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| 1957 |
| | | English author Stevie Smith publishes her collection of poems Not Waving but Drowning | |
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| 1960 |
| | | The Colossus is US author Sylvia Plath's first collection of poems | |
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| 1960 |
| | | Flower, Fist and Bestial Wail is the first of many collections of poems by US poet Charles Bukowski | |
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| 1960 |
| | | English poet John Betjeman publishes his long autobiographical poem Summoned by Bells | |
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| 1960 |
| | | US novelist John Barth publishes The Sot-Weed Factor, a picaresque life of Edmund Cook set on a family tobacco plantation in Maryland | |
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| 1961 |
| | | In Babi Yar the dissident Soviet poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko tackles the subject of Russian anti-Semitism | |
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| 1962 |
| | | James Baldwin's third novel Another Country explores the conflicts in the life of a young unemployed black musician | |
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| 1962 |
| | | John Ashbery's radical collection The Tennis Court Oath includes poems composed of sliced up fragments | |
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| 1962 |
| | | Benjamin Britten's War Requiem, setting poems by Wilfred Owen, is first performed in the rebuilt Coventry Cathedral | |
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| 1963 |
| | | Sexual intercourse begins in this year, according to Philip Larkin's 1974 poem Annus Mirabilis | |
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