Events
* March 23 – A surprise best-seller in the United Kingdom isWorks published in English
Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:Australian poetry, Australia
* Geoffrey Dutton, ''The Literature of Australia''Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, ''The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics'', 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "Australian Poetry" article, Anthologies section, p 108 * Gwen Harwood, ''Poems'', Australian poetry, Australian poet published in the United Kingdom * T. Inglis Moore, and Douglas Stewart, editors, ''Poetry in Australia'', 2 volumes, Sydney: Angus and Robertson * Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker), ''We Are Going: Poems'', first book of verse by an Aboriginal Australian * David Rowbotham, ''All the Room'', Australian poetry prize winner * R. Ward, ''Penguin Book of Australian Ballads'', anthology * Judith Wright, ''Five Senses'' selected poems; Australian poetry, Australian poet published in the United KingdomCanadian poetry, Canada
* Earle Birney: **''Near False Creek Mouth''. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart. ** ''Two Poems''. Halifax. * George Bowering, ''Points on the Grid'' * Leonard Cohen, ''Flowers for Hitler'', including "The Only Tourist in Havana Turns his Thoughts Homeward" * John Robert Colombo, ''Poesie / Poetry 64''Gustafson, Ralph, ''The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse'', revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books * Pierre Coupey, ''Bring Forth the Cowards'' * Phyllis Gotlieb, ''Within the Zodiac'', her first work * John Glassco, ''A Point of Sky'' * Irving Layton, ''The Laughing Rooster'' * Dorothy Livesay, ''The Colour of God's Face''. * Gwendolyn MacEwen, ''The Rising Fire'' * Eli Mandel, ''Black and Secret Man'' * F. R. Scott, ''Events and Signals''. Toronto: Ryerson Press. * Raymond Souster, ''The Colour of the Times'', 250 poems collected from a dozen of his previous volumes. Governor General's Award 1964 Governor General's Awards, 1964. * David Wevill, ''Birth of a Shark'', a first collection; Canadian poetry, Canadian poet published in the United KingdomAnthologies in Canada
* ''Poetry of Mid-Century 1940/1960'', edited by Milton Wilson, included the work of 10 well-known Canadian poets: * Margaret Avison * Earle Birney * Leonard Cohen * Irving Layton * Jay Macpherson * Kenneth McRobbie * Alden Nowlan * P. K. Page * James Reaney * Raymond Souster *''Poésie/Poetry 64'', edited by John Robert Colombo and Jacques Godbout;an anthology of lesser-known poets, including: * Margaret Atwood * George Bowering * Frank Davey * K. V. Hertz * Harry Howith * Lionel Kearns * John Newlove (poet), John Newlove * Gwendolyn MacEwen * Henry Moskovitch * Myra von RiedemannCriticism, scholarship and biography in Canada
* Northrop Frye, ''Fables of Identity'', 16 essays on "various works and authors in the central tradition of English mythopoeic poetry" * Roy Daniells, ''Milton, Mannerism and Baroque''Indian poetry, India, Indian poetry in English, in English
* Monika Varma, ''Dragonflies Draw Flame'' ( Poetry in English language, English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India. * Lawrence Bantleman, ''Man's Fall and Woman's Fall out'' (according to another source the last word in the title is "Fallout"Vinayak Krishna GokakNew Zealand poetry, New Zealand
* Fleur Adcock, ''Eye of the Hurricane'', Wellington: Reed (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963 in poetry, 1963)Web page titled "Fleur Adcock: New Zealand Literature File"English poetry, United Kingdom
* Samuel Beckett, translator from the original French poetry, French, "Comment C'est'' 1961 in poetry, 1961, ''How It Is'',Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004,Criticism, scholarship, and biography in the United Kingdom
* ''Poetry of the Thirties'', a Penguin Books anthology; including the last published appearance during the lifetime of W. H. Auden of his, "September 1, 1939", a poem which he was famous for, but which he hated; the poem appeared in the edition with a note about this and four other early poems: "Mr. W. H. Auden considers these five poems to be trash which he is ashamed to have written." * G. Hartmann, ''William Wordsworth, Wordsworth's Poetry, 1787-1814''American poetry, United States
* Conrad Aiken, ''A Seizure of Limericks''Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., ''Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983'', 1986, New York: Oxford University Press ("If the title page is one year later than the copyright date, we used the latter since publishers frequently postdate books published near the end of the calendar year." — from the Preface, p vi) * A. R. Ammons, ''Expressions of Sea Level'' * Ted Berrigan, ''The Sonnets'' Holt, Rinehart & Winston * Wendell Berry, ''The Broken Ground'' *Criticism, scholarship, and biography in the United States
* Phyllis Grosskurth, ''John Addington Symonds: A Biography'' (Canadian scholar publishing in the United States), winner of the 1964 Governor General's Awards in Canada * Hugh Kenner, editor, ''Seventeenth Century Poetry: The Schools of John Donne, Donne & Ben Jonson, Jonson'', Canadian writing and published in the United States * Vladimir Nabokov, ''Notes on Prosody'', Russian native writing and published in the United StatesOther in English
* Kofi Awoonor, ''Rediscovery and Other Poems'', Ghanaian poet published in Ghana * Samuel Beckett, translator from the original French poetry, French, ''Comment C'est'' 1961 in poetry, 1961, ''How It Is'',Works in other languages
Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:Danish literature, Danish
* Inger Christensen, ''Graess'' * Klaus Rifbjerg, ''Portraet'' * Knud Holst, ''Trans'' * Jørgen Sonne (writer), Jørgen Sonne, ''Krese''French
Canadian poetry, Canada, in French
* Marie-Claire Blais, ''Existences'', Québec: Éditions Garneau * Jacques Brault, ''Mémoire'' * Paul Chamberland, ''L'Afficheur hurle'' * Gilbert Choquette, ''L'Honneur de vivre'' * Cécile Cloutier, ''Cuivre et soies'' * Paul-Marie Lapointe, ''Pour les âmes'' * Fernand Oullette, ''Le Soliel sous la mort''French literature, France
* Louis Aragon, near simultaneous publication of four works: ** Series of discussions with F. Crémieux on the philosophical and literary ideas of the poet ** ''Il ne m'est Paris que d'Elsa'', a collection of poems ** a "lengthy and ambitious historical poem" ** ''Le Voyage en Hollande'' * René Char: ** ''Commune Presence''Auster, Paul, editor, ''The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets'', New York: Random House, 1982 ** ''Les Matinaux''Germaine Brée, Brée, Germaine, ''Twentieth-Century French Literature'', translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983 * Michel Deguy, ''Biefs'' * Jean Follain, ''Appareil de la terre'' * Roger Giroux, ''L'arbre temps'', winner of the Prix Max Jacob, the author's sole published book during his lifetime * Edmond Jabès, ''Le Livre de Yukel'' * A. Marissel, ''La Nouvelle parabole'', winner of the first Louise Labé Prize * Pierre Oster, ''La Grande Année'' * Marcelin Pleynet, ''Paysages en deux suivis de Les Lignes de la prose'' * Jean-Pierre Richard, ''Onze Etudes sur la poésie moderne'', criticism * Denis Roche, ''Les Idées centésimales de Miss Elanize''Anthologies
* J. L. Bédouin, editor, ''La Poésie surréaliste'' * G. E. Clancier, editor, ''Panorama critique de Chénier á Baudelaire''German literature, German
* Erich Fried, ''Warngedichte'' * Hans Magnus Enzensberger, ''Blindenschrift'' * Walter Höllerer, ''Der andere Gast'' * Günter Eich, ''Zu den Akten''Hebrew literature, Hebrew
* Yaakov Cahan, the collected works * Esther Rab, ''Shirai-'' * Leah Goldberg, ''Im ha-Laila Hazeh'' ("On This Night") * Daliah Rivikovich, ''Horef Kasheh'' ("Hard Winter") * Dan Pagis, ''Shehut Mauhereth'' ("Belated Lingering") * David Avidan, ''Masheu Bishvil Mishehu'' ("Something for Someone") * Amir Gilboa, ''Kehulim Vaadumin'' ("The Blues and the Reds") * Eldad Andan, ''Lo Bishmahot kalot'' ("Not with Joys Lightly") * B. Mordecai, ''Nefilim ba-Aretz'' ("Giants on Earth") * Aaron Zeitlin, ''Min ha-Adam Vomaila'' ("From Man and Higher"), comprising two dramatic poems by this American publishing in Israel * Chaim Brandwein, ''be-Tzel ha-Argaman'' ("In the Shadow of the Purple"), a first book of poems by this American publishing in Israel * Abraham Regelson, ''Hakukot Otiotaich'' ("Engraved Are Thy Letters"), by an American poet living in IsraelItalian literature, Italian
* Bartolo Cattafi, ''L'osso, l'anima'' * Corrado Costa, ''Pseudobaudelaire'' avant-garde poetry * Eugenio Miccini, ''Sonetto minore'' avant-garde poetry * Elio Pagliarani, ''La lezione di fisica'' avant-garde poetry * Pier Paulo Pasolini, ''Poesia in forma di rosa'' * Lamberto Pignotti, ''La nozione dell'uomo'' avant-garde poetry * Antonio Porta, ''Aprire'' avant-garde poetry * Edoardo Sanguineti, ''Triperuno'' avant-garde poetry * Cesare Vivaldi, ''Dettagli'' avant-garde poetry * ''Gruppo '63'' (published this spring), an anthology of poems, critical essays, and passages from plays and novels by writers who had rebelled in recent years against standard conventions in literature.Norwegian literature, Norwegian
* Ernst Orvil, ''Kontakt'' * Astrid Hjertenaes Andersen, ''Frokost 'i det grønne'' * Harald Sverdrup (writer), Harald Sverdrup, ''Sang til solen''Russian literature, Russian
* Bella Akhmadulina, "published an extensive sheaf of nonpolitical, impressionistic verse", according to Harrison E. Salisbury * Alexander Mezhirov, ''Прощание со снегом'' ("Farewell to the Snow"), Russian poetry, Russia, Soviet UnionShrayer, MaximPortuguese literature, Portuguese language
Literature of Brazil, Brazil
* Lupe Cotrim, Lupe Cotrim Garaude, ''O poeta e o mundo'', her fourth collectionSpanish language
Latin American literature, Latin America
* Jorge Carrera Andrade, ''Floresta de los Guacamayos'' (Ecuador), published in Nicaragua while he was ambassador to the United States * Jorge Luis Borges, ''El otro, el mismo'' (Argentina) * Arturo Corcuera, ''Primavera triunfante'' (Peru) * Gonzalo Rojas, ''Contra la muerte'' (Chile) * Pablo Neruda, ''Memorial de Isla Negra'' (Chile), the first of his 5-volume poetic memoir * Roque Vallejos, ''Los arcángeles ebrios'' (Paraguay) * Sarah Bollo (Uruguay): ** ''Diana transfigurada'' ** ''Tierra y Cielo''=Anthologies
= * Instituto Torcuato Di Tella, ''Poesía argentina'' (sic), including selections from 10 Argentinian poets, most born in the 1920s or later * Oscar Echeverri Mejía and Alfonso Bonilla-Naar, editors, ''21 años de poesía colombiana'' (sic), with poems from the more prominent Colombian poets in the two decades from 1942 to 1963=Criticism, scholarship, and biography in Latin America
= * Raúl Silva Castro, ''Pablo Neruda'', an analysis of his poetry * Jorge Carrera Andrade, ''Interpretación de Rubén Darío'' (Nicaragua) * Luis Alberto Cabrales, ''Rubén Darío, breve biografía'' (Nicaragua) * ''Rubén Darío periodista'', a collection of his journalism compiled by the Nicaragua Ministry of Public EducationSpain
* Jorge Guillén, ''Tréboles'' * José García Nieto, ''La hora undécima'' * Gerardo Diego, ''La suerte o la muerte'' * Fernando Quiñones, ''En vida'', winner of the Leopoldo Panero Prize by the Instituto de Cultura Hispánica=Criticism, scholarship and biography in Spain
= * Gabriel Celaya, ''Exploración de la poesía'' * José Francisco Cirré, ''La poesía de José Moreno Villa'' *Books published for the centenary year of Miguel de Unamuno (died 1936 in poetry, 1936), an essayist, novelist, poet, playwright and philosopher: ** Manuel García Blanco, ''América y Unamuno'' ** Julio César Chaves, ''Unamuno y América'' ** Julio García Morejón, ''Unamuno y Portugal'' ** Sebastián de la Nuez, ''Unamuno en Canarias'' ** Ricardo Gullón, ''Autobiografías de Unamuno''Yiddish literature, Yiddish
* Mordkhay gebirtig, a new edition of the poet's works * Itskhok Katzenelson, a new edition of the poet's works * Abraham Sutzkever, a two-volume edition of the poet's works * Joseph Rubinstein, ''Khurbn Polyn'' ("Polish Jewry: a Lament") * Binem Heler, a book of poems * Yankev Zonshayn, a book of poems * P. Tsibulski, a book of poems * I. Papiernikov, a book of poems * I. Manik, a book of poems * I. Goykhberg, a book of poems * Rosa Gutman, a book of poems * Aleph Katz, a book of poemsOther
* Breyten Breytenbach, ''Die ysterkoei moet sweet'' ("The Iron Cow Must Sweat"), South African poetry, South African in Afrikaans * Ernst Enno, ''Väike luuleraamat'', Estonian literature, Estonia * Lars Forstell, ''Röster'' (Swedish literature, Sweden) * Ismail Kadare, ''Përse mendohen këto male'' ("What Are These Mountains Musing On?"), Albanian literature, Albania * Eeva Liisa Manner, ''Niin vaihtuivat vuoden ajat'' (Finnish literature, Finland) * Sean O Riordain, ''Brosna'', including "Claustrophobia", "Reo" and "Fiabhras", Gaelic poetry, Gaelic-language, Irish poetry, Ireland * Rituraj, ''Main Angiras'', Alwar: Kavita Prakashan; Indian poetry, India, Hindi poetry, Hindi-language * Hijam Anganhal Singh, ''Khamba Thoibi Sherireng'', abdidged form of the popular ''Khamba Thoibi'' folk ballad, sung on festive occasions and about the last incarnation of Khamba and Thoibi; one of the first epics in modern Meitei poetry; written in 1940 in poetry, 1940 but first published this year; Indian poetry, IndiaDas, Sisir Kumar, "A Chronology of Literary Events / 1911–1956", in Das, Sisir Kumar and variousAwards and honors
Australian poetry, Australia
* Grace Leven Prize for Poetry: David Rowbotham, ''All the Room''Canadian poetry, Canada
* 1964 Governor General's Awards: ** No poetry award for English this year ** Poetry award (French): Gratien Lapointe, ''Ode au Saint-Laurent''English poetry, United Kingdom
* Eric Gregory Award: Robert Nye, Ken Smith (poet), Ken Smith, Jean Symons, Ted Walker * Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: R. S. ThomasAmerican poetry, United States
* Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (later the post would be called "Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress"): Reed Whittemore appointed this year. * National Book Award for Poetry: John Crowe Ransom, ''Selected Poems'' * Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Louis Simpson: ''At The End Of The Open Road'' * Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Elizabeth Bishop * Presidential Medal of Freedom awarded by President Lyndon Johnson to 30 people, including Carl SandburgOther
* Danish literature, Danish Academy's literature prize: Erik Knudsen, a poet and playwright * Critics' Prize for Poetry (Spanish literature, Spain): María Elvira Lacaci * Leopoldo Panero Prize, given by the Instituto de Cultura Hispánica (Spanish literature, Spain): Fernando Quiñones, for ''En vida''Births
* February 18 – David Biespiel, American poet, editor and critic * May 7 – Kathy Shaidle, Canadian poetry, Canadian author, columnist and poet * July 7 – Karina Galvez, Ecuadorian poet * July 11 – Craig Charles, English poetry, English actor, presenter and performance poet * Also: ** Rafael Campo (poet), Rafael Campo, gay Cuban- American poet, doctor and author ** Beth Gylys, American poet and professorDeaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: * January 5 – Leslie Holdsworth Allen, Australian academic and poet (born 1879 in poetry, 1879) * January 22 – Zora Cross (born 1890 in poetry, 1890), Australian literature, Australian poet * March 12 – Abbas Al Akkad عباس محمود العقاد (born 1889 in poetry, 1889), Egyptian, Arabic poetry, Arabic-language writer and poet, a founder of the Divan school of poetry * April 5 – Tatsuji Miyoshi 三好達治 (born 1900 in poetry, 1900), Japanese poetry, Japanese, Shōwa period literary critic, editor and poet * April 26 – E. J. Pratt, 81 (born 1882), Canadian poetry, Canadian poet * May 5 – Nagata Mikihiko 長田幹彦 (born 1887 in poetry, 1887), Japanese poetry, Japanese, Shōwa period poet, playwright and screenwriter * June 7 – Takamure Itsue 高群逸枝 (born 1894 in poetry, 1894), Japanese poetry, Japanese poet, writer, feminist, anarchist, ethnologist and historian * September 18 – Clive Bell, 83 (born 1881), English poetry, English critic * October 10 – Oscar Williams (poet), Oscar Williams, 64 (born 1900), American poet and anthologist * December 9 – Dame Edith Sitwell, 77 (born 1887 in poetry, 1887), English poetry, English poet and critic, heart attack * December 29 – Rofū Miki 三木 露風, pen name of Masao Miki, 75 (born 1889), Japanese poetry, Japanese Symbolism (arts), Symbolist poet and writerSee also
* Poetry * List of poetry awards * List of years in poetryNotes
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