Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events January 16 – English novelist and poet Thomas Hardy's ashes are interred in Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey in London; pallbearers at the ceremony include Stanley Baldwin, J. M. Barrie, John Galsworthy, Edmund Gosse, A. E. Housman, Rudyard Kipling, Ramsay MacDonald and George Bernard Shaw. At the same time, Hardy's heart is interred where he wished to be buried, in the grave of his first wife, Emma, in the churchyard of his parish of birth, Stinsford ("Mellstock") in Dorset. Later in the year, his widow Florence publishes the first part of a biography, The Early Life of Thomas Hardy, 1840–1891 (Macmillan), in fact largely dictated by Hardy. September 21 – The Gorseth Kernow is set up at Boscawen-Un in Cornwall by Henry Jenner ("Gwas Myghal") and others. November 6 – Xu Zhimo writes his poem 再別康橋 (simplified Chinese 再别康桥, Zài Bié Kāngqiáo, "On Leaving Cambridge Once More"). Russian poets Daniil Kharms and Alexander Vvedensky found OBERIU (a Russian acronym for "An Association of Real Art"), an avant-garde grouping of Russian post-Futurist poets in the 1920s-1930s American poets Charles Reznikoff, George Oppen and Louis Zukofsky meet in New York City; they will become some of the founders of the Objectivist poets group. The only surviving fragment of Erinna's Greek poem The Distaff (probably first half of the 4th century BCE) is found in the Oxyrhynchus Papyri. The clerihew, the comic pseudo-biographical verse form associated with Edmund Clerihew Bentley, is mentioned in print for the first time.In The Week-end Book – Oxford English Dictionary.
Works published in English
Canada Dorothy Livesay, Green Pitcher. Toronto: Macmillan."Dorothy Livesay (1909-1996): Works" , Canadian Women Poets, Brock University. Web, Mar. 18, 2011. Seranus, Later Poems and New Villanelles (Toronto: Ryerson).Wanda Campbell, "Susan Frances Harrison," Hidden Rooms: Early Canadian Women Poets , Canadian Poetry P, 2002, Canadian Poetry, UWO, Web, May 4, 2010. Arthur Stringer, A Woman At Dusk and Other Poems. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill.
India, in English V. N. Bhusan, Silhouettes, Masulpatam: Youth of Asia Society; India, Indian poetry in EnglishNaik, M. K., Perspectives on Indian poetry in English, p. 230, (published by Abhinav Publications, 1984, , ), retrieved via Google Books, June 12, 2009 Joseph Furtado, A Goan FiddlerK. R. Srinivasa Iyengar, "The Poetry of Sri Aurobindo", in Naik, M. K., Perspectives in Indian Poetry in English, p 17, New Delhi: Abhinav Publications (1984), retrieved August 10, 2010 Shyam Sunder Lal Chordia, Chitor and Other Poems, Bombay: D. B. Taraporevala Sons and Co.Vinayak Krishna Gokak, The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965), p 316, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), , retrieved August 6, 2010
United Kingdom Rupert Brooke, Collected Poems, see also 1946Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, Roy Campbell, The Wayzgoose, a lampoon, in rhyming couplets, on the cultural shortcomings of South Africa; South African native published in the United Kingdom, and at this time living there W. H. Davies, Collected Poems T. S. Eliot: "Perch' Io non Spero" (later to become part I of Ash Wednesday, published in 1930) was published in the Spring, 1928 issue of Commerce along with a French translation.Gallup, Donald. T. S. Eliot: A Bibliography (A Revised and Extended Edition) pp. 39–40, 218, 219, 223 (Harcourt Brace & World 1969) A Song for Simeon printed in September by Faber & Gwyer as part of its Ariel poems series.Eliot, T. S. "A Song for Simeon" in Ariel 16. (London: Faber and Faber, 1928); Gallup, Donald. T. S. Eliot: A Bibliography. (New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1969). "A11. A Song for Simeon" is listed as "A.11" H. S. Milford, editor, The Oxford Book of English Verse of the Romantic Period, 1798–1837: 1798–1837, Clarendon Press, anthologyPreminger, Alex, and Brogan, T.V.F., editors, The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Princeton University Press, 1993, "English Poetry" article, "Anthologies" section, p. 353; also Google Books page Thomas Hardy, Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres, (posthumous) D. H. Lawrence, Collected Poems John Masefield, Midsummer Night, and Other Tales in Verse Laura Riding, Love as Love, Death as Death Siegfried Sassoon, The Heart's Journey A. J. A. Symons, An Anthology of 'Nineties' Verse Humbert Wolfe: The Silver Cat, and Other Poems This Blind Rose W. B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom): The Tower, including "Sailing to Byzantium" and "Leda and the Swan", Irish The Death of Synge, and Other Passages from an Old Diary (poetry)
United States W. H. Auden, PoemsLudwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press Stephen Vincent Benét, John Brown's Body E. E. Cummings, Christmas Tree John Gould Fletcher, The Black Rock Robert Frost, West-Running Brook Robert Hillyer, The Seventh Hill Robinson Jeffers, Cawdor and Other Poems William Ellery Leonard, A Son of Earth Archibald MacLeish, The Hamlet of A. MacLeish Edgar Lee Masters, Jack Kelso: A Dramatic Poem Joseph Moncure March, "The Wild Party" Edna St. Vincent Millay, The Buck in the Snow Dorothy Parker, Sunset Gun Ezra Pound: Selected Poems, edited by T. S. Eliot, London,Ackroyd, Peter, Ezra Pound, Thames and Hudson Ltd., London, 1980, "Bibliography" chapter, p. 121 American poet living in Europe A Draft of the Cantos 17–27 Edward Arlington Robinson, Sonnets, 1889–1927 Carl Sandburg, Good Morning, America Allen Tate, Mr. Pope and Other Poems, including "Ode to the Confederate Dead" Amos Wilder, Arachne: poems, Yale University Press Elinor Wylie, Trivial Breath Louis Zukofsky completes the original versions of "A" 1, 2, 3 and 4, which have been compared to Pound's Cantos; the fragmentary long poem will be a lifelong project
Other in English John Le Gay Brereton, Swags Up, Australia Roy Campbell, The Wayzgoose: A South African Satire, South Africa W. B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom: The Tower, including "Sailing to Byzantium" and "Leda and the Swan", Irish The Death of Synge, and Other Passages from an Old Diary (poetry)
Works published in other languages
France René Char, Les Cloches sur le coeurBree, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983 Léon-Paul Fargue: BanalitéAuster, Paul, editor, The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets, New York: Random House, 1982 Vulturne Francis Jammes, DianeWeb page titled "POET Francis Jammes (1868 - 1938)", at The Poetry Foundation website, retrieved August 30, 2009. 2009-09-03. Pierre Jean Jouve, Les NocesHartley, Anthony, editor, The Penguin Book of French Verse: 4: The Twentieth Century, Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1967 Alphonse Métérié, Nocturnes Benjamin Péret, Le grand jeu Pierre Reverdy, La Balle au bond Tristan Tzara, pen name of Sami Rosenstock, Indicateur des chemins de coeur
Indian subcontinent Including all of the British colonies that later became India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Listed alphabetically by first name, regardless of surname: Cherian Mappila, also known as "Cheriyan Mappila",Das, 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 Shri Yesu Vijayam (also spelled "Sriyesuvijayam"), long poem about the life of Jesus, India, Malayalam language;Paniker, Ayyappa, "Modern Malayalam Literature" chapter in George, K. M., editor, Modern Indian Literature, an Anthology, pp 231–255, published by Sahitya Akademi, 1992, retrieved January 10, 2009 a poem on a Christian theme; called the first major contribution to Indian literature by a Christian poet Nalini Bala Devi, Sandhiyar Sur, Assamese Peer Ghulam Mohammad Hanafi, Bagh-O Bahar, tales in verse in the Kashmiri language, derived from Urdu tales Sri Sri, Prabhava, Telugu Vakil Ghulam Ahmad Shah Qureshi, Pani Gulzar, Kashmiri
Spanish language
Spain Vicente Aleixandre, Ambito ("Milieu"), the author's first book of poemsDebicki, 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 Federico García Lorca, Primer romancero gitano ("Gypsy Ballads") Jorge Guillén, Cántico, first edition, with 75 poems in five sections (enlarged edition, with 125 poems, 1936)
Other in Spanish Martín Adan, La case de cartón, a novel in verse, PeruFitts, 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 Nellie Campobello, Yo, Mexico José Varallanos, El hombre del Ande que asesinó su esperanza, PeruFitts, 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 635
Other languages Nérée Beauchemin, Patrie intime, French language, CanadaStory, Noah, The Oxford Companion to Canadian History and Literature, "Poetry in French" article, pp. 651–654, Oxford University Press, 1967 Uri Zvi Greenberg, Hazon Ehad Ha-Legionot ("A Vision of One of the Legions"), Hebrew language, Mandatory Palestine Aaro Hellaakoski, Jääpeili, Finland Stefan George, Das neue Reich ("The New Reich"), Germany"Stefan George", article, Encyclopedia of World Biography, 2004, retrieved February 23, 2010 Federico García Lorca, Romancero gitano ("Gypsy Ballads"), Spain Eugenio Montale, Ossi di seppia ("Cuttlefish Bones"), second edition, with six new poems and an introduction by Alfredo Gargiulo (first published in 1925; third edition, 1931), Lanciano: Carabba, ItalyEugenio Montale, Collected Poems 1920-1954, translated and edited by Jonathan Galassi, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998, Takahashi Shinkichi, Takahashi Shinkichi shishu ("Poetical Works by Takahashi Shinkichi"), Tokyo: Nanso Shoin, Japan (Surname: Takahashi)International League of Antiquarian Booksellers website, search results for this name, retrieved January 1, 2009 J. Slauerhoff, Eldorado, Dutch
Awards and honors Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Edwin Arlington Robinson wins his third Pulitzer Prize for Poetry this decade, this time for Tristram
Births Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January 1 – Iain Crichton Smith (died 1998), Scottish poet and fiction writer in both English and Scottish Gaelic January 8 – Gaston Miron (died 1996), Canadian poet and author January 10 – Philip Levine (died 2015), American poet, educator and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry January 29 – Gene Frumkin (died 2007), American poet February 2 – Cynthia Macdonald (died 2015, American poet February 14 – Bruce Beaver (died 2004), Australian poet February 25 – Hushang Ebtehaj (H. E. Sayeh) (died 2022), Persian poet March 1 – Conrad Hilberry (died 2017), American poet March 4 – Alan Sillitoe (died 2010), English poet and writer, one of the "Angry Young Men" of the 1950s March 13 – Bob Brissenden (died 1991), Australian poet March 18 – Dave Etter (died 2015), American poet March 28 – Vayalar Rama Varma (died 1975), Indian, Malayalam-language poet and film songwriter April 4 – Maya Angelou (died 2014), African-American poet April 7 – Gael Turnbull (died 2004), Scottish poet