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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
Works published
- John Berryman, Poems
- Earle Birney, David and Other Poems, the title piece, David, a long, narrative poem, was one of the most fequently taught poems in Canadian schools for decades[1]
- Walter De la Mare, Collected Poems
- T. S. Eliot, "Little Gidding", published in New English Weekly
- John Heath-Stubbs, Wounded Thammuz
- Patrick Kavanagh, The Great Hunger
- Alun Lewis, Raiders' Dawn, on a soldier's life in the World War II
- Erik Lindegren, Manen utan väg ("The Man Without a Way"), Sweden
- Leslie Norris, Tongue of Beauty
- Henry Reed, "The Naming of Parts", published in the New Statesman
Awards and honors
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- February 23 - Haki R. Madhubuti (born "Don Luther Lee"), African-American poet, author and academic
- March 23 - Ama Ata Aidoo Ghanaian author, poet and playwright
- October 23 - Douglas Dunn, Scottish poet, academic and critic.
- November 9 - Karin Kiwus, German
- November 11 - William Matthews, American poet and essayist
- November 19 - Sharon Olds, American poet
- December 9 - David Harsent, English poet and crime novelist
- Date not known:
- Gladys Cardiff, American poet and academic
- Mahmoud Darwish, Palestinian poet and prose writer
- Stuart Dybek, American poet and author
- Mark DeFoe
- Douglas Eaglesham Dunn
- Ebon (poet) / Leo Thomas Hale / Ebon Dooley, African American
- Jennifer Footman
- Marilyn Hacker, American poet, critic, and reviewer
- David Henderson, poet associated with the Umbra workshop and Black Arts Movement
- Everett H. Hoagland III, African-American
- Erica Jong, American author and poet
- Peter Klappert, American
- Sydney Lea, American
- Susan Ludvigson, American
- Charles Martin, American poet, critic and translator
- Pat Mora, female Mexican-American author and poet
- Eilean Ni Chuilleanain, Irish poet
- Arthur Nortje, South African poet (died 1970)
- Henry S. Taylor, Pulitzer Prize-winning American
- Tom Weatherly, American
- Hugo Williams, English poet, journalist and travel writer
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- February 2 - Daniil Kharms, 36, early Soviet-era surrealist and absurdist poet, writer, dramatist, and founder of OBERIU poetry school, probably of starvation in his cell at a Leningrad asylum, after his arrest
- March 28 - Miguel Hernández, Spanish poet
- April 24 - Lucy Maud Montgomery, known as "L.M. Montgomery", a Canadian poet and author best known for a series of novels beginning with Anne of Green Gables
- May 7 - William Baylebridge (born 1883), the pseudonym of Charles William Blocksidge, an Australian poet and short story writer
- May 12 - Shaw Neilson, Australian poet
- May 26 - Libero Bovio, Italian poet in the Neapolitan dialect
- March 28 - Miguel Hernández, 31, Spanish poet, from tuberculosis in harsh conditions during his imprisonment in Spain
- December 23 - Konstantin Bal'mont, Russian poet
- date not known - Jakob van Hoddis (born 1887), German
See also
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