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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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