1962 in poetry

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Events

* Writers in the Soviet Union this year were allowed to publish criticism of Joseph Stalin and were given more freedom generally, although many were severely criticized for doing so. The poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko, in the poem, "The Heirs of Stalin", wrote that more guards should be placed at Stalin's tomb, "lest Stalin rise again, and with Stalin the past". He also condemns anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union. His poetry readings attracted hundreds and thousands of enthusiastic young people, to the point where police were often summoned to preserve order and disperse the crowds long after midnight. Other young poets also went beyond the previous limits of Soviet censorship: Andrei Voznesensky, Robert Rozhdestvensky, and Bella Akhmadulina (who had divorced Yevtushenko). Alexander Tvardovsky, editor of the literary monthly "New World", supported many of the young writers. By the end of the year, the young writers had gained power in the official writers' unions which controlled much of the literary culture of the Soviet Union, and some publications which had attacked them were printing their work."Britannica Book of the Year 1963", covering events of 1962, published by The Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1963]
* American poet Robert Frost visits Russian poet Anna Akhmatova in her dacha
*Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath separate
* Michigan Quarterly Review is founded.
* October — Dame Edith Sitwell read from her poetry at a concert at Royal Festival Hall in London given in honor of her 75th birthday.
* Composer Benjamin Britten's "War Requiem", included settings for Wilfred Owen's poems

Works published in English

=English Canada=

* D. G. Jones, "The Sun is Axeman"
* A. J. M. Smith, "Collected Poems"
* Raymond Souster, "Place of Meeting"

Anthologies

* Irving Layton, editor, "Love Where the Nights Are Long"
* Editors of the "Tamarack Review", a selection from its past issues, "The First Five Years", including poetry

Biography, criticism and scholarship

* A translation of "The Journal of St. Denys Garneau"
* Canadian critics and poets, "Masks of Poetry"

=United Kingdom=

* Dannie Abse, "Poems, Golders Green", including "The Abandoned", London: HutchinsonM. L. Rosenthal, "The New Poets: American and British Poetry Since World War II", New York: Oxford University Press, 1967, "Selected Bibliography: Individual Volumes by Poets Discussed", pp 334-340]
* Edmund Blunden, "A Hong Kong House"
* Ronald Bottrall, "Collected Poems"
* Tony Connor, "With Love Somehow", London: Oxford University Press
* Patrick Creagh, "A Row of Pharaohs"
* Allen Curnow, "A Small Room with Large Windows" (Oxford University Press), selected poems by this New Zealand poet published in the United Kingdom [ [http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/writers/curnowa.html Allen Curnow Web page] at the New Zealand Book Council website, accessed April 21, 2008]
* D. J. Enright, "Addictions", London: Chatto and Windus with Hogarth Press
* Roy Fuller, "Collected Poems 1936-1961", London: André Deutsch
* Robert Graves, "New Poems 1962"
* Thom Gunn, "Fighting Terms", a revision of a collection from the 1950s including "My Sad Captains"
* Thom Gunn and Ted Hughes, "Selected poems by Thom Gunn and Ted Hughes," Faber
* Richard Kell, "Control Tower"
* C. Day Lewis, "The Gate", including "Not Proven" and "The Disabused"
* Norman MacCaig, "A Round of Applause", London: Chatto and Windus with Hogarth Press
* Vernon Scannell, "A Sense of Danger"
* Dame Edith Sitwell, "The Outcasts"
* Stevie Smith, "Selected Poems"

* Derek Walcott, "In a Green Night" the "most striking" first collection of poetry of 1962, according to Howard Sergeant, editor of "Outposts" (writing for publication in 1963). Walcott had already gained recognition with his plays.

Anthologies

* Al Alvarez, editor, "The New Poetry" an anthology that provoked controversy with its omissions and inclusions
* James Reeves, editor, "Georgian Poetry"

United States

* Brother Antoninus, "The Hazards of Holiness, 1957-1960"
* John Ashbery, "The Tennis Court Oath"
* Robert Bly, "Silence in the Snowy Fields", Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press
* Robert Creeley, "For Love: Poems 1950-1960", collected lyrics from his seven previous volumes, New York: Scribner's [David Perkins, [http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/creeley/life.htm "Robert Creeley's Life and Career"] at the "Modern American Poetry" website, accessed May 1, 2008]
* James Dickey, "Drowning With Others"
* William Everson (also known as Brother Antoninus, "The Hazards of Holiness", Garden City, New York: Doubleday
* Ian Hamilton Finlay, "The Dancers Inherit the Party", Ventura California an dWorcester, England: Migrant Press* Robert Creeley, "For Love: Poems 1950-1960", New York: Scribner's British poet
* Robert Frost, "In the Clearing", his first collection of new poems in 15 years
* Paul Goodman, "The Lordly Hudson: Collected Poems", New York: Macmillan
* John Hollander, "Movie-Going"
* Hugh Kenner, editor, "T. S. Eliot: A Collection of Critical Essays" (Prentice-Hall), Canadian writing and published in the United States; criticism
* Kenneth Koch, "Thank You"
* Denise Levertov, "The Jacob's Ladder"
* Hugh MacDiarmid, "Collected Poems", New York: Macmillan, Briton publishing in the United States
* Norman Mailer, "Deaths for the Ladies"
* James Merrill, "Water Street"
* Christopher Middleton, "torse 3", New York: Harcourt, Brace
* Ogden Nash, "Everyone But Thee and Me", light verse
* Howard Nemerov, "The Next Room of the Dream", University of Chicago Press
* Charles Reznikoff, "By the Waters of Manhattan: Selected Verse"
* David Ross, "Three Ages of Lake Light", his first book of poems
* Muriel Rukeyser, "Waterlily Fire: Poems 1935-1962",
* James Schevill, "Private Dooms and Public Destinations: Poems 1945-1962", Denver: Alan Swallow
* Anne Sexton, "All My Pretty Ones", including "The Truth the Dead Know", Boston: Houghton Mifflin
* Edith Shiffert, "In Open Woods", her first book of poems
* William Stafford, "Traveling Through the Dark", New York: Harper & Row
* Reed Whittemore, "The Boy from Iowa"
* Theodore Weiss, "Gunsight", New York University Press
* William Carlos Williams, "Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems"

Other in English

* Kendrick Smithyman, "Inheritance", New Zealand
* Chris Wallace-Crabbe, "Eight Metropolitan Poems", Adelaide: Australian Letters, Australia

Works published in other languages

French language

=French Canada=

* Gérard Bessette, "Poèmes temporels"
* Gilles Hénault, "Sémaphore"

=France=

* André du Bouchet, "Dans la chaleur vacante"
* René Char, "La Parole en Archipel", writings from the last eight years
* Pierre Emmanuel, "Evangéliaire"
* André Frénard, "Il n'y a pas de Paradis"
* Jean Follain, "Poèmes et Pros choisis", displaying some similarities to haiku
* Jean Grosjean, "Apocalypse"
* Stéphane Mallarmé, "Pour un tombeau d'Anatole", an abandoned and previously unpublished work, consisting of notes and drafts of an elegy the poet expected to write on his dead son (posthumous); edited by J. P. Richard
* Francis Ponge, "Le Grand Recueil" in three volumes
* Jean Claude Renard:
** "Incantation du temps"
** "Incantation des eaux"
* Michel Sager, "XXI poèmes nocturnes"

Criticism and scholarship

* J. P. Richard, "L'Univers imaginaire de Mallarmé"

Germany

* G. Benn, "Lyrik des expressionistischen Jahrzehnts", anthologyPreminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, "The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics", 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "German Poetry" article, "Anthologies in German" section, pp 473-474]
* Marie-Luise Kaschnitz, "Dein Schweigen-meine Stimmen"
* Hilde Domin, "Rückkehr der Schiffe"
* Wilhelm Lehmann, "Abschiedslust, Gedichte aus den Jahren 1957-1961", 37 poems
* Hans Magnus Enzensberger, "Viele schöne Kinderreime", 777 poems for children

=Hebrew=

* Anonymous author from the Soviet Union, "Zion Halo Tishali", poems originally written in Russian and clandestinely sent to Israel, edited and translated by A. Shlonsky and M. Sharett
* Avigdor Hameiri, "Belivnat ha-Sapir" ("Clear-cut Sapphire"), collected poems
* Levi Ben-Amittai, "Matana Mimidbar" ("Gift of the Desert")
* Yitzahak Ogen, "Shirim" ("Poems")
* P. Elad-Lander, "Ke'raiah ha-Sadeh" ("As the Fragrance of the Field")
* A. Halfi, "Mul Kohavim ve-Afar" ("Against Stars and the Dust")
* A. Meyrowitz, "Avnai Bait" ("Stones of a House")
* D. Avidan, "Shirai Lahatz" ("Poems of Pressure")
* Uri Bernstein, "Beoto ha-Heder Beoto ha-Or" ("In the Same Room, In the Same Light")
* T. Carmi, "Nehash ha-Nehoshet" ("Brass Serpent")
* J. Lichtenbaum, "Shiratenu" ("Our Poetry"), a two-volume anthology of Hebrew poetry from the end of the eighteenth century
* J. J. Schwartz, "Kentucky", the only volume of Hebrew poetry published in the United States, according to "The Britannica Book of the Year 1963" (covering events of 1962)

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=Latin America=

* Héctor Rojas Herazo, "Mascando las tinieblas en el odio" (Colombia)
* Alberto Hidalgo, "Historia peruana verdadera"
* José Martí, "Versos" (Cuban), posthumous; with an introduction by Eugenio Florit
* Pablo Neruda, a bilingual anthology of his selected verse; with an introduction by Louis Monguió
* Rubén Bonifaz Nuño, "Fuego de pobres" (Mexico)
* Carlos Pellicer, "Material poético" (Mexico)

=Spain=

* Jorge Guillén, "Lenguaje y poesía"
* A collaboration of 50 poets and 14 illustrators, "Versos para Antonio Machado" (published in France)

=Yiddish=

* Eliyohu Bokher, "Bovo-bukh" ("Buovo d'Antona") (posthumous) a sixteenth-century epic poem translated into modern Yiddish by Moyshe Knaphes
* Yaykev Glatshteyn, "Di freyd fun yidishn vort" ("The Joy of the Yiddish World")
* N. I. Gotlib, a book of poetry
* Chaim Grade, "Der mench fun fayer" ("The Man of Fire")
* Rokhl Korn, a book of poetry
* Kadye Molodovsky, editor, "Lider fun khurbn" ("Poems of the Catastrophe"), an anthology in which emphasized the theme of the Holocaust
* Shloyme Shenhud, a book of poetry
* A. N. Shtensl, a book of poetry
* I. J. Shvarts, a book of poetry
* I. Taubes, a book of poetry
* Meyer Ziml Tkach, a book of poetry
* Shneyer Vaserman, a book of poetry
* Avrom Zak, a book of poetry
* Reyzl Zhykhlinsky, a book of poetry

Other

* A. Gatto, "Carlomagno nella grotta" (Italy)
* Wisława Szymborska: "Sól" ("Salt"), Poland
* P. Volponi, "Memoriale" (Italy)

Awards and honors

=United Kingdom=

* Eric Gregory Award: Donald Thomas, James Simmons, Brian Johnson, Jenny Joseph
* Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Christopher Fry

United States

* Bollingen Prize: John Hall Wheelock and Richard Eberhart
* National Book Award for Poetry: Alan Dugan, "Poems"
* Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Alan Dugan: "Poems"
* Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: John Crowe Ransom
* Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition: Jack Gilbert: "Monolithos"

Births

* October 9 — Durs Grunbein, German
* December 6 — Julia Kasdorf, is an American poet
* date not known:
** Elizabeth Alexander, American poet [ [http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=82517 Web page titled "Elizabeth Alexander"] at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed April 24, 2008]
** Paul Beatty, African-American poet and author
** Stacy Doris
** Glyn Maxwell, British poet [ [http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=4481 "Glyn Maxwell (1962 - )"] at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed April 24, 2008]
** Virgil Suárez

Deaths

* January 20 — Robinson Jeffers, 85, American poet and playwright
* March 18 — George Sylvester Viereck, 77, American poet and novelist, as well as a pro-German propagandist during both World War I and World War II
* May 26 — Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, 83, English poet
* June 2 — Victoria Sackville-West, 70, English novelist and poet
* June 22 — John Holmes, 58, American educator and poet
* July 27 — Richard Aldington, 70, English writer and poet
* August 9, — Herman Hesse, 95, Swiss novelist and poet in German
* August 18 — Rosemary Carr Benét, 65(?), poet and widow of Stephen Vincent Benét
* September 3 — E.E. Cummings, at 67, American poet, of a stroke;
* November 3 — Ralph Hodgson, 91, English poet
* December 3 — Dame Mary Gilmore, 97, Australian socialist, poet and journalist
* Date not known – Alan Mulgan (born 1881), New Zealand

ee also

* Poetry
* List of poetry awards
* List of years in poetry

Notes