Aleksandr Tvardovsky, who died this year, was a Soviet poet who, as editor of Novy Mir, fought for more independence and published Alexandr Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich in 1962

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Events

• This Magazine founded by Robert Grenier and Barrett Watten
• The Canterbury Tales, a film directed by Pier Paulo Pasolini, providing a soft-pornographic, controversial version of four tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
• March — Cuban poet Herberto Padilla is arrested in Havana and released only after signing a confession stating he is a "vicious character" who took part in counterrevolutionary activities. A letter to Fidel Castro published May 20 in Paris from 60 leftist intellectuals, all supporters of the Cuban revolution, protested Padilla's treatment and accused Castro of imposing Stalinism on Cuba. Among the 60: Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Susan Sontag, Alberto Moravia, Carlos Fuentes, and Mario Vargas Llosa (who said he continued to support the Cuban revolution). Julio Cortázar of Argentina said he stood by Castro in a verse manifesto, Policrítica en la hora de los chacales.
• April 8 — release of Right On!, a film directed by Herbert Danska, of poetry recitations with bongo accompaniments on New York city streets

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Works published

English language

Canada

• Margaret Atwood, Power Politics
• Bill Bissett, Nobody Owns the Earth
• George Bowering, Touch: Selected Poems 1960-1970
• Louis Dudek, Collected Poetry
• Bill Howell, The Red Fox
• Irving Layton, The Collected Poems of Irving Layton
• Richard Lewis, editor, I Breathe a New Song anthology of poems by Eskimos
• Alden Nowlan, Between Tears and Laughter
• Andreas Schroeder, File of Uncertainties, a chapbook (Sono Nis Press)
• Raymond Souster, The Years
• Phyllis Webb, Selected Poems 1954-65
• Dale Zieroth and four other poets, Mindscapes

Margaret Eleanor Atwood, OC (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian writer. ... bill bissett (born November 23, 1939) is a Canadian poet famous for his anti-conventional style. ... George Harry Bowering (born 1935) is a prolific Canadian novelist, poet, historian, and biographer. ... Louis Dudek (February 6, 1918 - March 23, 2001) was a Canadian poet. ... William Peter Howell (born December 29, 1869, Penrith, New South Wales. ... Irving Layton OC (March 12, 1912 – January 4, 2006) was a Canadian poet. ... Richard Lewis may be Richard Lewis (baseball player) Richard Lewis (comedian) Richard Lewis (politician) Richard Lewis (tenor) Richard W. Lewis, literary critic and biographer This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title. ... Alden Nowlan (January 25, 1933 - June 27, 1983) was a Canadian poet. ... Andreas Schroeder (born November 26, German born Canadian poet, novelist, and nonfiction writer who lives in the small town of Roberts Creek, British Columbia. ... Raymond Holmes Souster was born in 1921, in Toronto, Ontario. ... Phyllis Webb (April 8, 1927) is a Canadian poet and radio broadcaster. ...

United Kingdom

• Fleur Adcock, High Tide in the Garden
• George Barker, Poems of Places and People
• Frances Bellerby, a book of selected poems
• George Mackay Brown
  • Fishermen and Ploughs
  • Poems New and Selected
• Tony Connor, In the Happy Valley
• John Cotton, Old Movies
• Michael Ffinch, Voices Round a Star
• Veronica Forrest-Thompson, Language-Games
• Elaine Feinstein, The Magic Apple Tree
• Thom Gunn, Moly, with some poems written under the influence of LSD; others described the experience of taking it
• Geoffrey Hill, Mercian Hymns
• Sylvia Plath, Crossing the Water, published this year but containing poems written in 1960 and 1961
• Jeremy Robson, editor, The Young British Poets anthology
• Vernon Scannell, a book of selected poems
• Jon Silkin, Amana Grass
• Donald Ward, The Dead Snake
• Patricia Whittaker, The Flying Men

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United States

• Dick Allen, Anon and Various Time Machine Poems
• Maya Angelou, Just Give Me a Cool Glass of Water 'Fore I Die
• Gwendolyn Brooks:
  • Black Steel: Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali
  • The World of Gwendolyn Brooks
  • Aloneness
• Ted Berrigan and Anne Waldman, Memorial Day
• Ted Berrigan, Train Ride
• Paul Blackburn, The Journals: Blue Mounds Entries
• John Ciardi, Lives of X
• Cid Corman, Sun Rock Man (New Directions)
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Back Roads to Far Places (New Directions)
• Robert Fitzgerald, Spring Shade, collected poems and translations, 1931-1970 (New Directions)
• Donald S. Fryer, Songs and Sonnets Atlantean
• Galway Kinnell, The Book of Nightmares
• Stanley Kunitz, The Testing Tree
• James McMichael, Against the Falling Evil
• Carl Rakosi, Ere-Voice
• Adrienne Rich, The Will to Change
• Richard Shelton, The Tattooed Desert
• Charles Simic, Dismantling the Silence
• Clark Ashton Smith, Selected Poems
• Richard Wilbur, translator, The School for Wives by Molière (in verse)
• James Wright, Collected Poems, including 30 new poems

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Denmark

• Jørgen Leth, Eventyret om den sædvanlige udsigt
• Klaus Rifbjerg, Mytologi

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French language

Canada

• Paul-Marie Lapointe, Le Réel absolu (Editions de l'Hexagone)
• Olivier Marchand, Par Détresse et tendresse (Editions de l'Hexagone)
• Rina Lasnier, La Salle des rêves
• Jacques Brault, La Poésie ce matin (published in Paris)
• Gilbert Langevin:
  • Ouvrir le feu
  • Stress
• Raoul Duguay, L'Apokalypso
• Claude Péloquin, Pour la Grandeur de l'Homme

Rina Lasnier (6 August 1915 – 9 May 1997) was a Québécoise poet. ... Jacques Brault (born March 29, 1933) is a French Canadian poet who lives in Cowansville, Quebec. ...

France

• L. Bérimont, L'Évidence même
• René Char, L'Honneur devant Dieu
• P. Damarix, L'Expérience magique
• M. Bataille, Le Cri dans le mur
• Jean Follain, Éspaces d'instants, the poet was killed in an accident days after publication

René Char (1907 - 1988) René Char (June 14, 1907 - February 19, 1988) was a 20th century poet. ...

Anthologies

• J. L. Bédouin, editor, La Poésie Surréaliste
• Pierre Seghers, editor, La Poésie symboliste

Hebrew

• Leah Goldberg, Shearit ha-Chaim (posthumous)
• I. Efros, Shirim, collected poems
• D. Avidan, Shirim Hitzoniim
• Y. Amichai, Al Menat Lo Lizkor
• N. Yonatan, Shirim ba-Arov ha-Yam
• D. Pagis, Gilgul
• R. Adi, Mishaa le-Shaa
• A. Eldon, Levado ba-Zerem ha-Koved
• R. Shani, Shalom la-Adoni ha-Melech
• M. Meir, ha-Aretz Hahi Mitahat la-Mayim
• M. Oren, Adam Muad
• M. Megged, editor, Shirim Liriim, anthology of modern Hebrew poetry
• E. Silberschlag, Igrotai le-Dorot Aherim
• R. Avinoam, be-Misholai
• R. Lee, El Parvarai ha-Shemesh

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Italy

• Libero De Libero, Di brace in brace^[1]

Norway

• Hans Borli, Isfuglen
• Alfred Hauge, Det evige sekund
• Peter R. Holm, Synslinjer
• Ernst Orvil, Dikt i utvalg
• Sigmund Skard, Popel ved flypass

Hans Børli (December 8, 1918 – August 25, 1989) was a Norwegian poet and writer. ...

Portuguese language

Brazil

• Joaquim Cardozo, De uma noite de festa
• Murilo Mendes, Convergência
• Henriqueta Lisboa, Nova lírica
• Manuel Bandeira, Meus pemas perferidos, a selection from previous books
• Foed Castro Chamma, O andarilho e a aurora
• Anderson Braga Horta, Altiplano

Murilo Mendes(b. ... Henriqueta Lisboa (1901-1985) is an Brazilian writer. ... Brazilain poet, born in 1886, Bandeira is the author of over 20 books, including poetry and prose. ...

Spanish language

Latin America

• Herberto Padilla, Por el momento, published before his arrest in Cuba (see Events above)
• Roberto Fernández Retamar, A quien pueda interesar (Cuba)
• José Lezama Lima, Poesía completa (Cuba)
• Ernesto Mejía Sánchez, Estelas/homenajes (Nicaragua)
• Carlos Solórzano, Las celdas (Guatemala)
• Five authors, including Agustín del Rosario, Poesía joven de Panamá
• M.L. Mendoza, Con él, conmigo, con nosotros tres

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Spain

• José Angel Valente, Las palabras de la tribu, essays
• Vicente Aleixandre, Poesía superrealista
• José María Valverde, Enseñanzas de la edad, 1945-70

Vicente Aleixandre Vicente Pío Marcelino Cirilo Aleixandre y Merlo (April 26, 1898 – December 14, 1984) Spanish poet, born in Sevilla. ...

Sweden

• Ylva Eggehorn, Ska vi dela
• Bo Setterlind, Himlen har landat
• Karl Vennberg, Sju ord pa tunnelbanan
• Lars Forssell, Oktober dikter ("October Poems")
• Gören Palm, Varför har nätterna inga namn?
• Kerstin Thorvall, Följetong i skärt och svart

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Yiddish

• Brakha Coodley, Not on Bread Alone
• Leo Kussman, Ballads of a Generation
• Berl Siegal, Poems for Children
• Mier Shtiker, Jewish Landscape, Volume 2
• M.M. Saffir, Creator of Various Dreams
• Menakhem Stern, Songs at Midnight
• Rochelle Weprinski, The Only Star
• Aaron Zeitlin, Poems of Destruction and Faith
• Joseph Kerler, Song Between Teeth
• Jacob Sternberg, The Circle of Years

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Other

• Odysseus Elytis, The Sovereign Sun (Ο ήλιος ο ηλιάτορας) (Greece)

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Awards and honors

• Nobel Prize in Literature: Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet and diplomat

Nobel Prize in Literature medal. ... Pablo Neruda (July 12, 1904 – September 23, 1973) was the pen name of the Chilean writer and communist politician Ricardo Eliecer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto. ...

Canada

• See 1971 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

Each winner of the 1971 Governor Generals Awards for Literary Merit was selected by a panel of judges administered by the Canada Council for the Arts. ...

United Kingdom

• Cholmondeley Award: Charles Causley, Gavin Ewart, Hugo Williams
• Eric Gregory Award: Martin Booth, Florence Bull, John Pook, D. M. Warman, John Welch
• Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Stephen Spender

The Cholmondeley Award is given by the Society of Authors for poetry. ... Charles Causley (August 24, 1917 – November 4, 2003) was a Cornish poet and writer. ... Gavin Buchanan Ewart (1916 - 1995) was a British poet who is best known for contributing to Geoffrey Grigsons New Verse at the age of seventeen. ... Hugo Williams (born 1942) is a British poet. ... The Eric Gregory Award is given by the Society of Authors to British poets under 30 on submisson. ... Martin Booth (September 7, 1944, Lancashire - February 12, 2004, Devon) was a British writer and poet. ... The Gold Medal for Poetry, originally instituted by King George V, is awarded in some years on 23 April, for a book of verse written by a United Kingdom or British Commonwealth citizen; before 1985 it was awarded only to British writers (this rule clearly not having hardened by 1940). ... Sir Stephen Harold Spender CBE, (February 28, 1909 – July 16, 1995) was an English poet, novelist and essayist who concentrated on themes of social injustice and the class struggle in his work. ...

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"): Josephine Jacobsen appointed this year.
• Bollingen Prize: Richard Wilbur and Mona Van Duyn
• Frost Medal: Melville Cane
• National Book Award for Poetry: Mona Van Duyn, To See, To Take
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: William S. Merwin, The Carrier of Ladders
• Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: James Wright

The Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress is appointed by the United States Librarian of Congress and earns a stipend of $35,000 a year. ... Josephine Jacobsen (August 19, 1908 – July 9, 2003) was an American poet, short story writer, and critic. ... The Bollingen Prize, awarded every two years by the Bollingen Foundation, is a prestigious literary honor bestowed on a poet in recognition of the best book of new verse within the last two years, or for lifetime achievement. ... Richard Purdy Wilbur (born March 1, 1921), is a United States poet. ... Mona Jane Van Duyn (May 9, 1921 - December 2, 2004) was an American poet. ... The Frost Medal is an award of the Poetry Society of America for lifetime achievement. ... The National Book Award for Poetry has been given since 1950 and is part of the National Book Awards, which are given annually for outstanding literary works by American citizens. ... Mona Jane Van Duyn (May 9, 1921 - December 2, 2004) was an American poet. ... The Pulitzer Prize for Poetry has been presented since 1922 for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author. ... William Stanley Merwin (September 30, 1927 - ) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet and translator. ... The Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets, or Academy Fellowship, was the first award of its kind in the United States. ... There have been several people named James Wright. ...

Elsewhere

• Goodman Fielder Wattie Book Award for Poetry: Rosemary Rolleston, William & Mary Rolleston

The Montana New Zealand Book Award for Poetry is one category of the Montana New Zealand Book Awards, given out annually. ...

Births

Deaths

• May 9 — Ogden Nash, 68, American poet best known for writing pithy and funny light verse
• March 7 — Stevie Smith, 67, British poet and novelist, of a brain tumor
• March 9 — Jean Follain, French poet
• June 25 — Charles Vildrac, French poet and playwright
• September (exact date not known) — Paul Blackburn, 44, American poet and translator, from esophageal cancer
• September 9 — Lenore G. Marshall, 72
• September 20 or September 21 (sources differ) — Giorgos Seferis, Greek poet and winner of a Nobel Prize for Literature
• November (exact date not known) — Jacob Glatstein, 75, American Yiddish poet and critic
• December 18 — Aleksandr Tvardovsky, 61, Russian poet, editor of the official Soviet literary journal Novy Mir who fought hard to maintain its independence
• Dates not known:
  • Clifford Dyment, British poet, literary critic and editor, and journalist
  • Alexander Young (poet)

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Notes

1. ^ Britannica Book of the Year 1974 (for events of 1973), "Literature" article, "Italian" section, page 438, mentioned this book in passing, from an earlier year than the events covered in the volume

See also

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• Poetry
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• List of years in poetry