1962 in Poetry - Works Published in English - United Kingdom

United Kingdom

• Dannie Abse, Poems, Golders Green, including "The Abandoned", London: Hutchinson
• George Barker, The View From a Blind I
• Edmund Blunden, A Hong Kong House
• Ronald Bottrall, Collected Poems
• Tony Connor, With Love Somehow, London: Oxford University Press
• Patrick Creagh, A Row of Pharaohs
• Allen Curnow, A Small Room with Large Windows (Oxford University Press), selected poems by this New Zealand poet published in the United Kingdom
• C. Day-Lewis, The Gate, including "Not Proven" and "The Disabused"
• T. S. Eliot, Collected Poems 1909–1962
• D. J. Enright, Addictions, London: Chatto and Windus with Hogarth Press
• Roy Fuller, Collected Poems 1936-1961, London: André Deutsch
• Robert Graves, New Poems 1962
• Thom Gunn, Fighting Terms, a revision of a collection from the 1950s including "My Sad Captains"
• Thom Gunn and Ted Hughes, Selected poems by Thom Gunn and Ted Hughes, Faber
• Richard Kell, Control Tower
• Thomas Kinsella, Downstream, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
• Peter Levi, Water, Rock and Sand
• Norman MacCaig, A Round of Applause, London: Chatto and Windus with Hogarth Press
• Christopher Middleton, Torse 3
• Vernon Scannell, A Sense of Danger
• Dame Edith Sitwell, The Outcasts
• Stevie Smith, Selected Poems
• Jon Stallworthy, Out of Bounds
• R. S. Thomas, The Bread of Truth
• Anthony Thwaite, The Owl in the Tree
• J. R. R. Tolkien, The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, and Other Verses from the 'Red Book'
• Charles Tomlinson, A Peopled Landscape
• Derek Walcott, In a Green Night the "most striking" first collection of poetry of 1962, according to Howard Sergeant, editor of Outposts (writing for publication in 1963). Walcott had already gained recognition with his plays.
• Vernon Watkins, Affinities