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 WalesRussian 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 OxfordThe 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 noticeIn Spain, two new periodical reviews are founded:Poesía para todos, started by younger Spanish poets and illustrated by renowned paintersLos 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 UnamunoIn 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. CrossAfrican American poet Dudley Randall founds Broadside Press in Detroit, which publishes many leading African American writersPaul 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 bookThe periodical Modern Poetry in Translation is launched by Ted Hughes, Daniel Weissbort and George Theiner in BritainListed 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, AustraliaJohn Thompson, editor, Australian Poetry, Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 76 ppJudith Wright, Preoccupations in Australian Poetry (scholarship), AustraliaJohn Glassco, editor, English Poetry in QuebecDaryl Hine, The Wooden HorseLionel Kearns, Listen GeorgeC. F. Klinck and W. H. New, editors, Literary History of Canada, first of four volumes (fourth volume published in 1990, scholarship, CanadaIrving Layton, Collected PoemsTom Marshall, The Beast with Three Backs, Quarry PressJohn Newlove, Moving in Alone, Contact PressAl Purdy, The Cariboo Horses, CanadaRaymond Souster, Ten Elephants on Yonge StreetWilfred Watson, Naked PoemsPhyllis Webb, Naked PoemsDom Moraes John Nobody ( Poetry in English )Nissim Ezekiel:The Exact Name: Poems 1960–1964 ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, IndiaThe Unfinished Man, poems written in 1959; ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, IndiaP. Lal, "Charge!" They Said ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India .Kamala Das, Summer of Calcutta: Fifty Poems ( Poetry in English ), Delhi: Rajinder PaulRoshen Alkazi, Seventeen Poems (see also Seventeen More Poems 1970); Calcutta: Writers Workshop, IndiaDeb Kumar Das, Through A Glass Darkly: Poems ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, IndiaT. V. Datareyan, Silver Box and Other Poems ( Poetry in English ), Bombay: StrandVinayaka Krishna Gokak, In Life's Temple ( Poetry in English ), Madras: Blackie and SonS. R. Mokashi-Punekar, The Captive ( Poetry in English ), preface by Herbert ReadIreland
Denis Devlin, Collected Poems, Dublin: Dolmen PressSeamus Heaney, Northern Ireland native Irish poet with books published originally in the United Kingdom:Death of a NaturalistEleven Poems, Queen's UniversityRichard Murphy, Sailing to an Island, London: Faber and Faber; New York: Chilmark Press, Irish poet with books published originally in the United KingdomNew 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, anthologyKendrick Smithyman, A Way of Saying: A Study of New Zealand Poetry, Auckland & London: Collins, criticismPatrick Cullinan, NorthRuth Miller (South African poet), Floating Island, Cape TownDavid 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 KingdomAlan Bold, Society InebriousGeorge Mackay Brown, The Year of the Whale, Scottish poetBasil Bunting:Loquitur (Fulcrum Press)The Spoils (Morden Tower Bookroom)Christopher Caudwell, PoemsTony Connor, Lodgers London: Oxford University Press London: Chatto and Windus with Hogarth PressDonald Davie, The Poems of Doctor ZhivagoC. Day-Lewis, The Room and Other PoemsD. J. Enright, The Old Adam, London: Chatto and Windus with Hogarth PressHarry Fainlight, Sussicran, London: Turret BooksRoy Fuller, BuffDavid Gascoyne, Collected PoemsRobert Graves, Collected Poems (1965 version)Michael Hamburger, In FlashlightSeamus Heaney, Northern Ireland native published in the United Kingdom:Death of a NaturalistEleven Poems, Queen's UniversityJohn Heath-Stubbs, Selected PoemsGeorge MacBeth, A Doomsday Book, a mix of poems and poem-games, Lowestoft, Suffolk: Scorpion PressNorman MacCaig, Measures, London: Chatto and Windus with Hogarth PressRichard Murphy, Sailing to an Island, London: Faber and Faber; New York: Chilmark Press, Irish poetSylvia Plath, Ariel, London: Faber and Faber (New York: Harper & Row, 1966), American poet in the United KingdomKathleen Raine, The Hollow Hill, and Other Poems 1960–4Alan Ross, North from SicilyVernon Scannell, Walking WoundedJon Silkin, Nature with ManC. H. Sisson, NumbersSir Osbert Sitwell, Poems about People or England Reclaimed (collected from three previous volumes)Iain Crichton Smith, The Law and the GraceBernard Spencer, Collected PoemsStephen Spender, Selected PoemsJohn Wain, Wildtrack, Wildtrack, London: MacmillanTed Walker, Fox on a Barn DoorHugo Williams, Symptoms of Loss: Poems, Oxford University PressDavid 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 KingdomP. L. Brent, editor, Young Commonwealth Poets 1965Matthew Hodgart, The Faber Book of BalladsI. M. Parsons, Men Who March Away (poems of World War I)Robin Skelton, Poetry of the ThirtiesJames Reeves, The Cassell Book of English PoetryC. V. Wedgwood, editor, New Poems 1965: A PEN Anthology, London: HutchinsonCriticism and scholarship in the United Kingdom
Bernard Bergozi, Heroes' Twilight on the literature of World War IAnthony Burgess, Here Comes Everybody on the work of James JoyceDonald Davie, Ezra Pound: Poet as SculptorPatricia Hutchins, Ezra Pound's Kensington: An Exploration 1885–1913Conor 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 GuardianThomas Parkinson, W.B. Yeats: The Later PoetryA.R. Ammons:Corsons InletTape for the Turn of the YearGeorge Barker, Collected Poems, New York: October HouseTed Berrigan, Living With ChrisElizabeth Bishop, Questions of Travel (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)Hayden Carruth, Nothing for TigersEdgar Bowers, The AstronomersLouis Coxe, The Last HeroE.E. Cummings, Fairy Tales (posthumous)Ed Dorn:Idaho Out, Fulcrum PressGeography, Fulcrum PressRobert Duncan, Roots and BranchesPaul Engle, A Woman UnashamedJean Garrigue, Country Without Maps, including "Pays Perdu"Allen Ginsberg, Jukebox All'Idrogeno, Milan: Arnoldo Mondadori EditoreDonald Hall, A Roof of Tiger LiliesJohn Hollander, Visions from the RambleLee Harwood, title illegible (sic) published by Bob Cobbing's Writers ForumPaul Horgan, Songs After LincolnDavid Ignatow, Figures of the HumanRandall Jarrell:Little Friend, Little FriendThe Lost World, a book of 22 poems, reviewers gave it a mixed reception, New York: MacmillanJohn Knoepfle, Rivers into IslandsPhilip Larkin, The Whitsun WeddingsStanley McNail, Something BreathingGabriela Mistral, Selected Poems translated from SpanishSamuel French Morse, The ChangesHoward Moss, Finding Them Lost, New York: ScribnersEdwin Muir, Collected Poems, New York: Oxford University PressMary Oliver, No Voyage, and Other Poems (expanded from first edition in 1963)George Oppen, This in WhichSylvia Plath, Ariel, including "Daddy", (posthumous)David Ray, X-RaysCharles Reznikoff, the first of his Testimony collectionsDavid Shapiro, JanuaryJon Silkin, Nature with ManClark Ashton Smith, Poems in ProseHollis Summers, Seven OccasionsMelvin Tolson, Harlem GalleryMona Van Duyn, A Time of BeesTheodore Weiss, The Medium: New Poems, New York: MacmillanSamuel Yellen, New and Selected PoemsMarya Zaturenska, Collected PoemsLouis 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 RobinsonP. 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, EtablissementetKlaus Rifbjerg, Amagerdigle ("Amager Poems")Ivan Malinovski, PoetomaticPoul Borum, editor, a volume of modern poetryTorben Brostrøm, Den nye poesi, a volume of modern poetry (a new version, first published in 1962)Jess Ørnsbo, editor, a volume of modern poetryFinland
Pertti Nieminen, Silmissä maailman maismat ("The World in his Eyes"), colorful, humorous fables in the form of poetryArvo Turtainen, translation of Leaves of GrassPentti Saarikoski, Kuljen missä kuljen ("Traveling Man")Jacques Brault, MémoirePaul Chamberland, L'Afficheur hurleGilbert Choquette, L'Honneur de vivreCécile Cloutier, Cuivre et soìesPaul-Marie Lapointe, Pour les âmesFernand Oulette, Le Soleil sous la mortYves Bonnefoy, Pierre écriteAndrée Chedid, Double-PaysRoger Giroux, L'Arbre le temps, which won the Max Jacob PrizeEdmond Jabès, Le Retour au LivrePierre Jean Jouve:The "definitive edition" of his poetryTénèbreR. Lorno, Légendaire, a book of verses in a style vaguely like Verlaine; the book won the Apollinaire Prize.Loys Masson, La Dame de PavouxSaint-John Perse, Pour Dante, Paris: GallimardMarcelin Pleynet, CommeFrancis Ponge:Pour un MalherbeTome PremierRobert Sabatier, Les Poisons délectablesJean Tortel, Les Villes découvertesCriticism
J. P. Richard, Onze Etudes sur la poésie moderneSwitzerland
Maurice Chappaz, Chant de la Grande DixenceN. 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 sonnetsG. Preil, Mivhar Shirim ("A Selection of Poems"), introduction by A. ShabatayYaffa Eliach, Eishet ha-Dayag ("Fisherman's Wife"), a long, narrative poemA. Zeitlin, Hazon ve-Hazon Medinah ("A State and a State Envisioned")Listed in alphabetical order by first name:
Chandiroor Divakaran, Radha, Malayalam-languageNilmani Phookan, Nirjanatar Sabda, Guwahati, Assam: Dutta Barua; Assamese-languageNirendranath Chakravarti, Nirokto Korobi, Kolkata: Surabhi Prokashoni; Bengali-languageKunwar Narain, Atmajayee, a short epic poem, New Delhi: Bharatiya Jnanpith; Hindi-languageUmashankar Joshi, Mahaprasthan, a "dialogue-poem"; Gujarati-languageAlfredo Giuliani:Povera Juliet, a complete collection of his poetryeditor, 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, collectionCarlo Villa, Siamo esseri antichiVittorio Sereni, Gli strumenti umaniGiovanni Giudici, La vita in versiCarlos Drummond de Andrade, complete worksCassiano Ricardo, Jeremias sem chorarMauro Mota, Canto au meioCriticism
Cassiano Ricardo, Algumas reflexões sôbre poética de vanguardaRamón Garciasol, Fuente serenaDiego Jesús Jiménez, La ciudad, winner of the Premio Adonais prizeJosé Hierro, El libro de las alucinacionesJusto Jorge Padrón, Trazos de un paréntesisVictor García Robles, Oíd Mortales (Argentina), winner of the Cuban Casa de las Américas Prize in poetryJ. Bañuelos, O. Oliva, J. A. Shelley, E. Zepeda, and J. Labastida (all in Mexico), Ocupación de la palabra, a collection of their poemsCarlos 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 UnionKadye Molodovski, Light from the Thorn TreeBerish Vaynshteyn, Destined PoemsRobert Frost, a volume of his poems in Yiddish (published in Israel), translated by Meyer-Ziml TkatshL. 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 yearsBengt 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 UnionBoris 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 readersEinar Skjæraasen, "Sang i september" the first poem to appear since 1956 from one of Norway's most popular poetsSee 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 TalbotQueen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Philip LarkinBollingen Prize: Horace GregoryConsultant 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 FieldPulitzer Prize for Poetry: John Berryman: 77 Dream SongsFellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Marianne MooreDanish Academy 1965 literature prize: Erik Knudsen, poet and dramatistJune 1 – Adeena Karasick, Canadian poet and performance artistSeptember 6 – Christopher Nolan (died 2009), Irish poet and authorNovember 1 – Kirsten Hammann, DenmarkNovember 18 – Michael Crummey, Canadian novelist and poetNovember 23 – Marcel Beyer, GermanAlso:Patience Agbabi, Black English performance poetPaul Farley, English poetTimothy Liu, American poetJay Ruzesky, Canadian poetR. M. Vaughan, Canadian poet and writerSonja Yelich, New Zealand poetBirth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 4 – T. S. Eliot, 76, American/British poetJanuary 28 – Motokichi Takahashi 高橋元吉 (born 1893), Japanese, Taishō and Showa period poetFebruary 2 – Richard Blackmur, 61, American literary critic and poetMarch 17 – Nancy Cunard, 69, English writer, editor and publisherJune 5 – Eleanor Farjeon, 84, English poet and authorJuly 10 – Jacques Audiberti 66, French playwright, poet and novelist and exponent of the Theatre of the AbsurdAugust 17:Jack Spicer (born 1925), American poet often identified with the San Francisco RenaissanceJun Takami 高見順 pen-name of Takama Yoshioa (born 1907), Japanese, Showa period novelist and poetAugust 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 attackSeptember 2 – Johannes Bobrowski (born 1917), German poet, narrative writer, adaptor and essayistNovember 28 – Aslaug Vaa (born 1889), Norway 