1960 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events

 * August Derleth launches the poetry magazine, Hawk and Whippoorwill.
 * Welsh poet Waldo Williams is imprisoned for six weeks for non-payment of income tax (a protest against defence spending).
 * An inscription of an excerpt of the Poema de FernÃ¡n GonzÃ¡lez is discovered on a roofing tile in Merindad de Sotoscueva, the earliest known record of it.

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:

Canada

 * Margaret Avison, Winter Sun
 * Fred Cogswell, Lost Dimension.
 * Daryl Hine, The Devil's Picture Book
 * Kenneth McRobbie, Eyes Without a Face
 * Eli Mandel, Fuseli Poems
 * Peter Miller, Sonata for Frog and Man

Anthologies

 * A.J.M. Smith, the Oxford Book of Canadian Verse, including untranslated poems in French combined in chronological order with English-language poems
 * Edmund Snow Carpenter, an anthropologist, editor of this volume, Anerca, anonymous Eskimo poems, with drawings by Enooesweetok

Indian poetry in English

 * Nissim Ezekiel, The Unfinished Man: Poems Written in 1959 ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India.
 * Dom Moraes, John Nobody, Indian at this time living in the United Kingdom
 * Deb Kumar Das, The Night before Us( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India.
 * Pradip Sen, And Then the Sun, first edition (revised edition, 1968), ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India.
 * Raul De Loyola Furtado, The Oleanders and Other Poems ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India.
 * Keshav Malik, The Rippled Shadow
 * Barjor Paymaster, the Last Farewell and Other Poems, Bombay: Asia Publishing House
 * V. Madhusudan Reddy, Sapphires of Solitude, Hyderabad: V. Man Mohan Reddy
 * Sasthi Brata, Eleven Poems, Calcutta: published by the author; India, Indian poetry in English

United Kingdom

 * W.H. Auden, Homage to Clio
 * Sir John Betjeman, Summoned by Bells
 * Edwin Bronk, A Family Affair, Northwood, Middlesex: Scorpion Press
 * Austin Clarke, The Hore-Eaters (see also Ancient Lights 1955 in poetry, Too Great a Vine 1957)
 * Patric Dickinson, The World I See
 * Lawrence Durrell, Collected Poems
 * D.J. Enright, Some Men Are Brothers
 * Ted Hughes, Lupercal, London: Faber and Faber; New York: Harper
 * John Knight, Straight Lines and Unicorns
 * Peter Levi, The Gravel Ponds
 * Patrick Kavanagh, Come Dance with Kitty Stobling
 * Norman MacCaig, A Common Grace
 * Dom Moraes, Poems, Indian at this time living in the United Kingdom
 * Edwin Muir, Collected Poems (posthumous)
 * Sylvia Plath, The Coolossus, and Other Poems
 * William Plomer, Collected Poems
 * Peter Redgrove, The Collector, and Other Poems, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul
 * James Reeves, Collected Poems 1929â€“59
 * Charles Tomlinson, Seeing is Believing
 * Andrew Young, Collected Poems

United States

 * John Ashbery, The Poems
 * W.H. Auden, Homage to Clio
 * Paul Blackburn, Brooklyn Manhattan Transit: A Bouquet for Flatbush
 * Gwendolyn Brooks, The Bean Eaters
 * Witter Bynner, New Poems
 * Gregory Corso, The Happy Birthday of Death
 * Louis Coxe, The Middle Passage
 * E.E. Cummings, Collected Poems
 * James Dickey, Into the Stone
 * Robert Duncan:
 * The Opening of the Field
 * Selected Poems, San Francisco: City Lights Books
 * Richard Eberhart, Collected Poems 1930â€“1960
 * Paul Engle, Poems in Praise, including the sonnet sequence "For the Iowa Dead"
 * Jean Garrigue, A Water Walk by Villa d'Este
 * Ramon Guthrie, Graffiti
 * Anthony Hecht, A Bestiary
 * Daryl Hine, The Devil's Picture Book
 * Daniel G. Hoffman, A Little Geste and Other Poems
 * Randall Jarrell, The Woman at the Washington Zoo, New York: Atheneum
 * LeRoi Jones, Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note, New York: Totem/Corinth Books
 * Donald Justice, The Summer Anniversaries
 * Weldon Kees, The Collected Poems of Weldon Kees posthumous, edited by Donald Justice
 * Jack Kerouac, Mexico City Blues
 * Galway Kinnell, What a Kingdom It Was, Boston: Houghton Mifflin
 * Denise Levertov, With Eyes at the Back of Our Heads
 * Robert Lowell, Life Studies, New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy
 * Phyllis McGinley, Times Three: Selected Verse from Three Decades
 * James Merrill, Water Street, Atheneum Publishers
 * W.S. Merwin:
 * The Drunk in the Furnace, New York: Macmillan (reprinted as part of The First Four Books of Poems, 1975)
 * Translator, The Satires of Persius, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press
 * Joesphine Miles, Poems 1930â€“1960
 * Howard Moss, A Winter Come, a Summer Gone: Poems 1946-1960, New York: Scribner's
 * Howard Nemerov, New and Selected Poems, University of Chicago Press
 * John Frederick Nims, Knowledge of the Evening
 * Charles Olson:
 * The Distances, New York: Grove Press
 * The Maximus Poems, New York: Jargon/Corinth Books
 * Kenneth Patchen, Because It Is
 * Ezra Pound, Thrones: 96-109 de los Cantares, multi-lingual cantos
 * Carl Sandburg, Wind Song
 * Anne Sexton, To Bedlam and Part Way Back, Boston: Houghton Mifflin
 * Wilfred Townley Scott, Scrimshaw
 * W.D. Snodgrass, Heart's Needle
 * Gary Snyder, Myths and Texts
 * William Stafford, West of Your City
 * Eleanor Ross Taylor, Wilderness of Ladies
 * Theodore Weiss, Outlanders, New York: Macmillan
 * Reed Whittemore, The Self-Made Man and Other Poems
 * Yvor Winters, Collected Poems, Chicago: The Swallow Press
 * Anthologies
 * The New American Poetry 1945-1960, a poetry anthology edited by Donald Allen, and published in 1960, aimed to pick out the "third generation" of American modernist poets. In the longer term it attained a classic status, with critical approval and continuing sales. It was reprinted in 1999.
 * Criticism, scholarship and biography
 * Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren, Understanding Poetry (college textbook), originally published in 1938, goes into its third edition (a fourth will be published in 1976)
 * Ed Dorn, What I See in the Maximum Poems, Migrant Press (criticism)
 * Karl Shapiro, In Defense of Ignorance, an attack on the dominant critical values of modern poetry in the vein of T. S. Eliot, W. B. Yeats and Ezra Pound

Other in English

 * Allen Curnow, The Penguin Book of New Zealand Verse, New Zealand

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:

Canadian poetry in French

 * Anne HÃ©bert, PoÃ¨mes
 * MichÃ¨le Lalonde:
 * Songe de la fiancÃ©e dÃ©truite
 * GeÃ´les
 * Paul Morin, GÃ©ronte et son mirior
 * Jean-Guy Pilon, La mouette et le large, MontrÃ©al: l'Hexagone
 * Yves PrÃ©fontaine, L'Antre du poÃ¨me
 * Pierre Trottier, Les Belles au bois dormant
 * Gilles Vigneault, Etraves

Criticism, scholarship and biography

 * GÃ©rard Bessette, Les Images en poÃ©sie canadienne-franÃ§aise

France

 * Louis Aragon, Les Poetes
 * AimÃ© CÃ©saire,Ferrements, Martinique author published in France; Paris: Editions du Seuil
 * Georges-Emmanuel Clancier, Evidences
 * Michel Deguy, Fragments du cadastre
 * Mohammed Dib, Ombre gardienne, with a preface by Louis Aragon
 * Jean Follain, Des Heures
 * Paul GÃ©raldy, Vous et moi
 * Pierre Jean Jouve, Proses
 * Pierre Oster, Un nom toujours nouveau
 * Saint-John Perse, Chronique
 * Jacques PrÃ©vert, Histoires

Latin America

 * Manuel Blanco-GonzÃ¡lez, La luna et lluvia
 * Dolores Castro, Cantares de vela
 * Pablo Antonio Cuadra, El jaguar y la luna (Nicaragua), winner of the RubÃ©n DarÃ­o Prize
 * Manuel DurÃ¡n, La paloma azul
 * GermÃ¡n Pardo GarcÃ­a, Centauro al sol
 * LeÃ³n de Greiff, Obras completas, with a preliminary study by Jorge Zalamea (Colombia)
 * Carlos GarcÃ­a-Prada, editor, Escala del sueÃ±o, anthology of 35 Castilian lyrical poets
 * ElÃ­as Nandino, Nocturna palabra (Mexico)

Criticism, scholarship and biography

 * Emilio Armaza, Eguren, an anthology and analysis of the Peruvian poet's verse
 * Antonio Oliver BelmÃ¡s, Este otro RubÃ©n DarÃ­o
 * GastÃ³n Figueira, De la vida y la obra de Gabriela Mistral
 * Manuel Pedro GonzÃ¡lez, editor, AntologÃ­a crÃ­tica de JosÃ© Marti, including writing by DarÃ­o, Gabriela Mistral, Unamuno, and OnÃ­s
 * Glen L. Kolb, Juan del Valle y Caviedes, "A Study of the Life, Times and Poetry of a Spanish Colonial Satirist"
 * Eduardo Neale-Silva, Horizonte humano, the first detailed biographical study of the Colombian poet JosÃ© Eustasio Rivera
 * Federico de OnÃ­s, Luis PalÃªs Matosâ€”vida y obra-bibliografÃ­a, antologÃ­a, poesÃ­as, inÃ©ditas, a study of the Puerto Rican poet's life and artistic development

Other

 * Odysseus Elytis, ÎˆÎ¾Î· ÎºÎ±Î¹ Î¼Î¹Î± Ï„ÏÏˆÎµÎ¹Ï‚ Î³Î¹Î± Ï„Î¿Î½ Î¿Ï…ÏÎ±Î½ÏŒ ("Six Plus One Remorses For The Sky"), Greece
 * H. M. Enzensberger, editor, Museum der modernen Poesie, anthology of international modernist poetry, German
 * Haim Gouri, Shoshanat Ruhot ("Compass Rose"), Israeli writing in Hebrew
 * Jess Ã˜rnsbo, Digte ("Poems")
 * Klaus Rifbjerg, Konfrontation, Denmark
 * Kedarnath Singh, Abhi Bilkul Abhi, Allahabad: Natya Sahitya Prakashan; India, Hindi

Awards and honors

 * Nobel Prize in Literature: St. John Perse (France)

United Kingdom

 * Eric Gregory Award: Christopher Levenson
 * Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: John Betjeman

United States

 * National Book Award for Poetry: Robert Lowell, Life Studies
 * Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: W. D. Snodgrass: Heart's Needle
 * Bollingen Prize: Delmore Schwartz
 * Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Jesse Stuart

Prizes from other nations

 * First State Poetry Price (Greece): Odysseus Elytis
 * Prix Dante (France): Pierre Jean Jouve
 * Canada: Governor General's Award, poetry or drama: Winter Sun, Margaret Avison
 * Canada: Governor General's Award, PoÃ©sie et thÃ©Ã¢tre: PoÃ¨mes, Anne HÃ©bert

Births

 * January 28 - Robert von Dassanowsky, American academic, writer, poet, film and cultural historian, and producer.
 * February 12 -George Elliott Clarke, Canadian poet and playwright
 * Also
 * Jeffery Donaldson, Canadian poet, critic, and theorist
 * Dipti Saravanamuttu, Sri Lankan-Australian poet, academic, journalist and script writer who moved to Australia as a child in 1972
 * Alexis Stamatis, Greek
 * Makarand Paranjape, Indian poet

Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * January 14 - Ralph Chubb, 77, English poet, printer, and artist
 * February 28 - F. S. Flint (born 1885), English poet, translator and prominent member of the Imagist group
 * March 23 - Franklin Pierce Adams, 78 (born 1881), American writer whose "The Conning Tower" column gave critical publicity to many poets and writers; also a translator of poetry
 * May 30 - Boris Pasternak, 70 (born 1890), Russian poet and writer, winner of a Nobel Prize in Literature, of lung cancer
 * June 17 - Pierre Reverdy (born 1889), French
 * August 8 - Harry Kemp, 76 (born 1883) American poet
 * August 19 - Frances Cornford (born 1886), English poet
 * November 9 - Yoshii Isamu å‰äº•å‹‡ (born 1886), Japanese, TaishÅ and Showa period tanka poet and playwright
 * Also:
 * Walter D'Arcy Creswell (born 1896), New Zealand
 * David Diop