Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
In Nazi Germany the Reichsschrifttumskammer (the National Socialist authors' association) bans German expressionist poet Gottfried Benn from further writing.
The Arbujad ("Soothsayers") group of Estonian poets forms.
Rex Ingamells and Ian Tilbrook, Conditional Culture, published in Adelaide; a manifesto advocating a "fundamental break ... with the spirit of English culture" to free Australian art from "alien influences" and paying more attention to Aboriginal culture as well as the use of "only such imagery as is truly Australian"; the word "Jindyworobak", which they understood to be an Aboriginal term meaning 'to annex' or 'to join', they proposed as a symbol of the reorientation; the Jindyworobak Movement resulted in at least 44 volumes of poetry and literary comment in addition to periodicals from this year through 1953; criticism
Rex Ingamells:
Sun-freedom, Adelaide
Editor, Jindyworobak Anthology, Adelaide
Shaw Neilson, Beauty Imposes: Some Recent Verse, Angus & Robertson
Kenneth Leslie, By Stubborn Stars. Toronto: Ryerson. Governor-General's Award 1938.
L. A. MacKay, Viper's Bugloss.
Virna Sheard, Leaves in the Wind.
Arthur Stringer, The Old Woman Remembers and Other Irish Poems. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill.
Joseph Furtado, Songs in Exile ( Poetry in English ), Bombay: self-published
Cyril Modak, editor, The Indian Gateway to Poetry ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Longmans, Green; anthology
K. S. R. Sastry, The Light of Life ( Poetry in English )
Elizabeth Daryush, Verses: Sixth Book
Cecil Day-Lewis, Overtures to Death, and Other Poems
Walter de la Mare, Memory, and Other Poems
David Gascoyne, Holderlin's Madness
Stella Gibbons, The Lowland Venus, and Other Poems
Oliver St. John Gogarty, Others to Adorn, preface by W. B. Yeats
Poems of Today, British poetry anthology, third series
Robert Graves, Collected Poems
Louis MacNeice:
The Earth Compels
I Crossed the Minch, prose, with verse
Stevie Smith, Tender Only to One
Charles Williams, Taliessen Through Logres
W. B. Yeats, New Poems, including "Lapis Lazuli", Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren, editors, Understanding Poetry, criticism and anthology, (appearing thereafter in revised editions to 1976)
E. E. Cummings, Collected Poems
Donald Davidson, Lee in the Mountains
Kenneth Fearing, Dead Reckoning
John Gould Fletcher, Selected Poems
Archibald MacLeish, Land of the Free
Ogden Nash, I'm a Stranger Here Myself
Ezra Pound, Guide to Kulchur, dedicated "To Louis Zukofsky and Basil Bunting strugglers in the desert"
Frederic Prokosch, The Carnival
Laura Riding, Collected Poems
Muriel Rukeyser, U.S. 1
Delmore Schwartz, In Dreams Begin Responsibilities
E. B. White, The Fox of Peapack
William Carlos Williams, The Complete Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams, 1906-1938, New Directions
Austin Clarke, Night and Morning, Irish poet published in Ireland
A. R. D. Fairburn, Dominion, New Zealand poet
Robin Hyde, New Zealand:
Nor the Years Condemn
The Godwits Fly
Ewart Milne, Forty North Fifty West, Irish poet published in Ireland
W. B. Yeats, New Poems, including "Lapis Lazuli", Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
Paul Éluard, pen name of Paul-Eugène Grindel, Cours naturel
Pierre Emmanuel, pen name of Noël Mathieu, Christ au tombeau, the author's first poem
Luc Estang, Au-delà de moi-même
Pierre Jean Jouve, Kyrie
Jules Supervielle, La Fable du monde
Including all of the British colonies that later became India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Listed alphabetically by first name, regardless of surname:
Ajit Kumar Datta, Patal Kanya, Bengali
Bharatidasan, Paratitacan Kavitakal, Tamil
Daya Singh Arif, Zindagi Bilas, a long poem, Punjabi
Sir Muhammad Iqbal, Armaghan-i-Hijaz ("Gift from Hijaz"), philosophical poetry book in Persian
Rabindranath Tagore, Prantik, Bengali
Ramnarayan Vishvanath Pathak, Gujarati:
Sesnan Kavyo, 73 Gujarati poems, including sonnets, bhajans and muktaks
Arvacin Kavyasahityanan Vaheno, five lectures on modern Gujarati poetry
Rayaprolu Subba Rao, Ramyalokam, this verse work in Telugu "is accepted as the manifesto of bhava kavita (romantic poetry)", according to academic Siser Kumar Das
Sacchidananda Rout Roy, Baji Raut ("The Boatman Boy"), Indian, Oriya-language
Sumitranandan Pant, Yugvani, Hindi
Ubaidullah Mahshar and Ashfaq Husain Khan Gaurakhpuri, Yadgar-i Mahshar, Urdu
Mehr Lal Soni Zia Fatehabadi, Zia Ke Sau Sher (A Hundred Verses of Zia) - Collection of quotes published by Gajender Lal Soni, Mohan Building, near Lloyd's Bank, Delhi in 1938.Urdu
Nathan Alterman, Stars Outside, Israel
Nikos Kazantzakis, The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel, Greek
Kersti Merilaas, Maantee tuuled, Estonia
Gabriela Mistral, Tala ("Harvesting"), Buenos Aires: Sur; Chilean poet published in Argentina
María Pemán, Poema de la bestia y el angel ("Poem of the Beast and the Angel"); Spain
Emil Staiger, Die Zeit als Einbildungskraft des Dichters, Germany (scholarship)
Tin Ujević, Skalpel kaosa ("Scalpel of Chaos"), Croatian
Xavier Villaurrutia, Nostalgia de la muerte, Mexico
Awards and honors
Hawthornden Prize: David Jones for In Parenthesis
Newdigate Prize: Michael Thwaites
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Marya Zaturenska: Cold Morning Sky
Governor General's Award, poetry or drama: By Stubborn Stars, Kenneth Leslie
Rugby School poetry prize: John Gillespie Magee, Jr.
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 13 – Nabaneeta Dev Sen, Bengali writer and poet
January 21 – Julia Fields, African American
February 13 – Frances Horovitz (died 1983), English poet, broadcaster and performer of poetry
February 18 – Elke Erb, German
February 22
Ishmael Reed, American poet, essayist and novelist
George Thaniel (died 1991), Greek poet and classical scholar working in Canada
March 18 – Michael S. Harper, African American
March 24 – Ian Hamilton (died 2001), English literary critic, reviewer, biographer, poet, magazine editor and publisher
April 18 – Jwalamukhi జ్వాలాముఖీ, pen name of Veeravalli Raghavacharyulu (died 2008), Indian, Telugu-language poet, novelist, writer and political activist
May 9 – Charles Simic, American
May 25 – Raymond Carver (died 1988), American short-story writer and poet
June 13 – John Newlove (died 2003), Canadian
July 19
Dom Moraes (died 2004), Indian writer, poet and columnist
Tom Raworth, English poet and visual artist; influential figure in the British Poetry Revival movement
August 10 – Momoko Kuroda, 黒田杏子, Japanese haiku poet and essayist
August 21 – Peter Dale, English poet and translator
August ? – Deena Linett, American
September 17 – H. H. ter Balkt (died 2015), Dutch
September 19 – Keroapetse Kgositsile, South African
October 9 – Gwendoline Konie (died 2009), Zambian poet and politician
October 13 – Askia M. Touré, African American
October 17 – Les Murray, Australian
October 23 – R. F. Langley (died 2011), English
Also:
Betty Adcock, American
Tajal Bewas, pen name of Taj Mohammed Samoo (died 2008 age 70), bucolic Sufi poet, novelist, short-story writer, teacher and Pakistani government official
Brendan Galvin, American
Robert Phillips, American poet and academic
Sansei Yamao (died 2001), Japanese poet and friend of American poet Gary Snyder
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
March 1 – Gabriele D'Annunzio (born 1863), Italian poet, writer, novelist, dramatist, soldier, political figure and daredevil
March 10 – Angiolo Silvio Novaro (born 1866), Italian poet and children's writer
April 15 – César Vallejo (born 1892), Peruvian poet
April 19 – Sir Henry Newbolt (born 1862), English author and poet
April 21 – Sir Muhammad Iqbal (aka "Allama Iqbal" [Urdu] and "Iqbal-e-Lahori" [Persian]; born 1877), Indian Muslim poet, philosopher and politician, writing in Persian and Urdu, praised as Muffakir-e-Pakistan ("The Thinker of Pakistan"), Shair-i-Mashriq ("The Poet of the East") and Hakeem-ul-Ummat ("The Sage of Ummah"); his birthday is annually commemorated in Pakistan as "Iqbal Day", a national holiday
June 9 – Ovid Densusianu (aka "Ervin"; born 1873), Romanian poet, philologist, linguist, folklorist, literary historian, critic, academic and journalist
June 26 – James Weldon Johnson (born 1871), African-American author, poet, early civil rights activist and prominent figure in the Harlem Renaissance, best known for his writing, including novels, poems and collections of folklore
August 4 – Rudolf G. Binding (born 1867), German poet
August 26 – Millosh Gjergj Nikolla ("Migjeni"; born 1911), Albanian poet and writer
October 5 – Chieko Takamura (born 1886), Japanese (surname: Takamura)
October 27 – Lascelles Abercrombie (born 1881), British poet and literary critic, one of the "Dymock poets"
December 7 – Osip Mandelstam (born 1891), Russian poet, essayist and one of the foremost members of the Acmeist school of poets
