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 FinnishWole Soyinka, Idanre, and Other PoemsMargaret Atwood, The Circle Game, won a Governor General's award and "sold out immediately"John Robert Colombo, AbracadabraLouis Dudek, Atlantis. Montreal: Delta Canada, 1967.D. G. Jones, Phrases from OrpheusIrving 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 PressP. K. Page, Cry Ararat!: Poems New and SelectedAl Purdy, North of Summer, a diary in verse recounting his stay on Baffin IslandF. R. Scott, Trouvailles: Poems from Prose. Montreal: Delta Canada.A. J. M. Smith:Editor, A Book of Modern Canadian Verse, anthologyPoems: New and CollectedRaymond Souster,As Is. Toronto: Oxford University Press.Raymond Souster, editor, New Wave Canada anthology of younger poetsMiriam Waddington, The Glass TrumpetGeorge Woodcock, Selected Poems of George Woodcock, Toronto: Clarke, Irwin, CanadaA. K. Ramanujan, The Striders ( Poetry in English ), Delhi,Oxford University PressArvind 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, IndiaSukanta Chaudhuri, Poems( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, IndiaMargaret Chatterjee, The Spring and the Spectacle, ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, IndiaA. Madhavan, Poems( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, IndiaR. Rabindranath Menon, Dasavatara and Other Poems ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, IndiaS. R. Mokashi-Punekar, The Pretender( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, IndiaMohinder Monga, Through the Night Raptly ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, IndiaTarpiti Mookerji, The Golden Road to Samarkand( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, IndiaSuniti Namjoshi:Poems ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, IndiaThe Jackass and the Lady ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, IndiaStanley P. Rajiva, The Permanent Element ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, IndiaS. Santhi, Lamplight in the Sun ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, IndiaO. P. Bhagat, Another Planet, New Delhi: Lakshmi BooksSankara Krishna Chettur, Golden Stars and Other Poems, Madras: HigginbothamHarindranath 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 WorkshopKushwant Singh, editor, The Asian PEN Anthology, TaplingerNew Zealand
Fleur Adcock, Tigers, London: Oxford University Press (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963)James K. Baxter:The Lion Skin: PoemsAspects of Poetry in New Zealand, critical studyThe Man on the Horse, critical studyAlistair Campbell, Blue Rain: Poems, Wellington: Wai-te-ata PressFleur Adcock, Tigers; New Zealander living in and published in the United KingdomKingsley Amis, A Look Round the EstatePatricia Beer, Just Like the ResurrectionMartin Bell, Collected Poems, 1937-1966D. M. Black, With DecorumAlan Brownjohn, The Lions' MouthsT. 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 MirrorBryn Griffiths, The Stones RememberGeoffrey Grigson, A Skull in Salop, and Other PoemsThom Gunn, TouchLibby Houston, A Stained Glass Raree ShowTed Hughes, Wodwo, a collection of poems, a radio play and five storiesElizabeth Jennings, Collected Poems, 1967P. J. Kavanagh, On the Way to the DepotThomas Kinsella, Nightwalker, and Other PoemsGeorge MacBeth, The Colour of BloodHugh MacDiarmid, pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve; a Scot:A Lap of Honour, with some poems "previously almost unobtainable"Collected Poems, a revised editionRoger McGough, Frinck: A Day in the Life Of; and Summer with MonicaLeslie Norris, Finding GoldBrian Patten, Little Johnny's ConfessionTom Pickard, High on the Walls, used "Geordie" (Newcastle) slangJames Reeves, Selected PoemsAnthony Thwaite, The Stones of EmptinessRosemary Tonks, Iliad of Broken SentencesVernon Watkins, Selected Poems, 1930-60Edward 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 PattenStephen Bann, Concrete Poetry, poems originally written in English, German, Spanish and PortugueseHoward Sergeant, Commonwealth Poems of Today, covering 24 Commonwealth countries, published in the United KingdomDuncan Glen (ed.), Poems Addressed to Hugh MacDiarmidDonald 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 poetryW. H. Auden, Collected Shorter Poems, 1927-1957, first published in the United Kingdom in 1966; English native published in the United StatesTed 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 ReturnsJohn Berryman, Berryman's Sonnets (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux)Paul Blackburn:The Reardon PoemsThe CitiesGwendolyn Brooks, The bitchRobert Creeley, WordsEd Dorn, The North Atlantic Turbine, Fulcrum PressRobert Lowell, Near the Ocean, New York: Farrar, Straus and GirouxCarl Rakosi, Amulet (Rakosi's first published volume since 1941)W. S. Merwin, The Lice, New York: AtheneumMarianne Moore, Complete PoemsJ. 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 1968Reed Whittemore, Poems, New and SelectedJames Wright, Shall We Gather at the RiverEavan Boland, New Territory, IrelandEdward Brathwaite, Rights of Passage, first part of his The Arrivants trilogy, which also includes Masks (1968) and Islands (1969), CaribbeanDom Moraes, Beldam & Others, a pamphlet of verse, IndiaChris Wallace-Crabbe, The Rebel General, Sydney: Angus & Robertson, AustraliaLenrie Peters, Satellites (Gambia)Judith Wright, The Other Half, AustraliaListed 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, AteliersKlaus Høeck, Mit-enf-snee, 1967. NuancerJens Ørnsbo, a new collection of poemsKlaus Rifbjerg, FædrelandssangHenrik Nordbrandt, MiniaturerJørgen Gustava Brandt, Ateliers ("Studios"), DenmarkAnne-Marie Albiach, FlammigereP. Chaullet, Soudaine écorceLucienne Desnoues, Les OrsJean Daive, Décimale blancheR. Dubillard, Le dirai que je suis tombéJean Follain, D'Après toutM. Fombeure, À Chat petitJean Grosjean, Élegies, which won the Prix des CritiquesEugene Guilleveic, EuclidiennesEdmond Jabès, YaelPhilippe Jaccottet, AirsJ. Lebrau, Du Cyprès tourne l'ombreFrancis Ponge:Le Nouveau RecueilLe SavonRaymond Queneau, Courir les ruesCharles le Quintrec, Stances du verbe amourJacques 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 GelP. de Boisdeffre, La Poésie française de Baudelaire á nos joursRené Étiemble, Poètes ou faiseurs, a critical studyM. Guiney, La Poésie de Pierre ReverdyG. Sadoul, AragonA. Alter, J. C. RenardPaul 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. BroidesT. 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 poemsOzer Rabin, Shuv ve-shuv ("Again and Again")A. Aldon, a book of poemsS. Pilus, a book of poemsS. 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 volumesEliezer 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 poetRamakant Rath, Anek Kothari ("Many Rooms"); Oriya-languageRituraj, Ek Marandharma aur Anya; Hindi-languageSitakant Mahapatra, Astapadi ("Eight Steps"); Oriya-languageUmashankar Joshi, Abhijna; Gujarati-languageLino Curci, Gli operai della terraAntonio Veneziano, Ottave (posthumous)Carlo Vallini, Un giorno (posthumous)Enrico Falqui, editor, Tutte le poesie della "Voce", anthologyJosé Paulo Paes, AnatomíasAffonso Avila, Resíduos Seiscentista em Minas, a study of the barique poetry of Minas GeraisRosamel del Valle, a book of poetry, posthumously publishedHumberto Díaz Casanueva, El sol ciegoGabriela Mistral, Poema de Chile ("Poem of Chile"), posthumously publishedGastón Basquero, Memorial de un testigo (Cuban resident of Spain)Gabriel Celaya, Lo que faltaba: Precedido de la linterna sorda y Música de baileManuel Tuñón de Lara, Antonio Machado, poeta del pueblo a critical studyDovid Sfard, Barefoot Steps (Poland)Yankev Fridman, Loving KindnessRikude Potash, a book of poems (posthumous)Rokhl Korn, a book of poemsAvrom Zak, a book of poemsM. M. Shafir, a book of poemsL. Faynberg, a book of poemsSholem Shtern, a book of poemsM. Frid-Vaninger, a book of poemsM. Olitsky, a book of poemsLeyb Kvitko, a book of selected poemsShimon Halkin, My TreasuryLo 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 poetsPentti Saarikoski, Laulu laululta pois ("Going Away, Song by Song"), a book-length poem (Finland)Alexander Mezhirov, Подкова ("Podkova"), Russia, Soviet UnionWisława 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 NicholsonEric Gregory Award: Angus Calder, Marcus Cumberlege, David Harsent, David Selzer, Brian PattenFrost Medal: Marianne MooreQueen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Charles CausleyBollingen Prize: Robert Penn WarrenNational Book Award for Poetry: James Merrill, Nights and DaysPulitzer Prize for Poetry: Anne Sexton: Live or DieFellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Mark Van DorenMax Jacob Award: Édith Boissonnas, for L'EmbellieCritics' Prize: J. Grosjean, ÉlégiesApollinaire Award: P. Gascar, Le Quatrième État de la matièreOctober 21 – Pam Rehm, American poetChris Albani, Nigerian poetSia Figiel, Samoan novelist, poet and painterSaskia Hamilton, American poetLisa Jarnot, American poetV. Penelope Pelizzon, American poetDiane Thiel, American poet and academicKaren Volkman, American poetMatthew Zapruder, American poet and editorBirth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 29 – Ion Buzdugan, 79 (born 1887), Romanian poet, folklorist and politicianMarch 16 – Thomas MacGreevy, 72 (born 1893), Irish poet, director of the National Gallery of Ireland and member of the first Irish Arts CouncilMarch 30 – Jean Toomer, 72, American poet, novelist and important figure of the Harlem RenaissanceMay 10 – Margaret Larkin, 67, American writer, poet, singer-songwriter, researcher, journalist and union activistMay 12 – John Masefield, 88 (born 1878), English Poet Laureate and authorMay 22 – Langston Hughes, 65 (born 1902), African American poet, of heart failureJune 7 – Dorothy Parker, 73, American writer and poet known for her caustic wit, of heart failureJune 23 – Sakae Tsuboi 壺井栄 (born 1899), novelist and poetJuly 13 – Yoshino Hideo 吉野秀雄 (born 1902), Japanese, Showa period tanka poetJuly 19 – Odel Shepard, 82, American historian and poetJuly 22 – Carl Sandburg, 89, American historian and poet, of heart failureJuly 25 – Pierre Albert Birot, 91, French poet and writerSeptember (exact date not known)Augusto Casimiro, 78, Portuguese poet and founder of the Seara Nova literary reviewChristopher Okigbo, 37 (born 1930), Nigerian poet, killed in action in Nigerian Civil WarSeptember 1 – Siegfried Sassoon, 80, English poet and memoiristSeptember 5 – David C. DeJong, 62, Dutch American poet and fiction writerOctober 8 – Vernon Watkins, 61, Welsh poet and painter, of heart failureNovember 17 – Bo Bergman, 98, Swedish poetNovember 30 – Patrick Kavanagh, 63 (born 1904), Irish poet and novelist, of pneumonia 