1963 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). The woman is perfected. Her dead Body wears the smile of accomplishment...—Opening lines of "Edge" by Sylvia Plath, written days before her suicide January 26 – Raghunath Vishnu Pandit, an Indian poet who writes in both Konkani and Marathi languages, publishes five books of poems this day February 11 – American-born poet Sylvia Plath (age 30) commits suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning in her London flat (in a house lived in by W.
1966 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Raymond Souster founds the League of Canadian Poets Philip Hobsbaum, who had founded The Belfast Group in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 1963, departs for Glasgow, and the Belfast Group meetings lapsed for a while, but then was reconstituted in 1968 by Michael Allen, Arthur Terry, and Seamus Heaney. At one time or another, the grouping also includes Michael Longley, James Simmons, Paul Muldoon, Ciaran Carson, Stewart Parker, Bernard MacLaverty and the critic Edna Longley.
1972 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). June 4 — Joseph Brodsky is expelled from the Soviet Union. May 22 — Cecil Day-Lewis, Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, dies at Lemmons, the home of writers Kingsley Amis and Elizabeth Jane Howard on the northern edge of London. Autumn — The first threnody attributed to E. J. Thribb (actually written by Barry Fantoni and colleagues) is published in the English satirical magazine Private Eye.
1942 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). March 28 – Spanish poet Miguel Hernández dies of tuberculosis as a political prisoner in a prison hospital having scrawled his last verse on the wall. April 3 – French poet Paul Éluard (Eugène Paul Grindel)'s poem "Liberté" is first published in the collection Poésie et vérité ("Poetry and truth") in Paris. In June it is reprinted by the magazine Fontaine, titled "Une seule pensée", to reach Vichy France.
Adrienne RichAdrienne Cecile Rich (ˈædriən ; May 16, 1929 – March 27, 2012) was an American poet, essayist and feminist. She was called "one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century", and was credited with bringing "the oppression of women and lesbians to the forefront of poetic discourse". Rich criticized rigid forms of feminist identities, and valorized what she coined the "lesbian continuum", which is a female continuum of solidarity and creativity that impacts and fills women's lives.
1957 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). January 10 – T. S. Eliot marries his secretary Valerie Fletcher, almost 40 years his junior, in a private church ceremony. March 15 – Élet és Irodalom first published in Hungary as a literary magazine. March 25 – Copies of Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems (first published 1 November 1956) printed in England are seized by United States Customs Service officials in San Francisco on the grounds of obscenity.
1954 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). January 25 – Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood is broadcast posthumously on BBC Radio. February – W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman move to an apartment on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Spring – Robert Creeley founds and edits the Black Mountain Review. Publication of American literary theorist William K.
1969 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). March 23 – German-born writer Assia Wevill, a mistress of English poet Ted Hughes (and ex-wife of Canadian poet David Wevill), gasses herself and their daughter at her London home. FIELD magazine founded at Oberlin College. Charles Bukowski quits his day job as a Post Office clerk in Los Angeles to embark on a writing career after being promised a $100 stipend from Black Sparrow Press.
1930 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Samuel Minturn Peck becomes first Poet Laureate of Alabama, a title created for him. Alfred Bailey, Tao: A Ryerson Poetry Chap Book, (Ryerson). Wilson MacDonald, Caw-Caw Ballads Montclair, NJ: Pine Tree Publishing. E. J. Pratt: The Roosevelt and the Antinoe, Toronto: Macmillan. Verses of the Sea, Toronto: Macmillan. intr. by Charles G.D. Roberts. W. W. E. Ross, Laconics.
1889 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). June 8 – English poet and Jesuit priest Gerard Manley Hopkins dies aged 54 in Dublin of typhoid; he is buried in Glasnevin Cemetery; most of his poetry remains unpublished until 1918. December 12 – English poet Robert Browning dies aged 77 at Ca' Rezzonico in Venice on the same day his book Asolando; Fancies and facts is published; he is buried in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey; Alfred, Lord Tennyson will be buried adjacently.
