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, closes
William 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 Kingdom
Krishnala M. Jhaveri, Further Milestones in Gujarati Literature written in English and translated into Gujarati; scholarship and criticism
Edmund Blunden, English Poems
W. H. Davies, The Birth of Song
Loyd Haberly, Cymberina, American poet self-published in the United Kingdom
Hugh MacDiarmid, pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve:
A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle
Penny Wheep
Edwin Muir, Chorus of the Newly Dead
Laura Riding, The Close Chaplet
Vita Sackville-West, The Land
Siegfried Sassoon, Satirical Poems
Kenneth Slessor, Earth-Visitors, London: Fanfrolico Press, Australian poet published in the United Kingdom
The Spirit of Oriental Poetry, London: Kegal Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 232 pages; anthology; Indian poetry in English, published in the United Kingdom
Humbert Wolfe:
Humoresque
News of the Devil
W. B. Yeats, Autobiographies (autobiography), volume 6 of the Collected Edition published by Macmillan
Willa Cather, My Mortal Enemy
Hart Crane, White Buildings
Countee Cullen, On These I Stand, Harper & Row
E. E. Cummings, is 5
John Gould Fletcher, Branches of Adam
Langston Hughes, The Weary Blues
Vachel Lindsay:
Going to the Stars
The Candle in the Cabin
Amy Lowell, East Wind
Archibald MacLeish, Streets in the Moon, including "The End of the World"
Edgar Lee Masters, Lee: A Dramatic Poem
John G. Neihardt, Collected Poems
Dorothy Parker, Enough Rope
Ezra Pound, Personae: The Collected Poems
Sara Teasdale, Dark of the Moon
Edith Wharton, Twelve Poems
Louis Zukofsky completes "Poem beginning 'The'," incorporating fragments of the writings of Dante, Virginia Woolf, and Benito Mussolini, among others
W. F. Alexander and A. E. Currie, editors, A Treasury of New Zealand Verse, revised version (without preface) of New Zealand Verse, published in 1906, anthology
Kenneth Slessor, Earth-Visitors, London: Fanfrolico Press, Australian poet published in the United Kingdom
Louis Aragon, Le Mouvement perpetuel, influenced by surrealim
Paul Éluard, pen name of Paul-Eugène Grindel:
Dessous d'une vie
Capitale 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 book
Francis Jammes, Ma France poétique, Paris: Mercure de France; France
Pierre Jean Jouve:
Mystérieuses Noces
Nouvelles Noces
Including 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-language
Mohanlal 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 humor
S. Sonusundara Bharati, Tacaratan Kuraiyum Kaikeyi Niraiyum, literary criticism in Tamil
Enrique Bustamante y Ballivián, Antipoemas
Alejandro Peralta, Ande
Enrique Peña Barrenechea, El aroma en la sombra
Rafael Alberti, La amante ("The Beloved"); Spain
Germán List Arzubide, El movimiento estridentista, Mexico (history)
Federico García Lorca, Oda a Salvador Dalí ("Ode to Salvador Dalí"), Spain
Xavier Villaurrutia, Reflejos, Mexico
Tin Ujević, Kolajna ("Necklace"), Croatian
Awards and honors
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Amy Lowell, What's O'Clock
Death 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 1960
February 4 – Albert Saijo (died 2011), Japanese American poet
February 18 – A. R. Ammons (died 2001), American author and poet
February 25 – Russell Atkins, African American concrete poet, musician and playwright
March 3 – James Merrill (died 1995), American poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1977
March 22 – Alastair Reid (died 2014), Scottish poet and scholar of South American literature
May 21 – Robert Creeley (died 2005), American poet, author and usually associated with the Black Mountain poets
May 26 – Phyllis Gotlieb (died 2009), Canadian science fiction novelist and poet
June 3 – Allen Ginsberg (died 1997), American Beat poet
June 5 – David Wagoner, American poet and novelist
June 25 – Ingeborg Bachmann (died 1973) Austrian poet and author
June 27 – Frank O'Hara (died 1966), American poet and key member of the New York School of poetry
June 29 – James K. Baxter (died 1972), New Zealand poet
July 17 – Nikos Karouzos (died 1990), Greek poet
July 18 – Elizabeth Jennings (died 2001), English poet
August 15 – Sukanta Bhattacharya (died 1947), Bengali poet and playwright
September 1 – James Reaney (died 2008), Canadian poet, playwright and literary critic
November 5 – John Berger (died 2017), English novelist, painter and art critic, and poet
November 23 – Christopher Logue (died 2011), English poet, playwright, screen writer and actor associated with the British Poetry Revival
November 24 – Paul Blackburn (died 1971), American poet
December 23 – Robert Bly, American poet, author, and leader of the mythopoetic men's movement in the United States
December 26 – Nabakanta Barua, also known as Ekhud Kokaideu (died 2002), Assamese-language Indian novelist and poet
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 20 – Charles Montagu Doughty, 82 (born 1843), English poet, writer and traveller
April 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 poet
June 15 – Francis Joseph Sherman, 55 (born 1871), Canadian poet
July 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 1870
August 1 – Israel Zangwill, 62 (born 1864), English writer and poet
October 9 – Helena Nyblom, 82 (born 1843), Danish-born poet and writer of fairy tales
November 17 – George Sterling, 56 (born 1869), American poet
December 29 – Rainer Maria Rilke, 51 (born 1875), German poet, from leukemia
