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Events January 19 - Starting this year, and continuing to at least 2009, an anonymous black-clad person, who enters popular lore as the Poe Toaster, appears in Baltimore at the Westminster Hall and Burying Ground tomb of American poet Edgar Allan Poe early on the morning of Poe's birthday. The man toasts Poe with Cognac and leaves three red roses at the grave (along with the remainder of the Cognac).Kennedy, Randy, "Edgar 'Poe Toaster' Is a No-Show", January 19, 2010, "Arts Beat" column, p C2, The New York Times, retrieved same day. February 19 - American poet Ezra Pound, at this time incarcerated in a psychiatric institution, is awarded the first Bollingen Prize in poetry by the Bollingen Foundation and Yale University provoking a storm of criticism because of his pro-Fascist activities before and during World War II. March - Pablo Neruda flees Chile over the Lilpela Pass through the Andes to Argentina on horseback carrying a manuscript of his Canto General. April 14 - Roy Campbell punches Stephen Spender on the nose at a poetry reading in London. October - Publication begins in Italy of L'inferno di Topolino, a graphic parody of Dante's Inferno featuring Mickey Mouse with text and verse by Guido Martina. Indonesian poet Chairil Anwar writes his last poem, "Cemara Menderai Sampai Jauh" ("Fir Trees Are Sown Off Into the Distance"), prior to his death aged 26 on April 28. Greek Communist poet Yannis Ritsos, incarcerated during the Communist–centrist/rightist struggle in the Greek Civil War, writes poems which will ultimately see publication twenty-six years later, in the 1975 book, Petrinos khronos. George Hill Dillon, editor of the journal Poetry since 1937, relinquishes his post. First issue of Caribbean Quarterly, the flagship journal on culture edited at the University of the West Indies, spotlights Caribbean poetry."Selected Timeline of Anglophone Caribbean Poetry" in Williams, Emily Allen, Anglophone Caribbean Poetry, 1970–2001: An Annotated Bibliography, page xvii and following pages, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002, , retrieved via Google Books, February 7, 2009
Works published in English Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:
Canada Raymond Knister, Collected Poems ed. Dorothy Livesay.Gustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books James Reaney, The Red Heart. Governor General's Award 1949.
India, in English Sri Aurobindo, Chitrangada ( Poetry in English ), Bombay: Sri Aurobindo Circle,Vinayak Krishna Gokak, The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965), p 313, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), , retrieved August 6, 2010
New Zealand Allen Curnow: The Axe, a verse play with a Pacific setting (Caxton)Allen Curnow Web page at the New Zealand Book Council website, accessed April 21, 2008 At Dead Low Water and Sonnets (Caxton) Basil Dowling, CanterburyWeb page titled "Ursula Bethall" in An Encyclopedia of New Zealand, 1966 website, accessed April 21, 2008
United Kingdom Dannie Abse, After Every Green Thing Edward Andrade, Poems and Songs Edmund Blunden, After the Bombing, and Other Short Poems Roy Campbell, Collected Poems, Volume 1 (Volume 2 1957, Volume 3 (consisting of translations) 1960) C. Day-Lewis, Collected Poems, published in March, although the book states "1948" (see also Collected Poems 1954) William Empson, Collected Poems of William EmpsonRichard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, editors, The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, W. W. Norton & Company, 1973, Roy Fuller, Epitaphs and Occasions Robert Garioch Sutherland, writing under the name "Robert Garioch", Chuckles on the Cairn W. S. Graham, The White Threshold Geoffrey Grigson, editor, Poetry of the Present, anthology Christopher Hassall, The Slow Night, and Other Poems 1940–8 James Kirkup, editor, Leeds University Poetry, including work by Kirkup, Wilfred Rowland Childe, Derrick Metcalfe, and Kenneth Muir (Hull: Lotus Press)"James Kirkup" , Leeds University Library website, retrieved November 30, 2008 Louis MacNeice, Collected Poems 1925–48 Edwin Muir, The Labyrinth Kathleen Raine, The Pythoness, and Other Poems James Reeves, The Imprisoned Sea Edith Sitwell, The Canticle of the Rose: Poems 1917–1949 Stephen Spender, The Edge of Being W. B. Yeats (d. 1939), Poems, "The Definitive Edition", Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
United States Conrad Aiken: The Divine PilgrimLudwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press ("If the title page is one year later than the copyright date, we used the latter since publishers frequently postdate books published near the end of the calendar year." — from the Preface, p vi) Skylight One Joseph Payne Brennan, Heart of Earth (Decker Press) Gwendolyn Brooks, Annie Allen John Ciardi, Live Another Day Hilda Doolittle, writing under the pen name "H.D.", By Avon River Kenneth Fearing, Stranger at Coney Island Robert Frost, Complete Poems Langston Hughes, One-Way Ticket Kenneth Patchen: Red Wine & Yellow Hair To Say If You Love Someone Ezra Pound, Selected Poems Kenneth Rexroth: The Signature of All Things The Art of Worldly Wisdom", Prairie City, Illinois: Decker Press Louis Simpson, The Arrivistes Donald A. Stauffer, The Golden Nightingale: Essays on Some Principles of Poetry in the Lyrics of William Butler Yeats, New York: Macmillan, United States criticismUntitled review by A. Norman Jeffares, of book in The Review of English Studies, New Series, Vol. 2, No. 7 (Jul., 1951), pp. 291-293 Peter Viereck, The Poet in the Machine Age William Carlos Williams: Paterson, Book III Selected Poems
Other in English Judith Wright, Woman to Man, Australian W. B. Yeats (d. 1939), Poems, "The Definitive Edition", Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
Works published in other languages
France Aimé Césaire, Corps perduRees, William, The Penguin book of French poetry: 1820-1950, p 810, Penguin, 1992, Paul Éluard, pen name of Paul-Eugène Grindel, ''Une leçon de moraleBree, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983 Eugene Guilleveic, GagnerAuster, Paul, editor, The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets, New York: Random House, 1982 Pierre Jean Jouve, Diadème Henri Michaux, Poesie pour pouvoir, Paris: DrouinRigaud-Drayton, Margaret, Henri Michaux: Poetry, Painting and the Universal Sign, Bibliography, p 165, Oxford University Press, 2005, retrieved via Google Books on August 10, 2009 Pierre Reverdy, Main d'oeuvre: 1913–1949 Claude Roy, Le Poète mineur Jules Supervielle, Oublieuse Mémoire Tristan Tzara, pen name of Sami Rosenstock, Phases
India In each section, listed in alphabetical order by first name:
Marathi C. V. Karandikar, also known as Vinda Karandikar, Svedaganga, India, Marathi-languageDas, Sisir Kumar and various, History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956: struggle for freedom: triumph and tragedy, Volume 2, 1995, published by Sahitya Akademi, , retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008 Manmohan, Yugayugance Sahapravasi, Indian, Marathi-language (later translated into Hindi under the title Marsal ki Salami) K. B. Nikumb, Ujjvala, Indian, Marathi-language Sarachchandra Muktibodh, Navi Malavat Indian, Marathi-language Shrikrishna Powale, Jala Mati, Indian, Marathi-language
Other languages of the Indian subcontinent Chittadhar Hridaya, Sugata Saurabha, a Buddhist epic, written in Nepal Bhasa, mostly in prison 1941-46, published in India Masood Husain, Urdu zaban aur adab, a history, written in Urdu of that language and its literature Nilakantha Shastri, translator, Sri Rama Carita, translation into Sanskrit of the Tamil-language Kamba Ramayana Pritam Singh Safir, Rakt Bundam, Indian, Punjabi-language S. Lalita, translator, Valarmati, translation into Tamil from the Indian poetry in English of Rabindranath Tagore's The Crescent Moon Sitaramaiah Kuruganti, Navyandhra Sahitya Vidhulu, a four-volume history in Telugu of that language's literature Umar Alisha, translator, Umar Khayyam, translation into Telugu from the Persian of Omar Khayyam's Rubaiyats
Other languages Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately: Alfonso Calderón, Primer Consejo a los Arcangeles del Viento ("First Advice to the Archangels of the Wind"), Spanish-language, Chile"Chile National Literature Prize Winner Alfonso Calderon Dies" , obituary, August 8, 2009, Latin American Herald Tribune, retrieved September 4, 2009. Archived 2009-09-06. Haim Gouri, Pirhei Esh ("Flowers of Fire, Years of Fire"), Israeli writing in Hebrew Web page titled "Haim Gouri" at the Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature Web site, accessed October 6, 2007 Eric Knudsen, Blomsten og sværdet ("The Flower and the Sword"), Denmark"Danish Poetry" article, pp 273, in Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications Alexander Mezhirov, Новые встречи ("New Encounters"), including "Communists, Ahead!", RussiaShrayer, Maxim, "Aleksandr Mezhirov", p 879, An Anthology of Jewish-Russian Literature: Two Centuries of Dual Identity in Prose and Poetry, publisher: M.E. Sharpe, 2007, , , retrieved via Google Books on May 27, 2009 Máirtín Ó Direáin, Rogha Dánta, Irish poet writing in Irish Carlos de Oliveira, Descida aos Infernos Nizar Qabbani, Samba, Syrian poet writing in Arabic
Awards and honors Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (later the post would be called "Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress"): Elizabeth Bishop appointed this year. Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Peter Viereck, Terror and Decorum Bollingen Prize: Ezra Pound Canada: Governor General's Award, poetry or drama: The Red Heart, James Reaney "Cumulative List of Winners of the Governor General's Literary Awards ", Canada Council. Web, Feb. 10, 2011. http://www.canadacouncil.ca/NR/rdonlyres/E22B9A3C-5906-41B8-B39C-F91F58B3FD70/0/cumulativewinners2010rev.pdf
Births Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January 2 – Jean Krier (died 2013), Luxembourger poet January 6 – Carolyn D. Wright (died 2016), writing as C. D. Wright, American poet January 25 – Tom Paulin, Northern Irish poet and critic of film, music and literature January 27 – Bruce Weigl, American poet and academic February – Agha Shahid Ali (died 2001), Indian-born English-language poet February 6 Victor Hernández Cruz, Puerto Rico-born American poet Eliot Weinberger, American essayist and principal translator of Octavio Paz into English March 14 – Lynn Emanuel, American poet April 1 – Gil Scott-Heron (died 2011), African-American poet, jazz/soul musician and author April 13 – Marilyn Bowering, Canadian poet and novelist April 25 – James Fenton, English journalist, poet, critic and academic May 6 – Olga Broumas, Greek-born English-language poet in the United States May 13 – Christopher Reid, Hong Kong-born English poet, essayist, cartoonist, writer and exponent of Martian poetry May 15 – Alice Major, Scottish-born Canadian poet June 21: John Agard, playwright, poet and children's writer from Guyana, who moves to England in 1977 Jane Urquhart, Canadian poet and author July 1 – Denis Johnson (died 2017), American writer