Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
April 6 – Rudyard Kipling and W. B. Yeats are awarded the Gothenburg Prize for Poetry.
September – T. S. Eliot (with his first love, Emily Hale) visits the English Cotswolds manor house and garden which gives rise to his poem Burnt Norton.
September 21 – The Barretts of Wimpole Street, a film directed by Sidney Franklin with Norma Shearer as Elizabeth Barrett and Fredric March as Robert Browning, is released in the United States; remade in 1957, less successfully
Bengali poet Buddhadeb Bosu marries singer and writer Protiva Bose (née Ranu Shome).
The University Review is founded at the University of Kansas City. The publication is later called New Letters.
West Indian Review founded.
Kenneth Leslie, Windward Rock: Poems. New York: Macmillan.
Tom MacInnes, High Low Along.
Frederick George Scott, Collected Poems. Vancouver: Clarke & Stuart Co. Ltd.
Charles G.D. Roberts, The Iceberg and Other Poems. (Toronto: Ryerson).
Theodore Goodridge Roberts, The Leather Bottle
Seranus, Penelope and Other Poems (Toronto: Author).
Sri Aurobindo, Six Poems ( Poetry in English ), Chandernagore: Rameshwar and Co.
Harindranath Chattopadhyaya, Cross Road ( Poetry in English ), Madras: Shama's Publishing House
P. R. Kaikini, Flower Offerings ( Prose poems in English ) ; Bombay: Bombay Book Depot
E. E. Speight, editor, Indian Masters of English ( Poetry in English ), London: Longmans, Green; anthology; published in the United Kingdom
Edmund Blunden, Choice or Chance
Maud Bodkin, Archetypal Patterns of Poetry: Psychological Studies of Imagination, criticism
Lilian Bowes Lyon, The White Hare
Roy Campbell, Broken Record, the first version of his autobiography; South African native published in the United Kingdom
Helen Cruickshank, Up the Noran Water, Scottish poet
Lawrence Durrell, Transition
T. S. Eliot, The Rock
William Golding, Poems
Pauline Gower, Piffling Poems for Pilots
I. M. and H. Hubbard, The War Resisters, and Other Poems
T. L. W. Hubbard, Poems, 1925–1934
John Lehmann, The Noise of History
Hugh MacDiarmid, pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve, Stony Limits and Other Poems, Scottish poet
Ruth Pitter, A Mad Lady's Garland, preface by Hilaire Belloc
Nan Shepherd, In the Cairngorms
William Soutar, The Solitary Way
E. E. Speight, editor, Indian Masters of English, London: Longmans, Green; anthology; Indian poetry in English, published in the United Kingdom
Stephen Spender, Vienna
Dylan Thomas, 18 Poems, including "The Force that Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower"
W. B. Yeats, The King of the Great Clock Tower, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
James Agee, Permit Me Voyage
W. H. Auden, Poems
Paul Engle, American Song
John A. Lomax, compiler, with Alan Lomax, American Ballads and Folk Songs
Edna St. Vincent Millay, Wine From These Grapes
George Oppen, Discrete Series
Ezra Pound:
Eleven new Cantos: XXXI–XLI
Homage to Sextus Propertius, London
"Make It New"
Edward Arlington Robinson, Amaranth
Jesse Stuart, Man with a Bull-Tongue Plow
William Carlos Williams, Collected Poems 1921–1931
Yvor Winters, Before Disaster
R. A. K. Mason, No New Thing, New Zealand
Shaw Neilson, Collected Poems of John Shaw Neilson, edited and with introduction by R. H. Croll, Melbourne, Lothian, Australia
W. B. Yeats, The King of the Great Clock Tower, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
Louis Aragon, Hourra l'oural
André Breton, L'Air de l'eau
René Char, Le Marteau sans maître
Paul Éluard, pen name of Paul-Eugène Grindel, La Rose publique
Alphonse Métérié:
Petit maroc II
Cophetuesques
Benjamin Péret, De derrière les fagots
Jules Supervielle, Les Amis inconnus
Including all of the British colonies that later became India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Listed alphabetically by first name, regardless of surname:
Gopal Sharan, Umanga, on themes of patriotism and love of nature
Mahadevi Varma, Nirja
Rameshvar Shukla, Kiran Bela
Fazil Kashmiri, Saz-e-Chaman
Mahjoor, "Nera Ha Sanyas Lagith", a poem published in a special number of Martand
Man Ji Suri, Krishna Avtar, a masnavi on Krishna, but also including devotional lyrics in the vatsan form
Durbhaka Rajesekhara Satavadhani, Rana Pratapa Simha Caritra, called one of the "five modern epics", or Panca Kavya's in Telugu poetry; written in 5 cantos, with about 2,000 verses, in classical style, based on the Annals and Andiquities of Rajasthan by James Dodd
Meka Ramachandra Appa Rao, translator, Amaruka, translation from English of Omar Khayyam's Rubbayit
Tripurancni Ramaswami, Sutapuranam, poem criticizing Aryan mythologies; written in a classical style
Pingali Lakshmikantam and Katuri Venkateshvara Rao, Saundaranandamu, epic in nine cantos, based on a Sanskrit poem by Asvagosha
D. R. Bendre, also known as Ambikatanaya Datta, Murtu Mattu Kamakasturi, long, philosophical poem in 11 parts and 15 love songs; influenced by A.E.'s The Candle of Vision; Kannada
Govinda Krishna Chettur, The Shadow of God, 37 sonnets in Kashmiri and a short prefatory poem in English; modeled on Alfred Lord Tennyson's In Memoriam
Khavirakpan, Smaran mangal Kavya, humorous poems in Manipuri
Kirpa Sagar, Dido Jamval, epic on the actions of Maharaja Ranjit Singh in the Jammu area; Punjabi
Masti Venkatesa Iyengar, Malara, a book that introduced the sonnet form into Kannada poetry; the 82 sonnets approach different subjects, including day-to-day life and the change of seasons, from a very religious point of view and in an uncomplicated, conversational style
N. Balamani Amma, Amma, on a mother's love and a child's innocence; Malayalam
Narayan Murlidhar Gupte, writing under the pen name "Bee", Phulanci Onjal ("Handful of Flowers"), showing the influence of Kesavsut; Marathi
Pramathanath Bisi, Pracin Asami Haite, sonnets wrritten from 1924 to 1927 from the most prolific published sonnet-writer in Bengali; a companion volume, Bracin Parasik Haite, was published in the late 1960s
Umashankur Joshi, Gangotri, Gujarati-language
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Savarakaranci Sphuta Kavita, including "Sagaras" ("To the Sea"), and patriotic poems such as "Maze Mrtypatra" ("My Will") and "Maranonmukh Sayyevar" ("Upon the death-bed"); by a Marathi revolutionary
José Santos Chocano, Primicias de Oro de Indias, Peru
Constantin S. Nicolăescu-Plopșor – Ghileà romanè (anthology)
Martinus Nijhoff, Awater, Netherlands
Alejandro Peralta, El Kollao, Peru
Heiti Talvik, Palavik ("Fever"), Estonia
Ernst Volkman, ed., Deutsche Dichtung im Weltkrieg, Germany
Awards and honors
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Robert Hillyer: Collected Verse
Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Laurence Whistler
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 6 – John Wieners (died 2002), American lyric poet
February 10 – Fleur Adcock, expatriate New Zealand poet and editor who lives much of her life in England
February 18 – Audre Lorde, American writer, poet and activist
February 27 – N. Scott Momaday, Native American poet and writer
March 31 – Kamala Das, Indian poet and writer in English and Malayalam, her native language
March 20 – David Malouf, Australian poet and writer
April 11 – Mark Strand, American poet
April 12 – Anselm Hollo, Finnish-American poet and translator also resident for eight years in the United Kingdom, where his poems are included in British poetry anthologies. (He lives most of his life in the United States.)
May 10 – Jayne Cortez (died 2012), African-American poet
July 1 – James Liddy (died 2008), Irish American poet
July 13 – Wole Soyinka, Nigerian writer, poet and playwright who in 1986 is the first African to win the Nobel Prize in Literature
July 17 – Rainer Kirsch (died 2015), German writer and poet
July 18 – Walt McDonald, American poet and academic
July 20 – Henry Dumas (died 1968), African-American writer and poet
August 5 – Wendell Berry, American novelist, essayist, poet, professor, cultural critic and farmer
August 6 – Diane Di Prima, American poet associated with the Beats
September 2 – Jack Agüeros (died 2014), American community activist, poet, writer and translator
September 7 – Sunil Gangopadhyay, Indian Bengali-language poet
September 9 – Sonia Sanchez, African-American poet, playwright and children's book author associated with the Black Arts Movement
September 21 – Leonard Cohen (died 2016), Canadian-born poet, singer-songwriter and novelist
September 23 – M. Travis Lane, American-Canadian poet
October 7 – Amiri Baraka, born LeRoi Jones, African-American poet, playwright, essayist and music critic whose first wife is poet Hettie Jones
October 24 – Adrian Mitchell (died 2008), English poet, playwright, children's author, journalist and political activist
November 7 – Beverly Dahlen, American poet
November 15 – Ted Berrigan (died 1983), American poet and political activist
November 19 – Joanne Kyger, American poet
November 25 – Shakti Chattopadhyay, Bengali poet
November 28 – Ted Walker (died 2004) English poet, short story writer, travel writer, television and radio dramatist and broadcaster
December 17 – Binoy Majumdar (died 2006), Bengali poet
Also:
Muhammad al-Maghut (died 2006), Syrian Ismaili poet
Stephen Berg, American
Hettie Jones, born Hettie Cohen, American poet, writer and former wife of Amiri Baraka
Sugatha Kumari, Indian, Malayalam-language poet
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 8 – Andrei Bely (born 1880), Russian novelist, poet and critic
March 7 – Ernst Enno (born 1875), Estonian
March 25 – Arthur Alfred Lynch (born 1861), Australian-born, Irish and British civil engineer, physician, journalist, author, soldier, anti-imperialist and polymath who served as a member of the House of Commons after being convicted of treason, sentenced to death, having his sentence reduced and then being released (for having recruited volunteers for the Boer side during the Boer War, in South Africa); towards the end of World War I raised his own Irish battalion
June 14 – John Gray (born 1866), English
July 4 – Hayim Nahman Bialik (born 1873), Hebrew
August 19 – Jean Blewett (born 1862), Canadian
September 26 – Inoue Kenkabō 井上剣花坊 pen name of Inoue Koichi (born 1870), late Meiji, Taishō and early Shōwa period Japanese journalist and writer of senryū (short, humorous verse) (surname: Inoue)
