—From Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", first published this year in his collection New Hampshire
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In Paris, Basil Bunting meets Ezra Pound, whose poems will have a strong influence on Bunting throughout his career.E. C. McFarlane and others found the Jamaican Poetry League.Xu Zhimo founds the Crescent Moon Society in China.Arthur Bourinot, Lyrics from the hillsKatherine Hale, ed.,Isabella Valancy CrawfordThom MacInnes, Complete PoemsMarjorie Pickthall, Angels' Shoes, posthumously publishedE. J. Pratt, Newfoundland Verse, CanadaDuncan Campbell Scott, The Witching of ElspieAnanda Acharya, Usarika ("Dawn-Rhythms") ( Poetry in English ) ,N. M. Chatterjee, India and Other Sonnets ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta Margaret MacNicol, Poems by Indian Women ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Association Press, 98 pages; anthologyOriental Blossoms, London: Heath Cranton; anthology; Indian poetry in English, published in the United KingdomPuran Singh, Unsung Beads( Poetry in English ) on mystical experiences and with social and political themesK. S. Venkataramani, On the Sand-Dune ( Poetry in English ), Madras: Ganesh and Co.S. K. De, A history of Sanskrit Poetics, one of the earliest accounts of Sanskrit literary theories in English; scholarshipHarold Acton, AquariumEdmund Blunden, To NatureW. H. Davies, Collected Poems, second series; first series, 1916, see also Collected Poems, 1928; Poems, 934Walter De La Mare, Come Hither: A Collection of Rhymes and Poems for the Young of all Ages (anthology)John Drinkwater, Collected Poems, in three volumes, published 1923–1937T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land (1922) first published in the U.K. in book form complete with notes in a limited edition in September 1923 by the Hogarth Press of Richmond upon Thames, run by Eliot's Bloomsbury Group friends Leonard and Virginia Woolf, the type handset by Virginia (completed in July))Robert Graves, WhipperginnyD. H. Lawrence, Birds, Beasts and Flowers, including "Snake", published in the United Kingdom in November; first published in the United States in October; English poet and author living in the United States (1922–1925)Hugh MacDiarmid (pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve, the name used for this book), Annals of the Five SensesKatherine Mansfield, Poems (posthumous), New Zealand author living in EuropeJohn Masefield:Collected PoemsKing Cole, and Other PoemsAlice Meynell, Last Poems (posthumous)Susan Miles, Little Mirrors (probable date)Herbert Read, Mutations of the PhoenixEdith Sitwell, Bucolic ComediesOriental Blossoms, London: Heath Cranton; anthology; Indian poetry in English, published in the United KingdomOsbert Sitwell, Out of the FlameJean Toomer, CaneWilliam Butler Yeats, The Cat and the Moon, including "Leda and the Swan"Ireland and United KingdomConrad Aiken, The Pilgrimage of FestusStephen Vincent Benet:King DavidThe Ballad of William Sycamore, 1790–1880Louise Bogan, Body of This DeathE.E. Cummings, Tulips and ChimneysDjuna Barnes, A Book, collection of prose and poetryRobert Frost, New Hampshire including "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", "Fire and Ice", "Nothing Gold Can Say"Elsa Gidlow, On A Grey Thread, the first volume of openly lesbian love poetry published in North America.D.H. Lawrence, Birds, Beasts and Flowers, including "Snake", published in the United States in October, published in the United Kingdom in November, English poet and author living in the United States (1922–1925)Vachel Lindsay, Going-to-the-SunEdna St. Vincent Millay, The Harp-Weaver and Other PoemsLizette Woodworth Reese, Wild CherryEdward Arlington Robinson, Roman BartholowGeorge Sterling, Selected PoemsWallace Stevens, Harmonium, including "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird", "The Emperor of Ice-Cream", "Le Monocle de Mon Oncle", "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird", "Peter Quince at the Clavier", "Sunday Morning", "Sea Surface Full of Clouds", and "In the Clear Season of Grapes". Stevens' first book, it was published by Knopf when he was in middle age (44 years old). Its first edition sold only a hundred copies before being remaindered, suggesting that Mark Van Doren had it right when he wrote in The Nation in 1923, that Stevens's wit "is tentative, perverse, and superfine; and it will never be popular." Yet by 1960 the cottage industry of Stevens studies was becoming a "multinational conglomerate". (Revised edition, 1931.)Jean Toomer, Cane, a blend of poetry, fiction and dramatic sketchesAmos Wilder, Battle Retrospect, Yale University Press (this year's winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets)William Carlos Williams:Go GoSpring and AllShaw Neilson, Ballad and Lyrical Poems, Sydney, Bookfellow, AustraliaW. B. Yeats, The Cat and the Moon, including "Leda and the Swan", Irish poet published in the United KingdomAntonin Artaud, Tric-trac du ciel, Paris: Galerie SimonJean Cocteau, Plain-ChantFrancis Jammes:La Brebis égaréeLivres des quatrains, published each year from 1922 to 1925Alphonse Métérié, Le Cahier noirTristan Tzara, pen name of Sami Rosenstock, De nos oiseauxIncluding all of the British colonies that later became India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Listed alphabetically by first name, regardless of surname:
Bahar-e-Gulshan-e-Kashmir, anthology of traditional Kashmiri poetry, mostly the vatsans and ghazals of Mahmood GamiPendyalu Venkatasubrahmanya Shastri, critical account of the Mahabharata and its interpretation (second edition published in 1933), Telugu-language criticismPenumarti Venkataratnam, Sandhya ragamu, romantic poems; a well-known work in the field of Telugu poetrySeemab Akbarabadi, Naistaan, UrduBharati, Kuyil Pattu-Kannan Pattu-Parata Arupattaru, consists of three works, including Kuyil Pattu, written in 1912, a long narrative poem of 741 lines, written in the traditional Kalivenpa meter, called "a landmark in the field of modern Tamil poetry" by Sisir Kumar Das; Parati Arupattaru, 66-verse autobiographical workChandra Kanta Agarwala, Binbaragi, 12 important poems about the past glory of Assam, ancient Assamese ballads strongly influenced the poems; Assamese languageG. Sankara Kurup, Sahitya Kantukam, lyrical Malayalam poems modelled on those of Vallathol Narayana Menon, with original themes, context and diction; the author later published three other volumes with the same titleGodavarish Mishra, Kisalaya, Oriya-languageImam Baksh Nasikh, Divan-i Nasikh, two volumes, UrduJhaverchand Meghani, Veninan Phool (Gujarati-language)Kumaran Asan, Karuna, based on the Buddhist legend of Vasavadatta and Upagupta; the author's last poem and an extremely popular one; celebrates compassion (karuna), Malayalam languageMahananda Sapkota, Manalahari, Nepali languageManishankar Bhatt "Kant", Purvalap, a work with a conspicuous romantic mood and classical diction, considered a landmark of Gujarati poetry, according to Sisir Kumar Das; published on the day the poet diedNagardas Amarjee Pandya, Rukmini-Harana, epic Sanskrit mahakavya on a mythological themePuran Singh, Khulle Maidan, blank verse, Punjabi languageSarasvatibhai Bhide, editor, Abhinavakavyamala, Volume 5, Marathi-language anthology of moden women poetsSukumar Ray, Abol Tabol ("literally, "weird and random"), nonsense verse, Sisir Kumar Das has called it "one of the landmarks in the history of Bengali literature for children"Yatindranath Sengupta, Maricika, known for their innovative rhythm and imagery in Bengali poetry, very different from the followers of Rabindranath TagoreJuan Ramón Jiménez:Belleza ("Beauty")Poesía ("Poetry")Pedro Salinas, Presagios ("Presages")Otto Gelsted, Reklameskibet ("The Show Boat"), DenmarkEnrique González Rojo, Sr., El puerto y otros poemas, MexicoSir Muhammad Iqbal, Payam-i-Mashriq (Message from the East), philosophical poetry in PersianVladislav Khodasevich, Heavy Lyre, Russian poet published in GermanyVladimir Mayakovsky, About That, Soviet RussiaPablo Neruda, Crepusculario ("Book of Twilights"), ChileRainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus, AustriaJ. Slauerhoff, Archipel ("Archipelago"), NetherlandsDavid Vogel, Lifney Hasha'ar Ha'afel ("Before the Dark Gate"), Hebrew language, published in Vienna, the only book of poems published in the author's lifetimeAwards and honors
Nobel Prize in Literature (International): William Butler YeatsPulitzer Prize for Poetry (United States): Edna St. Vincent Millay, The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver: A Few Figs from Thistles: Eight Sonnets in American Poetry, 1922. A MiscellanyGeorg Büchner Prize (Germany): Adam Karrillon, German physician, novelist and poetDeath years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 9 – David Holbrook (died 2011), English poet, novelist and academicJanuary 13 – Pinkie Gordon Lane (died 2008), African American poetJanuary 15 – Ivor Cutler (died 2006), Scottish poet, songwriter and humoristJanuary 16 – Anthony Hecht (died 2004), American poetFebruary 2 – James Dickey (died 1997), American poet and novelistFebruary 4 – Cola Franzen, American translatorFebruary 12 – Alan Dugan (died 2003), American poetMarch 18 – Ryūichi Tamura 田村隆 (died 1998), Japanese Shōwa period poet, essayist and translator of English-language novels and poetryMarch 21 – Nizar Qabbani (died 1998), Syrian diplomat, poet and publisherMarch 27 – Louis Simpson, Jamaican-born American poet, winner of the 1964 Pulitzer Prize for PoetryMarch 30 – Milton Acorn (died 1986), Canadian poet, writer and playwright nicknamed "The People's Poet"April 3Daniel Hoffman (died 2013), American poet, essayist and academic serving as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (a position later known as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry) from 1973 to 1974John Ormond (died 1990), Welsh poet and journalistMay 21 – Dorothy Hewett (died 2002), Australian feminist poet, playwright and novelistJuly 2 – Wisława Szymborska (died 2012), Polish poet, essayist and translator, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1996July 16 – Mari Evans, African American poet, author, playwright, academic and television producerSeptember 22 – Dannie Abse (died 2014), Welsh poet and writerOctober 24 – Denise Levertov (died 1997), English-born American poetNovember 9 – James Schuyler (died 1991), American poet and a central figure in the New York SchoolDecember 21 – Richard Hugo (born "Richard Hogan") (died 1982), American poetAlso:John Logan (died 1987), American poetNanao Sakaki (died 2008), Japanese poet and leading personality of "the Tribe", a counter-cultural group (surname: Sakaki)Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 9 – Katherine Mansfield, 34 (born 1888), New Zealand-born poet and prominent Modernist writer of short fictionMay – J. Brynach Davies (Brynach), c.50 (born 1873), Welsh poet and journalistJune 15 – Maurice Hewlett, 62 (born 1861), English historical novelist, poet and essayistSeptember 10 – Sukumar Ray, 35 (born 1887), Bengali humorous poet, short-story writer and playwrightOctober 12 – John Cadvan Davies (Cadfan), 77 (born 1846), Welsh poet and hymn-writerDecember 15 – Frank Morton, 53 (born 1869), English-born Australian poet and journalist 
