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 successfullyBengali 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 BottleSeranus, 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 HouseP. R. Kaikini, Flower Offerings ( Prose poems in English ) ; Bombay: Bombay Book DepotE. E. Speight, editor, Indian Masters of English ( Poetry in English ), London: Longmans, Green; anthology; published in the United KingdomEdmund Blunden, Choice or ChanceMaud Bodkin, Archetypal Patterns of Poetry: Psychological Studies of Imagination, criticismLilian Bowes Lyon, The White HareRoy Campbell, Broken Record, the first version of his autobiography; South African native published in the United KingdomHelen Cruickshank, Up the Noran Water, Scottish poetLawrence Durrell, TransitionT. S. Eliot, The RockWilliam Golding, PoemsPauline Gower, Piffling Poems for PilotsI. M. and H. Hubbard, The War Resisters, and Other PoemsT. L. W. Hubbard, Poems, 1925–1934John Lehmann, The Noise of HistoryHugh MacDiarmid, pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve, Stony Limits and Other Poems, Scottish poetRuth Pitter, A Mad Lady's Garland, preface by Hilaire BellocNan Shepherd, In the CairngormsWilliam Soutar, The Solitary WayE. E. Speight, editor, Indian Masters of English, London: Longmans, Green; anthology; Indian poetry in English, published in the United KingdomStephen Spender, ViennaDylan 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 KingdomJames Agee, Permit Me VoyageW. H. Auden, PoemsPaul Engle, American SongJohn A. Lomax, compiler, with Alan Lomax, American Ballads and Folk SongsEdna St. Vincent Millay, Wine From These GrapesGeorge Oppen, Discrete SeriesEzra Pound:Eleven new Cantos: XXXI–XLIHomage to Sextus Propertius, London"Make It New"Edward Arlington Robinson, AmaranthJesse Stuart, Man with a Bull-Tongue PlowWilliam Carlos Williams, Collected Poems 1921–1931Yvor Winters, Before DisasterR. A. K. Mason, No New Thing, New ZealandShaw Neilson, Collected Poems of John Shaw Neilson, edited and with introduction by R. H. Croll, Melbourne, Lothian, AustraliaW. B. Yeats, The King of the Great Clock Tower, Irish poet published in the United KingdomLouis Aragon, Hourra l'ouralAndré Breton, L'Air de l'eauRené Char, Le Marteau sans maîtrePaul Éluard, pen name of Paul-Eugène Grindel, La Rose publiqueAlphonse Métérié:Petit maroc IICophetuesquesBenjamin Péret, De derrière les fagotsJules Supervielle, Les Amis inconnusIncluding 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 natureMahadevi Varma, NirjaRameshvar Shukla, Kiran BelaFazil Kashmiri, Saz-e-ChamanMahjoor, "Nera Ha Sanyas Lagith", a poem published in a special number of MartandMan Ji Suri, Krishna Avtar, a masnavi on Krishna, but also including devotional lyrics in the vatsan formDurbhaka 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 DoddMeka Ramachandra Appa Rao, translator, Amaruka, translation from English of Omar Khayyam's RubbayitTripurancni Ramaswami, Sutapuranam, poem criticizing Aryan mythologies; written in a classical stylePingali Lakshmikantam and Katuri Venkateshvara Rao, Saundaranandamu, epic in nine cantos, based on a Sanskrit poem by AsvagoshaD. 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; KannadaGovinda Krishna Chettur, The Shadow of God, 37 sonnets in Kashmiri and a short prefatory poem in English; modeled on Alfred Lord Tennyson's In MemoriamKhavirakpan, Smaran mangal Kavya, humorous poems in ManipuriKirpa Sagar, Dido Jamval, epic on the actions of Maharaja Ranjit Singh in the Jammu area; PunjabiMasti 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 styleN. Balamani Amma, Amma, on a mother's love and a child's innocence; MalayalamNarayan Murlidhar Gupte, writing under the pen name "Bee", Phulanci Onjal ("Handful of Flowers"), showing the influence of Kesavsut; MarathiPramathanath 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 1960sUmashankur Joshi, Gangotri, Gujarati-languageVinayak 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 revolutionaryJosé Santos Chocano, Primicias de Oro de Indias, PeruConstantin S. Nicolăescu-Plopșor – Ghileà romanè (anthology)Martinus Nijhoff, Awater, NetherlandsAlejandro Peralta, El Kollao, PeruHeiti Talvik, Palavik ("Fever"), EstoniaErnst Volkman, ed., Deutsche Dichtung im Weltkrieg, GermanyAwards and honors
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Robert Hillyer: Collected VerseQueen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Laurence WhistlerDeath years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 6 – John Wieners (died 2002), American lyric poetFebruary 10 – Fleur Adcock, expatriate New Zealand poet and editor who lives much of her life in EnglandFebruary 18 – Audre Lorde, American writer, poet and activistFebruary 27 – N. Scott Momaday, Native American poet and writerMarch 31 – Kamala Das, Indian poet and writer in English and Malayalam, her native languageMarch 20 – David Malouf, Australian poet and writerApril 11 – Mark Strand, American poetApril 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 poetJuly 1 – James Liddy (died 2008), Irish American poetJuly 13 – Wole Soyinka, Nigerian writer, poet and playwright who in 1986 is the first African to win the Nobel Prize in LiteratureJuly 17 – Rainer Kirsch (died 2015), German writer and poetJuly 18 – Walt McDonald, American poet and academicJuly 20 – Henry Dumas (died 1968), African-American writer and poetAugust 5 – Wendell Berry, American novelist, essayist, poet, professor, cultural critic and farmerAugust 6 – Diane Di Prima, American poet associated with the BeatsSeptember 2 – Jack Agüeros (died 2014), American community activist, poet, writer and translatorSeptember 7 – Sunil Gangopadhyay, Indian Bengali-language poetSeptember 9 – Sonia Sanchez, African-American poet, playwright and children's book author associated with the Black Arts MovementSeptember 21 – Leonard Cohen (died 2016), Canadian-born poet, singer-songwriter and novelistSeptember 23 – M. Travis Lane, American-Canadian poetOctober 7 – Amiri Baraka, born LeRoi Jones, African-American poet, playwright, essayist and music critic whose first wife is poet Hettie JonesOctober 24 – Adrian Mitchell (died 2008), English poet, playwright, children's author, journalist and political activistNovember 7 – Beverly Dahlen, American poetNovember 15 – Ted Berrigan (died 1983), American poet and political activistNovember 19 – Joanne Kyger, American poetNovember 25 – Shakti Chattopadhyay, Bengali poetNovember 28 – Ted Walker (died 2004) English poet, short story writer, travel writer, television and radio dramatist and broadcasterDecember 17 – Binoy Majumdar (died 2006), Bengali poetAlso:Muhammad al-Maghut (died 2006), Syrian Ismaili poetStephen Berg, AmericanHettie Jones, born Hettie Cohen, American poet, writer and former wife of Amiri BarakaSugatha Kumari, Indian, Malayalam-language poetBirth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 8 – Andrei Bely (born 1880), Russian novelist, poet and criticMarch 7 – Ernst Enno (born 1875), EstonianMarch 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 battalionJune 14 – John Gray (born 1866), EnglishJuly 4 – Hayim Nahman Bialik (born 1873), HebrewAugust 19 – Jean Blewett (born 1862), CanadianSeptember 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) 