Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
May 16 – the premiere at Taganka Theater in Moscow of the staged a poetical performance Послушайте! ("Listen!"), based on the works of Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky. The show was in repertoire until April 1984, was revived in May 1987 and again in repertoire until June 1989.
Soviet authorities, acting through the Union of Soviet Writers, denied popular Russian poet Andrei Voznesensky permission to visit New York for a poetry reading at Lincoln Center, apparently because of remarks the poet made on a previous U.S. visit that were deemed pro-American, although the official reason was that Voznesensky's health was too poor for him to travel. In response, Voznesensky excoriated the literary union in a letter he sent to Pravda, which the newspaper refused to publish. Nevertheless, copies of the letter, accusing the literary-union authorities of "lies, lies, lies, bad manners and lies", were distributed widely in literary circles. On July 2, Voznesensky strongly criticized the literary union in a poem he read at the Taganka Theater in Moscow. The union demanded a retraction, but he refused. According to Voznesensky's 2010 obituary in the Times, "The issue was ultimately smoothed over".
New Writers Press is founded by poets Michael Smith and Trevor Joyce with Smith's wife Irene in Dublin to publish poetry.
Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:
Pentti Saarikoski, Helsinki, a selection of poetry in translation from Finnish
Wole Soyinka, Idanre, and Other Poems
Margaret Atwood, The Circle Game, won a Governor General's award and "sold out immediately"
John Robert Colombo, Abracadabra
Louis Dudek, Atlantis. Montreal: Delta Canada, 1967.
D. G. Jones, Phrases from Orpheus
Irving Layton, Periods of the Moon: Poems. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart.
Dennis Lee, Kingdom of Absence. Toronto: Anansi.
Dorothy Livesay, The Unquiet Bed.
Eli Mandel, An Idiot Joy Governor General's Award 1967.
Michael Ondaatje, The Dainty Monsters, Toronto: Coach House Press
P. K. Page, Cry Ararat!: Poems New and Selected
Al Purdy, North of Summer, a diary in verse recounting his stay on Baffin Island
F. R. Scott, Trouvailles: Poems from Prose. Montreal: Delta Canada.
A. J. M. Smith:
Editor, A Book of Modern Canadian Verse, anthology
Poems: New and Collected
Raymond Souster,As Is. Toronto: Oxford University Press.
Raymond Souster, editor, New Wave Canada anthology of younger poets
Miriam Waddington, The Glass Trumpet
George Woodcock, Selected Poems of George Woodcock, Toronto: Clarke, Irwin, Canada
A. K. Ramanujan, The Striders ( Poetry in English ), Delhi,Oxford University Press
Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, Woodcuts on Paper ( Poetry in English ),
Kamala Das, The Descendants ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India.
Lawrence Bantleman:
Kanchenjunga ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India .
New Poems ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India
Sukanta Chaudhuri, Poems( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India
Margaret Chatterjee, The Spring and the Spectacle, ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India
A. Madhavan, Poems( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India
R. Rabindranath Menon, Dasavatara and Other Poems ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India
S. R. Mokashi-Punekar, The Pretender( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India
Mohinder Monga, Through the Night Raptly ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India
Tarpiti Mookerji, The Golden Road to Samarkand( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India
Suniti Namjoshi:
Poems ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India
The Jackass and the Lady ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India
Stanley P. Rajiva, The Permanent Element ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India
S. Santhi, Lamplight in the Sun ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India
O. P. Bhagat, Another Planet, New Delhi: Lakshmi Books
Sankara Krishna Chettur, Golden Stars and Other Poems, Madras: Higginbotham
Harindranath Chattopadhyaya, Virgins and Vineyards, Bombay: Pearl Pub.
Raul De Loyola Furtado, also known as Joseph Furtado, Selected Poems, third edition, revised; Bombay: published by Philip Furdado (first edition 1942; second edition, revised 1947), posthumously published (died 1947)
Monika Varma, translator, A Bunch of Tagore Poems, Calcutta: Writers Workshop
Kushwant Singh, editor, The Asian PEN Anthology, Taplinger
New Zealand
Fleur Adcock, Tigers, London: Oxford University Press (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963)
James K. Baxter:
The Lion Skin: Poems
Aspects of Poetry in New Zealand, critical study
The Man on the Horse, critical study
Alistair Campbell, Blue Rain: Poems, Wellington: Wai-te-ata Press
Fleur Adcock, Tigers; New Zealander living in and published in the United Kingdom
Kingsley Amis, A Look Round the Estate
Patricia Beer, Just Like the Resurrection
Martin Bell, Collected Poems, 1937-1966
D. M. Black, With Decorum
Alan Brownjohn, The Lions' Mouths
T. S. Eliot, Poems Written in Early Youth, a second edition of the 1950 book of poems edited and privately printed by John Hayward (posthumous)
Janet Frame, English The Pocket Mirror
Bryn Griffiths, The Stones Remember
Geoffrey Grigson, A Skull in Salop, and Other Poems
Thom Gunn, Touch
Libby Houston, A Stained Glass Raree Show
Ted Hughes, Wodwo, a collection of poems, a radio play and five stories
Elizabeth Jennings, Collected Poems, 1967
P. J. Kavanagh, On the Way to the Depot
Thomas Kinsella, Nightwalker, and Other Poems
George MacBeth, The Colour of Blood
Hugh MacDiarmid, pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve; a Scot:
A Lap of Honour, with some poems "previously almost unobtainable"
Collected Poems, a revised edition
Roger McGough, Frinck: A Day in the Life Of; and Summer with Monica
Leslie Norris, Finding Gold
Brian Patten, Little Johnny's Confession
Tom Pickard, High on the Walls, used "Geordie" (Newcastle) slang
James Reeves, Selected Poems
Anthony Thwaite, The Stones of Emptiness
Rosemary Tonks, Iliad of Broken Sentences
Vernon Watkins, Selected Poems, 1930-60
Edward Lucie-Smith (ed.), The Liverpool Scene anthology featuring work by the Mersey Beat poets Adrian Henri, Roger McGough and Brian Patten (publisher: Donald Carroll)
The Mersey Sound, 10th volume in the Penguin Modern Poets series, including work by Liverpudlians Adrian Henri, Roger McGough, Brian Patten
Stephen Bann, Concrete Poetry, poems originally written in English, German, Spanish and Portuguese
Howard Sergeant, Commonwealth Poems of Today, covering 24 Commonwealth countries, published in the United Kingdom
Duncan Glen (ed.), Poems Addressed to Hugh MacDiarmid
Donald Allen and Robert Creeley (eds), The New Writing in the USA published by Penguin, including work by John Ashbery, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Frank O'Hara, Charles Olson, prose as well as poetry
W. H. Auden, Collected Shorter Poems, 1927-1957, first published in the United Kingdom in 1966; English native published in the United States
Ted Berrigan, Ron Padgett and Joe Brainard, Bean Spasms, in which no authors were listed for individual poems, although some were written by one poet, some in collaboration.
Ted Berrigan, Many Happy Returns
John Berryman, Berryman's Sonnets (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Paul Blackburn:
The Reardon Poems
The Cities
Gwendolyn Brooks, The bitch
Robert Creeley, Words
Ed Dorn, The North Atlantic Turbine, Fulcrum Press
Robert Lowell, Near the Ocean, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Carl Rakosi, Amulet (Rakosi's first published volume since 1941)
W. S. Merwin, The Lice, New York: Atheneum
Marianne Moore, Complete Poems
J. R. R. Tolkien, The Road Goes Ever On, English writer, but this book first published in the United States; published in the United Kingdom in 1968
Reed Whittemore, Poems, New and Selected
James Wright, Shall We Gather at the River
Eavan Boland, New Territory, Ireland
Edward Brathwaite, Rights of Passage, first part of his The Arrivants trilogy, which also includes Masks (1968) and Islands (1969), Caribbean
Dom Moraes, Beldam & Others, a pamphlet of verse, India
Chris Wallace-Crabbe, The Rebel General, Sydney: Angus & Robertson, Australia
Lenrie Peters, Satellites (Gambia)
Judith Wright, The Other Half, 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:
Jørgen Gustava Brandt, Ateliers
Klaus Høeck, Mit-enf-snee, 1967. Nuancer
Jens Ørnsbo, a new collection of poems
Klaus Rifbjerg, Fædrelandssang
Henrik Nordbrandt, Miniaturer
Jørgen Gustava Brandt, Ateliers ("Studios"), Denmark
Anne-Marie Albiach, Flammigere
P. Chaullet, Soudaine écorce
Lucienne Desnoues, Les Ors
Jean Daive, Décimale blanche
R. Dubillard, Le dirai que je suis tombé
Jean Follain, D'Après tout
M. Fombeure, À Chat petit
Jean Grosjean, Élegies, which won the Prix des Critiques
Eugene Guilleveic, Euclidiennes
Edmond Jabès, Yael
Philippe Jaccottet, Airs
J. Lebrau, Du Cyprès tourne l'ombre
Francis Ponge:
Le Nouveau Recueil
Le Savon
Raymond Queneau, Courir les rues
Charles le Quintrec, Stances du verbe amour
Jacques Roubaud, Σ, forms of "sonnets" arranged in a way reflecting the moves of the board game Go, and with the suggestion that the order might be rearranged; the title comes from the mathematical symbol for "belonging"
Lilaine Wouters, Le Gel
P. de Boisdeffre, La Poésie française de Baudelaire á nos jours
René Étiemble, Poètes ou faiseurs, a critical study
M. Guiney, La Poésie de Pierre Reverdy
G. Sadoul, Aragon
A. Alter, J. C. Renard
Paul Celan, Breathturn (Atemwende)
Günter Grass, Ausgefragt (West Germany)
Karl Mickel, Vita nova mea (East Germany)
B. Pomerantz, Shirim ("Poems"), introduction by N. Peniel (posthumous)
N. Shtern, Bain ha-Arpilim ("Amid the Mists"), preface by A. Broides
T. Carmi, ha-Unikorn Mistakel ba-Mareh ("The Unicorn Looks into the Mirror")
Ori Bernstein, be-Ona ha-Kezarah ("In the Brief Season")
Yaoz Kast, a book of collected poems
Ozer Rabin, Shuv ve-shuv ("Again and Again")
A. Aldon, a book of poems
S. Pilus, a book of poems
S. Tanny, Ad Shehigia ha-Yom (title translated by the author as "The Moment Came")
D. Chomsky, Ezov ba-Even ("The Moss on the Stone")
Israel Efros, collected poems, four volumes
Eliezer D. Friedland, Shirim be-Sulam Minor ("Poems in a Minor Key")
Avraham Marthan, Shavot ha-Sirot Im Erev ("The Birds Return at Evening")
Yizhak Finkel, Maginah Morikah ("Verdant Melody")
Listed in alphabetical order by first name:
Hem Barua, Man Mayuri; Assamese-language poet
Ramakant Rath, Anek Kothari ("Many Rooms"); Oriya-language
Rituraj, Ek Marandharma aur Anya; Hindi-language
Sitakant Mahapatra, Astapadi ("Eight Steps"); Oriya-language
Umashankar Joshi, Abhijna; Gujarati-language
Lino Curci, Gli operai della terra
Antonio Veneziano, Ottave (posthumous)
Carlo Vallini, Un giorno (posthumous)
Enrico Falqui, editor, Tutte le poesie della "Voce", anthology
José Paulo Paes, Anatomías
Affonso Avila, Resíduos Seiscentista em Minas, a study of the barique poetry of Minas Gerais
Rosamel del Valle, a book of poetry, posthumously published
Humberto Díaz Casanueva, El sol ciego
Gabriela Mistral, Poema de Chile ("Poem of Chile"), posthumously published
Gastón Basquero, Memorial de un testigo (Cuban resident of Spain)
Gabriel Celaya, Lo que faltaba: Precedido de la linterna sorda y Música de baile
Manuel Tuñón de Lara, Antonio Machado, poeta del pueblo a critical study
Dovid Sfard, Barefoot Steps (Poland)
Yankev Fridman, Loving Kindness
Rikude Potash, a book of poems (posthumous)
Rokhl Korn, a book of poems
Avrom Zak, a book of poems
M. M. Shafir, a book of poems
L. Faynberg, a book of poems
Sholem Shtern, a book of poems
M. Frid-Vaninger, a book of poems
M. Olitsky, a book of poems
Leyb Kvitko, a book of selected poems
Shimon Halkin, My Treasury
Lo Fu (poet) (Luo Fu),Poems from Beyond, Chinese (Taiwan)
Einar Skjæraasen, "Sang i september" the first poem to appear since 1956 from one of Norway's most popular poets
Pentti Saarikoski, Laulu laululta pois ("Going Away, Song by Song"), a book-length poem (Finland)
Alexander Mezhirov, Подкова ("Podkova"), Russia, Soviet Union
Wisława Szymborska, Poland:
Sto pociech ("No End of Fun")
Poezje wybrane ("Selected Poetry")
See 1967 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
Cholmondeley Award: Seamus Heaney, Brian Jones, Norman Nicholson
Eric Gregory Award: Angus Calder, Marcus Cumberlege, David Harsent, David Selzer, Brian Patten
Frost Medal: Marianne Moore
Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Charles Causley
Bollingen Prize: Robert Penn Warren
National Book Award for Poetry: James Merrill, Nights and Days
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Anne Sexton: Live or Die
Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Mark Van Doren
Max Jacob Award: Édith Boissonnas, for L'Embellie
Critics' Prize: J. Grosjean, Élégies
Apollinaire Award: P. Gascar, Le Quatrième État de la matière
October 21 – Pam Rehm, American poet
Chris Albani, Nigerian poet
Sia Figiel, Samoan novelist, poet and painter
Saskia Hamilton, American poet
Lisa Jarnot, American poet
V. Penelope Pelizzon, American poet
Diane Thiel, American poet and academic
Karen Volkman, American poet
Matthew Zapruder, American poet and editor
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 29 – Ion Buzdugan, 79 (born 1887), Romanian poet, folklorist and politician
March 16 – Thomas MacGreevy, 72 (born 1893), Irish poet, director of the National Gallery of Ireland and member of the first Irish Arts Council
March 30 – Jean Toomer, 72, American poet, novelist and important figure of the Harlem Renaissance
May 10 – Margaret Larkin, 67, American writer, poet, singer-songwriter, researcher, journalist and union activist
May 12 – John Masefield, 88 (born 1878), English Poet Laureate and author
May 22 – Langston Hughes, 65 (born 1902), African American poet, of heart failure
June 7 – Dorothy Parker, 73, American writer and poet known for her caustic wit, of heart failure
June 23 – Sakae Tsuboi 壺井栄 (born 1899), novelist and poet
July 13 – Yoshino Hideo 吉野秀雄 (born 1902), Japanese, Showa period tanka poet
July 19 – Odel Shepard, 82, American historian and poet
July 22 – Carl Sandburg, 89, American historian and poet, of heart failure
July 25 – Pierre Albert Birot, 91, French poet and writer
September (exact date not known)
Augusto Casimiro, 78, Portuguese poet and founder of the Seara Nova literary review
Christopher Okigbo, 37 (born 1930), Nigerian poet, killed in action in Nigerian Civil War
September 1 – Siegfried Sassoon, 80, English poet and memoirist
September 5 – David C. DeJong, 62, Dutch American poet and fiction writer
October 8 – Vernon Watkins, 61, Welsh poet and painter, of heart failure
November 17 – Bo Bergman, 98, Swedish poet
November 30 – Patrick Kavanagh, 63 (born 1904), Irish poet and novelist, of pneumonia
