet, some in collaboration.
Ted Berrigan, Many Happy Returns
John Berryman, Berryman's Sonnets (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Paul Blackburn:
The Reardon Poems
The Cities
Richard Brautigan, All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace, including the poem of the same name
Gwendolyn Brooks, The bitch
Robert Creeley, Words
Ed Dorn, The North Atlantic Turbine, Fulcrum Press
Robert Lowell, Near the Ocean, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Carl Rakosi, Amulet (Rakosi's first published volume since 1941)
W. S. Merwin, The Lice, New York: Atheneum
Marianne Moore, Complete Poems
J. R. R. Tolkien, The Road Goes Ever On, English writer, but this book first published in the United States; published in the United Kingdom in 1968
Reed Whittemore, Poems, New and Selected
James Wright, Shall We Gather at the River
= Other in English
=Eavan Boland, New Territory, Ireland
Edward Brathwaite, Rights of Passage, first part of his The Arrivants trilogy, which also includes Masks (1968) and Islands (1969), Caribbean
Dom Moraes, Beldam & Others, a pamphlet of verse, India
Chris Wallace-Crabbe, The Rebel General, Sydney: Angus & Robertson, Australia
Lenrie Peters (Gambia), Satellites, London: Heinemann, African Writers Series No. 37
Judith Wright, The Other Half, Australia
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
=Jørgen Gustava Brandt, Ateliers
Klaus Høeck, Mit-enf-snee, 1967. Nuancer
Jens Ørnsbo, a new collection of poems
Klaus Rifbjerg, Fædrelandssang
Henrik Nordbrandt, Miniaturer
Jørgen Gustava Brandt, Ateliers ("Studios"), Denmark
= French language
== France
=Anne-Marie Albiach, Flammigere
P. Chaullet, Soudaine écorce
Lucienne Desnoues, Les Ors
Jean Daive, Décimale blanche, Mercure de France
R. Dubillard, Le dirai que je suis tombé
Jean Follain, D'Après tout
M. Fombeure, À Chat petit
Jean Grosjean, Élegies, which won the Prix des Critiques
Eugene Guilleveic, Euclidiennes
Edmond Jabès, Yael
Philippe Jaccottet, Airs
J. Lebrau, Du Cyprès tourne l'ombre
Francis Ponge:
Le Nouveau Recueil
Le Savon
Raymond Queneau, Courir les rues
Charles le Quintrec, Stances du verbe amour
Jacques Roubaud, Σ, forms of "sonnets" arranged in a way reflecting the moves of the board game Go, and with the suggestion that the order might be rearranged; the title comes from the mathematical symbol for "belonging"
Lilaine Wouters, Le Gel
Critical studies
P. de Boisdeffre, La Poésie française de Baudelaire á nos jours
René Étiemble, Poètes ou faiseurs, a critical study
M. Guiney, La Poésie de Pierre Reverdy
G. Sadoul, Aragon
A. Alter, J. C. Renard
= German language
=Paul Celan, Breathturn (Atemwende)
Germany
Günter Grass, Ausgefragt (West Germany)
Elfriede Jelinek, Lisas Schatten (Austrian writer published in West Germany)
Karl Mickel, Vita nova mea (East Germany)
= Hebrew
=Israel
B. Pomerantz, Shirim ("Poems"), introduction by N. Peniel (posthumous)
N. Shtern, Bain ha-Arpilim ("Amid the Mists"), preface by A. Broides
T. Carmi, ha-Unikorn Mistakel ba-Mareh ("The Unicorn Looks into the Mirror")
Ori Bernstein, be-Ona ha-Kezarah ("In the Brief Season")
Yaoz Kast, a book of collected poems
Ozer Rabin, Shuv ve-shuv ("Again and Again")
A. Aldon, a book of poems
S. Pilus, a book of poems
S. Tanny, Ad Shehigia ha-Yom (title translated by the author as "The Moment Came")
D. Chomsky, Ezov ba-Even ("The Moss on the Stone")
United States
Israel Efros, collected poems, four volumes
Eliezer D. Friedland, Shirim be-Sulam Minor ("Poems in a Minor Key")
Avraham Marthan, Shavot ha-Sirot Im Erev ("The Birds Return at Evening")
Yizhak Finkel, Maginah Morikah ("Verdant Melody")
= India
=Listed in alphabetical order by first name:
Hem Barua, Man Mayuri; Assamese-language
Ramakant Rath, Anek Kothari ("Many Rooms"); Oriya-language
Rituraj, Ek Marandharma aur Anya; Hindi-language
Sitakant Mahapatra, Astapadi ("Eight Steps"); Oriya-language
Sugathakumari, Pathirappookkal ("Midnight Flowers"); Malayalam-language
Umashankar Joshi, Abhijna; Gujarati-language
= Italy
=Lino Curci, Gli operai della terra
Antonio Veneziano, Ottave (posthumous)
Carlo Vallini, Un giorno (posthumous)
Enrico Falqui, editor, Tutte le poesie della "Voce", anthology
= Portuguese language
=Brazil
José Paulo Paes, Anatomías
Affonso Avila, Resíduos Seiscentista em Minas, a study of the barique poetry of Minas Gerais
= Spanish language
=Chile
Rosamel del Valle, a book of poetry, posthumously published
Humberto Díaz Casanueva, El sol ciego
Gabriela Mistral, Poema de Chile ("Poem of Chile"), posthumously published
Spain
Gastón Basquero, Memorial de un testigo (Cuban resident of Spain)
Gabriel Celaya, Lo que faltaba: Precedido de la linterna sorda y Música de baile
Manuel Tuñón de Lara, Antonio Machado, poeta del pueblo a critical study
= Yiddish
=Dovid Sfard, Barefoot Steps (Poland)
Israel
Yankev Fridman, Loving Kindness
Rikude Potash, a book of poems (posthumous)
United States
Rokhl Korn, a book of poems
Avrom Zak, a book of poems
M. M. Shafir, a book of poems
L. Faynberg, a book of poems
Sholem Shtern, a book of poems
M. Frid-Vaninger, a book of poems
M. Olitsky, a book of poems
Soviet Union
Leyb Kvitko, a book of selected poems
Shimon Halkin, My Treasury
= Other
=Luo Fu, Poems from Beyond, Chinese (Taiwan)
Einar Skjæraasen, "Sang i september" the first poem to appear since 1956 from one of Norway's most popular poets
Pentti Saarikoski, Laulu laululta pois ("Going Away, Song by Song"), a book-length poem (Finland)
Alexander Mezhirov, Подкова ("Podkova"), Russia, Soviet Union
Wisława Szymborska, Poland:
Sto pociech ("No End of Fun")
Poezje wybrane ("Selected Poetry")
Awards and honors
= Canada
=See 1967 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
= United Kingdom
=Cholmondeley Award: Seamus Heaney, Brian Jones, Norman Nicholson
Eric Gregory Award: Angus Calder, Marcus Cumberlege, David Harsent, David Selzer, Brian Patten
Frost Medal: Marianne Moore
Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Charles Causley
= United States
=Bollingen Prize: Robert Penn Warren
National Book Award for Poetry: James Merrill, Nights and Days
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Anne Sexton: Live or Die
Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Mark Van Doren
= France
=Max Jacob Award: Édith Boissonnas, for L'Embellie
Critics' Prize: J. Grosjean, Élégies
Apollinaire Award: P. Gascar, Le Quatrième État de la matière
Births
January – Karen Volkman, American poet
May 5 – Saskia Hamilton, American poet
June 9 – Malú Urriola, Chilean poet
June 16 – Kasra Anghaee, Swiss poet
August 22 – Valérie Rouzeau, French poet and translator
September 21 – Suman Pokhrel, Nepali poet, lyricist, playwright, translator and artist
October 21 – Pam Rehm, American poet
Sia Figiel, Samoan novelist, poet and painter
Lisa Jarnot, American poet
V. Penelope Pelizzon, American poet
Joelle Taylor, English performance poet
Diane Thiel, American poet and academic
Matthew Zapruder, American poet and editor
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 29 – Ion Buzdugan, 79 (born 1887), Romanian poet, folklorist and politician
February 13 – Forugh Farrokhzad (born 1934), Iranian poet and film director, in automobile accident
March 16 – Thomas MacGreevy, 72 (born 1893), Irish poet, director of the National Gallery of Ireland and member of the first Irish Arts Council
March 30 – Jean Toomer, 72 (born 1894), American poet, novelist and important figure of the Harlem Renaissance
May 10 – Margaret Larkin, 67 (born 1899), American writer, poet, singer-songwriter, researcher, journalist and union activist
May 12 – John Masefield, 88 (born 1878), English Poet Laureate and author
May 22 – Langston Hughes, 65 (born 1902), African American poet, of heart failure
June 7 – Dorothy Parker, 73 (born 1893), American writer and poet known for her caustic wit, of heart failure
June 23 – Sakae Tsuboi 壺井栄 (born 1899), novelist and poet
July 1 – Chen Xiaocui, 64 (born 1902), Chinese poet, fiction writer, translator and painter, suicide
July 13 – Yoshino Hideo 吉野秀雄 (born 1902), Japanese, Shōwa period tanka poet
July 19 – Odell Shepard, 82 (born 1884), American historian and poet
July 22 – Carl Sandburg, 89 (born 1878), American historian and poet, of heart failure
July 25 – Pierre Albert-Birot, 91 (born 1876), French poet and writer
September (exact date not known) – Christopher Okigbo, 37 (born 1930), Nigerian poet, killed in action in Nigerian Civil War
September 1 – Siegfried Sassoon, 80 (born 1886), English poet and memoirist
September 5 – David C. DeJong, 62, Dutch-American poet and fiction writer
September 8 – Katka Zupančič, 77 (born 1889), Slovene-American children's poet
September 23 – Augusto Casimiro, 78 (born 1889), Portuguese poet, founder of the Seara Nova literary review and political commentator
October 8 – Vernon Watkins, 61 (born 1906), Welsh poet and painter, of heart failure
November 17 – Bo Bergman, 98 (born 1869), Swedish poet
November 30 – Patrick Kavanagh, 63 (born 1904), Irish poet and novelist, of pneumonia
Date not known – Randall Swingler (born 1909), English poet, librettist, publisher and flautist
See also
Poetry
List of poetry awards
List of years in poetry
References
Lal, P., Modern Indian Poetry in English: An Anthology & a Credo, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, second edition, 1971 (however, on page 597 an "editor's note" states contents "on the following pages are a supplement to the first edition" and is dated "1972"); hereafter "P. Lal (1971)"