Overview of the events of 1968 in poetry
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Overview of the events of 1968 in poetry
Works 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:
- Leonard Cohen, Selected Poems, 1956-1968
- Irving Layton, The Shattered Plinths, 60 new poems.[3]
- Dennis Lee, Civil Elegies. Toronto: Anansi.[4]
- Dorothy Livesay, The Documentaries.[5] Poems from the 1930s and 1940s, and including "Roots", a long poem
- Pat Lowther, This Difficult Flowering
- Jay Macpherson, The Boatman and Other Poems. Toronto: Oxford UP.[6]
- E. J. Pratt, Selected Poems of E. J. Pratt, Peter Buitenhuis ed., Toronto: Macmillan.[7]
- Al Purdy, Wild Grape Wine
- Joe Rosenblatt, Winter of the Luna Moth. Toronto: Anansi.[8]
- W.W.E. Ross, Shapes & sounds: poems of W. W. E. Ross (with a portrait by Dennis Burton, a memoir by Barry Callaghan, and an editorial note by Raymond Souster and John Robert Colombo). (Toronto: Longman's)[9]
- Raymond Souster, Lost and Found: Uncollected Poems. Toronto: Clarke, Irwin.[10]
- Anthologies in Canada
- R. ParthasarathyPoetry from Leeds ( Poetry in English ). Leeds: Oxford University Press, UK 1968.
- G. S. Sharat Chandra, Bharat Natyam Dancer and Other Poems ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India .[11]
- Deb Kumar Das, The Eye of Autumn: An Experiment in Poetry ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India'[11]
- Ira De, The Hunt and Other Poems, revised edition, ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India (see also first edition 1961)[11]
- Gauri Deshpande, Between Births ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India[11]
- Indira Devi Dhanrajgir, Partings in Mimosa, Hyderabad[11]
- Guari Deshpande, Between Births ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India[12]
- Paul Jacob, Sonnets ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India[13]
- S. R. Mokashi-Punekar, P. Lal: An Appreciation( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India[14]
- Dom Moraes, My Son's Father, autobiography[15]
- Srinavas Rayaprol, Bones & Distances( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India[16]
- Pradip Sen, And Then the Sun, revised edition (first edition, 1960, ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India[17]
- Vinay K. Varma, Poppies and Ashes[18]
- Swami Vivekananda, Search of God and Other Poems, Calcutta: Advaita Ashram[19]
- Suniti Namjoshi and Sarojini Namjoshi, translators, Poems of Govindagraj, translated from Marathi, Calcutta: Writers Workshop , India[20]
- W. H. Auden:
- Collected Longer Poems[21]
- Secondary Worlds, lecture given in October[21]
- Selected Poems[21]
- Dannie Abse, A Small Desperation
- Kingsley Amis, A Look Round the Estate
- Edward Brathwaite, Masks
- Basil Bunting, Collected Poems[21]
- Charles Causley, Underneath the Water[21]
- Stewart Conn, Stoats in Sunlight
- Tony Connor, Kon in Springtime
- Maureen Duffy, Lyrics for the Dog Hour[21]
- D. J. Enright, Unlawful Assembly[21]
- Gavin Ewart, The Deceptive Grin of the Gravel Porters[21]
- James Fenton, Our Western Furniture[21][22]
- Roy Fuller, New Poems[21]
- William R. P. George - Cerddi'r Neraig
- Zulfikar Ghose, Jets from Orange
- Robert Graves, Poems 1965–1968[21]
- Harry Guest, Arrangements
- John Heath-Stubbs, Satires and Epigrams[21]
- Adrian Henri, Tonight at Noon[21]
- John Hewitt, Northern Irish poet published in the United Kingdom, The Day of the Corncrake[23]
- Norman Jackson, Beyond the Habit of Sense
- A. Norman Jeffares, A New Commentary On The Poems Of W.B. Yeats, criticism[24]
- James Kirkup, Paper Windows[21]
- George MacBeth, The Night of Stones[21]
- Norman MacCaig, Rings on a Tree[21]
- Derek Mahon, Night-Crossing,[21] Oxford University Press
- Adrian Mitchell, Out Loud
- Edwin Morgan, The Second Life, his first collection and the first in Britain to be typeset by computer[25]
- Richard Murphy, The Battle of Aughrim
- Ruth Pitter, Poems 1926–1966[21]
- J. H. Prynne, Kitchen Poems[21]
- Edith Anne Robertson, Translations Into the Scots Tongue of Poems By Gerard Manley Hopkins[26]
- Muriel Spark, Collected Poems Volume 1
- R. S. Thomas, Not That He Brought Flowers[21]
- J. R. R. Tolkien, The Road Goes Ever On, first published in the United States 1967[21]
- Vernon Watkins, Fidelities[21]
Anthologies in the United Kingdom
- John Bishop, Music and Sweet Poetry, poems about music
- Rodney Hall and Thomas Shapcott, editors, New Impulses in Australian Poetry
- Howard Sergeant, Poetry from Africa (published in the United Kingdom), including work from Gabriel Okara (Nigeria), Gaston Bart-Williams (Sierra Leone), Kwesi Brew (Ghana) and David Rubadiri (Malawi)
- Jean Sergeant and Howard Sergeant, Poems from Hospital
- Joan Murray Simpson, Without Adam: The Femina Anthology of Poetry, poems by women
- James Agee, The Collected Poems of James Agee, including 60 poems previously unpublished in books (posthumous)
- A. R. Ammons, Selected Poems
- Paul Blackburn, In. On. Or About The Premises
- Gwendolyn Brooks, In the Mecca
- Raymond Carver, Near Klamath
- Stanley Cooperman, The Day of the Parrot and Other Poems
- Robert Creeley, Pieces
- Ed Dorn and Gordon Brotherston, translators, Our Word: Guerilla Poems From Latin America, Grossman[27]
- Ed Dorn, Gunslinger, Black Sparrow Press[27]
- Robert Duncan, Bending the Bow
- Allen Ginsberg, T.V. Baby Poems
- John Hollander, Types of Shape
- Etheridge Knight, Poems from Prison
- Rod McKuen, Lonesome Cities
- Archibald MacLeish, The Wild Wicked Old Man and Other Poems
- Ogden Nash, There's Always Another Windmill
- Howard Nemerov, The Winter Lightning: Selected Poems
- Lorine Niedecker, North Central (Fulcrum Press: London)
- Ned O'Gorman, The Harversters' Vase
- George Oppen, Of Being Numerous
- Kenneth Rexroth, Collected Longer Poems
- Charles Reznikoff, second Testimony collection
- Aram Saroyan, Aram Saroyan, Random House
- Karl Shapiro, Selected Poems (more than 200, including 25 previously unpublished)
- L. E. Sissman, Dying: An Introduction
- Mark Strand, Reasons for Moving, Canadian native published in the United States
- Alice Walker, Once
Anthologies in the United States
- Paul Carroll, editor, The Young American Poets, anthology of 54 poets
- LeRoi Jones and Larry Neal, editors, Black Fire, an anthology of African-American poetry
- Phyllis McGinley, editor, Wonders and Surprises, anthology for juveniles, including poems by Elinor Wylie, E. B. White, Langston Hughes and T. S. Eliot
Other in English
- Edward Brathwaite, Masks, second part of his The Arrivants trilogy, which also includes Rights of Passage (1967) and Islands (1969), Caribbean[28]
- Kendrick Smithyman, Flying to Palmerston, Christchurch: Auckland University & Oxford University Press, New Zealand
- R. Hall and T. Shapcott, editors, New Impulses in Australian Poetry, anthology, Australia[29]
- Richard Murphy, The Battle of Aughrim, Ireland[30]
Works published in other languages
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:
French language
- P. Albert-Birot, Poètes d'aujourd'hui (posthumous), edited by J. Follain
- Marc Alyn, La Nuit majeure
- J. Berthet:
- Poèsiepures
- Quelconqueries
- J. Bancal, L'Épreuve du feu
- André du Bouchet, OU LE SOLEIL[32]
- A. Bosquet, Quatre Testaments et autres poèmes
- Andrée Chedid, Contre–Chant[33]
- Rene Char, Dans la pluie giboyeuse[32]
- C. Fourcade, De Lumière et de nuit
- L. Foucher, Argyne et les Gypaètes, third part of a trilogy
- André Frénaud, La Sainte Face[32]
- Armel Lubin, Feux contre feux
- F. Millepierres, Cheval noir et cheval blanc
- Raymond Queneau, Battre la campagne[32]
- G. Puel, La Lumière du jour
- Denis Roche, Éros énergumène[32]
- Jean Tardieu, Le Fleuve caché[33]
German language
- A. Shlonsky, Mishiai ha-Perozdor ha-Aroch ("From the Poems of the Long Corridor")
- A. Gilboa, Lichtov Siftai Yeshainim ("To Write from the Lips of the Sleepers"), Israel
- Haim Gouri, Tenua le-Maga ("A Move to Touch")[34]
- A. Halfi, Mivhar Shirimx ("Selected Poems")
- A. Kovner, Ahot Ketana ("Little Sister")
- B. Galai, Massa Zafonah ("Northward Journey")
- D. Pagis, Shirai Levi Ibn Altabban (prose), a study of the Medieval Hebrew poet's work
Listed in alphabetical order by first name:
- Giorgio Vigolo, La luce ricorda, collection of poems from 1923 and after
- Sergio Solmi, Dal balcone
- Giovanni Testori, L'amore
- Giuseppe Guglielmi, Panglosse blandimentis oramentis coeteris meretriciis
- Andrea Zalzotto, La beltà
- Franco Fortini, Una volta per sempre
- Angela Giannitrapani, Professione di poesia
Portuguese language
Criticism and theory
- Augusto de Campos, O balanço da Bossa, a study of the relationship of Brazilian popular music to "vanguardist" poetry
- Luiz Costa Lima, Lira e Antilira, essays on modern Brazilian poetry
- Décio Pignatari, Informação, Linguagem, Communicação, critical study of vanguardist art and mass culture
Spanish language
United States
- Yaykev Glatshteyn, a book of poems
- Aron Tseytlin, Poems of the Holocaust and Poems of Faith
- Efroyim Oyerbakh, a book of poems
- I. J. Shvarts, a book of poems
- Itsik Manger, a book of poems
- Eliezer Grinberg, a book of poems
- Rokhl Korn, a book of poems
- A. Glants-Leyeles, I Do Remember (posthumous)
Israel
- Malke Loker, a book of poems
- Leyb Olitski, a book of poems
- Avrom Lev, a book of poems
- I. Manik, a book of poems
- Binem Heler, a book of poems
- Rivke Basman, a book of poems
- Abraham Sutzkever, Square Letters and Miracles
Soviet Union
- Itsik Fefer, a book of poems
- Zyame Telesin, a book of poems
- Mendl Lifshits, a book of poems
Poland
- Eliyohu Reyzman, a book of poems
- P. Tsibulski, a book of poems (posthumous)
Other languages
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 1 – Donagh MacDonagh, 55, Irish poet, playwright and judge
- January 13 – William Williams (Crwys), 93, Welsh poet
- January 14 – Dorothea Mackellar, 82, Australian poet and writer
- January 18 – Gamel Woolsey, 72, American poet and writer, in Spain
- January 20 – David Derek Stacton, 42, American novelist, historian and poet
- January 25 – Yvor Winters, 67, American literary critic and poet
- February 16 – Jaime Sabartés, 55, Spanish poet and longtime secretary to Pablo Picasso
- March 16 – Gunnar Ekelöf, 60, Swedish poet
- March 25 – Arnulf Øverland, 78, Norwegian poet
- April 26 – Donald Davidson, 74, American poet, essayist, social and literary critic and author, organizer of the Nashville circle of poets called the Fugitives and an overlapping group, the Southern Agrarians
- April 28 – Winfield Townley Scott, 58, American poet
- May – Erik Lindegren 58, Swedish poet
- May 9 – George Dillon, 62, American poet and editor
- June 1 – Witter Bynner, 86, American poet, writer and scholar
- June 8 – Mira Mendelson, 53 (born 1915), Russian poet, writer, translator and librettist, heart attack
- June 12 – Sir Herbert Read, 74, English poet and critic of literature and art
- June 14 – Salvatore Quasimodo, 66, Italian poet
- June 17 – Aleksei Kruchenykh, 82, Russian Futurist poet
- November 17 – Mervyn Peake, 57, British modernist writer, artist, poet and illustrator
- December 10 – Thomas Merton, 53 (born 1915), American poet, author and Roman Catholic monk, in a freak accident in a visit to Bangkok, Thailand
- December 24 – D. Gwenallt Jones, 69, Welsh poet
- date not known – Eckart Peterich (born 1900), German poet
