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June 3 – Canadian poet Charles G. D. Roberts is knighted.June 15W. H. Auden enters a marriage of convenience with Erika Mann.Premiere of T. S. Eliot's verse drama Murder in the Cathedral at Canterbury Cathedral in England.George Oppen joins the Communist Party, where his organizing work will increasingly take precedence over his poetry; he writes no more verse until 1958.Picasso's poetry begins to be written.Tomb of Hafez in Shiraz, Persia, is rebuilt.Arthur Bourinot, Selected Poems (1915–1935).E. J. Pratt, The Titanic, Toronto: Macmillan.Kenneth Leslie, Lowlands Low: Poems. Halifax: McCurdyWilson MacDonald, The Song Of The Undertow and Other Poems. Toronto, Buffalo: S.J.R. Saunders, Broadway.Wilson MacDonald, Quintrains Of "Callender" and Other Poems. Toronto: S.J.R. Saunders.Tom MacInnes, Rhymes of a Rounder, CanadaDuncan Campbell Scott, The Green Cloister, CanadaFrancis Sherman, The Complete Poems of Francis Sherman. Lorne Pierce ed. Toronto: Ryerson.Sundhindra Dutt, Orchestra ( Poetry in English ),Govind Krishna Chettur, The Shadow of God: A Sonnet Sequence ( Poetry in English ), London: Longmans, published in the United Kingdom Nizamat Jung, Islamic Poems ( Poetry in English ), Hyderabad: Government Central PressGeorge Barker, PoemsSamuel Beckett, Echo's Bones and Other PrecipitatesNorman Cameron, The Winter HouseCecil Day-Lewis:Collected Poems 1929–1933A Time to Dance, and Other PoemsWalter de la Mare, Poems 1919 to 1934T. S. Eliot, Murder in the CathedralChristopher Hassall, Poems of Two YearsEiluned Lewis, December Apples (Welsh poet published in the United Kingdom)Louis MacNeice, PoemsHerbert Read, Poems 1914–34James Reeves, The Natural Need (with preface, in verse, by Laura Riding)Siegfried Sassoon, VigilsHumbert Wolfe:The Fourth of August, sonnetsStings and WingsX at OberammergauW. B. Yeats, A Full Moon in March, Irish poet published in the United KingdomJohn Peale Bishop, Minute ParticularsRobert P. Tristram Coffin, Strange HolinessCountee Cullen, The Medea and Some PoemsE. E. Cummings, No ThanksKenneth Fearing, PoemsJohn Gould Fletcher, XXIV ElegiesHamlin Garland, Iowa, O IowaHorace Gregory, Chorus for SurvivalRobinson Jeffers, Solstice and Other PoemsJames Weldon Johnson, Selected PoemsEdgar Lee Masters, Invisible LandscapesMarianne Moore, Selected PoemsJohn G. Neihardt, The Song of the MessiahEdwin Arlington Robinson, King JasperMuriel Rukeyser, Theory of FlightKarl Shapiro, PoemsWallace Stevens, Ideas of Order, includes "Farewell to Florida", "The Idea of Order at Key West", "Academic Discourse at Havana", "Like Decorations in a Nigger Cemetery", and "A Postcard from the Volcano"), Alcestis Press (enlarged edition, 1936)Robert Penn Warren, Thirty-Six PoemsWilliam Carlos Williams, An Early Martyr and Other PoemsAllen Curnow (New Zealand):Three Poems (Caxton)Poetry and Language, a brief poetry manifesto (Caxton)C. J. Dennis, The Singing Garden, AustraliaW. B. Yeats, A Full Moon in March, Irish poet published in the United KingdomRex Ingamells, Gumtops, AustraliaRené Char, Le Marteau sans maitreRené Daumal, Le Contre-cielPaul Éluard, FacileFrancis Jammes:AlouetteDe tout temps à jamais, Paris: GallimardHenri Michaux, La Nuit remueIncluding all of the British colonies which later became India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Listed alphabetically by first name, regardless of surname:
Balawantrai Thakore, Mharon SonnetJhaverchand Meghani, YugavandanaJhinabhai Desai Snehrashmi, Arghya, the author's first poetry collection; many of the poems display patriotism and love for the poorKavi Nhanalal, Ketalank Kavyo, Part 3 (Part 1 published 1903; Part 2 in 1908); the first part made Nhanalal's reputation as the best Gujarati lyric poet; the collection is known for its metrical innovations, creative power and mix of modern and old folk elementsKishorlal Mashruvala, translator, Vidayuelae — Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet from English into GujaratiMansukhlal Jhaveri, PhooldalAkbar Allahabadi, Kulliyat-i Akbar Allahabadi, in four volumes, published (fourteen years after his death in 1921) from this year through 1939; Indian, Urdu-languageM. Diyauddin, translator, Kālam-i-Tagore, translated from the Bengali of Rabindranath Tagore, with Tagore involved in the translation, into UrduMuhammad Iqbal, Bal-i Jibrial, alternate spelling: "Bal-i Jibril" ("Wings of Gabriel"), includes rubaiyat qitas and ghazals; famous poems in the volume: "Iblees Ki Majlis-e-Shura" ("The Parliament of Satan"), "Jibrail-o-Iblis", "Lenin Khuda Ke Hazur main" ("Lenin in the Court of God"), "Punjab ke Dehqan se" ("To the Punjab Peasants"); "This is regarded as a milestone in Urdu poetry", according to Indian academic Siser Kumar Das; inspired by Iqbal's 1933 visit to SpainBal Krisna Rav, Abhas, Indian, Hindi-languageChangampuzha Krishna Pillai, Baspanjali ("Offering of tears"), the author's first poetry collection, MalayalamDuvvuri Rami Reddi, translator, Panasala — translation of Omar Khayyám's Rubaiyat from Persian into TeluguJayshankar Prasad, Kamayani, said to be the greatest poem of the Chayavadi (Indian romantic) movement; 15 cantos, each named after an emotion; HindiMahjoor, "Gristi Kur", Kashmiri poem in the Vatsan form comparing the refreshing traits of peasants as compared with less lively aristocrats; published in the August 1 issue of HamdardRabindranath Tagore, Ses Saptak, 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 academic Sisir Kumar Das; BengaliUlloor Paramesvara Iyer, Dipavali, MalayalamXavier Abril, Difícil trabajoManuel Moreno Jimeno, Los malditosEmilio Vasquez, TawantinsuyoEmilio Adolfo von Westphalen, Abolición de la muerteVicente Aleixandre:La destrucción o el amor ("Destruction or/as Love")Pasión de la tierra ("Passion of the Earth"), written 1928–1929Germán Bleiberg, El cantar de la noche ("The Song of the Night")Gabriel Celaya, Marea del silencio ("Tide of Silence")Federico García Lorca:Llanto por Ignacio Sánchez Mejías ("Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejías")Seis poemas galegos ("Six Galician poems")Luis Rosales, Abril ("April")Constantine Cavafy, Ποιήματα (Piimata, or "Poems of C.P. Cavafy"), GreekBernard Kangro, Sonetid, EstoniaKersti Merilaas, Loomingus, EstoniaGiorgos Seferis, Μυθιστόρημα ("Tale of Legends"), GreekAwards and honors
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry - Audrey Wurdemann, Bright AmbushDeath years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 14 – Labhshankar Thakar (died 2016), Indian Gujarati poet, playwright and story writerJanuary 16 – Inger Christensen (died 2009), Danish poet, writer, novelist, essayist and children's book authorJanuary 18 – Jon Stallworthy (died 2014), English poet, literary critic and academicJanuary 30 – Richard Brautigan (died 1984), American writer and poetJanuary 27 – D. M. Thomas, English novelist, poet, and translator from CornwallFebruary 14 – Grigore Vieru, Moldovan poet writing in Romanian, strong promoter of the Romanian language in Moldova (died 2009)March 13 – Kofi Awoonor (killed 2013), Ghanaian poet and author whose work combines the poetic traditions of his native Ewe people and contemporary and religious symbolism to depict Africa during decolonizationApril 4 – Michael Horovitz, German-born English poet, editor and performerApril 16 – Sarah Kirsch, GermanMay 13 – Taku Miki 三木卓 pen name of Tomita Miki, Japanese Shōwa period poet and novelist in the Han ("Inundation") poetry circle (Surname: Miki)May 14 – Roque Dalton (died 1975), leftist Salvadoran poet and journalist writing about death, love and politicsMay 25 – Jay Wright, African American poet, playwright and essayistMay 26 – Michael Benedikt (died 2007), American poetJune 1 – Clayton Eshleman, American poet, translator and editorJune 6 – Joy Kogawa, Canadian poet and novelistJune 12 – Christoph Meckel, GermanJuly 29 – Pat Lowther (murdered by her husband in 1975), Canadian poetAugust 12 – A. B. Spellman, African American poet, music critic, music historian, arts administrator and authorAugust 24 – Rosmarie Waldrop, German-born American poet and translator (primary English translator of Edmond Jabès)August 25 – Charles Wright, American poetSeptember 10 – Mary Oliver, American poetSeptember 24 – Robert Kelly, American poet associated with the deep image groupNovember 7 – Wahyu Sulaiman Rendra (died 2009), Indonesian poet, born Willibrordus Surendra Broto Rendra, popularly known as W. S. Rendra and also as "Si Burung Merak" and "The Peacock"November 15 – Gustaf Sobin (died 2005), American expatriate poet and novelistDecember 1 – George Bowering, Canadian novelist, poet, historian and biographerDecember 10 – Shūji Terayama 寺山 修司 (died 1983), Japanese avant-garde poet, playwright, writer, film director and photographer (surname: Terayama)December 13 – Adélia Prado, Brazilian poetDecember 25 – Bhupi Sherchan (died 1989), Nepali poetDecember 27 – Syed Shamsul Haque (died 2016), Bengali poet, lyricist, playwright and essayistDecember 29 – Yevgeny Rein (Евгений Рейн), Russian poetAlsoJohari M. Amini (aka Jewel Christine McLawler Latimore and Johari M. Kunjufu), African AmericanJames Applewhite, AmericanSam Cornish, African AmericanRussell Edson (died 2014), AmericanAndrew Hoyem, American typographer, letterpress printer, publisher, poet and preservationist; founder and director of Arion Press in San FranciscoDesmond O'Grady, Irish poet and translator; former editor of The Transatlantic Review and organizer of the Spoleto International Poetry FestivalDavid R. Slavitt, American writer and translatorAhmos Zu-Bolton II, African AmericanBirth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
March 26 – Tekkan Yosano 与謝野 鉄幹 (born 1873), pen-name of Yosano Hiroshi, late Meiji period, Taishō and early Shōwa period Japanese author and poet; husband of author Yosano Akiko; grandfather of cabinet minister and politician Kaoru YosanoApril 6 – Edwin Arlington Robinson (born 1869), American poet and three-time Pulitzer Prize winnerJuly 17 – George William Russell (born 1867), Anglo-Irish supporter of Irish nationalism, critic, poet, and painter who wrote under the pseudonym Æ, mystical writer, and centre of a group of followers of theosophyAugust 11 – Sir William Watson (born 1858), English traditionalist poet popular for the political content of his verseSeptember 18 – Alice Dunbar Nelson (born 1875), African American poet, journalist and political activist during the Harlem Renaissance; married to poet Paul Laurence DunbarNovember 23 – Louise Mack (born 1870) Australian poet, journalist and novelistNovember 30 – Fernando Pessoa (born 1888), Portuguese poet and writer; cause of death listed as cirrhosisDecember 17 – Lizette Woodworth Reese (born 1856), American poet 