Links to nations or nationalities point to articles with information on that nation's poetry or literature. For example, "United Kingdom" links to English poetry and "India" links to Indian poetry.
Events June 3 – Canadian poet Charles G. D. Roberts is knighted.John Coldwell Adams, "Sir Charles G.D. Roberts ," Confederation Voices, Canadian Poetry, UWO, Web, Mar. 2, 2011. June 15 Gay English poet W. H. Auden enters a marriage of convenience with Erika Mann. Premiere of T. S. Eliot's verse drama Murder in the Cathedral at Canterbury Cathedral in England. American poet George Oppen joins the Communist Party, where his organizing work will increasingly take precedence over his poetry; he writes no more verse until 1958. Picasso's poetry begins to be written. Tomb of Hafez in Shiraz, Persia, is rebuilt.
Works published in English
Canada Arthur Bourinot, Selected Poems (1915–1935). E. J. Pratt, The Titanic, Toronto: Macmillan."Bibliography," Selected Poems of E. J. Pratt, Peter Buitenhuis ed., Toronto: Macmillan, 1968, 207-208. Kenneth Leslie, Lowlands Low: Poems. Halifax: McCurdyBurris Devanney, Sandra Campbell and Domenico Di Nardo. "Kenneth Leslie: A Preliminary Bibliography ." Canadian Poetry: Studies/Documents/Reviews No.05 (Fall/Winter 1979), UWO, Web, Apr. 15, 2011 Wilson MacDonald, The Song Of The Undertow and Other Poems. Toronto, Buffalo: S.J.R. Saunders, Broadway.Search results: Wilson MacDonald, Open Library, Web, May 10, 2011. Wilson MacDonald, Quintrains Of "Callender" and Other Poems. Toronto: S.J.R. Saunders. Tom MacInnes, Rhymes of a Rounder, CanadaGustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books Duncan Campbell Scott, The Green Cloister, Canada Francis Sherman, The Complete Poems of Francis Sherman. Lorne Pierce ed. Toronto: Ryerson.Tammy Armstrong, "Francis Joseph Sherman ," New Brunswick Literary Encyclopedia, STU.ca, Web, May 11, 2011.
India, in English Sundhindra Dutt, Orchestra ( Poetry in English ),Vinayak Krishna Gokak, The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965), p 319, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), , retrieved August 6, 2010 Govind Krishna Chettur, The Shadow of God: A Sonnet Sequence ( Poetry in English ), London: Longmans, published in the United Kingdom Naik, M. K., Perspectives on Indian poetry in English, p. 230, (published by Abhinav Publications, 1984, , ), retrieved via Google Books, June 12, 2009 Nizamat Jung, Islamic Poems ( Poetry in English ), Hyderabad: Government Central PressVinayak 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
United Kingdom George Barker, Poems Samuel Beckett, Echo's Bones and Other Precipitates Norman Cameron, The Winter House Cecil Day-Lewis: Collected Poems 1929–1933 A Time to Dance, and Other Poems Walter de la Mare, Poems 1919 to 1934 T. S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral Christopher Hassall, Poems of Two Years Eiluned Lewis, December Apples (Welsh poet published in the United Kingdom) Louis MacNeice, Poems Herbert Read, Poems 1914–34 James Reeves, The Natural Need (with preface, in verse, by Laura Riding) Siegfried Sassoon, Vigils Humbert Wolfe: The Fourth of August, sonnets Stings and Wings X at Oberammergau W. B. Yeats, A Full Moon in March, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
United States John Peale Bishop, Minute ParticularsLudwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press Robert P. Tristram Coffin, Strange Holiness Countee Cullen, The Medea and Some Poems E. E. Cummings, No Thanks Kenneth Fearing, Poems John Gould Fletcher, XXIV Elegies Hamlin Garland, Iowa, O Iowa Horace Gregory, Chorus for Survival Robinson Jeffers, Solstice and Other Poems James Weldon Johnson, Selected Poems Edgar Lee Masters, Invisible Landscapes Marianne Moore, Selected Poems John G. Neihardt, The Song of the Messiah Edwin Arlington Robinson, King Jasper Muriel Rukeyser, Theory of Flight Karl Shapiro, Poems Wallace Stevens, Ideas of Order, includes "Farewell to Florida", "The Idea of Order at Key West", "Academic Discourse at Havana", "Like Decorations in a Nigger Cemetery", and "A Postcard from the Volcano"), Alcestis Press (enlarged edition, 1936)Web page titled "Wallace Stevens (1879 - 1955)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved April 9, 2009. 2009-05-04. Robert Penn Warren, Thirty-Six Poems William Carlos Williams, An Early Martyr and Other Poems
Other in English Allen Curnow (New Zealand): Three Poems (Caxton) Poetry and Language, a brief poetry manifesto (Caxton) C. J. Dennis, The Singing Garden, Australia W. B. Yeats, A Full Moon in March, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom Rex Ingamells, Gumtops, Australia
Works published in other languages
France René Char, Le Marteau sans maitreAuster, Paul, editor, The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets, New York: Random House, 1982 René Daumal, Le Contre-cielBree, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983 Paul Éluard, Facile Francis Jammes: AlouetteRees, William, The Penguin book of French poetry: 1820-1950 : with prose translations, p 413, Penguin Classics, 1992, , retrieved via Google Books, August 30, 2009 De tout temps à jamais, Paris: GallimardWeb page titled "POET Francis Jammes (1868-1938)", at The Poetry Foundation website, retrieved August 30, 2009 Henri Michaux, La Nuit remue Catherine Pozzi (died 1934), "Ave", "Vale", "Scopolamine", "Nova", "Maya" and "Nyx", published in Mesures
Indian subcontinent Including all of the British colonies which later became India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Listed alphabetically by first name, regardless of surname:
Gujarati Balawantrai Thakore, Mharon Sonnet Jhaverchand Meghani, Yugavandana Jhinabhai Desai Snehrashmi, Arghya, the author's first poetry collection; many of the poems display patriotism and love for the poor Kavi Nhanalal, Ketalank Kavyo, Part 3 (Part 1 published 1903; Part 2 in 1908); the first part made Nhanalal's reputation as the best Gujarati lyric poet; the collection is known for its metrical innovations, creative power and mix of modern and old folk elementsDas, Sisir Kumar, "A Chronology of Literary Events / 1911–1956", in Das, 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 Kishorlal Mashruvala, translator, Vidayuelae — Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet from English into Gujarati Mansukhlal Jhaveri, PhooldalMohan, Sarala Jag, Chapter 4: "Twentieth-Century Gujarati Literature" (Google books link), in Natarajan, Nalini, and Emanuel Sampath Nelson, editors, Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, , retrieved December 10, 2008
Urdu Akbar Allahabadi, Kulliyat-i Akbar Allahabadi, in four volumes, published (fourteen years after his death in 1921) from this year through 1939; Indian, Urdu-language M. Diyauddin, translator, Kālam-i-Tagore, translated from the Bengali of Rabindranath Tagore, with Tagore involved in the translation, into Urdu Muhammad Iqbal, Bal-i Jibrial, alternate spelling: "Bal-i Jibril" ("Wings of Gabriel"), includes and ghazals; famous poems in the volume: "Iblees Ki Majlis-e-Shura" ("The Parliament of Satan"), "Jibrail-o-Iblis", "Lenin Khuda Ke Hazur main" ("Lenin in the Court of God"), "Punjab ke Dehqan se" ("To the Punjab Peasants"); "This is regarded as a milestone in Urdu poetry", according to Indian academic Siser Kumar Das; inspired by Iqbal's 1933 visit to Spain
Other Indian languages Bal Krisna Rav, Abhas, Indian, Hindi-language Changampuzha Krishna Pillai, Baspanjali ("Offering of tears"), the author's first poetry collection, Malayalam Duvvuri Rami Reddi, translator, Panasala — translation of Omar Khayyám's Rubaiyat from Persian into Telugu Jayshankar Prasad, Kamayani, said to be the greatest poem of the Chayavadi (Indian romantic) movement; 15 cantos, each named after an emotion; Hindi Mahjoor, "Gristi Kur", Kashmiri poem in the Vatsan form comparing the refreshing traits of peasants as compared with less lively aristocrats; published in the August 1 issue of Hamdard Rabindranath Tagore, Ses Saptak, in this and in some of the author's other books in the mid-1930s, he introduced a new rhythm in poetry that "had a tremendous impact on the modern poets", according to Indian academic Sisir Kumar Das; Bengali Ulloor Paramesvara Iyer, Dipavali, Malayalam
Spanish language
Peru Xavier Abril, Difícil trabajoFitts, Dudley, editor, Anthology of Contemporary Latin-American Poetry/Antología de la Poesía Americana Contemporánea Norfolk, Conn., New Directions, (also London: The Falcoln Press, but this book was "Printed in U.S.A.), 1947, p 589 Manuel Moreno Jimeno, Los malditosFitts, Dudley, editor, Anthology of Contemporary Latin-American Poetry/Antología de la Poesía Americana Contemporánea Norfolk, Conn., New Directions, (also London: The Falcoln Press, but this book was "Printed in U.S.A.), 1947, p 621 Emilio Vasquez, TawantinsuyoFitts, Dudley, editor, Anthology of Contemporary Latin-American Poetry/Antología de la Poesía Americana Contemporánea Norfolk, Conn., New Directions, (also London: The Falcoln Press, but this book was "Printed in U.S.A.), 1947, p 647 Emilio Adolfo von Westphalen, Abolición de la muerteFitts, Dudley, editor, Anthology of Contemporary Latin-American Poetry/Antología de la Poesía Americana Contemporánea Norfolk, Conn., New Directions, (also London: The Falcoln Press, but this book was "Printed in U.S.A.), 1947, p 649
Spain Vicente Aleixandre: La destrucción o el amor ("Destruction or/as Love")Debicki, Andrew P., Spanish Poetry of the Twentieth Century: Modernity and Beyond, p 42, University Press of Kentucky, 1995, , retrieved via Google Books, November 21, 2009 Pasión de la tierra ("Passion of the Earth"), written 1928–1929 Germán Bleiberg, El cantar de la noche ("The Song of the Night") Gabriel Celaya, Marea del silencio ("Tide of Silence") Federico García Lorca: Llanto por Ignacio Sánchez Mejías ("Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejías") Seis poemas galegos ("Six Galician poems") Luis Rosales, Abril ("April")
Other languages Constantine Cavafy, Ποιήματα (Piimata, or "Poems of C.P. Cavafy"), Greece Parvin E'tesami, Dirwan, Persia Bernard Kangro, Sonetid, Estonia Kersti Merilaas, Loomingus, Estonia Giorgos Seferis, Μυθιστόρημα ("Tale of Legends"), Greece
Awards and honors
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry - Audrey Wurdemann, Bright Ambush
Births Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January 14 – Labhshankar Thakar (died 2016), Indian Gujarati poet, playwright and story writer January 16 – Inger Christensen (died 2009), Danish poet, writer, novelist, essayist and children's book author"Poet Inger Christensen dies: Danish poet Inger Christensen dies at 73", Agence France Presse, as published on the Singapore Straits Times website, retrieved January 7, 2008 January 18 – Jon Stallworthy (died 2014), English poet, literary critic and academic January 30 – Richard Brautigan (died 1984), American writer and poet January 27 – D. M. Thomas (died 2023), English novelist, poet, and translator from Cornwall February 14 – Grigore Vieru (died 2009), Moldovan poet writing in Romanian, strong promoter of the Romanian language in Moldova March 13 – Kofi Awoonor (killed 2013), Ghanaian poet and author whose work combines the poetic traditions of his native Ewe people and contemporary and religious symbolism to depict Africa during decolonization