T. S. Eliot founds the Poetry Book Society in the U.K.George Plimpton, Peter Matthiessen and Harold L. Humes found The Paris Review.Nuovi Argomenti, an influential Italian literary magazine, founded by Alberto Carrocci and Alberto Moravia in Rome.The October issue of Atlantic Monthly magazine in the United States publishes "Perspectives of India", anthologizing poems from India.Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:
Robert Finch, A Century has Roots.Irving Layton, Love the Conqueror Worm. Toronto: Contact Press.Douglas Le Pan, The Net and the Sword, CanadaE. J. Pratt, The Titanic, CanadaRaymond Souster, Shake Hands with the Hangman: Poems 1940-52 Toronto: Contact Press.Nissim Ezekiel, Sixty Poems ( Poetry in English ), Bombay Harindranath Chattopadhyaya:I Sing of Man and Other Poems ( Poetry in English ), Bombay: People's Publishing HouseSpring in Winter ( Poetry in English ), Delhi: Atma RamManjeri Sundaraman Manjeri, Rhapsody in Red ( Poetry in English ),Romen, The Golden Apocalypse, Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo AshramSri Aurobindo, The Future Poetry, essays on literary criticism, drawing on the author's (also published) views of art and life, (first appeared in the Arya, 1917–1920; later expanded with the author's letters on art, literature and poetry in the Centenary Library edition, Volume 9, 1971)Charles Causley, Survivor's LeaveSir John Betjeman, A Few Late ChrysanthemumsLouis MacNeice, Autumn SequelCharlotte Mew (died 1928), Collected PoemsLewis Spence, Collected PoemsJohn Heath-Stubbs, New PoemsJohn Heath-Stubbs and David Wright. editors, The Faber Book of Twentieth Century Verse: An Anthology of Verse in Britain 1900-1950, a selection in self-conscious contrast to the Faber Book of Modern VerseR.S. Thomas, The MinisterJohn Heath-Stubbs edited this volume, published in the United Kingdom, which included poems from these writers: Dannie Abse – Drummond Allison – Eurasia Anderson - William Bell – Thomas Blackburn – Maurice Carpenter - Alex Comfort – Yorke Crompton – N. K. Cruikshank – Keith Douglas – George Every – John Fairfax – G. S. Fraser – John Gibbs – W. S. Graham - F. Pratt Green – J. C. Hall – Michael Hamburger – John Heath-Stubbs – Glyn Jones – Sidney Keyes – Francis King – James Kirkup – Norman Nicholson – I. R. Orton – Michael Paffard – Kathleen Raine – Anne Ridler – Walter Roberts – W. R. Rodgers – Joseph Rykwert – John Smith – Muriel Spark – Derek Stanford – J. Ormond Thomas – W. Price Turner – John Wain – John Waller – Vernon Watkins – Gordon Wharton - Margaret Willy – David Wright
Conrad Aiken, Collected PoemsJohn Ashbery, Turandot and Other PoemsW. H. Auden, "The Shield of Achilles" poem first published; his poetry book of the same name will be published in 1955Joseph Payne Brennan, The Humming Stair (Big Mountain Press/Alan Swallow imprint)Robert Creeley, American published in Europe:The Kind of Act ofThe Immoral PropositionE. E. Cummings, i — six nonlectures from his Charles Eliot Norton Lectures of 1951-1952 (Harvard University Press)Richard Eberhart, Undercliff: Poems 1946–1953Jean Garrigue, The Monument RoseKenneth Koch, PoemsCharles Olson:In Cold Hell, In Thicket, published in Origin as its eighth issueMayan Letters, letters to the poet Robert Creeley, report on the author's research into Mayan hieroglyphs and discuss Olson's ideas on "objectism" in poetry. (criticism)Ezra Pound, translator, The Translations of Ezra PoundGeorge Santayana, The Poet's Testament, verse dramaMay Sarton, The Land of SilenceKarl Shapiro, Poems 1940-1953, New York: Random HouseW. D. Snodgrass, Heart's Needle, New York: KnopfDavid Derek Stacton, An Unfamiliar Country: 25 PoemsGertrude Stein, Bee Time Vine and Other Pieces (1913–1927), fiction and verseWallace Stevens, Collected PoemsMelvin Tolson, Libretto for the Republic of LiberiaDavid Wagoner, Dry Sun, Dry WindRobert Penn Warren, Brother to DragonsJames K. Baxter, The Fallen House, New ZealandNissim Ezekiel, Sixty Poems, verses written from 1945 to 1951; IndiaJean-Guy Pilon, La fiancée du matin: poèmes, Montréal: Éditions AmicitiaYves Bonnefoy, Du mouvement et de l'immobilité de douveRene-Guy Cadou, Helene ou le regne vegetal, Volume 2 (see Volume 1 1952), published posthumously (died 1951)Maurice Chappaz, Testament du Haut-Rhône, Swiss, French-languageAndrée Chedid, Textes pour le vivantJean Follain, TerritoiresPhilippe Jaccottet, L'Effraie et autres poèmes, the author's first book of poetry to appear in France; publisher: GallimardSaint-John Perse, VentsIn each section, listed in alphabetical order by first name:
R. S. Mugali, Kannada Sahitya Caritre, a history of Kannada literature, written in that language, up to the 19th centurySiddayya Puranika, Jalapata, lyricsVirasaiva Sahitya Mttu Itihasa, literary history of "Veerashaiva" literature in three volumesAmir Shah Kreri, Zafar Nama, a masnavi commemorating an episode of Islamic conquest and based on a Persian original; the poem became very popular in some rural areasMohammad Amin Kamil, Saqi Nama, a masnaviRasul Bath ("most probably the same person known now as Rasul Pompur", according to Indian academic Sisir Kumar Das), Ab e HayatRahman Rahi, Sanavany SazRasa Javidani, Tuhfa-e bahar, the Urdu-language poet's first book of Kashmiri-language poemsElamkulam Kunjan Pillai, Unninilisandesam, commentary on a 14th-century Manipravala poemK. Kittunni Nayar, Mahakavi Vallattol, biography of the poet VallatholUlloor Paramesvara Ayyar, Kerala Sahitya Caritram, in 1995, Indian academic Sisir Kumar Das called this book the "most comprehensive history of the Malayalam and Sanskrit literatures of Kerala"; published posthumously, in five volumes, starting this year, with the last volume coming out in 1955Ananta Pattanayak, Santisikhar, OriyaFelix Paul Noronha, writing in the Konkani dialect of the Marathi language:Kaviyam JheloKristanu Puranatli VinchovanGhulan Rabbani Taban, editor, Shikast-i zindan, Urdu-language poems about the independence struggle in India and other Asian countriesKripal Singh Kasel and Parminder Singh, Punjabi Sahit Di Utpatti Te Vikas, history of Punjabi literature, written in that languageLekhnath Poudyal, Tarun-Tapasi, a poem on contemporary affairs written mostly in the Sikharini meter; considered the magnum opus of the author, who calls it a navya kavya; NepaliNagarjun, Yug Dhara, poems on current affairs; HindiNarayan, also known as "Shyam", Rupa maya, a sequence of 16 sonnets on the myth of Visvamitra and Menaka; SindhiNanuram Samskarta, Samay Vayaro, in blank verse; RajasthaniNidudavolu Venkatarao, Telugu Kavula Caritra, biographical information about many Telugu poets (see also a larger work of the same nature, Daksina Desiyandhra Vangmayamu 1954)Nilmani Phookan, Surya Heno Nami Aahe Eyi Nadiadi, Rangiya, Assam: Prakashan Ghar, Assamese-languagePriyakant Maniar, Pratik, the author's first book of verses; 65 poems GujaratiShri Shrimat Kumar Vyas, editor, Alagojo, anthology of poems by Rajasthani authorsSudhindra Nath Datta, Sambarta, called "[o]ne of the major works in modern Bengali poetry", according to Sisir Kumar DasHermann Hesse, Die Gedichte, GermanAwards and honors
Canada: Governor General's Award, poetry or drama: The Net and the Sword, Douglas LePan King's Gold Medal for Poetry: Arthur WaleyAmerican Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Poetry: Marianne MooreNational Book Award for Poetry: Archibald MacLeish, Collected Poems: 1917-1952Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Archibald MacLeish: Collected Poems 1917-1952Bollingen Prize: Archibald MacLeish and William Carlos WilliamsFellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Robert FrostNorth Carolina Poet Laureate: James Larkin Pearson appointed.February 5 – Giannina Braschi, Puerto Rican-born poet and novelistJanuary 7 – Dionne Brand, Canadian poet, novelist, and non-fiction writer born and raised in Trinidad and Tobago before moving to CanadaJanuary 12 – David Brooks, AustralianFebruary 18 – Peter Robinson, EnglishFebruary 24 – Jane Hirshfield, American poet and translatorFebruary 27 – Brad Leithauser, AmericanJuly 20 – Joseph Bathanti, American poet, novelist and professor; North Carolina Poet Laureate, 2012–2014July 29 – Frank McGuinness, Irish playwright, translator and poetAugust 10 – Mark Doty, AmericanAugust 27 – Gjertrud Schnackenberg, AmericanOctober 1 – John Hegley, English performance poetNovember 19 – Tony Hoagland, AmericanAlso:Alison Brackenbury, EnglishPatrick Deeley, IrishAdeeb Kamal Ad-Deen, Iraqi, Arabic language poet living in AustraliaAntonis Fostieris, GreekRita Kelly, Irish languageChris Mansell, female Australian poet and publisherIan McBryde, Canadian-born poet living in AustraliaBirth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
February 25 – Mokichi Saitō (born 1882), Taishō period poet of the Araragi school and psychiatrist; father of novelist Kita Morio (surname: Saitō)April 6 – Idris Davies (born 1905), Welsh poet, originally writing in the Welsh language, but later exclusively in EnglishMay 22 – Louis Lavater (born 1867), Australian composer and writerMay 28 – Tatsuo Hori 堀 辰雄 (born 1904), Japanese, Showa period writer, poet and translator (surname: Hori)July 16 – Hilaire Belloc, 82 (born 1870), French-born English poet, essayist and travel writer whose "cautionary tales", humorous poems with a moral, are the most widely known of his writings, from burns resulting from a fall into a fireplaceSeptember 1 – Bernard O'Dowd (born 1866), Australian co-founder of newspaper TocsinSeptember 3 – Shinobu Orikuchi 折口 信夫, also known as Chōkū Shaku 釋 迢空 (born 1887), Japanese ethnologist, linguist, folklorist, novelist and poet; a disciple of Kunio Yanagita, he established an academic field named "Orikuchiism" (折口学, Orikuchigaku), a mix of Japanese folklore, Japanese classics and Shintō religion (surname: Orikuchi)November 9 – Dylan Thomas, 39 (born 1914), Welsh poet, from an alcohol-related cerebral incidentNovember 30 – Francis Picabia (born 1879), French avant-garde painter, poet and typographerDecember 7 – Helena Jane Coleman (born 1860), Canadian poetAlso:George Herbert Clarke (born 1873), English-born Canadian academic and writer 