Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
October 10 — Ezra Pound leaves Paris permanently and moves to Rapallo, Italy. He stays there briefly, moving on to Sicily (he will return to settle in Rapallo in January 1925).
McGill Daily Literary Supplement started at McGill University in Montreal, Canada (ceased publication in 1925 in poetry; followed by the McGill Fortnightly Review, 1925–1927) by A. J. M. Smith, F. R. Scott, Leon Edel, and later joined by A. M. Klein and Leo Kennedy. The periodical, which published poems and articles on contemporary trends, was the first in Canada to offer consistent commentary on modernist principles in poetry and literature.
Daniel Corkery publishes the study of 18th century Irish poetry, The Hidden Ireland.
Arthur Henry Adams, Fifty Nursery Rhymes with Music, Australian
Edwin James Brady, The Land of the Sun
C. J. Dennis, Rose of Spadgers
Kenneth Slessor, Thief of the Moon, Sydney: Hand press of J. T. Kirtley, Australia
Sri Aurobindo, Love and Death ( Poetry in English ), Madras: Shama's Publishing House
Roy Campbell, The Flaming Terrapin
T. S. Eliot, Homage to John Dryden (criticism)
From Overseas, verse from the British colonies; the first published anthology to include Caribbean poetry, with works by nine Jamaican poets included
Aldous Huxley, Little Mexican, and Other Stories
John Masefield, Sard Harker
Susan Miles, The Hares
A. A. Milne, When We Were Very Young, for children
Edith Sitwell, The Sleeping Beauty
A. H. Stockwell, editor, Eastern Dreams: a Selection of Verse, London; anthology; Indian poetry in English, published in the United Kingdom
Humbert Wolfe, Kensington Gardens
W. B. Yeats, The Cat and the Moon, and Certain Poems, drama and verse, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
Hilda Conkling, Silverhorn
Hilda Doolittle (H.D.), Heliodora and Other Poems
William Faulkner, The Marble Faun
Robinson Jeffers, Tamar and Other Poems
William Ellery Leonard, Tutankhamen and After
Archibald MacLeish, The Happy Marriage and Other Poems
Edgar Lee Masters, The New Spoon River
Marianne Moore, Observations
James Oppenheim, The Sea
John Crowe Ransom, Chills and Fever
Mark Van Doren, Spring Thunder
A. H. Stockwell, editor, Eastern Dreams: a Selection of Verse, London; anthology; Indian poetry in English, published in the United Kingdom
W. B. Yeats, The Cat and the Moon, and Certain Poems, drama and verse, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
Anthologie des écrivains morts à la guerre
Robert Desnos, Deuil pour deuil
Francis Jammes, Livres des quatrains, published each year from 1922 to 1925
Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo, La coupe de cendres ("The Cup of Ashes"), Malagasy poet writing in French
Pierre Reverdy, Les Épaves du ciel
Saint-John Perse, pen name of Marie-René Alexis Saint-Léger:
Amitié du prince, Paris: Ronald Davis
Anabase, Paris: Gallimard (revised edition 1948)
Delmira Agustini, Obras completas ("Complete Works"): Volume 1, El rosario de Eros; Volume 2: Los astros del abismo, posthumously published (died 1914), Montevideo, Uruguay: Máximo García
Villem Grünthal-Ridala, Toomas ja Mai, Estonia
Sir Muhammad Iqbal, Bang-i-Dara (The Call Of The Marching Bell), the first philosophical poetry book the author writes and publishes in Urdu rather than Persian (translated into English by M.A.K. Khalil in 1996)
Vladimir Mayakovsky, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Soviet Russia
Gabriela Mistral, Ternura: canciones de niños, Madrid: Saturnino Calleja
Pablo Neruda, Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada (Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair), Chile
Awards and honors
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Robert Frost, New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
February 8 – Lisel Mueller, American poet
March 2 – Edgar Bowers (died 2000) American poet
March 5 – David Ferry, American poet and translator
March 22 – Michael Hamburger (died 2007), British translator, poet, critic, memoirist and academic
April 2 – Lauris Edmond (died 2000), New Zealand poet
April 21 – P. Bhaskaran (died 2007), Indian, Malayalam-language poet and film songwriter
May 3 – Yehuda Amichai יהודה עמיחי (died 2000), Israeli poet and one of the first to write in colloquial Hebrew
May 12 – Claribel Alegría, Nicaraguan novelist, poet and writer in Nicaragua and El Salvador
June 7 – Edward Field, American poet and author
June 29
Cid Corman (died 2004), American poet, translator and editor
John Haines (died 2011), American poet
July 19 – Vassar Miller (died 1998), American poet
August 22 – Ada Jafri (died 2015), Urdu poet
August 28 – Janet Frame (died 2004) New Zealand poet, writer and novelist
October 9 – Jane Cooper (died 2007), American poet
October 20 – Robert Peters (died 2014), American poet, critic, scholar, playwright and editor
October 29 – Zbigniew Herbert (died 1998), Polish poet, essayist, moralist and member of the Polish resistance during World War II; perhaps the most famous and most translated of Polish writers
November 25 – Takaaki Yoshimoto 吉本隆明, also known as "Ryūmei Yoshimoto" (died 2012), Japanese poet, literary critic and philosopher; father of the writer Banana Yoshimoto and cartoonist Haruno Yoiko (surname: Yoshimoto)
November 28 – Dennis Brutus, (died 2009), South African poet and anti-Apartheid activist, imprisoned in the cell next to Nelson Mandela's on Robben Island from 1963 to 1965; earns the Lifetime Honorary Award by the South African Department of Arts and Culture for his lifelong dedication to African and world poetry and literary arts
December 20 – Friederike Mayröcker, Austrian poet
December 24 – Nissim Ezekiel (died 2004), Indian poet, playwright and art critic writing in English .
Also:
Elizabeth Bartlett, English poet
Matthew Mead (died 2009), English poet and editor
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 16 – Kumaran Asan, 50 (born 1873), Indian, Malayalam-language poet
May 4 – Edith Nesbit, 65 (born 1858), English author and poet whose children's works were published under the name "E. Nesbit"
July 19 – Kingsley Fairbridge, 39 (born 1885), South African editor of a poetry anthology and humanitarian
December 8 – Bochō Yamamura 山村 暮鳥, 40 (born 1884), Japanese vagabond Christian preacher who gained attention as a writer of tales and songs for children and as a poet (surname: Bochō)
December 15 – William Herbert Carruth, 65 (born 1859), American poet
December 23 – Thomas William Hodgson Crosland, 59? (born 1865?), English poet
