title: 1960 in poetry
text: # 1960 in poetry
  
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
  
  ## Events
  
  * Spring – August Derleth launches the poetry magazine Hawk and Whippoorwill in the United States.
  * September 5 – 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 Fernán González 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
  * 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**
  
  * Edmund Snow Carpenter, American anthropologist, editor, Anerca, anonymous Eskimo poems, with drawings by Enooesweetok
  * A. J. M. Smith, editor, The Oxford book of Canadian verse, in English and French, including untranslated poems in French combined in chronological order with English-language poems
  
  ### India, in English
  
  * Nissim Ezekiel, The Unfinished Man: Poems Written in 1959, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India
  * Dom Moraes, John Nobody, Indian at this time living in the United Kingdom
  * Deb Kumar Das, The Night before Us, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India
  * Pradip Sen, And Then the Sun, first edition (revised edition, 1968), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India
  * Raul De Loyola Furtado, The Oleanders and Other Poems, 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
  
  ### 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, 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 Colossus and Other Poems, American at this time living in the United Kingdom
  * William Plomer, Collected Poems
  * Peter Redgrove, The Collector, and Other Poems, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul
  * James Reeves, Collected Poems 1929–59
  * 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, including "We Real Cool"
  * 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 1930–1960
  * 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 1930–1960
  * 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
  
  **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
  
  **The New American Poetry 1945-1960**
  
  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.
  
  Poets represented:
  
  Helen Adam – John Ashbery – Paul Blackburn – Robin Blaser – Ebbe Borregaard – Bruce Boyd – Ray Bremser – Brother Antoninus – James Broughton – Paul Carroll – Gregory Corso – Robert Creeley – Edward Dorn – Kirby Doyle – Robert Duerden – Robert Duncan – Larry Eigner – Lawrence Ferlinghetti – Edward Field – Allen Ginsberg – Madeline Gleason – Barbara Guest – LeRoi Jones – Jack Kerouac – Kenneth Koch – Philip Lamantia – Denise Levertov – Ron Loewinsohn – Edward Marshall – Michael McClure – David Meltzer – Frank O'Hara – Charles Olson – Joel Oppenheimer – Peter Orlovsky – Stuart Perkoff – James Schuyler – Gary Snyder – Gilbert Sorrentino – Jack Spicer – Lew Welch – Philip Whalen – John Wieners – Jonathan Williams
  
  ### 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:
  
  ### French language
  
  **Canada, in French**
  
  * Anne Hébert, Poèmes
  * Michèle Lalonde:
     * Songe de la fiancée détruite
     * Geôles
  * Paul Morin, Géronte et son mirior
  * Jean-Guy Pilon, La mouette et le large, Montréal: l'Hexagone
  * Yves Préfontaine, L'Antre du poème
  * Pierre Trottier, Les Belles au bois dormant
  * Gilles Vigneault, Etraves
  
  **Canada, in French**
  
  **Criticism, scholarship and biography**
  
  * Gérard Bessette, Les Images en poésie canadienne-française
  
  **France**
  
  * Louis Aragon, Les Poetes
  * Aimé Césaire, 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 Géraldy, Vous et moi
  * Pierre Jean Jouve, Proses
  * Pierre Oster, Un nom toujours nouveau
  * Saint-John Perse, Chronique
  * Jacques Prévert, Histoires
  * Tchicaya U Tam'si, À triche-coeur
  
  ### Spanish language
  
  **Latin America**
  
  * Manuel Blanco-González, La luna et lluvia
  * Dolores Castro, Cantares de vela
  * Pablo Antonio Cuadra, El jaguar y la luna (Nicaragua), winner of the Rubén Darío Prize
  * Manuel Durán, La paloma azul
  * Germán Pardo García, Centauro al sol
  * León de Greiff, Obras completas, with a preliminary study by Jorge Zalamea (Colombia)
  * Carlos García-Prada, editor, Escala del sueño, anthology of 35 Castilian lyrical poets
  * Elías Nandino, Nocturna palabra (Mexico)
  
  **Latin America**
  
  **Criticism, scholarship and biography**
  
  * Emilio Armaza, Eguren, an anthology and analysis of the Peruvian poet's verse
  * Antonio Oliver Belmás, Este otro Rubén Darío
  * Gastón Figueira, De la vida y la obra de Gabriela Mistral
  * Manuel Pedro González, editor, Antología crítica de José Marti, including writing by Darío, Gabriela Mistral, Unamuno, and Onís
  * 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 José Eustasio Rivera
  * Federico de Onís, Luis Palês Matos—vida y obra-bibliografía, antología, poesías, inéditas, a study of the Puerto Rican poet's life and artistic development
  
  ### Other
  
  * Odysseus Elytis, Έξη και μια τύψεις για τον ουρανό ("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 Ørnsbo, Digte ("Poems"), Denmark
  * 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, Poésie et théâtre: Poèmes, Anne Hébert
  
  ## 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
  * April 1 – Frieda Hughes, English-born poet, children's writer and painter
  * May 5 - Thomas Boberg, Danish poet and travel writer
  * August 31 – Makarand Paranjape, Indian poet
  * October 30 – Kathleen Flenniken, American writer, poet, editor and educator
  * December 22 – Elvis McGonagall, born Richard Smith, Scottish-born slam poet
  * Jeffery Donaldson, Canadian poet, critic and theorist
  * Katrina Porteous, Scottish-born poet
  * Dipti Saravanamuttu, Sri Lankan-Australian poet, academic, journalist and script writer, moves to Australia as a child in 1972
  * Alexis Stamatis, Greek poet
  * Karenne Wood, Native American poet
  
  ## Deaths
  
  Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
  
  * January 4 – Nima Yooshij, 62 (born 1897), Iranian poet
  * January 14 – Ralph Chubb, 77 (born 1892), English poet, printer and artist
  * February 21 – Walter D'Arcy Cresswell (born 1896), New Zealand poet
  * 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, translator of poetry
  * May 30 – Boris Pasternak, 70 (born 1890), Russian poet and writer, winner of Nobel Prize in Literature 1958, lung cancer
  * June 17 – Pierre Reverdy (born 1889), French poet
  * August 8 – Harry Kemp, 76 (born 1883), American poet
  * August 19 – Frances Cornford (born 1886), English poet
  * August 25 – David Diop (born 1927), French West African poet, air crash
  * October 9 – Fannie B. Linderman, 85 (born 1875), American poet, writer, educator, entertainer
  * October 28 – Margarita Abella Caprile (born 1901), Argentine poet
  * October 31 – H. L. Davis, 66 (born 1894), American fiction writer and poet
  * November 5 – Richard Rudzitis, 62 (born 1898), Latvian poet, writer and philosopher
  * November 9 – Yoshii Isamu 吉井勇 (born 1886), Japanese, Taishō and Shōwa period tanka poet and playwright
  * December 25 – H. W. Garrod, 81 (born 1878), English literary scholar
  