Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
April 23 - Opening of Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C.
April 26 - 32-year-old American poet Hart Crane throws himself overboard from the steamship Orizaba in the Gulf of Mexico en route from Mexico to New York in a state of alcoholic depression; his body is never recovered.
July - W. B. Yeats leases Riversdale house in the Dublin suburb of Rathfarnham.
In Vietnam, the New Poetry (Thơ mới) period begins, marked by an article and a poem of Phan Khôi, inaugurating modern literature in that country
T. S. Eliot begins his 1932-33 Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard University (published in 1933 as The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism).
Dorothy Livesay, Signpost. Toronto: Macmillan.
E. J. Pratt, ''Many Moods, Toronto: Macmillan.
W.W.E. Ross, Sonnets.
Govind Krishna Chettur:
Gumataraya and other Sonnets for all Moods ( Poetry in English ), Mangalore: Basel Mission Bookshop
The Temple tank and Other Poems ( Poetry in English ), Mangalore: Basel Mission Bookshop
The Triumph of Love: A Sonnet Sequence ( Poetry in English ), Mangalore: Basel Mission Bookshop
Baldoon Dhingra, Beauty's Sanctuary ( Poetry in English ), Lahore: Civil and Military Gazette Press
Theodore W. La Touche, The Lion Kings of Lanka ( Poetry in English ), Secunderabad: self-published
Manjeri Sundaraman Manjeri, Saffron and Gold and Other Poems ( Poetry in English ), Madras: Shakti Karyalayam
Nanikram Vasanmal Thadani, The Garden of the East ( Poetry in English ), Karachi: Bharat Publishing House
Æ, pen name of George William Russell, Song and its Fountains
Edmund Blunden, Halfway House
W. H. Auden, The Orators: An English study
Roy Campbell, Pomegranates
W. H. Davies, Poems, 1930–31
Lord Alfred Douglas and others, ed. by John Gawsworth, Known Signatures: new poems
Lawrence Durrell, Ten Poems
T. S. Eliot, Selected Essays 1917–1932, criticism
Thomas Hardy, Collected Poems
Julian Huxley, The Captive Shrew and other Poems of a Biologist
F. R. Leavis, New Bearings in English Poetry attacks late Victorian and Georgian poetry and praises Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, and other modernists
Hugh MacDiarmid, pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve, Second Hymn to Lenin, and Other Poems
William Plomer, The Fivefold Screen
S. Fowler Wright, The Life Of Sir Walter Scott, biography
W. B. Yeats, Words for Music Perhaps, and Other Poems, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
W. H. Auden, The Orators
Sterling Brown, Southern Road
Mary Elizabeth Frye, "Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep"
Langston Hughes, Scotsboro Limited, verse drama
Robinson Jeffers, Thurso's Landing and Other Poems
Archibald MacLeish, Conquistador
Edward Arlington Robinson, Nicodemus
Allen Tate, Poems: 1928–1931
Sara Teasdale, A Country House
William Carlos Williams, The Cod Head
Kenneth Slessor, Cuckooz Contrey, Sydney: Frank Johnson, Australia
W. B. Yeats, Words for Music Perhaps, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
André Breton, Le Revolver a chevaux blancs
Paul Éluard, La Vie immédiate
Tristan Tzara, pen name of Sami Rosenstock, Où hoivent les loups
Including all of the British colonies that later became India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Listed alphabetically by first name, regardless of surname:
Sumitranandan Pant, Gunjana, including many popular Hindi poems such as "Nauka Vihar", "Ek Tara", "Candni", "Madhuvan"
Rama Nath Jyotisi, Mahabharat Mahakavya, epic Hindi poem based on the Mahabharata, with new interpretations of the episodes
Mahadevi Varma, Rasmi, 35 Hindi poems of the Chayavadi romantic poetry movement in Indian literature
Adibhatta Narayandas, translator, Rubaiyat, from Edward Fitzgerald's English translation into Sanskrit and Telugu, with the text in Persian and Roman lettering
Anil, also known as "Atmaram Raoji Deshpande", Phulavat, the author's first book of poetry; mostly love poems; Marathi
D. R. Bendre, also known as "Ambikatanayadatta", Gari, 55 poems, marked by an unusual level of abstraction, metrical experiments and metaphorical language; Kannada
Mahjoor, Bagh e Nisata Kae Gulo, poem on the charms of the Dal Lake; Kashmiri
Mathura Prasad Dikshit, editor, Govinda Gitavali, collection of Govindadasa's 17th-century devotional songs and others in the Maithili-language oral tradition
Maulvi Abdul Haq, editor, Jangnamah-yi Alam Ali Khan, an 18th-century Urdu narrative poem (masnavi) published for the first time; includes introductory material
Premendra Mitra, Prathama, the author's first book of poetry; Bengali
Rabindranath Thakur, Punasca, in this and in some of the author's other books in the mid-1930s, he introduced a new rhythm in poetry that "had a tremendous impact on the modern poets", according to Indian anthologist and academic Sisir Kumar Das; Bengali
Rallapalli Anantha Krishna Sharma, translator, Salivahana gatha saptasati saramu, translated from the Prakrit of Hāla's Gaha Sattasai into Telugu, in "ataveladi" meter; according to academic and anthologist Sisir Kumar Das, writing in 1995, the work "is still considered a model for poetical translation"
K. Shankara Bhat, Nalme, three long narrative poems in Kannada on tragic subjects: Honniya maduve ("Marriage of Honni"), depicting village life in coastal Karnataka; Madriya Cite ("Pyre of Madri"), on the tragic end of Madri, wife of Pandu
Shyamananda Jha, editor, Maithili Sandes, anthology of patriotic Maithili poetry
T. N. Shreekantayya, Olume, Kannada work including translations from Greek and Pakrit
Vicente Aleixandre, Espadas como Labios ("Swords or/as Lips")
Miguel Hernández, Perito en lunas ("Expert in Moon Matters")
María Pemán, Elegía de la tradición de Españia ("Elegy of Spain's Tradition")
Luis Fabio Xammar, Las voces armoniosas, Peru
Boris Pasternak, The Second Birth, Russia
Sir Muhammad Iqbal, The Javed Nama (Book of Eternity) in Persian, inspired by Dante's Divine Comedy
Eugenio Montale, La casa dei doganieri e altre poesie, a chapbook of five poems published in association with the award of the Premio del Antico Fattore to Montale; Florence: Vallecchi; Italy
Giorgos Seferis, Στέρνα (The Cistern), Greece
Awards and honors
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: George Dillon: The Flowering Stone
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 2 – Peter Redgrove (died 2003) British poet
January 19 – George Mann MacBeth (died 1992) Scottish poet and novelist
February 6 – Shankha Ghosh, Bengali poet and critic
February 12 – Hugh Fox, (died 2011), U.S. novelist and poet who was a founder of the Pushcart Prize.
March 18 – John Updike (died 2009), American novelist, short story writer, essayist, poet and writer
May 6 – Alauddin Al-Azad, (died 2009), Bengali novelist, writer, poet, literary critic and academic
May 7 – Jenny Joseph, English poet
May 25 – Patrick Cullinan, South African poet
May 27 – Linda Pastan, American poet
June 18 – Geoffrey Hill (died 2016), English poet and academic at Boston University
June 29 – Philip Hobsbaum (died 2005), English teacher, poet and critic
July 10 – Martin Green (died 2015), English author, poet and publisher
August 16 – Christopher Okigbo, Nigerian poet, who died in 1967 fighting for the independence of Biafra
September 18 – Henri Meschonnic (died 2009), French poet, linguist, translator and theoretician
October 17 – Rosemary Tonks, British poet
October 20 – Michael McClure, American poet and playwright
October 24 – Adrian Mitchell, English poet and playwright
October 27 – Sylvia Plath (suicide 1963), American poet and novelist (The Bell Jar)
December 11 – Keith Waldrop, American poet, prose stylist, visual artist. With wife Rosmarie Waldrop, founding editor of the influential and innovative Burning Deck Press.
Also:
Jergen Becker, German
Douglas Livingstone, (died 1996) South African poet born in Malaysia
Eugene Perkins, African American poet
Linda M. Stitt, Canadian poet
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
March 16 – Harold Monro, 53 (born 1879), English poet and proprietor of the Poetry Bookshop in London which helped many famous poets bring their work before the public
April 8 – Hubert Church, 74 (born 1857), Australian poet
April 27 – Hart Crane, 32 (born 1899), American poet, by suicide
August 29 – Raymond Knister, 33 (born 1899), Canadian novelist, short story writer and poet, drowned in a swimming accident
October 5 – Christopher Brennan, 61 (born 1870), Australian poet
October 14 – أحمد شوقي Ahmed Shawqi, 64 (born 1868), Egyptian poet
November 19 – Clinton Scollard, 72 (born 1860), American poet
December 18 – Edmund Vance Cooke, 66 (born 1866), Canadian American poet
حافظ إبراهيم Hafez Ibrahim (born 1871), Egyptian "poet of the Nile"
