Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Poet Cid Corman begins Origin magazine in response to the failure of a magazine that Robert Creeley had planned. The magazine typically features one writer per issue and runs, with breaks, until the mid-1980s. Poets featured include Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Larry Eigner, Denise Levertov, William Bronk, Theodore Enslin, Charles Olson, Louis Zukofsky, Gary Snyder, Lorine Niedecker, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams and Paul Blackburn. The magazine also leads to the establishment of Origin Press, which publishes books by a similar range of poets.
Bad Lord Byron, a film directed by David MacDonald about the Romantic poet.
Czesław Miłosz, Polish poet, translator, literary critic, future (1980) winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, becomes an exile this year.
The Dolmen Press is founded in Dublin, Ireland by Liam and Josephine Miller to provide a publishing outlet for Irish poets and artists. The Press operates in Dublin from 1951 until Liam Miller's death in 1987.
Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:
Irving Layton, The Black Huntsmen: Poems. Montreal.
Tom MacInnes, In the Old of my Age
Duncan Campbell Scott, Selected Poems, edited by E. K. Brown
A. J. M. Smith, The Worldly Muse
Kay Smith, Footnote to the Lord's Prayer and Other Poems
Raymond Souster, City Hall Street. Toronto: Ryerson.
Anne Wilkinson, Counterpoint to Sleep
James K. Baxter, Recent Trends in New Zealand Poetry, scholarship
Allen Curnow, editor, A Book of New Zealand Verse 1923-50, anthology
Denis Glover, Sings Harry, New Zealand
M. H. Holcroft, Discovered Isles, scholarship
Louis Johnson:
Editor, New Zealand Poetry Yearbook, first annual edition, anthology
The Sun Among the Ruins
Roughshod Among the Lilies
Charles Spear, Twopence Coloured
Hubert Witheford, The Falcon Mark
W. H.