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1961 in poetry
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January 20 – Robert Frost recites his poem "The Gift Outright" at the Inauguration of John F. Kennedy as President of the United States.
February – American poet in London Sylvia Plath suffers a miscarriage. Several of her poems, including "Parliament Hill Fields", address this event.
November – Liverpool poets Roger McGough, Adrian Henri and Brian Patten first meet, in a basement coffee bar on the city's Mount Pleasant.
Keith and Rosmarie Waldrop buy a secondhand printing press and start Burning Deck magazine in the United States.
Tish literary magazine, founded in Vancouver, British Columbia. It is published intermittently until 1969. Poets associated with the magazine include Frank Davey, Fred Wah, George Bowering, and, briefly, bpNichol when he lives in Vancouver.
Kyk-over-al magazine in Guyana ceases publication
Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:
Earle Birney, Ice Cod Bell on Stone
Arthur Bourinot, Poems: Paul Bunyan, Three Lincoln Poems and Other Verse
Leonard Cohen, The Spice-Box of Earth
Robert Finch
Dover Beach Revisited, a meditation on the significance of Matthew Arnold
Acis in Oxford and Other Poems
Ralph Gustafson, Rivers Among Rocks
Daryl Hine, The Devil's Picture Books
D. G. Jones, The Sun is Axeman
Irving Layton, The Swinging Flesh
Eli Mandel and Jean Guy Pilon, Poetry 62, an anthology
Gwendolyn MacEwen:
Selah. Toronto: Aleph Press.
The Drunken Clock. Toronto: Aleph Press.
D. Pacey, Creative Writing in Canada, revised edition (scholarship)
Dorothy Roberts, Twice to Flame
Austin Clarke, Later Poems, Dublin: Dolmen Press, Ireland
Thomas Kinsella:
Downstream, Dublin: Dolmen Press
Poems and Translations, New York: Atheneum
Lila Ray, Entrance( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India.
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