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; criticismRex Ingamells:Sun-freedom, AdelaideEditor, Jindyworobak Anthology, AdelaideShaw Neilson, Beauty Imposes: Some Recent Verse, Angus & RobertsonKenneth 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-publishedCyril Modak, editor, The Indian Gateway to Poetry ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Longmans, Green; anthologyK. S. R. Sastry, The Light of Life ( Poetry in English )Elizabeth Daryush, Verses: Sixth BookCecil Day-Lewis, Overtures to Death, and Other PoemsWalter de la Mare, Memory, and Other PoemsDavid Gascoyne, Holderlin's MadnessStella Gibbons, The Lowland Venus, and Other PoemsOliver St. John Gogarty, Others to Adorn, preface by W. B. YeatsPoems of Today, British poetry anthology, third seriesRobert Graves, Collected PoemsLouis MacNeice:The Earth CompelsI Crossed the Minch, prose, with verseStevie Smith, Tender Only to OneCharles Williams, Taliessen Through LogresW. B. Yeats, New Poems, including "Lapis Lazuli", Irish poet published in the United KingdomCleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren, editors, Understanding Poetry, criticism and anthology, (appearing thereafter in revised editions to 1976)E. E. Cummings, Collected PoemsDonald Davidson, Lee in the MountainsKenneth Fearing, Dead ReckoningJohn Gould Fletcher, Selected PoemsArchibald MacLeish, Land of the FreeOgden Nash, I'm a Stranger Here MyselfEzra Pound, Guide to Kulchur, dedicated "To Louis Zukofsky and Basil Bunting strugglers in the desert"Frederic Prokosch, The CarnivalLaura Riding, Collected PoemsMuriel Rukeyser, U.S. 1Delmore Schwartz, In Dreams Begin ResponsibilitiesE. B. White, The Fox of PeapackWilliam Carlos Williams, The Complete Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams, 1906-1938, New DirectionsAustin Clarke, Night and Morning, Irish poet published in IrelandA. R. D. Fairburn, Dominion, New Zealand poetRobin Hyde, New Zealand:Nor the Years CondemnThe Godwits FlyEwart Milne, Forty North Fifty West, Irish poet published in IrelandW. B. Yeats, New Poems, including "Lapis Lazuli", Irish poet published in the United KingdomPaul Éluard, pen name of Paul-Eugène Grindel, Cours naturelPierre Emmanuel, pen name of Noël Mathieu, Christ au tombeau, the author's first poemLuc Estang, Au-delà de moi-mêmePierre Jean Jouve, KyrieJules Supervielle, La Fable du mondeIncluding 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, BengaliBharatidasan, Paratitacan Kavitakal, TamilDaya Singh Arif, Zindagi Bilas, a long poem, PunjabiSir Muhammad Iqbal, Armaghan-i-Hijaz ("Gift from Hijaz"), philosophical poetry book in PersianRabindranath Tagore, Prantik, BengaliRamnarayan Vishvanath Pathak, Gujarati:Sesnan Kavyo, 73 Gujarati poems, including sonnets, bhajans and muktaksArvacin Kavyasahityanan Vaheno, five lectures on modern Gujarati poetryRayaprolu Subba Rao, Ramyalokam, this verse work in Telugu "is accepted as the manifesto of bhava kavita (romantic poetry)", according to academic Siser Kumar DasSacchidananda Rout Roy, Baji Raut ("The Boatman Boy"), Indian, Oriya-languageSumitranandan Pant, Yugvani, HindiUbaidullah Mahshar and Ashfaq Husain Khan Gaurakhpuri, Yadgar-i Mahshar, UrduMehr 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.UrduNathan Alterman, Stars Outside, IsraelNikos Kazantzakis, The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel, GreekKersti Merilaas, Maantee tuuled, EstoniaGabriela Mistral, Tala ("Harvesting"), Buenos Aires: Sur; Chilean poet published in ArgentinaMaría Pemán, Poema de la bestia y el angel ("Poem of the Beast and the Angel"); SpainEmil Staiger, Die Zeit als Einbildungskraft des Dichters, Germany (scholarship)Tin Ujević, Skalpel kaosa ("Scalpel of Chaos"), CroatianXavier Villaurrutia, Nostalgia de la muerte, MexicoAwards and honors
Hawthornden Prize: David Jones for In ParenthesisNewdigate Prize: Michael ThwaitesPulitzer Prize for Poetry: Marya Zaturenska: Cold Morning SkyGovernor General's Award, poetry or drama: By Stubborn Stars, Kenneth LeslieRugby 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 poetJanuary 21 – Julia Fields, African AmericanFebruary 13 – Frances Horovitz (died 1983), English poet, broadcaster and performer of poetryFebruary 18 – Elke Erb, GermanFebruary 22Ishmael Reed, American poet, essayist and novelistGeorge Thaniel (died 1991), Greek poet and classical scholar working in CanadaMarch 18 – Michael S. Harper, African AmericanMarch 24 – Ian Hamilton (died 2001), English literary critic, reviewer, biographer, poet, magazine editor and publisherApril 18 – Jwalamukhi జ్వాలాముఖీ, pen name of Veeravalli Raghavacharyulu (died 2008), Indian, Telugu-language poet, novelist, writer and political activistMay 9 – Charles Simic, AmericanMay 25 – Raymond Carver (died 1988), American short-story writer and poetJune 13 – John Newlove (died 2003), CanadianJuly 19Dom Moraes (died 2004), Indian writer, poet and columnistTom Raworth, English poet and visual artist; influential figure in the British Poetry Revival movementAugust 10 – Momoko Kuroda, 黒田杏子, Japanese haiku poet and essayistAugust 21 – Peter Dale, English poet and translatorAugust ? – Deena Linett, AmericanSeptember 17 – H. H. ter Balkt (died 2015), DutchSeptember 19 – Keroapetse Kgositsile, South AfricanOctober 9 – Gwendoline Konie (died 2009), Zambian poet and politicianOctober 13 – Askia M. Touré, African AmericanOctober 17 – Les Murray, AustralianOctober 23 – R. F. Langley (died 2011), EnglishAlso:Betty Adcock, AmericanTajal Bewas, pen name of Taj Mohammed Samoo (died 2008 age 70), bucolic Sufi poet, novelist, short-story writer, teacher and Pakistani government officialBrendan Galvin, AmericanRobert Phillips, American poet and academicSansei Yamao (died 2001), Japanese poet and friend of American poet Gary SnyderBirth 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 daredevilMarch 10 – Angiolo Silvio Novaro (born 1866), Italian poet and children's writerApril 15 – César Vallejo (born 1892), Peruvian poetApril 19 – Sir Henry Newbolt (born 1862), English author and poetApril 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 holidayJune 9 – Ovid Densusianu (aka "Ervin"; born 1873), Romanian poet, philologist, linguist, folklorist, literary historian, critic, academic and journalistJune 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 folkloreAugust 4 – Rudolf G. Binding (born 1867), German poetAugust 26 – Millosh Gjergj Nikolla ("Migjeni"; born 1911), Albanian poet and writerOctober 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 