Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
The Little Review, edited by Margaret Caroline Anderson and Jane Heap, ceases publication
The Dial ceases publication
Arthur Bourinot, 'Ottawa Lyrics and verses for children.
Frederick George Scott, New Poems.
Raul De Loyola Furtado (Poetry in English), The Desperrado, London: Chapman and Hall; Indian poet writing in English and published in the United Kingdom
Nagendranath Gupta, editor and translator, Eastern Poetry (Poetry in English), Allahabad: Indian Press, (second edition Bombay: Hind Kitabs, 1951), poetry anthology
Ursula Bethell, From a Garden in the Antipodes, "by Evelyn Hayes" (pseudonym), London: Sidgwick & Jackson, New Zealand poet published in Britain:
Edmund Blunden, Near and Far
Robert Bridges, The Testament of Beauty
W. H. Davies, Ambition, and Other Poems
Cecil Day-Lewis, Transitional Poem
T. S. Eliot:
Animula
"Som de l'escalina" (later to become part III of Ash Wednesday, published in 1930) was published in the Autumn, 1929 issue of Commerce along with a French translation.
Aldous Huxley, Arabia Infelix, and Other Poems
D. H. Lawrence, Pansies
Louis MacNeice, Blind Fireworks
Charlotte Mew, The Rambling Sailor
William Plomer, The Family Tree
I. A. Richards, Practical Criticism: A Study in Literary Judgement
T. H. White, Loved Helen, and Other Poems
W. B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom:
A Packet for Ezra Pound
The Winding Stair
Léonie Adams, High Falcon
Conrad Aiken, Selected Poems
Djuna Barnes, A Night Among the Horses a collection of prose and poetry expanded from her 1923 volume, A Book
Louise Bogan, Dark Summer
Witter Bynner, Indian Earth
James Branch Cabell, Sonnets from Antan
Malcolm Cowley, Blue Juniata
Countee Cullen, The Black Christ
Emily Dickinson, Further Poems, 150 recently discovered poems; Little, Brown, & Company
Hilda Doolittle, writing under the pen name "H.D.", Red Roses for Bronze
Kenneth Fearing, Angel Arms
Robinson Jeffers, Dear Judas and Other Poems
Vachel Lindsay, Every Soul is a Circus
Edgar Lee Masters, The Fate of the Jury
Lola Ridge, Firehead
Edwin Arlington Robinson, Cavender's House
E. B. White, The Lady is Cold
Edmund Wilson, Poets, Farewell
Elinor Wylie, Angels and Earthly Creatures
Ursula Bethell, From a Garden in the Antipodes, "by Evelyn Hayes" (pseudonym), London: Sidgwick & Jackson, New Zealand poet published in Britain:
Robin Hyde, The Desolate Star, New Zealand
Voices from Summerland, the first major anthology of Jamaican poetry
W. B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom:
A Packet for Ezra Pound
The Winding Stair
Louis Aragon, La Grande Gaite
Jacques Audiberti, L'Empire et la Trappe, the author's first book of poems; winner of the Prix Mallarme
Paul Éluard, L'Amour la poésie
Oscar Vladislas de Lubicz-Milosz, also known as O. V. de L. Milosz, Poèmes
Alphonse Métérié, ''Petit Maroc
Henri Michaux:
Ecuador, poetry and prose
Mes Proprietés ("My Properties"), may be considered prose poems
Pierre Reverdy, Sources du vent
Including all of the British colonies that later became India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Listed alphabetically by first name, regardless of surname:
Jagannathdas Ratnakar, Uddhava Satak, written in Brajabhasa in the Bhramaragit tradition of Krishna Bhakti verse; Hindi
Nirala Suryakant Tripathi, Parimal, Hindi poems influenced by Chayavadi sensibility; includes "Juhi Ki Kali", a well-known poem in Hindi; also includes "Vidhava" and "Badal Rag"
Ram Kumar Varma, Cittaur Ki Cita, Hindi-language historical poem on the glory of the Rajputs written in the Chayavadi style
Ram Naresh Tripathi, Svapna, Hindi epic poem on women and patriotism
Ramachandra Shukla, Hindi Sahitya Ka Itihas, one of the earliest and most influential histories of Hindi literature; scholarship
Uday Shankar Bhatta, Takasila, Hindi epic on the ancient glory of the city of Takshasila
Narayana Panikkar, Kerala Bhasa Sahitya Caritram, literary history in seven volumes, published from this year to 1951; won the first Sahitya Akademi Award for Malayalam literature in 1955; scholarship
P. K. Narayana Pillai, Tucattezhuttaccan, a study, in Malayalam of 16th-century poet Ezhuttacchan; criticism
Ullur Paramesvara Iyer:
Pingala, a well known khandakavya
Karnabhusanam, on the episode in the Mahabharata in which Karna gives away his protective kavaca and kundals to Indra, disguised as a brahman
Hafiz Jalandhari, Shahnamah-yi Islam, a history of the Islamic Empire in four volumes of verse, published from this year to 1947
Mohammad Iqbal, Bang-e-Dara ("The Caravan Bell")
Dr. Rafiq Hussain and Amar Nath Jha, Urdu ghazal ki nashv o numa, treatise on the evolution of the Urdu ghazal
Devulappali Krishna Shastri, written in Telugu:
Pravasamu, very influential in Telugu poetry of its time
Urvasi, very influential in Telugu poetry of its time
Dharmeshvari Devi Baruani, Phular Sarai, Assamese
L. Kamal Singh, Lei pareng ("Garland"), Manipuri lyrics, many focusing on love for nature and solitude; academic and anthologist Sisir Kumar Das has called the work a landmark in Manipuri literature with which "modern Manipuri poetry began"
Mu. Raghava Ayyankar, Alvarkal Kalanilai, literary history of the 12 Alvars, saint poets of the Vaishnava sect, with an evaluation of their works as influenced by various factors; a Tamil-language work
Jasimuddin, Naksikathar Math, narrative poem in Bengali about a tragic love story of a Hindu boy and a Muslim girl; a companion volume to Rakhali 1930 and Dhankhet 1932
R. Narasimhachar, Karnataka Kavi Carite, Volume 3 of a three-volume history of Kannada literature, and written in that language (see also Volume 1, 1907); scholarship
Rabinidrath Thakur, Mahuya, primarily live poems in Bengali
U. V. Swaminatha Ayyar, Cankattamilum Pirkalattamilum, essays summarizing 10 lectures delivered at Madras University in 1927 on Sangam literature and post-Sangam literature
Vakil Ahmed Shah Qureshi, Qissa Sulaiman O Bilqis, sufistic narrative poem in Kashmiri
Rafael Alberti:
Cal y canto ("Lime and Song")
Sobre los ángeles ("Over the Angels")
Pedro Salinas, Seguro Azar (1924–1928) ("Certain Chance")
José Moreno Villa, Jacinta la pelirroja ("Jacinta the Redhead")
José María Eguren, Poesías, Peru
Carlos Oquendo de Amat, 5 metros de poemas, Peru
Alfred Desrochers, A l'ombre d'Orford, philosophical verse and poetry influenced by le terroir movement, French language, Canada
Peider Lansel, Il vegl chalamêr, Romansh language, Switzerland
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), Letters to a Young Poet, influential compilation of 10 letters sent to military academy cadet Franz Xaver Kappus (1883-1966) from 1902 to 1908, published by Kappus and Insel Verlag this year; Germany
American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Poetry: Edwin Arlington Robinson
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Stephen Vincent Benét, John Brown's Body
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 9 – Heiner Müller (died 1995), German
January 11 – Peter Dale Scott, Canadian poet and academic
January 12 – Turner Cassity, American
February 16 – Peter Porter (died 2010), Australian-born British poet. Part of what is referred to in Britain as The Group, he was also recipient of the Medal of the Order of Australia.
February 28 – John Montague (died 2016), American-born Irish
March 6 – Günter Kunert, German
April 2 – Edward Dorn (died 1999), American poet associated with the Black Mountain poets
May 16 – Adrienne Rich, American poet
June 2 – Robert Dana (died 2010), American poet, was the poet laureate for the State of Iowa from 2004-2008
June 11 – George Garrett (died 2008), American poet and novelist
July 15 – Rhoda Bulter (died 1994), Scottish poet
July 22 – U. A. Fanthorpe, born Ursula Askham Fanthorpe (died 2009), English
August 5 – Al Alvarez, English poet, writer and critic who also publishes under the name Al Alvarez
August 21 – X. J. Kennedy, American formalist poet, translator, anthologist and writer of children's literature
August 29 – Thom Gunn (died 2004), English-born poet
September 26 – Ned O'Gorman, American poet and educator
October 13 – Richard Howard, American poet, literary critic, essayist, teacher and translator
October 21 – Donald Finkel (died 2008), American poet and academic, husband of poet and novelist Constance Urdang
October 23 – Shamsur Rahman (also spelled "Shamsur Ruhman") (died 2006), Bengali poet, columnist and journalist
October 25 – Peter Rühmkorf (died 2008), German writer and poet
October 26 – Dane Zajc (died 2005), Slovenian poet
October 28 – John Hollander, American poet and literary critic
November 11 – Hans Magnus Enzensberger, German
December 9 – Don Maclennan (died 2009), English-born South African poet, critic and academic
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
March 8 – Geoffrey Anketell Studdert Kennedy, 45 (born 1883), British poet and Anglican priest nicknamed "Woodbine Willy" during World War I for giving Woodbine cigarettes along with spiritual aid to injured and dying soldiers
March 28 – Katharine Lee Bates, 69, American poet best known as the author of the words to the anthem "America the Beautiful"
June 8 – Bliss Carman, 68 (born 1861), Canadian poet
July 15 – Hugo von Hofmannsthal, 55, Austrian novelist, librettist, poet, and dramatist
