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[edit] Events
- Brazilian manifesto for concrete poetry, which focuses on visual and other sensory qualities
- April 18 — Ezra Pound's indictment for treason is dismissed.[1] He is released from St. Elizabeths Hospital, an insane asylum in Maryland, after spending 12 years there (starting in 1946). He returns to Italy.[1]
[edit] Works published in English
[edit] Criticism, scholarship and biography in Canada
- John Betjeman, Collected Poems, London: John Murray; Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1959[3]
- Michael Hamburger, The Dual Site, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul[3]
- George Rostrevor Hamilton, Collected Poems
- John Heath-Stubbs, The Triumph of the Muse
- Elizabeth Jennings, A Sense of the World, London: André Deutsch[3]
- Dom Moraes, A Beginning, his first book of poems (winner of the Hawthornden Prize), Indian at this time living in the United Kingdom
- James Reeves, The Talking Skull
- Michael Roberts, Collected Poems
- Alan Ross, a book of poetry
- John Silkin, The Two Freedoms
- John Smith, Excursus in Autumn, including "Two Men Meet, Each Believing the Other to be of a Higher Rank"
- A.S.J. Tessimond, Selection
- R.S. Thomas, Poetry for Supper
- C.A. Trypanis, a book of poetry
- David Wright, Monologue of a Deaf Man, London: André Deutsch[3]
- Conrad Aiken, Sheepfold Hill
- Djuna Barnes, The Antiphon a surrealist verse play
- John Ciardi, I marry You; a Sheaf of Love Poems
- E.E. Cummings, 95 Poems
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti, A Coney Island of the Mind
- John Hollander, A Crackling of Thorns
- Rolfe Humphries, editor, New Poems by American Poets (anthology)
- Stanley Kunitz, Selected Poems, 1928-1958
- Denise Levertov, Overland to the Islands, Highlands, North Carolina: Jonathan Williams[3]
- Archibald MacLeish, J.B., a verse play
- William Meredith, The Open Sea and Other Poems
- Howard Nemerov, Mirrors and Windows
- Kenneth Patchen:
- Poem-scapes
- Hurrah for Anything
- When We Were Here Together
- Theodore Roethke, Words for the Wind, Garden City, New York: Doubleday[3]
- Muriel Rukeyser, Body of Waking
- Winfield Townley Scott, The Dark Sister
- Karl Shapiro, Poems of a Jew, New York: Random House[3]
- Eli Siegel, Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana: Poems
- Clark Ashton Smith, Spells and Philtres
- William Jay Smith, Poems 1947-1957
- Charles Tomlinson, Seeing Is Believing, New York: McDowell, Obolensky[3]
- William Carlos Williams, Paterson, Book V
[edit] Other in English
[edit] Works published in other languages
[edit] Spanish language
[edit] Portuguese language
[edit] French language
- Sh. Shalom:
- Ben Tehelet ve-Lavan ("Amidst the Blue and White")
- Shirai Kommiut Israel ("Poems on the Rise of Israel")
- Yehoshua Rabinow, Shirat Amitai ("Amitai's Song")
- I. Shalev, Eloha Hanoshek Lohamim
- P. Elad, Mizrah Shemesh ("East of the Sun")
- David Rokeah, Kearar Aleh Shaham ("Juniper on Granite")
- T. Carmi, ha-Yam ha-Aharon ("The Last Sea")
- Y. Amihai, be-Merhak Shtai Tikvot ("At a Distance of Two Hopes")
- Ephraim Lisitzky, Anshai Midot ("Virtuous Men")
[edit] Awards and honors
[edit] American Academy of Arts and Letters
[edit] Poetry Magazine
[edit] Poetry Society of America
- Mondadori, Viareggio poetry prize (Italy): S. Quasimodo, La terra impareggiabile
[edit] Births
[edit] Deaths
- January 3 — Gerald William Bullett, 64, British author and critic
- March 24 — Seamus O'Sullivan, Irish
- May 5 — James Branch Cabell, 79, whose 52 books included poetry, of a cerebral hemorrhage (to help people remember the pronunciation of his name, he composed the ditty, "Tell the rabble my name is CA-bell.")
- June 28 — Alfred Noyes, English poet (according to some sources, he died on June 25, but others, including Encyclopedian Britannica give June 28)
- September 11 — Robert W. Service, 84, Scots-Canadian poet who wrote The Cremation of Sam McGee
- October 29 — Zoë Akins, 72, American poet and dramatist who won the 1935 Pulitzer Prize for her drama version of Edith Wharton's The Old Maid
- December 20 — Sir John Collings Squire, British poet, writer, historian, and influential literary editor.
- Dates not known:
[edit] See also
- ^ a b Ackroyd, Peter, Ezra Pound, Thames and Hudson Ltd., London, 1980, "Chronology" chapter, p 118
- ^ a b Britannica Book of the Year 1960, covering events of 1959, published by Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1960; "Canadian Literature" article mentioned this book as a "late 1958 anthology"
- ^ a b c d e f g h i M. L. Rosenthal, The New Poets: American and British Poetry Since World War II, New York: Oxford University Press, 1967, "Selected Bibliography: Individual Volumes by Poets Discussed", pp 334-340
- ^ Web page titled "The Contemporary Scene" in An Encyclopedia of New Zealand, 1966 website, accessed April 21, 2008
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