Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
- June 29 â€" T. S. Eliot enters the Church of England; in November he takes British citizenship.
- July 7 â€" James Joyce's collection Pomes Penyeach is published by Shakespeare and Company in Paris.
- August â€" T. S. Eliot's poem Journey of the Magi is published in Faber and Gwyer's Ariel poems series (London) illustrated by E. McKnight Kauffer.
Works published
Canada
- Alfred Bailey, 'Songs of the Saguenay and other poems.
- Wilson MacDonald, An Ode On The Diamond Jubilee Of Confederation. Toronto: W. MacDonald.
- E.J. Pratt, The Iron Door: An Ode, Toronto: Macmillan.
- Charles G.D. Roberts, The Vagrant of Time. (Toronto: Ryerson).
India in English
- Swami Ananda Acharya:
- Sara and other poems (Poetry in English), Roros, Norway: Odegards Trykkeri 106 pages
- Arctic Swallows (Poetry in English)
- Harindranath Chattopadhyaya, Collected Plays and Poems, 44 sonnets Madras: printed at Hogarth Press
- Joseph Furtado, A Goan Fiddler (Poetry in English)
- Peroze P. Meherjee, Poems in Prose (Poetry in English), London: Luzac and Co., posthumously published (died 1925)
- Gwendoline Goodwin, editor, An Anthology of Modern Indian Poetry, London: John Murray; anthology (Poetry in English), published in the United Kingdom
Ireland
- James Joyce, Pomes Penyeach, published in Paris
- W.B. Yeats:
- October Blast, including "Among School Children", published in the United Kingdom
- Stories of Red Hanrahan and the Secret Rose, poetry and fiction
United Kingdom
- G. K. Chesterton, Collected Poems
- Joe Corrie, The Image o' God and Other Poems, Scottish poet
- W. H. Davies, A Poet's Calendar
- T. S. Eliot
- Journey of the Magi
- "Salutation" (later to become part II of Ash-Wednesday, published in 1930) is published in December in Saturday Review of Literature; also published in January 1928 in Eliot's own Criterion magazine
- Gwendoline Goodwin, editor, An Anthology of Modern Indian Poetry, London: John Murray; anthology; Indian poetry in English, published in the United Kingdom
- Robert Graves, Poems 1914â€"26
- Teresa Hooley, Songs of All Seasons
- Violet Jacob, The Northern Lights and other poems, Scottish poet
- A. A. Milne, Now We are Six
- William Plomer, Notes for Poems
- Edith Sitwell, Rustic Elegies
- Osbert Sitwell, England Reclaimed
- Iris Tree, The Traveller and other Poems
- Humbert Wolfe
- Cursory Rhymes
- Requiem
- W.B. Yeats
- October Blast, including "Among School Children", Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
- Stories of Red Hanrahan and the Secret Rose, poetry and fiction
United States
- Sherwood Anderson, A New Testament
- Countee Cullen, Copper Sun
- Donald Davidson, The Tall Men
- Langston Hughes, Fine Clothes to the Jew
- Robinson Jeffers, The Women at Point Sur
- James Weldon Johnson:
- God's Trombones
- God's Promises
- Amy Lowell, Ballads for Sale
- John Livingston Lowes, The Road to Xanadu, a book on the composition of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Kubla Khan" (scholarship)
- Don Marquis, archy and mehitabel, presented fictionally as a collection of vers libre poems typed by a former-poet-turned-cockroach who jumps on the keys of a typewriter
- Charles Reznikoff, Five Groups of Verse self-published in 375 copies and containing material from his earlier "Uriel Accosta: A Play" and A Fourth Group of Verse (1921)
Other in English
- Shaw Neilson, New Poems, Sydney, Bookfellow, Australia
Works published in other languages
France
- Guillaume Apollinaire, pen name of Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky, Julie; ou, La Rose, posthumously published (died 1918)
- Jean Cocteau, Opéra, Oeuvres poétiques
- Robert Desnos, La liberté ou l'amour! ("Liberty or Love!")
- Henri Michaux,Qui je fus("Who I Was"), Paris: N.R.D.
- Charles Vildrac, Prolongements, France
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:
Bengali
- Jibanananda Das, Jhara Palak, the author's first book of poems; Bengali
- Mohitlal Majumdar, Bismarani, Bengali
- Yatindranath Sengupta, Marusikha, Bengali
Other Indian languages
- Bhai Vir Singh, Bijalian De Har, short poems, mostly lyrical and didactic, Punjabi
- Muhammad Iqbal, Zabur-i-Ajam ("Persian Psalms") including the poems "Gulshan-i Raz-i Jadid" ("New Garden of Secrets") and "Bandagi Nama" ("Book of Slavery"), India
- Yaganab Changezi and Mirza Yas (writing under the pen name "Husain"), Ayat-i Vijdani, Urdu
- Keshavlal Dhruv, ed., Pandarma Shatakna Prachin Gurjar Kavyo, compilation of 15th-century Gujarati poems
- Ratnahas, Harishchandrakhyan, translated by Keshavlal Dhruv
Spanish language
Peru
- Carlos Oquendo de Amat, 5 metros de poemas ("5 Meters of Poems")
Spain
- Rafael Alberti, El alba del alheli (1925â€"1926) ("The Dawn of the Wallflower")
- Luis Cernuda, Perfil del aire ("Profile of Air", which later appeared as Primeras poesÃas ["First Poems"] in the author's complete works, La realidad y el deseo ["Reality and Desire"])
- Federico GarcÃa Lorca, Canciones ("Songs")
- Miguel de Unamuno, Romancero del destierro ("Ballads of Exile")
Other languages
- Vladislav Khodasevich, European Night, Russian poet published in Germany
Awards and honors
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Leonora Speyer, Fiddler's Farewell
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 8 â€" Charles Tomlinson, English poet, translator, academic and artist
- February 1 â€" Galway Kinnell (died 2014), American poet
- February 16 â€" Pearse Hutchinson (died 2012), Scottish-born Irish poet, broadcaster and translator
- April 8
- Judson Jerome (died 1991), American poet
- Phyllis Webb, Canadian poet and radio broadcaster
- June 7 â€" Martin Carter (died 1997), Guyanese poet
- June 20 â€" Simin Behbahani (died 2014), Persian poet
- June 26 â€" Robert Kroetsch (died 2011), Canadian poet and novelist
- July 9 â€" David Diop (died 1960), French Senegalese poet
- July 22 â€" John Tripp (died 1986), Anglo-Welsh poet in whose memory the annual John Tripp Spoken Poetry Award is presented
- July 28 â€" John Ashbery, American poet, former chancellor of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
- August 6 â€" Richard Murphy, Irish-born poet
- August 7 â€" Larry Eigner (died 1996), American poet, early in his career associated with the Black Mountain poets; later recognized as precursor to other poetic movements, e.g., Language poetry
- August 15 â€" Patrick Galvin (died 2011), Irish poet and dramatist
- September 7 â€" Molly Holden (died 1981), English poet
- September 30 â€" W. S. Merwin, American poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
- October 16 â€" Günter Grass (died 2015), German author and poet, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
- October 19 â€" Edwin Brock (died 1997), English poet
- October 20 â€" Oskar Pastior (died 2006), Romanian-born German poet and translator
- November 20 â€" Kikuo Takano (died 2006), Japanese poet and mathematician
- December 3 â€" James Wright, (died 1980), American poet
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- April 6 â€" Florence Earle Coates (born 1850), American poet, dies in Hahnemann Hospital, Philadelphia
- June 9 â€" Adolfo León Gómez (born 1857), Colombian poet
- July 5 â€" Lesbia Harford (born 1892), Australian poet
- July 7 â€" Charles Mair (born 1838), Canadian poet
- September 14 â€" Hugo Ball (born 1886), German Dada author and poet
- October 8 â€" Ricardo Güiraldes (born 1886), Argentine-born novelist and poet
- October 26 â€" Yagi JÅ«kichi, 八木é‡å‰ (born 1898), Japanese poet (surname: Yagi)
See also
- Poetry
- List of poetry awards
- List of years in poetry
- New Objectivity in German literature and art
- Generation of '27 in Spanish poetry
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