1967 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Poetry International started by Ted Hughes and Patrick Garland May 16 – the premiere at Taganka Theater in Moscow of the staged a poetical performance Послушайте! ("Listen!"), based on the works of Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky. The show was in repertoire until April 1984, was revived in May 1987 and again in repertoire until June 1989.
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.
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.
1980 in poetryNationality 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.
1896 in poetry— closing lines of Rudyard Kipling's If—, first published this year Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). July 7 – Charles Thomas Wooldridge is hanged at Reading Gaol in England for uxoricide, inspiring fellow-prisoner C.3.3. Oscar Wilde's The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1897).
1836 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). 6 November – The burial of Czech romantic poet Karel Hynek Mácha (in a pauper's grave) takes place on what should have been the day of his wedding to Eleonora Šomková, about a month after the birth of their child. Mácha had overexerted himself in helping put out a fire and died the previous day in Litoměřice just before his 26th birthday.
1945 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). March 4 — Pablo Neruda elected a Communist party senator in Chile. He officially joins the Communist Party of Chile four months later. April — Ilona Karmel and Henia Karmel, sisters from the Kraków Ghetto and together Polish Jewish prisoners of the Nazis, are on a forced death march when Germans in tanks crush them and then shove them, still living, into a mass grave.
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.
1895 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). February 18 – John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry (father of Lord Alfred Douglas, Oscar Wilde's lover), leaves his calling card at the Albemarle Club in London, inscribed: "For Oscar Wilde, posing somdomite", i.e. a sodomite, inducing Wilde to charge him with criminal libel. April 3–5 – Libel case of Wilde v Queensberry at the Old Bailey in London: Queensberry is acquitted.
1835 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). November/December – The Federal Convention in Germany prohibits circulation of work by members of the "Young Germany" group of writers and the exiled poet Heinrich Heine.
