Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
February 17 – On the death of Montserrat-born British fantasy fiction writer M. P. Shiel, his supposed title to the Kingdom of Redonda passes to London poet John Gawsworth.March – Landfall literary magazine is founded by Charles Brasch and first published by Caxton Press (New Zealand); it becomes that country's oldest literary journal.November – Muriel Spark becomes editor of Poetry Review in London from this month's issue.Dorothy Parker divorces Alan Campbell for the first time.Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:
Arthur Bourinot, The Collected Poems of Arthur S. Bourinot (Toronto: Ryerson Press).Paul Hiebert, Sarah Binks, "the sweet songstess of Saskatchewan", [satirical fictional biography of a Prairie poet]Archibald Lampman, Selected Poems, edited by Duncan Campbell Scott, published posthumouslyDorothy Livesay, Poems for People. Toronto: Ryerson. Governor General's Award 1947.E. J. Pratt:Behind the Log, Toronto: Macmillan.Ten Selected Poems, Toronto: Macmillan.Duncan Campbell Scott, The Circle of Affection, prose and verseRaymond Souster, Go To Sleep, World. Toronto: Ryerson.John Sutherland, editor, Other Canadians: An Anthology of the New Poetry in Canada, 1940-1946 (First Statement Press, 1947), anthologyHarindranath Chattopadhyaya, Freedom Come ( Poetry in English ), Bombay: Nalanda PublicationsSerapia Devi, Rapid Visions ( Poetry in English )Raul De Loyola Furtado, Selected Poems ( Poetry in English ), second edition, revised; Bombay (first edition 1942; third edition, revised 1967)Vinayaka Krishna Gokak, The Song of Life and Other Poems ( Poetry in English ), Bombay: Hind KitabsP. R. Kaikini, Poems of the Passionate East ( Poetry in English ), BombayFredoon Kabraji, editor, This Strange Adventure: An Anthology of Poems in English by Indians 1828-1946, London: New India Pub. Co., 140 pages; Indian poetry published in the United KingdomW. H. Auden, "The Age of Anxiety", English native living in the United StatesKingsley Amis, Bright NovemberCairo poets, edited by Keith Bullen and John Cromer, Salamander: A Miscellany of Poetry (anthology)F. W. Harvey, Gloucestershire: A Selection from the Poems of F. W. Harvey (English poet published in Scotland)Hamish Henderson, Elegies for the Dead in Cyrenaica (Scottish poet published in England)Patrick Kavanagh, A Soul For SalePhilip Larkin, A Girl in WinterLaurie Lee, The Bloom of CandlesLouis MacNeice, The Dark TowerJohn Pudney, Low LifeAlan Ross, The Derelict DayStephen Spender, Poems of DedicationTerence Tiller, Unarm, ErosHenry Treece, The Haunted GardenConrad Aiken, The KidW. H. Auden, The Age of Anxiety, English native living in the United StatesR. P. Blackmur, The Good EuropeanCleanth Brooks, The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of PoetryWitter Bynner, Take Away the DarknessJohn Ciardi, Other SkiesLouis Coxe, The Sea FaringAugust Derleth, editor, Dark of the Moon: Poems of Fantasy and the MacabreRobert Duncan, Heavenly City, Earthly CityRichard Eberhart, Burr Oaks, including "The Fury of Aerial Bombardment"Robert Frost, Steeple BushJean Garrigue, The Ego and the CentaurLangston Hughes, Fields of WonderWeldon Kees, The Fall of Magicians (his second book of poetry)Howard Nemerov, The Image of the LawJohn Frederick Nims, The Iron PastoralKenneth Patchen, Panels for the Walls of HeavenKarl Shapiro, Trial of a PoetWilliam Jay Smith, PoemsWallace Stevens, Transport to Summer (includes "The Pure Good of Theory," "A Word With Jose Rodriguez-Feo," "Description without Place," "The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm," "Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction," and "Esthetique du Mal"), KnopfRichard Wilbur, The Beautiful Changes and Other Poems, New York: Reynal and HitchcockLouis Zukofsky begins writing Bottom: on Shakespeare, a long work of literary philosophyVictor Daley, Creeve Roe, posthumously published, AustraliaDonagh MacDonagh, The Hungry Grass, Faber and Faber, IrelandShaw Neilson, Unpublished Poems, edited by James Devaney, Angus and Robertson, AustraliaListed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:
Guillaume Apollinaire, pen name of Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky, Ombre de mon amour, publisher: P. Cailler Vesenaz (revised edition entitled Poèmes a Lou, 1955), posthumously published (died 1918)Antonin Artaud:Artaud le momo Paris: BordasCe-git, précédé de la culture indienne, Paris: K EditeurAndré Breton, Ode a Charles FourierJean Cayrol:Je vivrai l'amour des autresOn vous parle, winner of the Prix RenaudotBlaise Cendrars, pen name of Frédéric Louis Sauser, a Swiss novelist and poet naturalized as a French citizen in 1916; all of his poetry (which he stopped writing in 1924) was published this year in these two volumes:Du monde entierAu coeur du mondeAimé Césaire, Cahier d'un retour au pays natal, expanded edition in book format, Martinique writerJean Follain, ExisterEugène Guillevic, Exécutoire, poems written during the German occupation of FrancePierre Jean Jouve:HymneRequiem, Lausanne, Switzerland: Mermod, French author published in SwitzerlandMarie Noël, Chants et psaumes d'automneHenri Pichette, ApoèmesRaymond Queneau, Exercices de styleIncluding India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Listed alphabetically by first name, regardless of surname:
Bal Krisna Rav, Kavi ki ChaviKedarnath Agarwal:Nind Ke Badal, written in the language of common people by a notable poet of the Pragativadi movementYug Ki Ganga, poems in the Pragativadi traditionMishra Dvarika Prasad, epic based on Krishna legends from the Mahabharata, Srimadbhagvata, Sursagar and Sisupalavadha, with contemporary elements; written in 1942 but published this yearRam Dahin Mishra, Kavya Darpan, comparing Indian and Western poetics; literary criticismRamadhari Singh Dinkar, SamadheniSumitranandan Pant:Svarn dhuli, a translation of Swami Vivekanand's Song of the Sanyasin into Hindi is included under the title Sanyasi Ke GitSvarna KiranB. B. Borkar, DudhasagarB. S. Mardhekar, Kahi KavitaShanta Shelke, VarsaV. R. Kant, RudravinaKalindi Charan Panigrahi, romantic poems by one of the earliest modern poets in Indian literatureMayadhar Mansinha:Kamalavana, long, romantic poemJibanacita, OriyaNityananda Mhapatra, PancajanyaSacchidananda Rout Roy, Pandulipi, poems written in free verseA. Muthusivan, Kavitaiyum Valkkaiyum, literary criticism written in TamilAkhtarul Imam, Sabrang, poems, some allegorical, some satiric, expressing dissatisfaction with traditional society; UrduAmrita Pritam, Lamian Vatan, mostly lyrical poems on romantic love, PunjabiBishnu Dey:Purbalekh, BengaliBishnu De, Sandiper, BengaliDimbeshwar Neog, Asama; Assamese-languageDivya Prabha Bharali, Banhi. Aparna, her first book of poetry; Assamese-languageDinu Bhai Pant, Vira Gulaba, modern ballad on the heroism and skillfulness of Gulab Singh (later Maharaja Gulab Singh of Jammu and Kashmir), in the battle of Jammu against Sikh invaders; DogriJhamandas Bhatia, Sain Qutub Sah, biography written in Sindhi of the Sufi poet Qudub Shah, who wrote in that languageJoseph Mundasseri, Rupabhadrata, literary criticism which found fault with the Marxist school of literary criticism; the debate caused by the book resulted in a split in the progressive literary movement; MalayalamJyotsna Shukla, Azadinan Geeto; GujaratiK. S. Narasimha Swamy, Dipadamalli, KannadaKaifi Azmi, pen name of Asar Husain Rizvi, Akhir-i Shab, UrduKashikanta Mishra, Kobar-git, marriage songs, MaithiliManohar Sharma, Aravali Ki Atma, includes nature poems such as "Aravali", "Jharano" and "Tiba", RajasthaniShankara Balakrishna Joshi, also known as "Sam. Ba. Joshi", Karnana Muru Citragulu, literary criticism written in the Kannada language, studying the character of Karna as portrayed in three epics, Mahabharata, Pampa Bharata, and Kumaravyasa BharataVailoppalli Sridhara Menon, Kannikkoyttu, MalayalamThorkild Bjørnvig, Stærnen bag Gavlen ("The Star Behind the Gable"), DenmarkNazik Al-Malaika, Cholera, Arabic-language book published in IraqAlexander Mezhirov, Дорога далеко ("The Road is Long"), edited by Pavel Antokolksy, the author's first published book, MoscowGiorgos Seferis, Κίχλη ("The Thrush"), GreekShinoe Shōda, Sange ("Penitence"), tanka anthology about the atomic bombing of Japan, secretly published in defiance of censorshipMàrius Torres (died 1942), Poesies, Catalan Spanish poet published in MexicoAwards and honors
Frost Medal: Gustav DavidsonConsultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (later the post would be called "Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress"): Robert Lowell appointed this year.Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Robert Lowell, Lord Weary's CastleFellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Ridgely TorrenceCanada: Governor General's Award, poetry or drama: Poems for People, Dorothy Livesay Australia: Grace Leven Prize for Poetry: Pacific Sea, Nan McDonaldDeath years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 2Ai, born "Florence Anthony", an American poet who legally changes her nameDavid Shapiro, American poet, literary critic and art historianJanuary 18 – Takeshi Kitano 北野 武, Japanese filmmaker, film editor, screenwriter, comedian, actor, author, poet and painter (surname: Kitano)February 19 – Bin Ramke, American poet and editorApril 3 – Srikrishna Alanahalli (died 1989), Indian Kannada novelist and poetApril 13 – Rae Armantrout, American poetApril 24 – Astrid Roemer, Suriname-born Dutch poet, novelist and playwrightMarch 2 – Michael Schmidt, Mexican-born English poet, academic, founder, editor and managing director of Carcanet Press and founder of PN ReviewMarch 3 – Clifton Snider, American poet, novelist, literary critic, scholar and educatorMay 6 – Jerry Estrin (died 1993), American poetMay 12 – Penelope Shuttle, English poetMay 13 – Sukanta Bhattacharya (died 1947), Bengali poetMay 16 – Cheryl Clarke, American poet and academicMay 23 – Jane Kenyon (died 1995), American poet and translatorMay 27 – Felix Dennis (died 2014), English publisher and poetJuly 18 – Dermot Healy (died 2014), Irish novelist and poetJuly 25 – Leslie Scalapino, American poetAugust 1 – Lorna Goodison, Jamaican poetAugust 8 – Alurista (nom de plume of Alberto Baltazar Urista Heredia), American Chicano poet and activistOctober 13 – Joe Dolce, Australian poet and musicianOctober 20 – Mikirō Sasaki 佐々木幹郎, also known as "Mikio Sasaki", Japanese poet and travel writer (surname: Sasaki)October 26 – Trevor Joyce, Irish poetNovember 13 – John Steffler, Canadian poet and novelistNovember 30 – Sergio Badilla Castillo, Chilean poet and dramatistDecember 26 – Liz Lochhead Scottish poet and dramatistAlso:Michael Casey, American poetGloria Frym, American poet, fiction writer and essayistReginald Gibbons, American poetMolly Peacock, American poet of the New Formalist school and nonfiction writerRosemary Sullivan, Canadian poet, biographer and anthologistBirth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
April 12 – C. Louis Leipoldt (born 1880), South African Afrikaans poet, writer and pediatricianApril 30 – Anna Wickham (born 1883), English poet (suicide by hanging)July 13 – Yone Noguchi 野口米次郎 (born 1875), Japanese poet, fiction writer, essayist and literary critic in both Japanese and English; father of the sculptor Isamu NoguchiSeptember 15 – Richard Le Gallienne (born 1866), English poet and writerDecember 19 – Duncan Campbell Scott (born 1862), Canadian poet and writer 
