Events
- August Derleth launches the poetry magazine, Hawk and Whippoorwill.
- Welsh poet Waldo Williams is imprisoned for six weeks for non-payment of income tax (a protest against defence spending).
Works published in English
- Margaret Avison, Winter Sun
[Britannica Book of the Year 1961, covering events of 1960, published by Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1961; articles: American Literature, Canadian Literature, English Literature, French Literature, German Literature, Jewish Literature, Latin American Literature, Spanish Literature, Soviet Literature, Obituaries]
- Kenneth McRobbie, Eyes Without a Face
[
] - Peter Miller, Sonata for Frog and Man
[
]
Anthologies
- A. J. M. Smith, the Oxford Book of Canadian Verse, including untranslated poems in French combined in chronological order with English-language poems
[
] - Edmund Snow Carpenter, an anthropologist, editor of this volume, Anerca, anonymous Eskimo poems, with drawings by Enooesweetok
[
]
- W.H. Auden, Homage to Clio
[
] - Sir John Betjeman, Summoned by Bells
- Edwin Bronk, A Family Affair, Northwood, Middlesex: Scorpion Press
[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]
- Lawrence Durrell, Collected Poems
[
] - D. J. Enright, Some Men Are Brothers
[
] - Ted Hughes, Lupercal, London: Faber and Faber; New York: Harper
[
] - John Knight, Straight Lines and Unicorns
[
] - Peter Levi, The Gravel Ponds
[
] - Patrick Kavanagh, Come Dance with Kitty Stobling
[
] - Norman MacCaig, A Common Grace
[
] - Dom Moraes, Poems, Indian at this time living in the United Kingdom
- Edwin Muir, Collected Poems (posthumous)
[
] - William Ploner, Collected Poems
[
] - Peter Redgrove, The Collector, London: routledge and Kegan Paul
[
] - Charles Tomlinson, Seeing is Believing
[
] - Andrew Young, Collected Poems
[
]
- Paul Blackburn, Brooklyn Manhattan Transit: A Bouquet for Flatbush
- Gwendolyn Brooks, The Bean Eaters
- E.E. Cummings, Collected Poems
- Robert Duncan, Selected Poems, San Francisco: City Lights Books
[
] - Paul Engle, Poems in Praise, including the sonnet sequence "For the Iowa Dead"
- Jean Garrigue, A Water Walk by Villa d\'Este
[
] - Ramon Guthrie, Graffiti
[
] - Randall Jarrell, The Woman at the Washington Zoo, New York: Atheneum
[
] - LeRoi Jones, Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note, New York: Totem/Corinth Books
[
] - Weldon Kees, The Collected Poems of Weldon Kees posthumous, edited by Donald Justice
- Jack Kerouac, Mexico City Blues
[
] - Galway Kinnell, What a Kingdom It Was, Boston: Houghton Mifflin
[
] - Denise Levertov, With Eyes at the Back of Our Heads
[
] - Robert Lowell, Life Studies, New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy
[
] - Howard Moss, A Winter Come, a Summer Gone: Poems 1946-1960, New York: Scribner\'s
[
] - Howard Nemerov, New and Selected Poems, University of Chicago Press
[
] - Charles Olson:
- The Distances, New York: Grove Press
[
] - The Maximus Poems, New York: Jargon/Corinth Books
[
]
- Ezra Pound, Thrones: 96-109 de los Cantares, multi-lingual cantos
[
] - Anne Sexton, To Bedlam and Part Way Back, Boston: Houghton Mifflin
[
] - Wilfred Townley Scott, Scrimshaw
[
] - W. D. Snodgrass, Heart\'s Needle
[
] - Theodore Weiss, Outlanders, New York: Macmillan
[
] - Reed Whittemore, The Self-Made Man and Other Poems
[
]
Criticism, scholarship and biography
The New American Poetry 1945-1960
The New American Poetry 1945-1960, a poetry anthology edited by Donald Allen, and published in 1960, aimed to pick out the "third generation" of American modernist poets. In the longer term it attained a classic status, with critical approval and continuing sales. It was reprinted in 1999.
Poets represented:
Helen Adam - John Ashbery - Paul Blackburn - Robin Blaser - Ebbe Borregaard - Bruce Boyd - Ray Bremser - Brother Antoninus - James Broughton - Paul Carroll - Gregory Corso - Robert Creeley - Edward Dorn - Kirby Doyle - Robert Duerden - Robert Duncan - Larry Eigner - Lawrence Ferlinghetti - Edward Field - Allen Ginsberg - Madeline Gleason - Barbara Guest - LeRoi Jones - Jack Kerouac - Kenneth Koch - Philip Lamantia - Denise Levertov - Ron Loewinsohn - Edward Marshall - Michael McClure - David Meltzer - Frank O\'Hara - Charles Olson - Joel Oppenheimer - Peter Orlovsky - Stuart Perkoff - James Schuyler - Gary Snyder - Gilbert Sorrentino - Jack Spicer - Lew Welch - Philip Whalen - John Wieners - Jonathan Williams
Other in English
Works in other languages
French language
Criticism, scholarship and biography
Spanish language
- Manuel Blanco-González, La luna et lluvia
[
] - Dolores Castro, Cantares de vela
[
] - Pablo Antonio Cuadra, El jaguar y la luna (Nicaragua), winner of the Rubén Darío Prize
[
] - Manuel Durán, La paloma azul
[
] - Germán Pardo García, Centauro al sol
[
] - León de Greiff, Obras completas, with a preliminary study by Jorge Zalamea (Colombia)
[
] - Carlos García-Prada, editor, Escala del sueño, anthology of 35 Castilian lyrical poets
[
] - Elías Nandino, Nocturna palabra (Mexico)
[
]
Criticism, scholarship and biography
- Emilio Armaza, Eguren, an anthology and analysis of the Peruvian poet\'s verse
[
] - Antonio Oliver Belmás, Este otro Rubén Darío
[
] - Gastón Figueira, De la vida y la obra de Gabriela Mistral
[
] - Manuel Pedro González, editor, Antología crítica de José Marti, including writing by Darío, Gabriela Mistral, Unamuno, and Onís
[
] - Glen L. Kolb, Juan del Valle y Caviedes, "A Study of the Life, Times and Poetry of a Spanish Colonial Satirist"
[
] - Eduardo Neale-Silva, Horizonte humano, the first detailed biographical study of the Colombian poet José Eustasio Rivera
[
] - Federico de Onís, Luis Palês Matos — vida y obra-bibliografía, antología, poesías, inéditas, a study of the Puerto Rican poet\'s life and artistic development
[
]
Other
Awards and honors
Births
Deaths
Boris Pasternak (sometime before 1954)
- January 14 - Ralph Chubb, 77, English poet, printer, and artist
- March 23 — Franklin Pierce Adams, 78, American writer whose "The Conning Tower" column gave critical publicity to many poets and writers; also a translator of poetry
- May 30 — Boris Pasternak, 70, Russian poet and writer, winner of a Nobel Prize in Literature, of lung cancer
- August 8 — Harry Kemp, 76
- date not known:
See also
Notes
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