Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
Works published in English
- Wilson MacDonald, Comber Cove. Toronto: S.J.R. Saunders.
- E. J. Pratt, The Fable of the Goats and Other Poems, Toronto: Macmillan. Governor General's Award 1937.
- W. H. Auden, Spain
- W. H. Auden and Louis MacNeice, Letters from Iceland, partly poetry
- George Barker, Calamiterror
- John Betjeman, Continual Dew: A little book of bourgeois verse, including "The Arrest of Oscar Wilde at the Cadogan Hotel"
- Edmund Blunden, A Ballad of Titles, An elegy, and other poems and Uneasy Quiet
- Walter de la Mare, This Year, Next Year, illustrations by Harold Jones, Faber
- David Jones, In Parenthesis, frontispiece by author, Faber
- Charles Madge, The Disappearing Castle
- Edwin Muir, Journeys and Places
- Enoch Powell, First Poems, Oxford: Blackwell
- Isaac Rosenberg, Collected Works, foreword by Siegfried Sassoon; posthumously published
- Iqbal Ali Shah, editor, The Coronation Book of Oriental Literature, London: Sampson Low, Marston and Co., 404 pages; anthology; Indian poetry in English, published in the United Kingdom
- Stevie Smith, A Good Time Was Had By All
- W. H. Auden, with Louis MacNeice, Letters from Iceland
- R. P. Blackmur, From Jordan's Delight
- Louise Bogan, the Sleeping Fury
- Richard Eberhart, Reading the Spirit
- Robert Hillyer, A Letter to Robert Frost and Others
- Robinson Jeffers, Such Counsels You Gave to Me
- Josephine Johnson, Year's End
- Edna St. Vincent Millay, Conversation at Midnight
- Ezra Pound, The Fifth Decad of Cantos
- May Sarton, Encounter in April
- Dr. Seuss, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, the author's first book; for children
- Wallace Stevens, The Man with the Blue Guitar, and Other Poems, includes "The Man With the Blue Guitar," "A Thought Revolved," and "The Men That Are Falling", Knopf
- Allen Tate, Selected Poems
Other in English
Works published in French
- Jacques Audiberti, Race des hommes
- Rene-Guy Cadou, Les Brancardiers de l'aube, the author's first book of poems, published when he was 17 years old
- Pierre Jean Jouve, Matière celeste
- Max Jacob, Morceaux choisis
- Oscar Vladislas de Lubicz-Milosz, also known as O. V. de L. Milosz, Dix-sept Poèmes de Milosz
- Henri Michaux, Plume, précédé de Lointain intérieur
- Pierre Reverdy, Ferraille
- Philippe Soupault, Poésies Complètes 1917–1973
Works published in other languages
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:
- Gangula Sayi Reddi, Kapu bidda, poems on the condition of farmers; Telugu
- Gurram Jashuva, editor, Khanda Kavyamu or Jashuva Khandakavyalu, in seven volumes, published from this year to 1949; anthology of Telagu poetry
- Peer Aziz Ullah Haqqani, Qissa-e-Mumtaz E Benazir, a large masnavi of Romantic mysticism; Telugu; posthumous
- Srirangam arayanababu, Rudhirajyoti, Telugu
- Vedula Satyanarayan Shastri, Dipavali, romantic lyrics, Telugu
- Mehr Lal Soni Zia Fatehabadi Noor-e-Mashriq (The Light of the East) - Collection of nazms, geets and sonnets published by Jyoti Prasad Gupta, Jyoti Printing Works, Esplanade, Delhi in 1937.
Other Indian languages
- Anupa Sharma, Siddharth, a Hindi epic in 18 chapters on the story of Gautama Buddha
- D. R. Bendre, also known as Ambikatanaya Datta, Sakhigita, the title poem is autobiographical; Kannada
- Devandas Kishinani, Purab Sandes, Indian, Sindhi-language
- Ghulam Mohammad Hanafi, Jang-e Amir Hamza, a Jangnama, based on an episode in the movement to spread Islam; Kashmiri
- Hijam Anganhal Simha, Singel Indu, a long narrative Meitei poem
- Manjewshwara Govinda Pai, Golgotha, long narrative poem on the final days of Jesus Christ, Kannada
- Riddhinath Jha, Pravasi Mithiles, verses praising the Maharaja of Darbhanga; Maithili
- Siyaramsharan Gupta, Bapu, on Gandhi and his ideology, Hindi
Spanish language
Other in Spanish
Other
Awards and honors
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 1:
- John Fuller, English poet and author
- Dilwar Khan (died 2013), Bengali poet
- January 14 – J. Bernlef, born Hendrik Jan Marsman (died 2012), Dutch poet, novelist and translator
- February 21 – Mervyn Morris, Jamaican poet
- February 27 – Peter Hamm (died 2019), German poet, author, journalist, editor and literary critic
- April 10 – Bella Akhmadulina (died 2010), Russian poet
- April 23 – Coleman Barks (died 2026), American poet who, although he neither spoke nor read Persian, is nonetheless renowned as a translator of Rumi and other mystic poets of Persia
- April 30 – Tony Harrison (died 2025), English poet and playwright
- May 11 – Michael Heller, American poet
- May 21 – Glen Sorestad, Canadian poet
- June 8 – Gillian Clarke, native Welsh, English-language poet, playwright, editor, broadcaster, lecturer and translator (from Welsh)
- June 10 – Susan Howe, American poet and critic closely associated with the Language poets
- July 3 – Milovan DanojliÃÂ, Serbian poet and essayist (died 2022)
- July 10 – , German poet
- July 18 – Roald Hoffmann, born Safran, Polish-born American theoretical chemist, poet and playwright, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- July 29 – Eleanor Wilner, American poet and editor
- August 3
- Marvin Bell (died 2020), American poet
- Diane Wakoski, American poet associated with the "deep image" poets and the Beats
- September 14 – Douglas Oliver (died 2000), British poet
- October 11 – R. H. W. Dillard, American poet, author, critic and translator
- November 4 – W. Dabney Stuart, American poet
- November 9
- Roger McGough, English poet
- S. Abdul Rahman (died 2017), Tamil poet
- November 11 – Alicia Ostriker, American poet and academic
- November 19 – Meg Campbell (died 2007), New Zealand poet and wife of Alistair Campbell
- December 1 – Eugene B. Redmond, African-American poet
- December 23 РV̩nus Khoury-Ghata, Lebanese-born French poet, novelist and beauty queen (died 2026)
- December 31 – Nicolas Born (died 1979), German poet
- Also:
- Parijat, à ¤ªà ¤¾à ¤°à ¤¿à ¤Âà ¤¾à ¤¤, Bishnu Kumari Waiba (died 1993), Nepalese novelist and poet
- John Riley (died 1978), English poet associated with the British Poetry Revival
Deaths
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- March 8 – Albert Verwey (born 1865), Dutch poet
- June 22 – Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo (born 1901?), Malagasy poet writing in French; suicide
- July 6 – Alex McDade (born 1905), Scottish poet and labourer; killed in the Spanish Civil War
- July 18 – Julian Bell (born 1908), English poet, and a member of a family whose notable members include his parents, Clive and Vanessa Bell; his aunt, Virginia Woolf; his younger brother, writer Quentin Bell; and his half-sister, writer and painter Angelica Garnett; killed in the Spanish Civil War
- August 11 – Edith Wharton (born 1862), American novelist, short story writer, designer and poet
- September 8 – Anna Hempstead Branch (born 1875), American poet
- October 22 – ChÃ
«ya Nakahara ä¸Âå ä¸Âä¹ (born 1907), early ShÃ
Âwa period Japanese poet (surname: Nakahara)
- December 26 – Ivor Gurney (born 1890), English composer and poet; tuberculosis while suffering delusional insanity
- December 29 – Don Marquis (born 1878), American poet, artist, newspaper columnist, humorist, playwright and author best known for creating the characters "Archy" and "Mehitabel"
- Also – Constance Woodrow (born 1899), English-born Canadian poet
See also
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