June 11 – International Poetry Incarnation, a performance poetry event, is staged at the Royal Albert Hall in London before an audience of 7,000, with members of the Beat Generation featuring; Adrian Mitchell reads "To Whom It May Concern"
Meic Stephens founds Poetry Wales
Russian poet Anna Akhmatova is allowed to travel outside the Soviet Union to Sicily and England in order to receive the Taormina prize and an honorary doctoral degree from the University of Oxford
The Belfast Festival at Queen's publishes pamphlets this year and next by some of the members of The Belfast Group of poets, including Seamus Heaney and Michael Longley, which attracts some notice
In Spain, two new periodical reviews are founded:
Poesía para todos, started by younger Spanish poets and illustrated by renowned painters
Los sesenta, launched by Max Aub and with editors including the poets Jorge Guillén and Rafael Alberti. The second number is published in homage to the Unamuno
In the British Isles, the centenary of the birth of W. B. Yeats brings forth a number of critical works, prominent among them Thomas Parkinson's book, W. B. Yeats: The Later Poetry and Conor Cruise O'Brien's long essay which addresses Yeats' relationship to Fascism, published in In Excited Reverie, edited by A. N. Jeffares and K. G. Cross
African American poet Dudley Randall founds Broadside Press in Detroit, which publishes many leading African American writers
Paul Éluard's 1926 book of poems, Capitale de la douleur ("Capital of Pain"), influences Jean-Luc Godard's French film Alphaville (released May 5) which has quotations from the book
The periodical Modern Poetry in Translation is launched by Ted Hughes, Daniel Weissbort and George Theiner in Britain
Listed by nation where the work was first published (and again by the poet's native land, if different); substantially revised works listed separately:
Geoffrey Lehmann and Les Murray, The Ilex Tree, Australia
John Thompson, editor, Australian Poetry, Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 76 pp
Judith Wright, Preoccupations in Australian Poetry (scholarship), Australia
John Glassco, editor, English Poetry in Quebec
Daryl Hine, The Wooden Horse
Lionel Kearns, Listen George
C. F. Klinck and W. H. New, editors, Literary History of Canada, first of four volumes (fourth volume published in 1990, scholarship, Canada
Irving Layton, Collected Poems
Tom Marshall, The Beast with Three Backs, Quarry Press
John Newlove, Moving in Alone, Contact Press
Al Purdy, The Cariboo Horses, Canada
Raymond Souster, Ten Elephants on Yonge Street
Wilfred Watson, Naked Poems
Phyllis Webb, Naked Poems
Dom Moraes John Nobody ( Poetry in English )
Nissim Ezekiel:
The Exact Name: Poems 1960–1964 ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India
The Unfinished Man, poems written in 1959; ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India
P. Lal, "Charge!" They Said ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India .
Kamala Das, Summer of Calcutta: Fifty Poems ( Poetry in English ), Delhi: Rajinder Paul
Roshen Alkazi, Seventeen Poems (see also Seventeen More Poems 1970); Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India
Deb Kumar Das, Through A Glass Darkly: Poems ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India
T. V. Datareyan, Silver Box and Other Poems ( Poetry in English ), Bombay: Strand
Vinayaka Krishna Gokak, In Life's Temple ( Poetry in English ), Madras: Blackie and Son
S. R. Mokashi-Punekar, The Captive ( Poetry in English ), preface by Herbert Read
Ireland
Denis Devlin, Collected Poems, Dublin: Dolmen Press
Seamus Heaney, Northern Ireland native Irish poet with books published originally in the United Kingdom:
Death of a Naturalist
Eleven Poems, Queen's University
Richard Murphy, Sailing to an Island, London: Faber and Faber; New York: Chilmark Press, Irish poet with books published originally in the United Kingdom
New Zealand
Charles Brasch: (year uncertain, but thought to be this year) Twice Sixty, Wellington: Printed at the Wai-te-ata Press (Single poem; broadsheet)
Charles Doyle, editor, Recent Poetry in New Zealand, anthology
Kendrick Smithyman, A Way of Saying: A Study of New Zealand Poetry, Auckland & London: Collins, criticism
Patrick Cullinan, North
Ruth Miller (South African poet), Floating Island, Cape Town
David Wright, Adam at Evening, London: Hodder and Stoughton, including "By the Effigy of St. Cecilia"; South African poet with works published originally in the United Kingdom
Alan Bold, Society Inebrious
George Mackay Brown, The Year of the Whale, Scottish poet
Basil Bunting:
Loquitur (Fulcrum Press)
The Spoils (Morden Tower Bookroom)
Christopher Caudwell, Poems
Tony Connor, Lodgers London: Oxford University Press London: Chatto and Windus with Hogarth Press
Donald Davie, The Poems of Doctor Zhivago
C. Day-Lewis, The Room and Other Poems
D. J. Enright, The Old Adam, London: Chatto and Windus with Hogarth Press
Harry Fainlight, Sussicran, London: Turret Books
Roy Fuller, Buff
David Gascoyne, Collected Poems
Robert Graves, Collected Poems (1965 version)
Michael Hamburger, In Flashlight
Seamus Heaney, Northern Ireland native published in the United Kingdom:
Death of a Naturalist
Eleven Poems, Queen's University
John Heath-Stubbs, Selected Poems
George MacBeth, A Doomsday Book, a mix of poems and poem-games, Lowestoft, Suffolk: Scorpion Press
Norman MacCaig, Measures, London: Chatto and Windus with Hogarth Press
Richard Murphy, Sailing to an Island, London: Faber and Faber; New York: Chilmark Press, Irish poet
Sylvia Plath, Ariel, London: Faber and Faber (New York: Harper & Row, 1966), American poet in the United Kingdom
Kathleen Raine, The Hollow Hill, and Other Poems 1960–4
Alan Ross, North from Sicily
Vernon Scannell, Walking Wounded
Jon Silkin, Nature with Man
C. H. Sisson, Numbers
Sir Osbert Sitwell, Poems about People or England Reclaimed (collected from three previous volumes)
Iain Crichton Smith, The Law and the Grace
Bernard Spencer, Collected Poems
Stephen Spender, Selected Poems
John Wain, Wildtrack, Wildtrack, London: Macmillan
Ted Walker, Fox on a Barn Door
Hugo Williams, Symptoms of Loss: Poems, Oxford University Press
David Wright, Adam at Evening, London: Hodder and Stoughton, including "By the Effigy of St. Cecilia"; South African poet with works published originally in the United Kingdom
P. L. Brent, editor, Young Commonwealth Poets 1965
Matthew Hodgart, The Faber Book of Ballads
I. M. Parsons, Men Who March Away (poems of World War I)
Robin Skelton, Poetry of the Thirties
James Reeves, The Cassell Book of English Poetry
C. V. Wedgwood, editor, New Poems 1965: A PEN Anthology, London: Hutchinson
Criticism and scholarship in the United Kingdom
Bernard Bergozi, Heroes' Twilight on the literature of World War I
Anthony Burgess, Here Comes Everybody on the work of James Joyce
Donald Davie, Ezra Pound: Poet as Sculptor
Patricia Hutchins, Ezra Pound's Kensington: An Exploration 1885–1913
Conor Cruise O'Brien, a long essay which addressed W. B. Yeats' relationship to Fascism, published in In Excited Reverie, edited by A. N. Jeffares and K. G. Cross.
Harold Owen, Journey from Obscurity, Volume III, autobiography by the brother of poet Wilfred Owen, giving "a few interesting glimpses of the poet", according to William Leslie Webb, literary editor of The Guardian
Thomas Parkinson, W.B. Yeats: The Later Poetry
A.R. Ammons:
Corsons Inlet
Tape for the Turn of the Year
George Barker, Collected Poems, New York: October House
Ted Berrigan, Living With Chris
Elizabeth Bishop, Questions of Travel (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)
Hayden Carruth, Nothing for Tigers
Edgar Bowers, The Astronomers
Louis Coxe, The Last Hero
E.E. Cummings, Fairy Tales (posthumous)
Ed Dorn:
Idaho Out, Fulcrum Press
Geography, Fulcrum Press
Robert Duncan, Roots and Branches
Paul Engle, A Woman Unashamed
Jean Garrigue, Country Without Maps, including "Pays Perdu"
Allen Ginsberg, Jukebox All'Idrogeno, Milan: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore
Donald Hall, A Roof of Tiger Lilies
John Hollander, Visions from the Ramble
Lee Harwood, title illegible (sic) published by Bob Cobbing's Writers Forum
Paul Horgan, Songs After Lincoln
David Ignatow, Figures of the Human
Randall Jarrell:
Little Friend, Little Friend
The Lost World, a book of 22 poems, reviewers gave it a mixed reception, New York: Macmillan
John Knoepfle, Rivers into Islands
Philip Larkin, The Whitsun Weddings
Stanley McNail, Something Breathing
Gabriela Mistral, Selected Poems translated from Spanish
Samuel French Morse, The Changes
Howard Moss, Finding Them Lost, New York: Scribners
Edwin Muir, Collected Poems, New York: Oxford University Press
Mary Oliver, No Voyage, and Other Poems (expanded from first edition in 1963)
George Oppen, This in Which
Sylvia Plath, Ariel, including "Daddy", (posthumous)
David Ray, X-Rays
Charles Reznikoff, the first of his Testimony collections
David Shapiro, January
Jon Silkin, Nature with Man
Clark Ashton Smith, Poems in Prose
Hollis Summers, Seven Occasions
Melvin Tolson, Harlem Gallery
Mona Van Duyn, A Time of Bees
Theodore Weiss, The Medium: New Poems, New York: Macmillan
Samuel Yellen, New and Selected Poems
Marya Zaturenska, Collected Poems
Louis Zukofsky, ALL: The Collected Short Poems, 1923–1958 (Norton)
Criticism and scholarship in the United States
Theodore Roethke, On the Poet and his Craft (published posthumously)
Chard Powers Smith, Where the Light Falls, about Edward Arlington Robinson
P. L. Brent, editor, Young Commonwealth Poets 1965 (anthology published in the United Kingdom)
A. L. Hendriks, On This Mountain (Caribbean)
Frank Kobina Parkes, Songs from the Wilderness (Ghanaian living in the United Kingdom)
Derek Walcott, The Castaway (Caribbean)
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:
Jørgen Gustava Brandt, Etablissementet
Klaus Rifbjerg, Amagerdigle ("Amager Poems")
Ivan Malinovski, Poetomatic
Poul Borum, editor, a volume of modern poetry
Torben Brostrøm, Den nye poesi, a volume of modern poetry (a new version, first published in 1962)
Jess Ørnsbo, editor, a volume of modern poetry
Finland
Pertti Nieminen, Silmissä maailman maismat ("The World in his Eyes"), colorful, humorous fables in the form of poetry
Arvo Turtainen, translation of Leaves of Grass
Pentti Saarikoski, Kuljen missä kuljen ("Traveling Man")
Jacques Brault, Mémoire
Paul Chamberland, L'Afficheur hurle
Gilbert Choquette, L'Honneur de vivre
Cécile Cloutier, Cuivre et soìes
Paul-Marie Lapointe, Pour les âmes
Fernand Oulette, Le Soleil sous la mort
Yves Bonnefoy, Pierre écrite
Andrée Chedid, Double-Pays
Roger Giroux, L'Arbre le temps, which won the Max Jacob Prize
Edmond Jabès, Le Retour au Livre
Pierre Jean Jouve:
The "definitive edition" of his poetry
Ténèbre
R. Lorno, Légendaire, a book of verses in a style vaguely like Verlaine; the book won the Apollinaire Prize.
Loys Masson, La Dame de Pavoux
Saint-John Perse, Pour Dante, Paris: Gallimard
Marcelin Pleynet, Comme
Francis Ponge:
Pour un Malherbe
Tome Premier
Robert Sabatier, Les Poisons délectables
Jean Tortel, Les Villes découvertes
Criticism
J. P. Richard, Onze Etudes sur la poésie moderne
Switzerland
Maurice Chappaz, Chant de la Grande Dixence
N. Alterman, Hagigat Kayitz ("Summer Celebration")
Yonathan Ratosh, Shirai Memesh ("Poems of Tangibility")
Mattityahu Shoham, Ketavim ("Writings")
Moshe Dor, Sirpad Umatehet ("Briar and Metal")
I. Pincas, Aruhat Erev be-Ferrara ("Supper in Ferrara")
A. Broides, le-Eretz ha-Moked ("Toward the Blazing Land")
Moses Feinstein, a book of poems and sonnets
G. Preil, Mivhar Shirim ("A Selection of Poems"), introduction by A. Shabatay
Yaffa Eliach, Eishet ha-Dayag ("Fisherman's Wife"), a long, narrative poem
A. Zeitlin, Hazon ve-Hazon Medinah ("A State and a State Envisioned")
Listed in alphabetical order by first name:
Chandiroor Divakaran, Radha, Malayalam-language
Nilmani Phookan, Nirjanatar Sabda, Guwahati, Assam: Dutta Barua; Assamese-language
Nirendranath Chakravarti, Nirokto Korobi, Kolkata: Surabhi Prokashoni; Bengali-language
Kunwar Narain, Atmajayee, a short epic poem, New Delhi: Bharatiya Jnanpith; Hindi-language
Umashankar Joshi, Mahaprasthan, a "dialogue-poem"; Gujarati-language
Alfredo Giuliani:
Povera Juliet, a complete collection of his poetry
editor, Novissimi, a new and enlarged edition of the 1961 anthology-cum-manifesto "increasingly regarded as the principal event in Italian poetry in recent times"
Roberto Roversi, Dopo Campoformio, collection
Carlo Villa, Siamo esseri antichi
Vittorio Sereni, Gli strumenti umani
Giovanni Giudici, La vita in versi
Carlos Drummond de Andrade, complete works
Cassiano Ricardo, Jeremias sem chorar
Mauro Mota, Canto au meio
Criticism
Cassiano Ricardo, Algumas reflexões sôbre poética de vanguarda
Ramón Garciasol, Fuente serena
Diego Jesús Jiménez, La ciudad, winner of the Premio Adonais prize
José Hierro, El libro de las alucinaciones
Justo Jorge Padrón, Trazos de un paréntesis
Victor García Robles, Oíd Mortales (Argentina), winner of the Cuban Casa de las Américas Prize in poetry
J. Bañuelos, O. Oliva, J. A. Shelley, E. Zepeda, and J. Labastida (all in Mexico), Ocupación de la palabra, a collection of their poems
Carlos Medellín, El aire y las colinas (Colombia)
Criticism
José Emilio Pacheco, Poesía mexicana del siglo XIX, which Jose Francisco Vazquez-Amaral called (in 1966) "the first reliable work of its kind to deal with that important period of Mexican poetry".
editor(s) not known, Horizons, a poetry anthology published in the Soviet Union
Kadye Molodovski, Light from the Thorn Tree
Berish Vaynshteyn, Destined Poems
Robert Frost, a volume of his poems in Yiddish (published in Israel), translated by Meyer-Ziml Tkatsh
L. Olitski, a book of poems (published in Israel)
A. Shamri, a book of poems (published in Israel)
M. Yungman, a book of poems (published in Israel)
Leyzer Aykhenrand, a book of poems (published in Israel)
Malke Tuzman, a book of poems (published in Israel)
Dritëro Agolli, Shtigje malesh dhe trotuare ("Mountain paths and sidewalks") (Albania)
Majken Johansson, Liksom överlämnad (Sweden), her first volume in seven years
Bengt Emil Johnson, Gubbdrunkning (Sweden)
Lo Fu (Luo Fu),Death of a Stone Cell Chinese (Taiwan)
Alexander Mezhirov, Ладожский лёд ("Ice of Lake Ladoga"), Russia, Soviet Union
Boris Pasternak, collected poems published in the Soviet Union, not as complete as the collection published by the University of Michigan in 1961, but the closest to complete available to Soviet readers
Einar Skjæraasen, "Sang i september" the first poem to appear since 1956 from one of Norway's most popular poets
See 1965 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
Eric Gregory Award: John Fuller, Derek Mahon, Michael Longley, Norman Talbot
Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Philip Larkin
Bollingen Prize: Horace Gregory
Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (later the post would be called "Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress"): Stephen Spender appointed this year.
National Book Award for Poetry: Theodore Roethke, The Far Field
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: John Berryman: 77 Dream Songs
Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Marianne Moore
Danish Academy 1965 literature prize: Erik Knudsen, poet and dramatist
June 1 – Adeena Karasick, Canadian poet and performance artist
September 6 – Christopher Nolan (died 2009), Irish poet and author
November 1 – Kirsten Hammann, Denmark
November 18 – Michael Crummey, Canadian novelist and poet
November 23 – Marcel Beyer, German
Also:
Patience Agbabi, Black English performance poet
Paul Farley, English poet
Timothy Liu, American poet
Jay Ruzesky, Canadian poet
R. M. Vaughan, Canadian poet and writer
Sonja Yelich, New Zealand poet
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 4 – T. S. Eliot, 76, American/British poet
January 28 – Motokichi Takahashi 高橋元吉 (born 1893), Japanese, Taishō and Showa period poet
February 2 – Richard Blackmur, 61, American literary critic and poet
March 17 – Nancy Cunard, 69, English writer, editor and publisher
June 5 – Eleanor Farjeon, 84, English poet and author
July 10 – Jacques Audiberti 66, French playwright, poet and novelist and exponent of the Theatre of the Absurd
August 17:
Jack Spicer (born 1925), American poet often identified with the San Francisco Renaissance
Jun Takami 高見順 pen-name of Takama Yoshioa (born 1907), Japanese, Showa period novelist and poet
August 24 – Fuyue Anzai 安西 冬衛 (born 1898) Japanese poet and co-founder of the magazine Shi To Shiron ("Poetry and Poetics")
October 15 or October 14 – Randall Jarrell, 51, American author, writer and poet, in a highway accident;
June 22 – Joseph Auslander, 67, American poet, of a heart attack
September 2 – Johannes Bobrowski (born 1917), German poet, narrative writer, adaptor and essayist
November 28 – Aslaug Vaa (born 1889), Norway
