1967 in poetry

Events

• Poetry International started by Ted Hughes and Patrick Garland
• May 16 – the premiere at Taganka Theater in Moscow of the staged a poetical performance Послушайте!, 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.

  Works published in English

• Pentti Saarikoski, Helsinki, a selection of poetry in translation from Finnish
• Wole Soyinka, Idanre, and Other Poems

  Canada">Canadian poetry">Canada

• 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

  India">Indian poetry in English">India

• A. K. Ramanujan, The Striders, Delhi: Oxford University Press
• Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, Woodcuts on Paper
• Kamala Das, The Descendants, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India.
• Lawrence Bantleman:
• * Kanchenjunga, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India.
• * New Poems, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India
• Sukanta Chaudhuri, Poems, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India
• Margaret Chatterjee, The Spring and the Spectacle, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India
• A. Madhavan, Poems, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India
• R. Rabindranath Menon, Dasavatara and Other Poems, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India
• S. R. Mokashi-Punekar, The Pretender, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India
• Mohinder Monga, Through the Night Raptly, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India
• Tarpiti Mookerji, The Golden Road to Samarkand, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India
• Suniti Namjoshi:
• * Poems, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India
• * The Jackass and the Lady, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India
• Stanley P. Rajiva, The Permanent Element, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India
• S. Santhi, Lamplight in the Sun, 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, posthumously published
• Monika Varma, translator, A Bunch of Tagore Poems, Calcutta: Writers Workshop
• Kushwant Singh, editor, The Asian PEN Anthology, Taplinger

  New Zealand">New Zealand literature">New Zealand

• Fleur Adcock, Tigers, London: Oxford University Press
• 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

  United Kingdom">English poetry">United Kingdom

• 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
• Janet Frame, The Pocket Mirror
• Bryn Griffiths, The Stones Remember, London: J. M. Dent
• Geoffrey Grigson, A Skull in Salop, and Other Poems
• Thom Gunn, Touch
• Libby Houston, A Stained Glass Raree Show, London: Allison and Busby
• Ted Hughes, Wodwo, a collection of poems, a radio play and five stories
• Elizabeth Jennings, Collected Poems, 1967, London: Macmillan
• 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" slang
• James Reeves, Selected Poems, London: Allison and Busby
• Anthony Thwaite, The Stones of Emptiness
• Rosemary Tonks, Iliad of Broken Sentences, London: The Bodley Head
• Vernon Watkins, Selected Poems, 1930-60

  Anthologies

• Edward Lucie-Smith, The Liverpool Scene anthology featuring work by the Mersey Beat poets Adrian Henri, Roger McGough and Brian Patten
• 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 for The English Association by John Murray in the United Kingdom
• Duncan Glen, Poems Addressed to Hugh MacDiarmid
• Donald Allen and Robert Creeley, 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

  United States">American poetry">United States

• 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
• 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
• 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

  Other in English

• Eavan Boland, New Territory, Ireland
• Edward Brathwaite, Rights of Passage, first part of his The Arrivants trilogy, which also includes Masks and Islands, Caribbean
• Dom Moraes, Beldam & Others, a pamphlet of verse, India
• Chris Wallace-Crabbe, The Rebel General, Sydney: Angus & Robertson, Australia
• Lenrie Peters, Satellites, London: Heinemann, African Writers Series No. 37
• Judith Wright, The Other Half, Australia

  Works published in other languages

Denmark">Danish literature">Denmark

• 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, Denmark

  French language

France">French poetry">France

• Anne-Marie Albiach, Flammigere
• P. Chaullet, Soudaine écorce
• Lucienne Desnoues, Les Ors
• Jean Daive, Décimale blanche, Mercure de France
• 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

  Critical studies

• 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

  German language

• Paul Celan, Breathturn

  Germany">German literature">Germany

• Günter Grass, Ausgefragt
• Elfriede Jelinek, Lisas Schatten
• Karl Mickel, Vita nova mea

  Hebrew">Hebrew literature">Hebrew

Israel">Israeli literature">Israel

• B. Pomerantz, Shirim, introduction by N. Peniel
• N. Shtern, Bain ha-Arpilim, preface by A. Broides
• T. Carmi, ha-Unikorn Mistakel ba-Mareh
• Ori Bernstein, be-Ona ha-Kezarah
• Yaoz Kast, a book of collected poems
• Ozer Rabin, Shuv ve-shuv
• A. Aldon, a book of poems
• S. Pilus, a book of poems
• S. Tanny, Ad Shehigia ha-Yom
• D. Chomsky, Ezov ba-Even

  United States

• Israel Efros, collected poems, four volumes
• Eliezer D. Friedland, Shirim be-Sulam Minor
• Avraham Marthan, Shavot ha-Sirot Im Erev
• Yizhak Finkel, Maginah Morikah

  India">Indian poetry">India

• Hem Barua, Man Mayuri; Assamese-language poet
• Ramakant Rath, Anek Kothari ; Oriya-language
• Rituraj, Ek Marandharma aur Anya; Hindi-language
• Sitakant Mahapatra, Astapadi ; Oriya-language
• Umashankar Joshi, Abhijna; Gujarati-language

  Italy">Italian poetry">Italy

• Lino Curci, Gli operai della terra
• Antonio Veneziano, Ottave
• Carlo Vallini, Un giorno
• Enrico Falqui, editor, Tutte le poesie della "Voce", anthology

  Portuguese language

Brazil">Brazilian literature">Brazil

• José Paulo Paes, Anatomías
• Affonso Avila, Resíduos Seiscentista em Minas, a study of the barique poetry of Minas Gerais

  Spanish language

Chile">Chilean poetry">Chile

• Rosamel del Valle, a book of poetry, posthumously published
• Humberto Díaz Casanueva, El sol ciego
• Gabriela Mistral, Poema de Chile, posthumously published

  Spain">Spanish poetry">Spain

• Gastón Basquero, Memorial de un testigo
• 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

  Yiddish">Yiddish literature">Yiddish

• Dovid Sfard, Barefoot Steps

  Israel">Israeli literature">Israel

• Yankev Fridman, Loving Kindness
• Rikude Potash, a book of poems

  United States

• 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

  Soviet Union

• Leyb Kvitko, a book of selected poems
• Shimon Halkin, My Treasury

  Other

• Luo Fu, Poems from Beyond, Chinese
• 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, a book-length poem
• Alexander Mezhirov, Подкова, Russia, Soviet Union
• Wisława Szymborska, Poland:
• * Sto pociech
• * Poezje wybrane

  Awards and honors

Canada">Canadian poetry">Canada

• See 1967 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

  United Kingdom">English poetry">United Kingdom

• 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

  United States">American poetry">United States

• 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

  France">French poetry">France

• Max Jacob Award: Édith Boissonnas, for L'Embellie
• Critics' Prize: J. Grosjean, Élégies
• Apollinaire Award: P. Gascar, Le Quatrième État de la matière''

  Births

• August 22 – Valérie Rouzeau, French poet and translator
• September 21 - Suman Pokhrel, Nepali poet, lyricist, playwright, translator and artist
• October 21 – Pam Rehm, American 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

  Deaths

• January 29 – Ion Buzdugan, 79, Romanian poet, folklorist and politician
• March 16 – Thomas MacGreevy, 72, 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, English Poet Laureate and author
• May 22 – Langston Hughes, 65, 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, novelist and poet
• July 13 – Yoshino Hideo 吉野秀雄, Japanese, Shōwa period tanka poet
• July 19 – Odell 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 – Christopher Okigbo, 37, 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
• September 8 – Katka Zupančič, 77, Slovene-American children's poet
• September 23 – Augusto Casimiro, 78, Portuguese poet, founder of the Seara Nova literary review and political commentator
• October 8 – Vernon Watkins, 61, Welsh poet and painter, of heart failure
• November 17 – Bo Bergman, 98, Swedish poet
• November 30 – Patrick Kavanagh, 63, Irish poet and novelist, of pneumonia
• Date not known – Randall Swingler, English poet, librettist, publisher and flautist