1963 in poetry
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Events
- Bob Dylan releases his The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, album, with his most influential early songwriting.
- 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.
- July-August — The Vancouver Poetry Conference is held in three weeks, involving about 60 people who attended discussions, workshops, lectures, and readings designed by Warren Tallman and Robert Creeley as a summer course at the University of British Columbia.[1] 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."[1]
- The Soviet government appeared to begin removing freedoms previously granted to writers and artists in a process that began in November 1962 and continued this year. Yet the government proved uncertain and the writers persistent. In March 1963 the gavel fell on the great debate," or so it appeared, wrote Harrison E. Salisbury, Moscow correspondent for The New York Times. Khrushchev announced that Soviet writers were the servants of the Communist Party and must reflect its orders. Among the authors he specifically targeted were the poets Yevgeny Yevtushenko and Andrei Voznesensky. Yevtushenko, on a tour of European cities earlier in the year, recited before large audiences, including a capacity audience at the Palais de Chaillot in Paris, and then returned home. "Literary Stalinists took over almost all the key publishing positions," Salisbury wrote. Yet the artists and writers who were criticized either refused to recant or did so in innocuous language. Alexander Tvardovsky, editor of the magazine Novy Mir, published three brutally frank stories by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, for instance. By midsummer, the effects of the announced crackdown appeared nil, with authors publishing essentially as before.[2]
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:
Anthologies
- 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
- Edwin Bronk, With Love From Judas,[2] Losestoft, Suffolk: Scorpion Press
- W. H. Davies, The Complete Poems of W. H. Davies, introduction by Sir Osbert Sitwell[2]
- T. S. Eliot - Collected Poems 1909-1962[2]
- 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[2]
- Laurence Lerner, The Directions of Memory[2]
- George MacBeth, The Broken Places,[2] Lowestoft, Suffolk: Scorpion Press[3]
- Norman MacCaig, A Round of Applause[2]
- Louis MacNeice, The Burning Perch (posthumous)[2]
- Richard Murphy, Sailing to an Island, London: Faber and Faber;[5] New York: Chilmark Press, 1965[3] Irish
- Wilfred Owen, The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen, edited and introduced by C. Day Lewis[2]
- F. T. Prince, The Doors of Stone[2]
- Peter Redgrove, All the White Monument, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul[3]
- R.S. Thomas, The Bread of Truth[2]
- Anthony Thwaite, The Owl in the Tree,[2] London: Oxford University Press[3]
- Charles Tomlinson, A Peopled Landscape, London: Oxford University Press[3]
- Conrad Aiken, The Morning Song of Lord Zero[2]
- Gwendolyn Brooks, Selected Poems[2]
- Evan S. Connell (then known as "Evan S. Connell Jr."), Notes From a Bottle Found on the Beach at Carmel[2]
- E.E. Cummings, 73 Poems (posthumous)[2]
- Babette Deutsch, Collected Poems, 1919-1962
- Denis Devlin, Selected Poems, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston[3], Irish poet published in the United States
- Allen Ginsberg, Reality Sandwiches, San Francisco: City Lights Books[3]6
- Paul Goodman, The Lordly Hudson[2]
- Michael Hamburger, Weather and Season, London: Routledge and Keagan Paul; New York: Atheneum[3]
- Robinson Jeffers, The Beginning and the End (posthumous)[2]
- H. P. Lovecraft - Collected Poems
- Howard Nemerov, The Next Room of the Dream[2]
- Lou B. ("Bink") Noll, The Center of the Circle, a first volume of poetry[2]
- 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, [3] A Sky of Light Summer, New York: Macmillan[3]
- 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.
- Anne Sexton, All My Pretty Ones[2]
- Louis Simpson, At the End of the Open Road, Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press[3]
- William Stafford, Traveling Through the Dark[2]
- Jesse Stuart, Hold April[2]
- May Swenson, To Mix With Time[2]
- John Updike, Telephone Poles, and Other Poems[2]
- Mark Van Doren, Collected and New Poems, 1924-1963[2]
- 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[3]
Criticism and scholarship
Other in English
- 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
French language
Spanish language
- Carlos Albert, editor, 13 poetas Argentinos de hoy, an anthology from the publisher Editorial Goyanarte (Argentina)[2]
- Alfonso Alcalde, Variaciones sobre el tema del amor y de la muerte (Chile)[2]
- Jorge Carrera Andrade, Angel planetario (Ecuador)[2]
- Esther de Cáceres, Los Cantos del destierro[2]
- Roland Cárdenas, En el invierno de la provincia[2]
- Lupo Hernández Rueda, Muerte y memoria (Dominican Republic)[2]
- Francisco Monterde, Sakura, including poetry inspired by epigrams and haiku (Mexico)[2]
- E. Ayzikovich, a new book of poems[2]
- Sore Birnboym, a new book of poems[2]
- A. Glants-Leyeles, Amerike un ikh ("America and I") (United States)[2]
- Yirmiyohu Hesheles, Lider ("Poems")[2]
- L. Kusman, a new book of poems[2]
- I. M. Levin, a new book of poems[2]
- M. K. Likhtshteyn, a new book of poems[2]
- Nosn Mark, a new book of poems[2]
- Leyb Olitsky, a new book of poems[2]
- Efroyim Oyerbakh, Der step vakht ("The Steppe Is Awake"), with Hassidic mysticism as an inspiration (United States) [2]
- Nakhmen Raf, a new book of poems[2]
- Eliyohu Reyzman, a new book of poems[2]
- M. Shafir, a new book of poems[2]
- Moyshe Shklar, a new book of poems[2]
- Yaykev Fridman, Nefilim, drama in the form of a symbolic poem
- Hersh Leyb Yung, a new book of poems[2]
Other
Awards and honors
Births
Deaths
- January 29 — Robert Frost, 88, American poet
- February 11 — Sylvia Plath by suicide
- March 4 — William Carlos Williams, 79
- August 1 — Theodore Roethke, 55, American poet and winner of the 1954 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
- September 3:
- October 11 — Jean Cocteau, 74, French poet, playwright, novelist, painter, designer, producer and critic[2]
- December 24 — Tristan Tzara, 67, French poet (native of Romania) and a founder of Dadaism[2]
See also
References
- ^ a b Slought Foundation, Philadelphia: Contemporary Art and Theory
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba bb bc bd be bf bg bh bi bj bk bl bm bn bo bp bq br bs bt bu bv bw bx by bz Britannica Book of the Year 1964 (covering events of 1963), published 1963 by The Encyclopaedia Britannica, "Literature" article, pp 508-519
- ^ 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
- ^ [1]Irish Poets Online/ Author/ Richard Murphy" at the Irish Poets Online Web site, accessed October 20, 2007
- ^ [2]Irish Poets Online/ Author/ Richard Murphy" at the Irish Poets Online Web site, accessed October 20, 2007
- ^ Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "German Poetry" article, "Criticism in German" section, p 474
- ^ Web page titled "Simon Armitage (1963- )" at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed April 24, 2008
- ^ Web page titled "John Kinsella (1963- )" at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed April 24, 2008
- ^ Web page titled "Don Paterson (1963- )" at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed April 24, 2008
- ^ Hofmann, Michael, editor, Twentieth-Century German Poetry: An Anthology, Macmillan/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006
