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Events

Meic Stephens founds Poetry Wales
Russian poet Anna Akhmatova was allowed to travel outside the Soviet Union to Sicily and England in order to receive the Taormina prize and an honorary doctoral degree from Oxford University
The Belfast Festival at Queen's published pamphlets this year and next by some of the members of The Belfast Group of poets, including Seamus Heaney and Michael Longley, which attracted some notice.
In Spain, two new periodical reviews were founded:
- Poesía para todos, started by younger Spanish poets and illustrated by renowned painters
- Los sesenta, launched by Max Aub and with editors including the poets Jorge Guillén and Rafael Alberti. The second number was published in homage to the Unamuno.
- Charles Doyle, editor, Recent Poetry in New Zealand, anthology
- Kendrick Smithyman, A Way of Saying: A Study of New Zealand Poetry, Auckland & London: Collins, criticism

United Kingdom

Basil Bunting:

Loquitur (Fulcrum Press)
The Spoils (Morden Tower Bookroom)

Christopher Caudwell, Poems

Donald Davie, The Poems of Doctor Zhivago

Geography, Fulcrum Press

Geoffrey Lehmann and Les Murray, The Ilex Tree, Australia

Dom Moraes, John Nobody India

Frank Kobina Parkes, Songs from the Wilderness (Ghanaian living in England)

Derek Walcott, The Castaway (West Indian)

David Wright, Adam at Evening, including "By the Effigy of St. Cecilia" (South Africa)

J. Wright, Preoccupations in Australian Literature (scholarship), Australia

Works published in other languages

Denmark

Jørgen Gustava Brandt, Etablissementet

date not known:

Patience Agbabi, performance poet
Michael Crummey, Canadian novelist and poet
Adeena Karasick
Timothy Liu
Jay Ruzesky
R.M. Vaughan

Deaths

January 4 — T. S. Eliot, 76, American/British poet

February 2 — Richard Blackmur, 61, American literary critic and poet

March 17 — Nancy Cunard, 69, English writer, editor and publisher

June 5 — Eleanor Farjeon, 84, poet poet and author

July 10 — Jacques Audiberti 66, French playwright, poet and novelist and exponent of the Theatre of the Absurd

August 17 — Jack Spicer, American poet often identified with the San Francisco Renaissance

October 15 or October 14 — Randall Jarrell, 51, American author, writer and poet, in a highway accident;

June 22 — Joseph Auslander, 67, of a heart attack

September 2 — Johannes Bobrowski (born 1917), German poet, narrative writer, adaptor and essayist

November 28 — Aslaug Vaa, of NorwayFurther Information

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