Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
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."In The Massachusetts Review and The New York Times – 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."Britannica Book of the Year 1965 (covering events of 1964), published by The Encyclopædia Britannica, 1965. 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 AustraliaPreminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "Australian Poetry" article, Anthologies section, p 108 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"Select General Bibliography for Representative Poetry On-Line" web page for Representative Poetry On-Line website of the University of Toronto, retrieved January 1, 2009 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."Earle Birney: Published Works ," Canadian Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 3, 2011. 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 64Gustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books 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."F. R. Scott: Publications ," Canadian Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 7, 2011. 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:
Margaret Avison Earle Birney Leonard Cohen Irving Layton
Jay Macpherson Kenneth McRobbie Alden Nowlan
P. K. Page James Reaney Raymond Souster
Poésie/Poetry 64, edited by John Robert Colombo and Jacques Godbout;an anthology of lesser-known poets, including:
Margaret Atwood George Bowering Frank Davey K. V. Hertz
Harry Howith Lionel Kearns John Newlove
Gwendolyn MacEwen Henry Moskovitch Myra von Riedemann
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.Lal, P., Modern Indian Poetry in English: An Anthology & a Credo, p 560, 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") Lawrence Bantleman, Man's Fall and Woman's Fall out (according to another source the last word in the title is "Fallout"Vinayak Krishna Gokak, The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965), p 323, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), , retrieved August 10, 2010), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India.Naik, M. K., M1 Perspectives on Indian poetry in English, p. 230, (published by Abhinav Publications, 1984, , ), retrieved via Google Books, June 12, 2009 M. R. Bhagavan, Poems ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India. Mohinder Monga, Through the Night, Raptly ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India.Vinayak Krishna Gokak, The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965), p 325, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), , retrieved August 10, 2010 Leslie de Noronha, Poems ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India.Lal, P., Modern Indian Poetry in English: An Anthology & a Credo, p 384, 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") 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, IndiapLal, P., Modern Indian Poetry in English: An Anthology & a Credo, p 445, 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")
New Zealand Fleur Adcock, Eye of the Hurricane, Wellington: Reed (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963)Web page titled "Fleur Adcock: New Zealand Literature File" at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, 2008 Charles Brasch: Ambulando: Poems, Christchurch: Caxton PressWeb page titled "Charles Brasch: New Zealand Literature File" at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, 2008 Alistair Campbell, Wild Honey, London: Oxford University Press
United Kingdom Samuel Beckett, translator from the original French, "Comment C'est" 1961, How It Is,Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, 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 PressM. 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 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, 1787-1814Preminger, Alex, and Brogan, T.V.F., editors, The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Princeton University Press, 1993, "English Poetry" article, "History and Criticism" section, p 353
United States Conrad Aiken, A Seizure of LimericksLudwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press ("If the title page is one year later than the copyright date, we used the latter since publishers frequently postdate books published near the end of the calendar year." — from the Preface, p vi) 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: