Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
January – Ezra Pound returns to Rapallo, Italy from Sicily to settle permanently after a brief stay the year before.
February 21 – First issue of The New Yorker magazine is published.
November 21 – First issue of McGill Fortnightly Review, a publication of Montreal Group of modernist poets and the first organ to feature modernist poetry, fiction, and literary criticism in Canada.
December 28 – Russian poet Sergei Yesenin (b. 1895) writes his farewell poem, "Goodbye, my friend, goodbye" (До свиданья, друг мой, до свиданья), in his own blood before hanging himself at the Angleterre Hotel in Leningrad.
T. S. Eliot leaves Lloyds Bank in London and joins the new publishing house of Faber and Gwyer.
An unofficial ban by Soviet authorities on poetry by Anna Akhmatova begins; she will be unable to publish until 1940.
Arthur Bourinot, Pattering Feet: A book of childhood verses.
Archibald Lampman, Lyrics of Earth: Sonnets and Ballads, Duncan Campbell Scott ed. Posthumously published - not to be confused with Lampman's 1895 book of the same name.
Marjorie Pickthall:
Little Songs (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart)
The Complete Poems of Marjorie Pickthall (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart).
E. J. Pratt, The Witches' Brew, Toronto: Macmillan.
Charles G. D. Roberts. The Sweet o' the Year and Other Poems. (Toronto: Ryerson).
Theodore Goodridge Roberts. Seven Poems. private.
Seranus, Songs of Love and Labor (Toronto: Author).
Shyam Sunder Lal Chordia, Seeking and Other Poems ( Poetry in English ), Allahabad: The Indian Press
M. U. Malkani and T. H. Advani, The Longing Lute ( Poetry in English ), Karachi: Kohinoor Printing Works
Edmund Blunden, Masks of Time
Gordon Bottomley, Poems of Thirty Years
Robert Bridges:
New Verse Written in 1921 which included his Neo-Miltonic syllabics
The Tapestry: Poems
W. H. Davies, A Poet's Alphabet
Cecil Day-Lewis, Beechen, Vigil, and Other Poems
T. S. Eliot, Poems 1909-1925, including "The Hollow Men"
Robert Graves, Welchman's Hose
Graham Greene, Babbling April
Thomas Hardy, Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs and Trifles, the last work published in the author's lifetime
Hugh MacDiarmid, pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve, Sangshaw
Edwin Muir, First Poems
Edith Sitwell, Troy Park
Sylvia Townsend Warner, The Espalier
J. R. R. Tolkien (translator), Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Humbert Wolfe, The Unknown Goddess
W. B. Yeats, A Vision
Léonie Adams, Those Not Elect
Maxwell Anderson, You Who Have Dreams
Stephen Vincent Benét, Tiger Joy
Countee Cullen:
On These I Stand, Harper & Row
Color
E. E. Cummings:
& (self-published)
XLI Poems
Babette Deutsch, Honey Out of the Rock
Hilda Doolittle ("H.D."), Collected Poems of H.D.
John Gould Fletcher, Parables
Robert Hillyer, The Halt in the Garden
Robinson Jeffers, Roan Stallion
William Ellery Leonard, Two Lives
Archibald MacLeish, The Pot of Earth
Ezra Pound, A Draft of XVI Cantos, Paris
Edwin Arlington Robinson, Dionysius in Doubt
Ridgely Torrence, Hesperides
W. B. Yeats, A Vision, Ireland
Guillaume Apollinaire, pen name of Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky, Le cortege priapique, posthumously published (died 1918)
Louis Aragon, Le Mouvement perpétuel
Antonin Artaud:
L'ombilic des limbes ("The Umbilicus of Limbo"), poetry and essays, Paris: Nouvelle Revue Française
Le Pese-nerfs
André Breton, Clair de terre
Paul Claudel, Feuilles de saints
Max Jacob, Les Penitants en maillots roses
Francis Jammes:
Brindilles pour rallumer la foi, Paris: Éditions Spes
Livres des quatrains, published each year from 1922 to this year
Raymond Radiguet, Les Joues en feu, published posthumously (author died this year)
Pierre Reverdy, Grande Nature
Jules Supervielle, Gravitations
Charles Vildrac, Poèmes de l'Abbaye
Including all of the British colonies that later became India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Listed alphabetically by first name, regardless of surname:
Jayashankar Prasad, Asu, Chayavadi poem on love and beauty
Maithilisharan Gupta, Pancavati, a khanda kavya based on the Ram legend
Mohan Lal Mahato Viyogi, Achuta, verses on social and political problems
Devulapalli Krishna Shastri, Krishna Paksham, a very prominent work of Telugu romantic literature
Nanduri Venkata Subba Rao, Yenki Patalu (another source spells the title as Enki patalu; "The Songs of Yenki"), 35 lyrics in the language of common folk, on romantic love and the beauty of nature; a prominent work of modern Telagu poetry about "Enki" or "Yenki", a devoted, simple, country woman of Andhra dedicated to her lover, Naidu Bava "Yenki and her beloved Nayudu Bava have become living legends in modern Telugu literature", according to C. R. Sarma (the surname of the author is "Nanduri")
Rayaprolu Subba Rao, Jada Kucculu, lyrics
Visvanatha Satyanarayana, Kinnerasani patalu (also rendered Kinnera Sani Patalu; a lyrical epic in seven cantos) and Kokilamma Pelli, two works published in the same volume
Altaf Husain Hali, Intikhab-i Sukhan, 11-volume anthology of Urdu poetry published from this year to 1943; each volume contains poems from several authors
Ardoshir Faramji Kharbardar, Sandeshika (Indian Parsi writing in Gujarati)
Dimbeshwar Neog, Thupitra, Assamese-language
Keshavkumar, also known as P. K. Atre, Jhendici Phule, Marathi satirical and humorous poems
Rabindranath Thakur, Purabi, Bengali, includes love poems
Sita Nath Brahma Chaudhury, Kamal Kali, Assamese
Syed jalal, Mahakmah-yi Nazir Ahmad, Shibli, Azad, Hali Ki inshapardazi par, work of Urdu criticism; a study of four Urdu poets: Nazir Ahmad, Shibli, Azad, and Hali
D. T. Tatacharya, Kapinam Upavasah, satirical Sanskrit poem
Tripuraneni Ramaswamy Choudhury, Suta puranamu, Telugu epic in four cantos
Rafael Alberti, Marinero en tierra ("Sailor on Land"); Spain
Rafael Méndez Dorich, Sensacionario (Buenos Aires), Peruvian poet published in Argentina
José Gorostiza, Canciones para cantar en las barcas ("Songs to Sing on Boats"), Mexico
Salvador Novo, XX Poemas ("20 Poems"), Mexico
Miguel de Unamuno, De Fuerteventura a París ("From Fuerteventura to Paris"), Spain
Sophus Claussen, Heroica, including "Atomernes Opror" ("Revolt of the Atoms"), Denmark
Lionel Léveillé, Chante, rossignol, chante; French language;, Canada
Eugenio Montale, Ossi di seppia ("Cuttlefish Bones"), first edition; second edition, 1928, with six new poems and an introduction by Alfredo Gargiulo; third edition, 1931, Lanciano: Carabba; Italy
Awards and honors
Dial Award: E.E. Cummings
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Edwin Arlington Robinson, The Man Who Died Twice
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 14 – Yukio Mishima 三島 由紀夫, pen name of Kimitake Hiraoka 平岡 公威 (died 1970), Japanese author, poet and playwright (Surname of this pen name: Mishima)
January 20 – Jamiluddin Aali جمیل الدین عالی (died 2015), Indian-born Urdu poet, critic, playwright, essayist, columnist and scholar
February 8 – Francis Webb (died 1973) Australian poet
February 22 – Gerald Stern, American
February 27 – Kenneth Koch (died 2002) American poet, playwright, professor and prominent poet of the "New York School" of poetry
March 10 – Manolis Anagnostakis (died 2005) Greek poet and critic
March 13 – Inge Müller (died 1966) East German
March 14 – John Wain (died 1994) English poet, novelist, and critic associated with the literary group The Movement.
March 25 – Theodore Enslin (died 2011), American
April 18 – Bob Kaufman (died 1986), American Beat poet and surrealist
June 6 – Maxine Kumin, American poet and author; Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1981-1982
August 1 – Ernst Jandl (died 2000), Austrian poet, author and translator
August 12 – Donald Justice (died 2004), American poet and writing teacher
August 16 – Bakhtiyar Vahabzadeh (died 2009), Azerbaijani poet and philologist
September 16 – Samuel Menashe (died 2011), American poet; first to receive "The Neglected Masters Award" given by the U.S. Poetry Foundation in 2004
October 8 – Philip Booth (died 2007), American poet and educator
October 28 – Ian Hamilton Finlay (died 2006), Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener
November 15 – Heinz Piontek (died 2003), German
December 10 – Carolyn Kizer, American poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1985
December 12 – Laurence Lerner (died 2016), South African-born poet and academic
Undated – Rivka Basman Ben-Hayim, Lithuanian-born Yiddish poet and teacher
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 31 – George Washington Cable, 80, American novelist and poet
February 15 – Kinoshita Rigen 木下利玄, pen-name of Kinoshita Toshiharu (born 1886), Japanese Meiji- and Taishō-period tanka poet (surname of this pen name: Rigen)
May 12 – Amy Lowell, 51 (born 1874), American poet of the imagist school; posthumously wins the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926
June 6 – Pierre Louÿs, 54 (born 1870), French poet
June 17 – A. C. Benson, 63, English author and poet who wrote the words to "Land of Hope and Glory"
June 27 – A. D. Godley, 69, Irish-born English classical scholar and writer of light verse
September 11 – Gustav Kastropp, 81 (born 1844) German poet and librettist
November 27 – Munir Chowdhury also "Munier Chowdhury" (died 1971), Bengali educator, playwright, literary critic and political dissident
December 28 – Sergei Yesenin, 30, Russian poet
