Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Mark Jarman and Robert McDowell start the small magazine The Reaper to promote narrative and formal poetry.
Conjunctions literary magazine gets its start one afternoon late this year when founding editor Bradford Morrow sits in Beat poet Kenneth Rexroth's library in Santa Barbara, California talking over the idea of assembling a publication to celebrate James Laughlin, editor of New Directions Publishing. Poets solicited for the publication promise to send in work for future issues of the magazine, not realizing that no magazine is planned at this stage. Morrow then starts the magazine, financing the first few issues himself.
Three new Hebrew literary journals appear this year in Israel: Mahbarot, edited by Y. Kenaz, Rosh a poetry journal edited by O. Bartena, and Hazerem hehadash, founded by a group of young ex-soldiers.
Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:
Roo Borson (American-Canadian):
In the Smoky Light of the Fields,
Rain,
Fred Cogswell, A Long Apprenticeship
Louis Dudek, Cross-Section: Poems 1940-1980. Toronto: Coach House Press.
Dorothy Farmiloe, Words for My Weeping Daughter
Robert Finch, Variations and Theme.
Gail Fox, In Search of Living Things
Ralph Gustafson, Landscape with Rain
Irving Layton, For My Neighbours in Hell. Oakville, Ontario: Mosaic Press.
Miriam Mandel, Where Have You Been?. Edmonton: Longspoon Press.
Joe Rosenblatt, The Sleeping Lady. Exile Editions.
Raymond Souster, Collected Poems, Volume 1 (1940-55) (first of a projected ten-volume collection)
Raymond Souster and Richard Woollatt, eds. Poems of a Snow-Eyed Country. Don Mills, ON: Academic Press.
Andrew Suknaski, Montage for an Interstellar Cry
Anne Szumigalski, A Game of Angels
Tom Wayman, Living on the Ground: Tom Wayman Country, including "Garrison", first prize-winner of the U.S.