Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Samuel Minturn Peck becomes first Poet Laureate of Alabama, a title created for him.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.Richard Aldington, editor, Imagist AnthologyAn Anthology of War Poems, compiled by Frederick BreretonW. 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 StatesSamuel Beckett, Whoroscope, his first separately published work; Irish poet published in FranceJulian Bell, Winter MovementHilaire Belloc, New Canterbury Tales, illustrated by Nicholas BentleyEdmund Blunden, The Poems of Edmund BlundenRoy Campbell, a South African native published in the United Kingdom:AdamastorPoemsBasil Bunting, Redimiculum Matellarum, his first book of poems, published in Milan.Catherine Carswell, The Life of Robert Burns, biographyElizabeth Daryush, VersesT. S. Eliot:Ash WednesdayMarinaTranslator (and writer of the introduction), Anabasis, translation from the original French of Saint-John Perse's Anabase 1924; London: FaberWilliam Empson, Seven Types of Ambiguity, a book of criticismStella Gibbons, The Mountain Beast, and Other PoemsGerard Manley Hopkins, Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins, edited by Charles Williams (see also Poems 1918)D. H. Lawrence (both posthumous):NettlesThe Triumph of the MachineHugh 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 PoemsEdith Sitwell, Collected PoemsStephen Spender, Twenty PoemsKatharine Tynan, Collected PoemsHumbert Wolfe, The Uncelestial CityD. B. Wyndham-Lewis and Charles Lee, compilers, The Stuffed Owl: an anthology of bad verseW. H. Auden, PoemsHart Crane, The BridgeBabette Deutsch, Fire for the NightRichard Eberhart, A Bravery of EarthRobert Frost, Collected PoemsHorace Gregory, Chelsea Rooming HouseStanley J. Kunitz, Intellectual ThingsWilliam Ellery Leonard, This Midland CityArchibald MacLeish, New Found LandEdgar Lee Masters, Leechee NutsEzra Pound, A Draft of XXX Cantos, American poet writing in EuropeLizette Woodworth Reese, White AprilEdward Arlington Robinson, The Glory of the NightingalesAllen Tate, Three PoemsSara Teasdale, Stars To-nightYvor Winters, The ProofSamuel Beckett, Whoroscope, Irish poet published in the United KingdomUna Marson, Tropic Reveries, the first "noted" collection of poems by a West Indian womanQuentin Pope, editor, Kowhai Gold, anthology of New Zealand poetry (published in London & New York)W.W.E. Ross, Laconics, CanadaRené Char, Ralentir travauxPaul Claudel, Le Soulier de satin, FranceMichel Deguy, French academic, essayist, translator and poetRobert Desnos, Corps et biens: poemes 1919–1929Léon-Paul Fargue, Sous la lampeHenri Michaux, Un Certain Plume ("A Person Called Plume"), in which the character Plume, a symbolic, alienated underdog, first appearsPierre Reverdy, Pierres blanchesJules Supervielle, Le Forçat innocentIncluding 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-languageDimbeshwar Neog, Indradhanu, Assamese-languageKazi Nazrul Islam, translator, Rubaiyat-i-Haphij, translated from the Persian quartrians of the poet Shiraji Hafiz into BengaliLaxmi Prasad Devkota, Muna Madan, मुनामदन, NepaliMaraimalai Atikal, Manikkavacakar Varalarum Kalamum, a two-volume study of Manikkavacakar, a saint-poet of the Saivaite sect, in Tamil; criticismMathuranatha Shastri, adaptor, Sahitya-Vaibhava, various Hindi poems translated into Sanskrit and adaptedT. P. Meenakshisundaram, Valluvarum Makalirum, on the concept of womanhood in the works of ancient Tamil poets; scholarshipYatindranath Sengupta, Marumaya, BengaliEnrique Bustamante y Ballivián, Junin, PeruFederico 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); SpainLuis Fabio Xammar, Pensativamente, PeruGonzalve Desaulniers, Les bois qui chantent; French language;, CanadaJens August Schade, Hjertebogen ("The Heart Book"), DenmarkAwards and honors
John Masefield becomes Poet Laureate of the UK.Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Conrad Aiken: Selected PoemsFrost Medal: Jessie Rittenhouse and (posthumously) to Bliss Carman, and George Edward WoodberryDeath years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 1Adunis or "Adonis" (Ali Ahmad Said Esber), Syrian-born poet and essayist who makes his career largely in Lebanon and France, writing in ArabicJean-Pierre Duprey (died 1959), French poet and sculptorJanuary 23 – Derek Walcott, Caribbean native of St. Lucia, poet, playwright, writer and visual artist writing in EnglishFebruary 28 – Bruce Dawe, Australian poetMarch – Alvin Aubert (died 2014), African American poet and scholarMarch 21 – Roger-Arnould Rivière (suicide 1959, French poetMarch 26 – Gregory Corso (died 2001), American poetApril 8 – Miller Williams, American poet, translator and editorMay 3 – Juan Gelman (died 2014), Argentine poetMay 8 – Gary Snyder, American poet, essayist, lecturer and environmental activistMay 11 – Kamau Brathwaite, Caribbean native of Barbados, writer, poet, dramatist and academicMay 12 – Mazisi Kunene (died 2006), South African poetJune 23 – Anthony Thwaite, English poet and writer married to the writer Ann ThwaiteAugust 17 – Ted Hughes (died 1998), English poet and children's writer, Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1984September 25 – Shel Silverstein (died 1999), American writer of children's verseOctober 10 – Harold Pinter (died 2008), English playwright, poet, actor, theatre director, screenwriter, human rights activist, winner of the 2005 Nobel Prize in LiteratureOctober 24 – Elaine Feinstein, English poet, novelist, short-story writer, playwright, biographer and translatorNovember 16 – Chinua Achebe (died 2013), Nigerian writer and poetDecember 2 – Jon Silkin (died 1997), English poetAlso:Tony Connor, English poet and playwrightAdolph Endler, GermanRoy Fisher, English poet and jazz pianistBirth 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 tuberculosisApril 10 – Alfred Williams (born 1877), English "hammerman poet"April 14 – Vladimir Mayakovsky (born 1893), Russian poet, committed suicideApril 21 – Robert Bridges (born 1844), English Poet LaureateApril 29 – Maria Polydouri (born 1902), Greek poet, from tuberculosis 