Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
June 11 – International Poetry Incarnation, a performance poetry event, is staged at the Royal Albert Hall in London before an audience of 7,000, with members of the Beat Generation featuring; Adrian Mitchell reads "To Whom It May Concern" Meic Stephens founds Poetry Wales Russian poet Anna Akhmatova is allowed to travel outside the Soviet Union to Sicily and England in order to receive the Taormina prize and an honorary doctoral degree from the University of Oxford The Belfast Festival at Queen's publishes pamphlets this year and next by some of the members of The Belfast Group of poets, including Seamus Heaney and Michael Longley, which attracts some notice In Spain, two new periodical reviews are 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 is published in homage to the Unamuno In the British Isles, the centenary of the birth of W. B. Yeats brings forth a number of critical works, prominent among them Thomas Parkinson's book W. B. Yeats: The Later Poetry, and Conor Cruise O'Brien's long essay addressing Yeats' relationship to Fascism, published in In Excited Reverie, edited by A. N. Jeffares and K. G. Cross African-American poet Dudley Randall founds Broadside Press in Detroit, which publishes many leading African-American writers Paul Éluard's 1926 book of poems, Capitale de la douleur ("Capital of Pain"), influences Jean-Luc Godard's French film Alphaville (released May 5) which has quotations from the book The periodical Modern Poetry in Translation is launched by Ted Hughes, Daniel Weissbort and George Theiner in Britain
Works published in English
Listed by nation where the work was first published (and again by the poet's native land, if different); substantially revised works listed separately:
Australia
Geoffrey Lehmann and Les Murray, The Ilex Tree, Australia
John Thompson, editor, Australian Poetry, Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 76 pp
Judith Wright, Preoccupations in Australian Poetry (scholarship), Australia
Canada
John Glassco, editor, English Poetry in Quebec
Daryl Hine, The Wooden Horse
Lionel Kearns, Listen George
C. F. Klinck and W. H. New, editors, Literary History of Canada, first of four volumes (fourth volume published in 1990, scholarship, Canada Irving Layton, Collected Poems Tom Marshall, The Beast with Three Backs, Quarry Press John Newlove, Moving in Alone, Contact Press Al Purdy, The Cariboo Horses, Canada Raymond Souster, Ten Elephants on Yonge Street Wilfred Watson, Naked Poems Phyllis Webb, Naked Poems
India in English
Dom Moraes John Nobody ( Poetry in English ) Nissim Ezekiel: The Exact Name: Poems 1960–1964 ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India The Unfinished Man, poems written in 1959; ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India P. Lal, "Charge!" They Said ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India . Kamala Das, Summer of Calcutta: Fifty Poems ( Poetry in English ), Delhi: Rajinder Paul Roshen Alkazi, Seventeen Poems (see also Seventeen More Poems 1970); Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India Deb Kumar Das, Through A Glass Darkly: Poems ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India T. V. Datareyan, Silver Box and Other Poems ( Poetry in English ), Bombay: Strand Vinayaka Krishna Gokak, In Life's Temple ( Poetry in English ), Madras: Blackie and Son S. R. Mokashi-Punekar, The Captive ( Poetry in English ), preface by Herbert Read
Ireland
Denis Devlin, Collected Poems, Dublin: Dolmen Press
Seamus Heaney, Northern Ireland native Irish poet with books published originally in the United Kingdom: Death of a Naturalist Eleven Poems, Queen's University Richard Murphy, Sailing to an Island, London: Faber and Faber; New York: Chilmark Press, Irish poet with books published originally in the United Kingdom
New Zealand
Charles Brasch: (year uncertain, but thought to be this year) Twice Sixty, Wellington: Printed at the Wai-te-ata Press (Single poem; broadsheet) 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