Raymond Souster founds the League of Canadian PoetsPhilip Hobsbaum, who had founded The Belfast Group in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 1963, departs for Glasgow, and the Belfast Group meetings lapsed for a while, but then was reconstituted in 1968 by Michael Allen, Arthur Terry, and Seamus Heaney. At one time or another, the grouping also includes Michael Longley, James Simmons, Paul Muldoon, Ciaran Carson, Stewart Parker, Bernard MacLaverty and the critic Edna Longley. Meetings will be held at Seamus and Marie Heaney's house on Ashley Avenue. The Belfast Group will last until 1972.Russian poet Joseph Brodsky returns to Leningrad from the exile near the Arctic Circle where he had been sent when a Soviet court in 1964 convicted him of "parasitism".Starting this year and continuing for a decade, Bulgarian censors prevent publication of works by Konstantin Pavlov, poet and screenwriter who was defiant against his country's communist regime; his popularity didn't wane, as Bulgarians clandestinely copied and read his poems.Ted Hughes and Daniel Weissbort found Modern Poetry in Translation (MPT), a British journal focusing on the art of translating poetry. Later defunct, the magazine was relaunched in 2004 under editors David and Helen Constantine.The journal L'éphémère founded in France; poets associated with it include Yves Bonnefoy, Jacques Dupin and André du Bouchet; it ceased publication in 1973Listed by nation where the work was first published (and again by the poet's native land, if different); substantially revised works listed separately:
Margaret Avison, The DumbfoundingEarle Birney, Selected PoemsArthur Bourinot, Watcher of Men: selected poems (1947–66)George Bowering, The Silver WireLeonard Cohen, The Parasites of HeavenJohn Robert Colombo, Miraculous MontagesRobert Finch, Silverthorn Bush and Other Poems.Lakshni Gill, During Rain I Plant ChrysanthemumsRalph Gustafson, Sift in an HourglassGeorge Johnston, Home FreeGwendolyn MacEwen, A Breakfast for BarbariansRichard Outram, Exultante JubileeJoe Rosenblatt, The LSD Leacock. Toronto: Coach House Press.F. R. Scott, Selected Poems. Toronto: Oxford University Press.A. J. M. Smith, and F. R. Scott, editors, The Oxford Book of Canadian Verse, second edition (see also, first edition 1958)Raymond Souster, ed. New Wave Canada, anthology of seven young writersMiriam Waddington, The Glass TrumpetNissim Ezekiel, Collected Poems ( Poetry in English ),Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, Bharatmata: A Prayer ( Poetry in English ), an experimental work published by the author's own publishing house; Bombay: Ezra-Fakir PressDom Moraes, Beldam & Others ( Poetry in English ) Gieve Patel, Poems ( Poetry in English ), Mumbai: Nissim Ezekiel .G. S. Sharat Chandra, Bharata Natyam Dancer and Other Poems ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India .Leela Dharmaraj, Slum Silhouette and Other Poems ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India .R. P. N. Sinha, editor, A Book of English Verse on Indian Soil, New Delhi: Orient LongmansIreland
Austin Clarke, Mnemosyne Lay in Dust, Dublin: Dolmen PressSeamus Heaney, Death of a Naturalist, Faber & Faber, Northern Ireland poet published in the United KingdomThomas Kinsella, Wormwood, Dublin: Dolmen Press; book widely available in the United KingdomLouis MacNeice, The Collected Poems of Louis MacNeice, edited by E. R. Dodds, including "Mayfly", "Snow", "Autumn Journal XVI", "Meeting Point", "Autobiography", "the Libertine", "Western Landscape", "Autumn Sequel XX", "The Once-in-Passing", "House on a Cliff", "Soap Suds", "The Suicide" and "Star-gazer", Faber and Faber, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom,John Montague, All Legendary Obstacles, Dublin: Dolmen PressW. H. Auden, English poet published in the United States:About the House, first published in the United States, 1965Collected Shorter Poems 1927–57Karen Gershon, Selected PoemsGavin Bantock, ChristGeorge Barker, Dreams of a Summer NightJohn Betjeman, High and LowBasil Bunting, BriggflattsAngela Carter, UnicornLawrence Durrell, The Ikons, and Other PoemsTom Earley, A Welshman in BloomsburyGavin Ewart, Pleasures of the FleshElaine Feinstein, In a Green Eye, Goliard PressRobert Graves, Collected PoemsJ. C. Hall, The Burning HareSeamus Heaney, Death of a Naturalist, Faber & Faber, Northern Ireland poet published in the United KingdomPhilip Hobsbaum, In RetreatChristopher Isherwood, Exhumations, stories, articles and poetry; an English writer living in and published in the United StatesElizabeth Jennings, The Mind Has MountainsThomas Kinsella, Wormwood, Irish poet published in the United KingdomPhilip Larkin, The North ShipRichard Logue, Logue's ABCNorman MacCaig, SurroundingsLouis MacNeice, The Collected Poems of Louis MacNeice, edited by E. R. Dodds, including "Mayfly", "Snow", "Autumn Journal XVI", "Meeting Point", "Autobiography", "the Libertine", "Western Landscape", "Autumn Sequel XX", "The Once-in-Passing", "House on a Cliff", "Soap Suds", "The Suicide" and "Star-gazer", Faber and Faber, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom,Ruth Pitter, Still by ChoiceSir Herbert Read, Collected Poems, Horizon PressPeter Redgrove, The Force and Other Poems, London: Routledge and Kegan PaulJon Silkin, New and Selected PoemsStevie Smith, The Frog Prince, and Other PoemsGillian Smyth, The Nitrogen Dreams of a Wide GirlGary Snyder, A Range of Poems, London: Fulcrum Press, AmericanR.S. Thomas, Pietà, WelshAnthony Thwaite and John Hollander publish the first anthology of double dactyls, Jiggery PokeryCharles Tomlinson, American Scenes, and Other Poems, London: MacmillanDavid Wevill, A Christ of the Ice FloesA.R. Ammons, Northfield PoemsJohn Ashbery, Rivers and MountainsTed Berrigan, Some ThingsPaul Blackburn,16 Sloppy Haiku and a Lyric for Robert ReardonSing Songtranslator, Poem of the CidGwendolyn Brooks, We Real CoolRobert Creeley, Poems 1950-1965Robert Duncan, The Years as CatchesRandall Jarrell (died 1965), The Lost World (published posthumously)Josephine Jacobsen, The Animal InsideLeRoi Jones, Black ArtStanley Kunitz, The Testing TreeJames Merrill, Nights and DaysW. S. Merwin, Collected Poems, New York: AtheneumSylvia Plath, Ariel, New York: Harper & Row (London: Faber and Faber 1965) American poet in the United KingdomA. K. Ramanujan, The Striders (Indian poet living in the United States)Kenneth Rexroth, Collected Shorter PoemsAdrienne Rich, Necessities of Life, W. W. Norton & CompanyTheodore Roethke, Roethke: Collected PoemsAnne Sexton, Live or DieLouis Simpson, Selected Poems (West Indian poet living in the United States)Gary Snyder, A Range of Poems, London: Fulcrum PressWilliam Stafford, The Rescued YearRobert Penn Warren, Selected Poems, New and Old: 1923-1966Louis Zukofsky, All: the collected short poems 1956–1964, W. W. Norton & CompanyWallace Stevens, Letters of Wallace Stevens (posthumous), edited by Holly Stevens (his daughter)James K. Baxter, Pig Island Letters (New Zealand)Louise Bennett, Jamaica Labrish, JamaicaJohn Pepper Clark, A Reed in the Tide (Nigeria)Keith Harrison, Points in a Journey (Australia)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:
Benny Anderson (poet), PortrætgalleriThorkild Bjørnvig, VibrationerPoul Borum, DagslysJørgen Gustava Brandt, Der er æg i mit skæg (prose sketches and poetry)Knud Holst, SamexistensHenrik Nordbrandt, Digte ("Poems")Bundgård Povlsen, DøgndriftFinland
Paavo Haavikko, Puut, kaikki heidän vihreytensä, ("The Trees, All Their Greenness")Eeva-Liisa Manner, Kirjoitettu kivi ("The Inscribed Stone"), poems and translations from contemporary Spanish poetsPentti Saarikoski, Ääneen ("Out Loud")Roger Brien:ProméthéeLe Jour se lèveRoland Giguère, L'Age de la paroleMarie Laberge, D'un Cri à l'autreRina Lasnier, L'Arbre blancSuzanne Paradis, Le Visage offenséJean Royer, À patience d'aimer, Québec: Éditions-de-l'AileGemma Tremblay, Cratères sous la niegeLouis Aragon:Elégie a Pablo NerudaLes PoetesL. Brauquier, a book of poetryP. Chabaneix, a book of poetryRené Char:Recherche de la base et du sommet, Retour amont ("The Return Upland" or "The Return Upstream")Retour AmontMichel Déguy:ActesOuï-direPierre Emmanuel, Ligne de faîteAndre Frenaud, Les Rois Mages, revised edition (first edition, 1943)Pierre Emmanuel, pen name of Noël Mathieu, Ligne de faîteGérard Genette, Figures I, one of three volumes of a work of critical scholarship in poetics – general theory of literary form and analysis of individual works — the Figures volumes are concerned with the problems of poetic discourse and narrative in Stendhal, Flaubert and Proust and in Baroque poetry (see also Figures II 1969, Figures III 1972)Eugène Guillevic, AvecRobert Marteau, Travaux sur la terreA. Miatlev, ThanathèmeEugenio Montale, Ossi di seppia, Le ocassioni, and La bufera e altro, translated by Patrice Angelini into French from the original Italian; Paris: GallimardJean-Claude Renard, La Terre du sacré, received the 1966 Prix Sainte-BeuveA. Richaud, Je ne suis pas mortP. Seghers, DialogueJ. Tortel, Les Villes ouvertesDominique Tron, StéréophoniesBoris Vian, a book of poetryR. Goffin, a book of poetry in the publishing series "Poètes d'Aujourd'hui", French language, published in BelgiumGünter Eich, Anlässe und SteingärtenBeda Allemann, editor, Ars poetica: Texte von Dichtern des 20. Jahrhunderts zur Poetik, 51 essays, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, (criticism)Walter Naumann, Traum und Tradition in der deutschen Lyrik, Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer (criticism)Translations
Oswald de Andrade (Brazil), translations of his:Livro de EnsaiosGálaxiasWolf Biermann, Die DrahtharfeVolker Braun, VorläufigesReuven Ben-Yosef, Shehafim Mamtinim ("Waiting Gulls") American-born poetDavid Fogel, collected poems, with an introduction by D. PagisS. Halkin, Maavar Yabok ("Crossing Jabbok")C. Schirmann, a book of poetry: a compilation of new poems from the GenizahShin Shalom, a book of his complete worksN. Zach, Kol ha-Halav veha-Devash ("All the Milk and Honey")Listed in alphabetical order by first name:
Gita Parikh, Purvi; Gujarati-languageHari Daryani, Mauj Kai Mehran, Sindhi-languageUdaya Narayana Singh, Kavayo Vadanti, Calcutta: Mithila Darshan; Maithili-languageAlfonso Gatto, La storia delle vittime (winner of the Premio Viareggio prize)Dacia Maraini, Crudeltà all'aria apertaEugenio Montale, Xenia, poems in memory of Mosca, first published in a private edition of 50; ItalyAntonio Porta, I rapportiGiovanni Raboni, Le case della VetraSergio Salvi, Le croci di CartesioRoberto Sanesi, Rapporto informativoMaria Luisa Spaziani, Utilità della memoriaGeorg Johannesen, Nye diktSigmund Skard, HaustraunEinar Skjæraasen, Bumerke (posthumous)Ragnvald Skrede, GrunnmalmStein Mehren, Tids AlderJan Erik Vold, HektOswald de Andrade, Complete Works, a new edition (posthumous)Manuel Bandiera, Estrêla da Vida Inteira, an anthology of his poems, commemorating his 80th birthdayJoão Cabral de Melo Neto, A Educação pela PedraMário Faustino, PoesíaFerreira Gullar, Luta Corporal e Outros PoemasMário da Silva Brito, Poemário da Silva BritoRuy de Moura Belo, Boca bilíngüe ("Multiple Meanings")Pavel Antokolski, two volumes of poems to celebrate his 70th birthdayDavid Kugoltinov, a book of poems translated from Kalmuk published in the "Soviet Poetry Library" seriesRobert Rozhdestvenski, The Radius of Action, including "Letter to the Thirtieth Century"José López Bermùdez, Canto a Morelos (Mexico)Rubén Bonifaz Nuño, Siete de espadas (Mexico)Octavio Paz, "Vrindaban" and "Madurai" two poems on a Hindu theme by the Mexican ambassador to IndiaJosé Emilio Pacheco, El reposo del fuego (Mexico)Ramón López Velarde, Suave Patria (Mexico)Jaime Gil de Biedma:En favor de Venus, a collectionMoralidades, a larger collection published in MexicoCarlos Barral, Figuración y fugaAlfonso Canales, AminadabGloria Fuertes, Ni tiro, veneno, ni navajaJusto Jorge Padrón, Escrito en el aguaDionisio Ridruejo, Cuaderno CatalánJoaquín Caro Romero, El tiempo en el espejoJosé Santos Chocano, Antología, pról. y notas de Julio Ortega, Lima: Editorial Universitaria, PeruIsrael Emiot, a collection of poemsYankev Glatshteyn, A Jew from LublinGabriel Preil, a collection of poemsKhava Rosenfarb, a collection of poemsMeyer Shtiker, a collection of poemsMoisei Teif (Moshe Teif), a collection of poemsLeyb Vaserman, a collection of poemsBetti Alver, Tähetund ("Starry Hour"), EstoniaNizar Qabbani, Drawing with Words, Syrian poet writing in ArabicGiorgos Seferis, Τρία Κρυφά Ποιήματα ("Three Hidden Poems"), GreeceWisława Szymborska, 101 wierszy ("101 Poems"), PolandAwards and honors
Nobel Prize for Literature: Nelly Sachs, a German poet, writing in German but living in Sweden and a Swedish subject, shared the prize with novelist and short story writer Shmuel Yosef Agnon of Israel.See 1966 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.Prix des Critiques: René Char, for his work as a wholeGrand Prix de Poésie de l'Académie Française: Pierre Jean JouveCholmondeley Award: Ted Walker, Stevie SmithEric Gregory Award: Robin Fulton, Seamus Heaney, Hugo WilliamsConsultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (later the post would be called "Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress"): James Dickey appointed this year.National Book Award for Poetry: James Dickey, Buckdancer's ChoicePulitzer Prize for Poetry: Richard Eberhart, Selected PoemsFellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Archibald MacLeish and John BerrymanPremio de la Crítica (a nonmonetary award by a jury of journalist-critics): Claudio Rodriguez, Alianza y condenaPremio Adonais for verse: Vincente García Hernández, Los pájarosNordic Council's literature prize: Gunnar Ekelöf, Diwan över fursten av Engion (Sweden)April 8 – Todd Swift, Canadian-born British poetApril 26 – Natasha Trethewey, American Poet LaureateJune 12 – Michael Redhill, American-born Canadian poetAugust 10 – Christian Bök, Canadian experimental poetOctober 7 – Sherman Alexie, Native American poet and authorOctober 19 – Dimitris Lyacos, Greek poet and playwrightDecember 20 – Joseph Woods, Irish poetAlso:Maurice Manning, American poetConstance Merritt, American poetDaljit Nagra, English poetAlice Oswald, English poetVolker Sielaff, German poetChristian Wiman, American poetWoeser (also written: Öser; full name: Tsering Woeser; Tibetan: ཚེ་རིང་འོད་ཟེར་; Wylie: tshe-ring 'od-zer; simplified Chinese: 唯色; pinyin: Wéisè), Tibetan poet and essayistYi Sha, Chinese poetBirth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 22 – Jun Kawada 川田 順 (born 1882), Japanese, Showa period tanka poet and entrepreneurJanuary 23 – Berton Braley, 83March 5 — Anna Akhmatova, 76, Russian poetMarch 17 – Einar Skjæraasen, NorwayApril 5 – Marcel Noppeney (born 1877), Luxembourg French-language poetMay 14 – Georgia Douglas Johnson, 86, of a strokeJune 1 – Inge Müller (born 1925), East GermanJune 7 – Jean Arp, 78, French sculptor, painter and poet, leader in DadaismJune 10 – Henry Treese, 55June 27 – Arthur David Waley, 76, noted translator of Chinese poetry and an English Orientalist and SinologistJuly 11 – Delmore Schwartz, 52, American, of a heart attackJuly 25 – Frank O'Hara, 40, American poet and key member of the New York School of poetry.August – Tristan Klingsor, pseudonym of Léon Leclère (born August 8, 1874), French poet, painter and musician; part of the Fantaisiste group of French poetsAugust 14:Raymond Duncan, 91, American dancer, artist, poet, craftsman and philosopherAlfred Kreymborg, 82, American poet, novelist, playwright, literary editor and anthologistAugust 26 – W.W.E. Ross (born 1894), Canadian poet.August 29 – Melvin Tolson, 68, American Modernist poet, educator, columnist, and politicianSeptember 25 – Mina Loy, 73, British-born American artist, poet, Futurist and actorSeptember 28 – André Breton, 70, French poet, essayist and theorist; the leading exponent of Surrealism in literatureAlso:John Cournos (born 1881), Russian-American Imagist poet, but better known for his novels, short stories, essays, criticism and translations of Russian literature; wrote under the pen name "John Courtney"Jun Tanaka 田中純 (born 1890), Japanese, Showa period poetArnold Wall (born 1869), New Zealand 
