Concept

1965 in poetry

Summary
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). June 11 – International Poetry Incarnation, a performance poetry event, is staged at the Royal Albert Hall in London before an audience of 7,000, with members of the Beat Generation featuring; Adrian Mitchell reads "To Whom It May Concern" Meic Stephens founds Poetry Wales Russian poet Anna Akhmatova is allowed to travel outside the Soviet Union to Sicily and England in order to receive the Taormina prize and an honorary doctoral degree from the University of Oxford The Belfast Festival at Queen's publishes pamphlets this year and next by some of the members of The Belfast Group of poets, including Seamus Heaney and Michael Longley, which attracts some notice In Spain, two new periodical reviews are founded: Poesía para todos, started by younger Spanish poets and illustrated by renowned painters Los sesenta, launched by Max Aub and with editors including the poets Jorge Guillén and Rafael Alberti. The second number is published in homage to the Unamuno In the British Isles, the centenary of the birth of W. B. Yeats brings forth a number of critical works, prominent among them Thomas Parkinson's book W. B. Yeats: The Later Poetry, and Conor Cruise O'Brien's long essay addressing Yeats' relationship to Fascism, published in In Excited Reverie, edited by A. N. Jeffares and K. G. Cross African-American poet Dudley Randall founds Broadside Press in Detroit, which publishes many leading African-American writers Paul Éluard's 1926 book of poems, Capitale de la douleur ("Capital of Pain"), influences Jean-Luc Godard's French film Alphaville (released May 5) which has quotations from the book The periodical Modern Poetry in Translation is launched by Ted Hughes, Daniel Weissbort and George Theiner in Britain Listed by nation where the work was first published (and again by the poet's native land, if different); substantially revised works listed separately: Geoffrey Lehmann and Les Murray, The Ilex Tree, Australia John Thompson, editor, Australian Poetry, Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 76 pp Judith Wright, Preoccupations in Australian Poetry (scholarship), Australia John Glassco, editor, English Poetry in Quebec Daryl Hine, The Wooden Horse Lionel Kearns, Listen George C.
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