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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 TimeGordon Bottomley, Poems of Thirty YearsRobert Bridges:New Verse Written in 1921 which included his Neo-Miltonic syllabicsThe Tapestry: PoemsW. H. Davies, A Poet's AlphabetCecil Day-Lewis, Beechen, Vigil, and Other PoemsT. S. Eliot, Poems 1909-1925, including "The Hollow Men"Robert Graves, Welchman's HoseGraham Greene, Babbling AprilThomas Hardy, Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs and Trifles, the last work published in the author's lifetimeHugh MacDiarmid, pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve, SangshawEdwin Muir, First PoemsEdith Sitwell, Troy ParkSylvia Townsend Warner, The EspalierJ. R. R. Tolkien (translator), Sir Gawain and the Green KnightHumbert Wolfe, The Unknown GoddessW. B. Yeats, A VisionLéonie Adams, Those Not ElectMaxwell Anderson, You Who Have DreamsStephen Vincent Benét, Tiger JoyCountee Cullen:On These I Stand, Harper & RowColorE. E. Cummings:& (self-published)XLI PoemsBabette Deutsch, Honey Out of the RockHilda Doolittle ("H.D."), Collected Poems of H.D.John Gould Fletcher, ParablesRobert Hillyer, The Halt in the GardenRobinson Jeffers, Roan StallionWilliam Ellery Leonard, Two LivesArchibald MacLeish, The Pot of EarthEzra Pound, A Draft of XVI Cantos, ParisEdwin Arlington Robinson, Dionysius in DoubtRidgely Torrence, HesperidesW. B. Yeats, A Vision, IrelandGuillaume Apollinaire, pen name of Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky, Le cortege priapique, posthumously published (died 1918)Louis Aragon, Le Mouvement perpétuelAntonin Artaud:L'ombilic des limbes ("The Umbilicus of Limbo"), poetry and essays, Paris: Nouvelle Revue FrançaiseLe Pese-nerfsAndré Breton, Clair de terrePaul Claudel, Feuilles de saintsMax Jacob, Les Penitants en maillots rosesFrancis Jammes:Brindilles pour rallumer la foi, Paris: Éditions SpesLivres des quatrains, published each year from 1922 to this yearRaymond Radiguet, Les Joues en feu, published posthumously (author died this year)Pierre Reverdy, Grande NatureJules Supervielle, GravitationsCharles Vildrac, Poèmes de l'AbbayeIncluding 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 beautyMaithilisharan Gupta, Pancavati, a khanda kavya based on the Ram legendMohan Lal Mahato Viyogi, Achuta, verses on social and political problemsDevulapalli Krishna Shastri, Krishna Paksham, a very prominent work of Telugu romantic literatureNanduri 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, lyricsVisvanatha Satyanarayana, Kinnerasani patalu (also rendered Kinnera Sani Patalu; a lyrical epic in seven cantos) and Kokilamma Pelli, two works published in the same volumeAltaf Husain Hali, Intikhab-i Sukhan, 11-volume anthology of Urdu poetry published from this year to 1943; each volume contains poems from several authorsArdoshir Faramji Kharbardar, Sandeshika (Indian Parsi writing in Gujarati)Dimbeshwar Neog, Thupitra, Assamese-languageKeshavkumar, also known as P. K. Atre, Jhendici Phule, Marathi satirical and humorous poemsRabindranath Thakur, Purabi, Bengali, includes love poemsSita Nath Brahma Chaudhury, Kamal Kali, AssameseSyed 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 HaliD. T. Tatacharya, Kapinam Upavasah, satirical Sanskrit poemTripuraneni Ramaswamy Choudhury, Suta puranamu, Telugu epic in four cantosRafael Alberti, Marinero en tierra ("Sailor on Land"); SpainRafael Méndez Dorich, Sensacionario (Buenos Aires), Peruvian poet published in ArgentinaJosé Gorostiza, Canciones para cantar en las barcas ("Songs to Sing on Boats"), MexicoSalvador Novo, XX Poemas ("20 Poems"), MexicoMiguel de Unamuno, De Fuerteventura a París ("From Fuerteventura to Paris"), SpainSophus Claussen, Heroica, including "Atomernes Opror" ("Revolt of the Atoms"), DenmarkLionel Léveillé, Chante, rossignol, chante; French language;, CanadaEugenio 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; ItalyAwards and honors
Dial Award: E.E. CummingsPulitzer Prize for Poetry: Edwin Arlington Robinson, The Man Who Died TwiceDeath 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 scholarFebruary 8 – Francis Webb (died 1973) Australian poetFebruary 22 – Gerald Stern, AmericanFebruary 27 – Kenneth Koch (died 2002) American poet, playwright, professor and prominent poet of the "New York School" of poetryMarch 10 – Manolis Anagnostakis (died 2005) Greek poet and criticMarch 13 – Inge Müller (died 1966) East GermanMarch 14 – John Wain (died 1994) English poet, novelist, and critic associated with the literary group The Movement.March 25 – Theodore Enslin (died 2011), AmericanApril 18 – Bob Kaufman (died 1986), American Beat poet and surrealistJune 6 – Maxine Kumin, American poet and author; Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1981-1982August 1 – Ernst Jandl (died 2000), Austrian poet, author and translatorAugust 12 – Donald Justice (died 2004), American poet and writing teacherAugust 16 – Bakhtiyar Vahabzadeh (died 2009), Azerbaijani poet and philologistSeptember 16 – Samuel Menashe (died 2011), American poet; first to receive "The Neglected Masters Award" given by the U.S. Poetry Foundation in 2004October 8 – Philip Booth (died 2007), American poet and educatorOctober 28 – Ian Hamilton Finlay (died 2006), Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardenerNovember 15 – Heinz Piontek (died 2003), GermanDecember 10 – Carolyn Kizer, American poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1985December 12 – Laurence Lerner (died 2016), South African-born poet and academicUndated – Rivka Basman Ben-Hayim, Lithuanian-born Yiddish poet and teacherDeath years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 31 – George Washington Cable, 80, American novelist and poetFebruary 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 1926June 6 – Pierre Louÿs, 54 (born 1870), French poetJune 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 verseSeptember 11 – Gustav Kastropp, 81 (born 1844) German poet and librettistNovember 27 – Munir Chowdhury also "Munier Chowdhury" (died 1971), Bengali educator, playwright, literary critic and political dissidentDecember 28 – Sergei Yesenin, 30, Russian poet 