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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events

• The remains of English war poet Isaac Rosenberg, killed in World War I (1918) at the age of 28 and originally buried in a mass grave, are re-interred at Bailleul Road East Cemetery, Plot V, St. Laurent-Blangy, Pas de Calais, France.
• Poetry Bookshop in Bloomsbury, London, closes

Works published

Canada

• William Henry Drummond, Complete Poems, posthumously published.^[1]
• Wilson MacDonald, Out Of The Wilderness. Ottawa: Graphic Publishers.^[2]
• E. J. Pratt, Titans ("The Cachalot, The Great Feud"), Toronto: Macmillan.^[3]
• Theodore Goodridge Roberts, The Lost Shipmate. Toronto: Ryerson Chapbook.
• Duncan Campbell Scott, Collected Poems.^[1]
• Frederick George Scott, In Sun and Shade: A Book of Verse] (Québec: Dussault & Proulx).^[4]

India in English

• Swami Anand Acharya, Arctic Swallows and Other Poems ( Poetry in English ),^[5]
• The Spirit of Oriental Poetry, London: Kegal Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 232 pages; anthology; published in the United Kingdom^[6]
• Krishnala M. Jhaveri, Further Milestones in Gujarati Literature written in English and translated into Gujarati; scholarship and criticism^[7]

United Kingdom

• Frank Ashton-Gwatkin (as John Paris), A Japanese Don Juan and other Poems
• Edmund Blunden, English Poems^[8]
• W. H. Davies, The Birth of Song^[8]
• Loyd Haberly, Cymberina, American poet self-published in the United Kingdom
• Hugh MacDiarmid, pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve:
  • A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle^[8]
  • Penny Wheep^[8]
• Edwin Muir, Chorus of the Newly Dead^[8]
• Laura Riding, The Close Chaplet
• Vita Sackville-West, The Land^[8]
• Siegfried Sassoon, Satirical Poems^[8]
• Kenneth Slessor, Earth-Visitors, London: Fanfrolico Press, Australian poet published in the United Kingdom
• The Spirit of Oriental Poetry, London: Kegal Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 232 pages; anthology; Indian poetry in English, published in the United Kingdom^[6]
• Humbert Wolfe:
  • Humoresque^[8]
  • News of the Devil^[8]
• W. B. Yeats, Autobiographies (autobiography), volume 6 of the Collected Edition published by Macmillan^[8]

United States

• Willa Cather, My Mortal Enemy^[9]
• Hart Crane, White Buildings^[9]
• Countee Cullen, On These I Stand, Harper & Row^[10]
• E. E. Cummings, is 5^[9]
• John Gould Fletcher, Branches of Adam^[9]
• Langston Hughes, The Weary Blues^[11]
• Vachel Lindsay:
  • Going to the Stars^[9]
  • The Candle in the Cabin^[9]
• Amy Lowell, East Wind^[9]
• Archibald MacLeish, Streets in the Moon, including "The End of the World"
• Edgar Lee Masters, Lee: A Dramatic Poem^[9]
• John G. Neihardt, Collected Poems^[9]
• Dorothy Parker, Enough Rope^[9]
• Ezra Pound, Personae: The Collected Poems^[9]
• Sara Teasdale, Dark of the Moon^[9]
• Edith Wharton, Twelve Poems^[9]
• Louis Zukofsky completes "Poem beginning 'The'," incorporating fragments of the writings of Dante, Virginia Woolf, and Benito Mussolini, among others

Other in English

• W. F. Alexander and A. E. Currie, editors, A Treasury of New Zealand Verse, revised version (without preface) of New Zealand Verse, published in 1906, anthology^[12]
• Kenneth Slessor, Earth-Visitors, London: Fanfrolico Press, Australian poet published in the United Kingdom

Works published in other languages

France

• Louis Aragon, Le Mouvement Perpetuel, influenced by Surrealism^[13]
• Paul Éluard, pen name of Paul-Eugène Grindel:
  • Dessous d'une vie^[13]
  • Capitale de la douleur^[14] ("Capital of Pain"); the poems influence Jean-Luc Godard's 1965 film Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution which has quotations from the book
• Francis Jammes, Ma France poétique, Paris: Mercure de France; France^[15]
• Pierre Jean Jouve:
  • Mystérieuses Noces^[13]
  • Nouvelles Noces^[13]

Indian subcontinent

Including all of the British colonies that later become India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Listed alphabetically by first name, regardless of surname:

• Ahmad Din, Iqbal, a critical work on the poetry of Sir Mohammad Iqbal, Indian, Urdu-language^[16]
• Mohanlal Dalicand Desai, Jain Gurjar Kavio, Volume 1, literary history written in Gujarati, delving into Jain poets and including a list of manuscripts; in 1995, Indian literary scholar Sisir Kumar Das calls it a "very useful and important work for students of Gujarati literature" (see also Volume 2 in 1931, Volume 3 1964)^[16]
• Ramanbhai Nilkanth, Kavita Ane Sahitya, four volumes of Gujarati poetry and prose; Volume 1, articles on prosody and rhetoric; Volume 2, articles on practical criticism; Volume 3, occasional lectures and essays; Volume 4 (published in 1929), some poems, short stories and essays on humor^[16]
• S. Sonusundara Bharati, Tacaratan Kuraiyum Kaikeyi Niraiyum, literary criticism in Tamil^[16]

Spanish language

Peru

• Enrique Bustamante y Ballivián, Antipoemas^[17]
• Alejandro Peralta, Ande^[18]
• Enrique Peña Barrenechea, El aroma en la sombra^[18]

Other in Spanish

• Rafael Alberti, La amante ("The Beloved"); Spain^[19]
• Germán List Arzubide, El movimiento estridentista, Mexico (history)
• Federico García Lorca, Oda a Salvador Dalí ("Ode to Salvador Dalí"), Spain
• Xavier Villaurrutia, Reflejos, Mexico

Other languages

• Uri Zvi Greenberg, Ha-Gavrut Ha-Olah ("Manhood on the Rise"), Hebrew language, Mandatory Palestine
• Tin Ujević, Kolajna ("Necklace"), Croatian

Awards and honors

• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Amy Lowell, What's O'Clock

Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• January 5 – W. D. Snodgrass (died 2009), American poet, academic and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1960
• February 4 – Albert Saijo (died 2011), Japanese-American poet^[20]
• February 18 – A. R. Ammons (died 2001), American author and poet
• February 25 – Russell Atkins (died 2024), African-American concrete poet, musician and playwright
• March 3 – James Merrill (died 1995), American poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1977
• March 22 – Alastair Reid (died 2014), Scottish poet and scholar of South American literature
• April 18 – Niranjan Bhagat (died 2018), Indian poet and critic writing in Gujarati and English
• May 4 – Allen Mandelbaum (died 2011), American poet and translator
• May 21 – Robert Creeley (died 2005), American poet and author associated with the Black Mountain poets
• May 26 – Phyllis Gotlieb (died 2009), Canadian science fiction novelist and poet
• June 3 – Allen Ginsberg (died 1997), American Beat poet
• June 5 – David Wagoner (died 2021), American poet and novelist
• June 25 – Ingeborg Bachmann (died 1973), Austrian poet and author
• June 27 – Frank O'Hara (died 1966), American poet and key member of the New York School of poetry
• June 29 – James K. Baxter (died 1972), New Zealand poet
• July 7 – Anand Mohan Zutshi Gulzar Dehlvi (died 2020), Indian Urdu poet
• July 17 – Nikos Karouzos (died 1990), Greek poet
• July 18 – Elizabeth Jennings (died 2001), English poet
• August 15 – Sukanta Bhattacharya (died 1947), Bengali poet and playwright
• September 1 – James Reaney (died 2008), Canadian poet, playwright and literary critic
• November 5 – John Berger (died 2017), English novelist, painter, art critic and poet
• November 11 – José Manuel Caballero (died 2021) Spanish poet and novelist
• November 23 – Christopher Logue (died 2011), English poet, playwright, screen writer and actor associated with the British Poetry Revival
• November 24 – Paul Blackburn (died 1971), American poet
• December 23 – Robert Bly (died 2021), American poet, author and leader of the mythopoetic men's movement in the United States
• December 26 – Nabakanta Barua, also known as Ekhud Kokaideu (died 2002), Assamese-language Indian novelist and poet

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• January 10 – Eino Leino, 47 (born 1878), Finnish poet and journalist
• January 20 – Charles Montagu Doughty, 82 (born 1843), English poet, writer and traveller
• April 7 – Ozaki Hōsai 尾崎 放哉 pen name of Ozaki Hideo, 41 (born 1885), Japanese late Meiji period and Taishō period poet (surname of this pen name: Ozaki)
• May 30 – Perceval Gibbon, 46 (born 1879), Welsh-born journalist, short-story writer and poet
• June 15 – Francis Joseph Sherman, 55 (born 1871), Canadian poet
• July 19 – Ada Cambridge (married name was Cross, but she kept her maiden name as her pen name), 81 (born 1844), English writer and poet living in Australia after 1870
• August 1 – Israel Zangwill, 62 (born 1864), English writer and poet
• October 9 – Helena Nyblom, 82 (born 1843), Danish-born poet and writer of fairy tales
• November 17 – George Sterling, 56 (born 1869), American poet
• December 29 – Rainer Maria Rilke, 51 (born 1875), German poet, from leukemia

See also

• Poetry
• List of poetry awards
• List of years in poetry
• New Objectivity in German literature and art

Notes

1. Gustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books
2. Search results: Wilson MacDonald, Open Library, Web, May 10, 2011.
3. "Bibliography," Selected Poems of E. J. Pratt, Peter Buitenhuis ed., Toronto: Macmillan, 1968, 207-208.
4. "Frederick George Scott Archived 2012-05-01 at the Wayback Machine," Canadian Poetry, UWO, Web, Apr. 19, 12011.
5. Naik, M. K., Perspectives on Indian poetry in English, p. 230, (published by Abhinav Publications, 1984, ISBN 0-391-03286-0, ISBN 978-0-391-03286-6), retrieved via Google Books, June 12, 2009
6. Joshi, Irene, compiler, "Poetry Anthologies" Archived 2009-08-30 at the Wayback Machine, "Poetry Anthologies" section, "University Libraries, University of Washington" website, "Last updated May 8, 1998", retrieved June 16, 2009. 2009-06-19.
7. Mohan, Sarala Jag, Chapter 4: "Twentieth-Century Gujarati Literature" (Google books link), in Natarajan, Nalini, and Emanuel Sampath Nelson, editors, Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, ISBN 978-0-313-28778-7, retrieved December 10, 2008
8. Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
9. Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
10. Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, editors, The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, W. W. Norton & Company, 1973, ISBN 0-393-09357-3
11. Fleming, Robert, The African American Writer's Handbook: How to Get in Print and Stay in Print, "African American Book Timeline", p 167 and following pages, Random House, 2000, ISBN 978-0-345-42327-6, retrieved via Google Books, February 7, 2009
12. Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "New Zealand Poetry" article, "Anthologies" section, p 837
13. Brée, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983
14. Auster, Paul, editor, The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets, New York: Random House, 1982 ISBN 0-394-52197-8
15. Web page titled "Poet Francis Jammes (1868-1938)", at The Poetry Foundation website, retrieved August 30, 2009. 2009-09-03.
16. Das, Sisir Kumar, "A Chronology of Literary Events / 1911–1956", in Das, Sisir Kumar and various, History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956: struggle for freedom: triumph and tragedy, Volume 2, 1995, published by Sahitya Akademi, ISBN 978-81-7201-798-9, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008
17. Fitts, Dudley, editor, Anthology of Contemporary Latin-American Poetry/Antología de la Poesía Americana Contemporánea Norfolk, Conn., New Directions, (also London: The Falcoln Press, but this book was "Printed in U.S.A."), 1947, p 595
18. Fitts, Dudley, editor, Anthology of Contemporary Latin-American Poetry/Antología de la Poesía Americana Contemporánea Norfolk, Conn., New Directions, (also London: The Falcoln Press, but this book was "Printed in U.S.A."), 1947, p 635
19. Debicki, Andrew P., Spanish Poetry of the Twentieth Century: Modernity and Beyond, University Press of Kentucky, 1995, ISBN 978-0-8131-0835-3, retrieved via Google Books, November 21, 2009
20. "[Japanese-American Internee Data File], 1942–1946". National Archives and Records Administration. 1988–89. Retrieved July 19, 2013.^{[permanent dead link‍]}