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Hans Børli
Hans Børli (8 December 1918 – 26 August 1989) was a Norwegian poet and writer, who besides his writings worked as a lumberjack all his life. Biography Hans Georg Nilsen Børli was born in Eidskog Municipality in Hedmark county, Norway. He was the fifth of seven children born to Nils Thorkildsen Børli (1883–1951) and Marie Bolette Olsdatter Børli (1881–1962). Børli was raised on a small farm in a road-less area in the forests of Eidskog Municipality. The experience of poverty and hardship would leave a deep imprint on his later art. However, the positive effects of living close to nature, the wisdom of tradition and the solidarity between workers also had a significant bearing on his writings. A strict Pietism, Christian pietist upbringing would leave Børli forever struggling with the counteractive forces of rebellion and a deeply embedded sense of religious longing. Børli was considered a gifted boy and was admitted to Talhaug Mercantile School in Kongsvinger (to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1954 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * January 25 – Dylan Thomas's ''Under Milk Wood'' is broadcast posthumously on BBC Radio. * February – W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman move to an apartment on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. * Spring – Robert Creeley founds and edits the '' Black Mountain Review''. * Publication of American literary theorist William K. Wimsatt's collected essays ''Verbal Icon: Studies in the Meaning of Poetry'', including the influential critical essays “The Intentional Fallacy” and “The Affective Fallacy” cowritten with Monroe Beardsley. * Jack Kerouac reads Dwight Goddard's ''A Buddhist Bible'', which will influence him greatly. 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: Canada * Daryl Hine, ''Five P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1976 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * January 1 – Two poems written in 1965 by Mao Zedong just before the Cultural Revolution, including "Two Birds: A Dialogue", are published * April 5 – 1976 Tiananmen Incident in Beijing, China: the display of poems against the Gang of Four are among events provoking a police crackdown. * Lille Stesichorus, the largest fragments of work attributed to Ancient Greek poet Stesichorus, are first published 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 * R. Berndt (ed.), ''Love Songs of Arnhem Land'' (anthology) * Anne Elder, posthumous, ''Crazy Woman'' * John Forbes, ''Tropical Skiing'' (Poets of the Month Series), Sydney: Angus & Robertson. * Les Murray, ''The Vernacular Republic Selected Poems'' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1974 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * April – The dictatorship in Portugal falls; in the six months prior, with increasing repression and a discouraging atmosphere, little new work has been published; yet later in the year, not much new poetry is published either as "writers who had based their style on censor-proof allusiveness and their themes on protest would now have to do some retooling". * July 23 – The dictatorial Greek junta falls; start of the ''Metapolitefsi'': exiled poets, authors and intellectuals return to the country to publish there. * October 4 – While Ann Sexton is having lunch with her friend, fellow poet and collaborator Maxine Kumin to review Sexton's most recent book, ''The Awful Rowing Toward God'', without a note or any warning, Sexton goes into her garage, starts the ignition of her car and dies of carbon monoxide poisoning. * The Jack Kerouac School of D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1972 In Poetry
Year 197 ( CXCVII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Magius and Rufinus (or, less frequently, year 950 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 197 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * February 19 – Battle of Lugdunum: Emperor Septimius Severus defeats the self-proclaimed emperor Clodius Albinus at Lugdunum (modern Lyon). Albinus commits suicide; legionaries sack the town. * Septimius Severus returns to Rome and has about 30 of Albinus's supporters in the Senate executed. After his victory he declares himself the adopted son of the late Marcus Aurelius. * Septimius Severus forms new naval units, manning all the triremes in Italy with heavily armed troops for war in the East. His soldiers embark on an artificial canal between the Tigri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1970 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * May – "La nuit de la poésie", a poetry reading in Montreal bringing together poets from French Canada to recite before an audience of more than 2,000 in the Théâtre du Gesu, lasting until 7 a.m. * Release of ''Tomfoolery'', an animated film directed by Joy Batchelor and John Halas, based on the nonsense verse of Edward Lear (especially "The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo") and Lewis Carroll * First issue of ''Tapia'' (later named the ''Trinidad & Tobago Review'') published"Selected Timeline of Anglophone Caribbean Poetry" in Williams, Emily Allen, ''Anglophone Caribbean Poetry, 1970–2001: An Annotated Bibliography'', page xvii and fol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1969 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish poetry, Irish or French poetry, France). Events * 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), 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. He said at the time: "I have one of two choices — stay in the post office and go crazy ... or stay out here and play at writer and starve. I decided to starve." * Howard Nemerov named Edward Mallinckrodt Distringuished University Professor of English and Distinguished Poet in Residence at Washington University in St. Louis, posts which he will hold until his death in 1991 in poetry, 1991. * ''The Kenyon Revie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1978 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish poetry, Irish or French poetry, France). Events * Bloodaxe Books is established by Neil Astley in Newcastle upon Tyne, England * ''L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E (magazine), L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E'' magazine, edited by Bruce Andrews and Charles Bernstein (poet), Charles Bernstein, is first published in the United States * ''Stevie (1978 film), Stevie'', a film based on a play about the poet Stevie Smith is released 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: Canadian poetry, Canada * Margaret Avison, ''Sunblue''Roberts, Neil (ed.)''A Companion to Twentieth-century Poetry'' Part III, Chapter 3, "Canadian Poetry", by Cynthia Messenger, Blackwell Publishing, 2003, , retrieved January 3, 2009 * Earle Birney, ''Fall by Fury & Other Makings''. Toronto: McClellan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1968 In Poetry
Events January–February * January 1968, January – The I'm Backing Britain, I'm Backing Britain campaign starts spontaneously. * January 5 – Prague Spring: Alexander Dubček is chosen as leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. * January 10 – John Gorton is sworn in as 19th Prime Minister of Australia, taking over from John McEwen after being 1968 Liberal Party of Australia leadership election, elected leader of the Liberal Party of Australia, Liberal Party the previous day, following the disappearance of Harold Holt. Gorton becomes the only Australian Senate, Senator to become Prime Minister, though he immediately transfers to the Australian House of Representatives, House of Representatives through the 1968 Higgins by-election in Holt's vacant seat. * January 15 – The 1968 Belice earthquake in Sicily kills 380 and injures around 1,000. * January 21 ** Vietnam War: Battle of Khe Sanh – One of the most publicized and controversial battles of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1966 In Poetry
Events January * January 1 – In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa takes over as military ruler of the Central African Republic, ousting President David Dacko. * January 3 – 1966 Upper Voltan coup d'état: President Maurice Yaméogo is deposed by a military coup in the Republic of Upper Volta (modern-day Burkina Faso). * January 10 ** Pakistani–Indian peace negotiations end successfully with the signing of the Tashkent Declaration, a day before the sudden death of Indian prime minister Lal Bahadur Shastri. ** Georgia House of Representatives, The House of Representatives of the US state of Georgia refuses to allow African-American representative Julian Bond to take his seat, because of his anti-war stance. * January 15 – 1966 Nigerian coup d'état: A bloody military coup is staged in Nigeria, deposing the civilian government and resulting in the death of Prime Minister Abubakar Tafawa Balewa. * January 17 ** The Nigerian coup is overturned by another faction of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1964 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * March 23 – A surprise best-seller in the United Kingdom is John Lennon's ''In His Own Write'', a compendium of nonsense writing, sketches and drawings by one of the Beatles, published today. * March 29 (Easter Day) – Adrian Mitchell reads "To Whom It May Concern" to Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament protesters in Trafalgar Square, London. * April 23 – The "Shakespeare Quartercentenary", the 400th anniversary of the birth of William Shakespeare falling around this date, is celebrated throughout the year in lecture series, exhibitions, dramatic and musical programs and other events as well as special publications (Shakespeare issues and supplements), reprinting of standard works on the playwright and poet, and the issue of commemorative postage stamps. The American Association of Advertising Agencies suggests that Shakespeare quotations should ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1962 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * May 30 – Composer Benjamin Britten's ''War Requiem'', incorporating settings of Wilfred Owen's poems, is premièred for the consecration of the new Coventry Cathedral. * September – Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath separate. * October ** Beginning this month, Sylvia Plath experiences a great burst of creativity, writing most of the poems on which her reputation will rest in what will be the last few months of her life, including many which will be published in ''Ariel'' and ''Winter Trees''. ** Dame Edith Sitwell reads from her poetry at a concert at Royal Festival Hall in London given in honor of her 75th birthday. * Writers in the Soviet Union this year are allowed to publish criticism of Joseph Stalin and are given more freedom generally, although many are severely criticized for doing so. The poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko, in the poem, ''The Hei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
