1956 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). February 25 – English poet Ted Hughes and American poet Sylvia Plath meet in Cambridge, England. June 16 – Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath marry at the church of St George the Martyr, Holborn, London and spend the night at his flat at 18 Rugby Street. September 6 – American poet Richard Eberhart, having been sent by The New York Times to San Francisco to report on the poetry scene there, publishes this day an article in the New York Times Book Review titled "West Coast Rhythms" which helps call national attention to Allen Ginsberg's Howl as "the most remarkable poem of the young group" of poets who are becoming known as the spokesmen of the Beat Generation. On November 1, Howl and Other Poems, is published by City Lights Bookstore. The Lake Eden campus of Black Mountain College, the birthplace of the Black Mountain School of poetry, closes, although classes do not end until the spring of 1957, and the final issue of the Black Mountain Review is published in the fall of 1957. Quadrant magazine is founded in Australia by Richard Krygier, a Polish-Jewish refugee who had been active in social-democrat politics in Europe, and James McAuley, a Catholic poet. Northern Review, founded in 1945 from the merger of two small Canadian literary magazines, Preview and First Statement, publishes its last issue. Tamarack Review founded by Robert Weaver in Canada Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately: James McAuley, A Vision of Ceremony Leonard Cohen, Let Us Compare Mythologies, Canada R. A. D. Ford, A Window on the North Louis Dudek, The Transparent Sea. Toronto: Contact Press, 1956. Eldon Grier, Poems Irving Layton, The Bull Calf and Other Poems. Toronto: Contact Press. Irving Layton, The Improved Binoculars: Selected Poems. Introduction by William Carlos Williams. Highlands, NC: Jonathan Williams.

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1956 in poetry

1942 in poetry

Nationality 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.

1939 in poetry

— W. H. Auden, from "September 1, 1939" Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).