Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
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, closesWilliam Henry Drummond, Complete Poems, posthumously published.Wilson MacDonald, Out Of The Wilderness. Ottawa: Graphic Publishers.E. J. Pratt, Titans ("The Cachalot, The Great Feud"), Toronto: Macmillan.Theodore Goodridge Roberts, The Lost Shipmate. Toronto: Ryerson Chapbook.Duncan Campbell Scott, Collected Poems.Frederick George Scott, In Sun and Shade: A Book of Verse] (Québec: Dussault & Proulx).Swami Anand Acharya, Arctic Swallows and Other Poems ( Poetry in English ),The Spirit of Oriental Poetry, London: Kegal Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 232 pages; anthology; published in the United KingdomKrishnala M. Jhaveri, Further Milestones in Gujarati Literature written in English and translated into Gujarati; scholarship and criticismEdmund Blunden, English PoemsW. H. Davies, The Birth of SongLoyd Haberly, Cymberina, American poet self-published in the United KingdomHugh MacDiarmid, pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve:A Drunk Man Looks at the ThistlePenny WheepEdwin Muir, Chorus of the Newly DeadLaura Riding, The Close ChapletVita Sackville-West, The LandSiegfried Sassoon, Satirical PoemsKenneth Slessor, Earth-Visitors, London: Fanfrolico Press, Australian poet published in the United KingdomThe Spirit of Oriental Poetry, London: Kegal Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 232 pages; anthology; Indian poetry in English, published in the United KingdomHumbert Wolfe:HumoresqueNews of the DevilW. B. Yeats, Autobiographies (autobiography), volume 6 of the Collected Edition published by MacmillanWilla Cather, My Mortal EnemyHart Crane, White BuildingsCountee Cullen, On These I Stand, Harper & RowE. E. Cummings, is 5John Gould Fletcher, Branches of AdamLangston Hughes, The Weary BluesVachel Lindsay:Going to the StarsThe Candle in the CabinAmy Lowell, East WindArchibald MacLeish, Streets in the Moon, including "The End of the World"Edgar Lee Masters, Lee: A Dramatic PoemJohn G. Neihardt, Collected PoemsDorothy Parker, Enough RopeEzra Pound, Personae: The Collected PoemsSara Teasdale, Dark of the MoonEdith Wharton, Twelve PoemsLouis Zukofsky completes "Poem beginning 'The'," incorporating fragments of the writings of Dante, Virginia Woolf, and Benito Mussolini, among othersW. F. Alexander and A. E. Currie, editors, A Treasury of New Zealand Verse, revised version (without preface) of New Zealand Verse, published in 1906, anthologyKenneth Slessor, Earth-Visitors, London: Fanfrolico Press, Australian poet published in the United KingdomLouis Aragon, Le Mouvement perpetuel, influenced by surrealimPaul Éluard, pen name of Paul-Eugène Grindel:Dessous d'une vieCapitale de la douleur ("Capital of Pain"); the poems influenced Jean-Luc Godard's 1965 film Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution which has quotations from the bookFrancis Jammes, Ma France poétique, Paris: Mercure de France; FrancePierre Jean Jouve:Mystérieuses NocesNouvelles NocesIncluding all of the British colonies that later became 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-languageMohanlal 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 called it a "veru useful and important ork for students of Gujarati literature" (see also Volume 2 in 1931, Volume 3 1964)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 humorS. Sonusundara Bharati, Tacaratan Kuraiyum Kaikeyi Niraiyum, literary criticism in TamilEnrique Bustamante y Ballivián, AntipoemasAlejandro Peralta, AndeEnrique Peña Barrenechea, El aroma en la sombraRafael Alberti, La amante ("The Beloved"); SpainGermán List Arzubide, El movimiento estridentista, Mexico (history)Federico García Lorca, Oda a Salvador Dalí ("Ode to Salvador Dalí"), SpainXavier Villaurrutia, Reflejos, MexicoTin Ujević, Kolajna ("Necklace"), CroatianAwards and honors
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Amy Lowell, What's O'ClockDeath 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 1960February 4 – Albert Saijo (died 2011), Japanese American poetFebruary 18 – A. R. Ammons (died 2001), American author and poetFebruary 25 – Russell Atkins, African American concrete poet, musician and playwrightMarch 3 – James Merrill (died 1995), American poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1977March 22 – Alastair Reid (died 2014), Scottish poet and scholar of South American literatureMay 21 – Robert Creeley (died 2005), American poet, author and usually associated with the Black Mountain poetsMay 26 – Phyllis Gotlieb (died 2009), Canadian science fiction novelist and poetJune 3 – Allen Ginsberg (died 1997), American Beat poetJune 5 – David Wagoner, American poet and novelistJune 25 – Ingeborg Bachmann (died 1973) Austrian poet and authorJune 27 – Frank O'Hara (died 1966), American poet and key member of the New York School of poetryJune 29 – James K. Baxter (died 1972), New Zealand poetJuly 17 – Nikos Karouzos (died 1990), Greek poetJuly 18 – Elizabeth Jennings (died 2001), English poetAugust 15 – Sukanta Bhattacharya (died 1947), Bengali poet and playwrightSeptember 1 – James Reaney (died 2008), Canadian poet, playwright and literary criticNovember 5 – John Berger (died 2017), English novelist, painter and art critic, and poetNovember 23 – Christopher Logue (died 2011), English poet, playwright, screen writer and actor associated with the British Poetry RevivalNovember 24 – Paul Blackburn (died 1971), American poetDecember 23 – Robert Bly, American poet, author, and leader of the mythopoetic men's movement in the United StatesDecember 26 – Nabakanta Barua, also known as Ekhud Kokaideu (died 2002), Assamese-language Indian novelist and poetBirth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 20 – Charles Montagu Doughty, 82 (born 1843), English poet, writer and travellerApril 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 poetJune 15 – Francis Joseph Sherman, 55 (born 1871), Canadian poetJuly 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 1870August 1 – Israel Zangwill, 62 (born 1864), English writer and poetOctober 9 – Helena Nyblom, 82 (born 1843), Danish-born poet and writer of fairy talesNovember 17 – George Sterling, 56 (born 1869), American poetDecember 29 – Rainer Maria Rilke, 51 (born 1875), German poet, from leukemia 