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1930 in poetry

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Contents

Events

  • Samuel Minturn Peck becomes first Poet Laureate of Alabama, a title created for him.
  • Canada

  • Alfred Bailey, Tao: A Ryerson Poetry Chap Book, (Ryerson).
  • Wilson MacDonald, Caw-Caw Ballads Montclair, NJ: Pine Tree Publishing.
  • E. J. Pratt:
  • The Roosevelt and the Antinoe, Toronto: Macmillan.
  • Verses of the Sea, Toronto: Macmillan. intr. by Charles G.D. Roberts.
  • W.W.E. Ross, Laconics.
  • United Kingdom

  • Richard Aldington, editor, Imagist Anthology
  • An Anthology of War Poems, compiled by Frederick Brereton
  • W. H. Auden, Poems, his first published book (accepted by T. S. Eliot on behalf of Faber & Faber, which remained Auden's publisher for the rest of his life); English poet living and publishing in the United States
  • Samuel Beckett, Whoroscope, his first separately published work; Irish poet published in France
  • Julian Bell, Winter Movement
  • Hilaire Belloc, New Canterbury Tales, illustrated by Nicholas Bentley
  • Edmund Blunden, The Poems of Edmund Blunden
  • Roy Campbell, a South African native published in the United Kingdom:
  • Adamastor
  • Poems
  • Basil Bunting, Redimiculum Matellarum, his first book of poems, published in Milan.
  • Catherine Carswell, The Life of Robert Burns, biography
  • Elizabeth Daryush, Verses
  • T. S. Eliot:
  • Ash Wednesday
  • Marina
  • Translator (and writer of the introduction), Anabasis, translation from the original French of Saint-John Perse's Anabase 1924; London: Faber
  • William Empson, Seven Types of Ambiguity, a book of criticism
  • Stella Gibbons, The Mountain Beast, and Other Poems
  • Gerard Manley Hopkins, Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins, edited by Charles Williams (see also Poems 1918)
  • D. H. Lawrence (both posthumous):
  • Nettles
  • The Triumph of the Machine
  • Hugh MacDiarmid, pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve, To Circumjack Cencrastus; or, The Curly Snake, written and published in English and Scots
  • 'Æ', pen name of George William Russell, Enchantment, and Other Poems
  • Edith Sitwell, Collected Poems
  • Stephen Spender, Twenty Poems
  • Katharine Tynan, Collected Poems
  • Humbert Wolfe, The Uncelestial City
  • D. B. Wyndham-Lewis and Charles Lee, compilers, The Stuffed Owl: an anthology of bad verse
  • United States

  • W. H. Auden, Poems
  • Hart Crane, The Bridge
  • Babette Deutsch, Fire for the Night
  • Richard Eberhart, A Bravery of Earth
  • Robert Frost, Collected Poems
  • Horace Gregory, Chelsea Rooming House
  • Stanley J. Kunitz, Intellectual Things
  • William Ellery Leonard, This Midland City
  • Archibald MacLeish, New Found Land
  • Edgar Lee Masters, Leechee Nuts
  • Ezra Pound, A Draft of XXX Cantos, American poet writing in Europe
  • Lizette Woodworth Reese, White April
  • Edward Arlington Robinson, The Glory of the Nightingales
  • Allen Tate, Three Poems
  • Sara Teasdale, Stars To-night
  • Yvor Winters, The Proof
  • Other in English

  • Samuel Beckett, Whoroscope, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
  • Una Marson, Tropic Reveries, the first "noted" collection of poems by a West Indian woman
  • Quentin Pope, editor, Kowhai Gold, anthology of New Zealand poetry (published in London & New York)
  • W.W.E. Ross, Laconics, Canada
  • France

  • René Char, Ralentir travaux
  • Paul Claudel, Le Soulier de satin, France
  • Michel Deguy, French academic, essayist, translator and poet
  • Robert Desnos, Corps et biens: poemes 1919–1929
  • Léon-Paul Fargue, Sous la lampe
  • Henri Michaux, Un Certain Plume ("A Person Called Plume"), in which the character Plume, a symbolic, alienated underdog, first appears
  • Pierre Reverdy, Pierres blanches
  • Jules Supervielle, Le Forçat innocent
  • Indian subcontinent

    Including all of the British colonies that later became India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Listed alphabetically by first name, regardless of surname:

  • Ananta Pattanayak, Raktasikha, Oriya-language
  • Dimbeshwar Neog, Indradhanu, Assamese-language
  • Kazi Nazrul Islam, translator, Rubaiyat-i-Haphij, translated from the Persian quartrians of the poet Shiraji Hafiz into Bengali
  • Laxmi Prasad Devkota, Muna Madan, मुनामदन, Nepali
  • Maraimalai Atikal, Manikkavacakar Varalarum Kalamum, a two-volume study of Manikkavacakar, a saint-poet of the Saivaite sect, in Tamil; criticism
  • Mathuranatha Shastri, adaptor, Sahitya-Vaibhava, various Hindi poems translated into Sanskrit and adapted
  • T. P. Meenakshisundaram, Valluvarum Makalirum, on the concept of womanhood in the works of ancient Tamil poets; scholarship
  • Yatindranath Sengupta, Marumaya, Bengali
  • Spanish language

  • Enrique Bustamante y Ballivián, Junin, Peru
  • Federico García Lorca, Poeta en Nueva York written this year, published posthumously in 1940, first translation into English as "A Poet in New York", 1988)
  • León Felipe, Veersos y oraciones del caminante ("Verses and Prayers of the Walker"), second volume (first volume, 1920); Spain
  • Luis Fabio Xammar, Pensativamente, Peru
  • Other

  • Gonzalve Desaulniers, Les bois qui chantent; French language;, Canada
  • Jens August Schade, Hjertebogen ("The Heart Book"), Denmark
  • Awards and honors

  • John Masefield becomes Poet Laureate of the UK.
  • Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Conrad Aiken: Selected Poems
  • Frost Medal: Jessie Rittenhouse and (posthumously) to Bliss Carman, and George Edward Woodberry
  • Births

    Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

  • January 1
  • Adunis or "Adonis" (Ali Ahmad Said Esber), Syrian-born poet and essayist who makes his career largely in Lebanon and France, writing in Arabic
  • Jean-Pierre Duprey (died 1959), French poet and sculptor
  • January 23 – Derek Walcott, Caribbean native of St. Lucia, poet, playwright, writer and visual artist writing in English
  • February 28 – Bruce Dawe, Australian poet
  • March – Alvin Aubert (died 2014), African American poet and scholar
  • March 21 – Roger-Arnould Rivière (suicide 1959, French poet
  • March 26 – Gregory Corso (died 2001), American poet
  • April 8 – Miller Williams, American poet, translator and editor
  • May 3 – Juan Gelman (died 2014), Argentine poet
  • May 8 – Gary Snyder, American poet, essayist, lecturer and environmental activist
  • May 11 – Kamau Brathwaite, Caribbean native of Barbados, writer, poet, dramatist and academic
  • May 12 – Mazisi Kunene (died 2006), South African poet
  • June 23 – Anthony Thwaite, English poet and writer married to the writer Ann Thwaite
  • August 17 – Ted Hughes (died 1998), English poet and children's writer, Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1984
  • September 25 – Shel Silverstein (died 1999), American writer of children's verse
  • October 10 – Harold Pinter (died 2008), English playwright, poet, actor, theatre director, screenwriter, human rights activist, winner of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature
  • October 24 – Elaine Feinstein, English poet, novelist, short-story writer, playwright, biographer and translator
  • November 16 – Chinua Achebe (died 2013), Nigerian writer and poet
  • December 2 – Jon Silkin (died 1997), English poet
  • Also:
  • Tony Connor, English poet and playwright
  • Adolph Endler, German
  • Roy Fisher, English poet and jazz pianist
  • Deaths

    Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

  • March 2 – D. H. Lawrence (born 1885), English author, poet, playwright, essayist and literary critic, from tuberculosis
  • April 10 – Alfred Williams (born 1877), English "hammerman poet"
  • April 14 – Vladimir Mayakovsky (born 1893), Russian poet, committed suicide
  • April 21 – Robert Bridges (born 1844), English Poet Laureate
  • April 29 – Maria Polydouri (born 1902), Greek poet, from tuberculosis
  • References

    1930 in poetry Wikipedia