Events
* March 28 – Spanish poetry, Spanish poet Miguel Hernández dies of tuberculosis as a political prisoner in a prison hospital having scrawled his last verse on the wall. * April 3 – French poetry, French poet Paul Éluard (Eugène Paul Grindel)'s poem "Liberté (poem), Liberté" is first published in the collection ''Poésie et vérité'' ("Poetry and truth") in Paris. In June it is reprinted by the magazine ''Fontaine'', titled "Une seule pensée", to reach Vichy France. It is published by Éditions de Minuit and printed in London by the official Gaullist magazine ''La France libre''. Thousands of copies are parachuted into Occupied France by aircraft of the British Royal Air Force. * October – English poetry, English poet Keith Douglas takes part in the Second Battle of El Alamein (against orders). * December – ''BIM (magazine), BIM'' magazine founded in Caribbean poetry, Barbados."Selected Timeline of Anglophone Caribbean Poetry"Works published
Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:Canadian poetry, Canada
* Earle Birney, ''David and Other Poems'', the title piece, ''David'', a long, narrative poem, was one of the most frequently taught poems in Canadian poetry, Canadian schools for decades Governor General's Award, 1942 Governor General's Awards, 1942.Neil Besner,Indian poetry, India, Indian poetry in English, in English
* Sri Aurobindo, ''Collected Poems and Plays'' (Poetry & Plays in English), in two volumes, Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram * Raul De Loyola Furtado, also known as Joseph Furtado, ''Selected Poems'' (Poetry in English), Bombay: published by the author in a limited edition of 100 copies (second edition, revised 1947 in poetry, 1947; third edition, revised 1967 in poetry, 1967)Naik, M. K.English poetry, United Kingdom and Irish poetry, Ireland
* Walter de la Mare, ''Collected Poems'' * Morwenna Donnelly, ''Beauty and Ashes'' * T. S. Eliot, ''Little Gidding (poem), Little Gidding'', long poem, last of his ''Four Quartets'', published in ''The New English Weekly'' September * Roy Fuller, ''The Middle of a War'' * W. S. Graham, ''Cage Without Grievance'' * John Heath-Stubbs, ''Wounded Thammuz'' * J. F. Hendry, ''The Bombed Happiness'' * Agnes Grozier Herbertson, ''This is the Hour: Poems'' * Patrick Kavanagh, ''The Great Hunger'' * Sidney Keyes, ''The Iron Laurel'' * Alun Lewis (poet), Alun Lewis, ''Raiders' Dawn, and Other Poems'', on a soldier's life in the World War II * Robert Nichols (poet), Robert Nichols, ''Such Was My Singing'' * Leslie Norris, ''Tongue of Beauty'' * William Plomer, ''In a Bombed House, 1941: Elegy in Memory of Anthony Butts'' * ''Poetry in Wartime: An Anthology'', edited by Tambimuttu, London: Faber and Faber * John Pudney, ''Dispersal Point, and Other Air Poems'', including "For Johnny" * Henry Reed (poet), Henry Reed, "Naming of Parts", part 1 of his "Lessons of the War" sequence, published in the ''New Statesman'' August 8 * Stevie Smith, ''Mother, What is Man?'' * Stephen Spender, ''Ruins and Visions'' * Dorothy Wellesley, ''Lost Planet, and Other Poems''American poetry, United States
* Conrad Aiken, ''Brownstone Eclogues''Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., ''Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983'', 1986, New York: Oxford University Press * Stephen Vincent Benét, ''They Burned the Books'' * John Berryman, ''Poems'' * R. P. Blackmur, ''The Second World'' * John Malcolm Brinnin: ** ''The Garden Is Political'' ** ''The Lincoln Lyrics'' * Malcolm Cowley, ''A Dry Season'' * Robert Frost, ''A Witness Tree'' * Langston Hughes, ''Shakespeare in Harlem'' * Randall Jarrell, ''Blood for a Stranger'' * Edna St. Vincent Millay, ''The Murder of Lidice'' * Kenneth Patchen, ''The Teeth of the Lion'' * Muriel Rukeyser, ''Wake Island'' * Karl Shapiro: ** ''Person, Place and Thing'' ** ''The Place of Love'' * Wallace Stevens: ** ''Parts of a World'', includes "The Poems of Our Climate," "The Well Dressed Man with a Beard," and "Examination of the Hero in a Time of War", KnopfWeb page titleOther in English
* Louise Bennett, ''Dialect Verses'', Caribbean poetry, CaribbeanWorks published in other languages
Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:French poetry, France
* Louis Aragon, ''Les Yeux d'Elsa''Germaine Brée, Brée, Germaine, ''Twentieth-Century French Literature'', translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983 * René-Guy Cadou: ** ''Bruits du coeur'' ** Lilas du soir'' * Paul Claudel, ''Cent phrases pour éventails'' * Robert Desnos, ''Fortunes'' * Paul Éluard, pen name of Paul-Eugène Grindel: ** ''Le livre ouvert'' ** ''Poésie et Vérité'' * Pierre Emmanuel, pen name of Noël Mathieu, ** ''Cantos'' ** ''Jour de colère'' * Léon-Paul Fargue, ''Refuges'' * Jean Follain, ''Canisy'' * Eugène Guillevic, ''Terraqué'' * Loys Masson, ''Déliverez-nous du mal'', war poems * Alphonse Métérié, ''Prix Lasserre'' * Henri Michaux, ''Au pays de la magie'' * Saint-John Perse, pen name of Alexis Saint-Léger Léger, ''Exil''Hartley, Anthony, editor, ''The Penguin Book of French Verse: 4: The Twentieth Century'', Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1967 * Francis Ponge, ''Le parti pris des choses'', 32 short to medium-length prose poems * Raymond Queneau, ''Pierrot mon ami'' * Jean Tortel, ''De mon vivant''Indian poetry, 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 poetry, Bengali
* Birendra Chattopadhyay, ''Grahacyta''Das, Sisir Kumar, "A Chronology of Literary Events / 1911–1956", in Das, Sisir Kumar and variousOther Indian languages
* Akhtar Ansari Akbarabadi, ''Abgine'', Urdu poetry, Urdu * Hari Daryani, ''Koda'', Sindhi poetry, Sindhi-language (Indian poetry, India) * K. S. Narasimha Swami, ''Mysuru Malige'', Indian poetry, Indian, Kannada poetry, Kannada-language, called "the most famous collection of love poems in Kannada" * N. Gopla Pillai, ''Sita-Vicara-Lahari'', translation into Sanskrit poetry, Sanskrit from the Malayalam poetry, Malayalam of Kumaran Asan's poem ''Cintavistayaya Sita'' * Pritam Singh Safir, ''Pap de Sohle'', Indian poetry, Indian, Punjabi poetry, Punjabi-language * Sumitra Kumari Sinha, ' 'Asa Parva' ', Hindi poetry, Hindi-language (Indian poetry, India)Other languages
* Chairil Anwar, "Nisan" ("Grave"), Indonesian literature, Indonesian * D. Gwenallt Jones, ''Cnoi Cil'', Welsh poetry, Welsh poet published in the United Kingdom * Erik Lindegren, ''Manen utan väg'' ("The Man Without a Way"), Swedish literature, Sweden * Cesare Pavese, ''Lavorare stanca'' ("Hard Work"), expanded version nearly double the size of the first edition published in 1936 in poetry, 1936; Italian poetry, Italy * César Moro, pen name of César Quíspez Asín, ''La tortuga ecuestre'', Peruvian poetry, 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 edition was "Printed in U.S.A."), 1947, p 621 * Saint-John Perse, ''Exil: poème'', Marseilles: Editions Cahiers du Sud; French poetry, FranceWeb page titleAwards and honors
* Governor General's Awards, Governor General's Award, poetry or drama: ''David and Other Poems'', Earle Birney (Canadian poetry, Canada)American poetry, United States
* Robert Frost Medal: Edgar Lee Masters * Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: William Rose Benét, ''The Dust Which Is God''Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: * January 17 – Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Clay}, African-American poetry, American heavyweight boxer and occasional poet (died 2016 in poetry, 2016) * January 19 – Pat Mora, female Mexican-American poetry, American author and poet * February 14 – Rafiq Azad, Bengali poetry, Bengali poet, editor and academic (died 2016 in poetry, 2016) * February 20 – Hugo Williams, English poetry, English poet, journalist and travel writer * February 22 – Peter Abbs, English poetry, English poet and academic (died 2020 in poetry, 2020) * February 23 – Haki R. Madhubuti (born Don Luther Lee), African-American poetry, American poet, author and academic * March 13 – Mahmoud Darwish, Palestinian poet and prose writer * March 23 – Ama Ata Aidoo, Ghanaian author, poet and playwright * March 26 – Erica Jong, American poetry, American author and poet * April 10 – Stuart Dybek, American poetry, American poet and author * April 27 – Sadakazu Fujii 藤井 貞和, Japanese poetry, Japanese poet and literary scholar (surname: Fujii) * May 22 – Souad al-Sabah, Kuwaiti literature, Kuwaiti poetess and writer * June 7 – Aonghas MacNeacail, Poetry of Scotland, Scottish Scottish Gaelic, Gaelic poet (died 2022 in poetry, 2022) * June 21 – Henry S. Taylor, Pulitzer Prize-winning American poetry, American poet * August 25 – Pat Ingoldsby, Irish poetry, Irish poet and television presenter * September 19 – David Henderson (poet), David Henderson, American poetry, American poet associated with the Umbra workshop and Black Arts Movement * October 5 – Nick Piombino, American poetry, American poet, essayist and psychotherapist, sometimes associated with Language poets because of his frequent appearance in the seminal ''L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E (magazine), L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E'' magazine early in his poetic career * October 11 – William Corbett (poet), William Corbett, American poet, essayist, editor, educator and publisher (died 2018 in poetry, 2018) * October 23 – Douglas Dunn, Scottish poetry, Scottish poet, academic and critic * November 9 – Karin Kiwus, German poetry, German poet * November 11 – William Matthews (poet), William Matthews, American poetry, American poet and essayist * November 19 – Sharon Olds, American poetry, American poet * November 27 – Marilyn Hacker, American poetry, American poet, critic and reviewer * November 28 – Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Irish poetry, Irish poet * December 9 – David Harsent, English poetry, English poet and crime novelist * December 16 ** Arthur Nortje, South African literature, South African poet (died 1970 in poetry, 1970) ** Peter Seaton, American poetry, American associated with the Language poets * Also: ** Gladys Cardiff, American poetry, American poet and academic ** Pat Ingoldsby, Irish poetry, Irish television presenter and poet ** Peter Klappert, American poetry, American poet ** Sydney Lea, American poetry, American poet ** Charles Martin (poet), Charles Martin, American poetry, American poet, critic and translator ** Macdara Woods, Irish poetry, Irish poet (died 2018 in poetry, 2018)Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: * January 4 – Joan Vincent Murray (born 1917 in poetry, 1917), English-born Canadian American poet * February 2 – Daniil Kharms (born 1905 in poetry, 1905), early Soviet Union, Soviet-era surrealist and Absurdist fiction, absurdist poet, writer, dramatist and founder of Oberiu poetry school, probably of starvation in his Leningrad prison asylum cell * February 15 – Marie Heiberg (born 1890 in poetry, 1890), Estonian literature, Estonian poet, insane * March 26 – Carolyn Wells (born 1862 in poetry, 1862), American poetry, American novelist and poet * March 28 – Miguel Hernández (born 1910 in poetry, 1910), Spanish poetry, Spanish poet, from tuberculosis in harsh conditions during imprisonment * April 19 – José María Eguren (born 1874 in poetry, 1874), Peruvian Symbolism (arts), symbolism poet * April 24 – Lucy Maud Montgomery, known as "L. M. Montgomery" (born 1974 in poetry, 1874), Canadian poetry, Canadian poet and author best known for a series of novels beginning with ''Anne of Green Gables'' * c. Early May – Jakob van Hoddis (born 1887 in poetry, 1887), German poetry, German-Jewish Expressionist poet, in Sobibór extermination camp * May 7 – William Baylebridge, pseudonym of Charles William Blocksidge (born 1883 in poetry, 1883), Australian literature, Australian poet and short story writer * May 11 – Sakutarō Hagiwara 萩原 朔太郎 (born 1886 in poetry, 1886), Taishō period, Taishō and early Shōwa period Japanese poetry, Japanese literary critic and free-verse poet called the "father of modern colloquial poetry in Japan" (surname: Hagiwara) * May 12 – Shaw Neilson (born 1872 in poetry, 1872), Australian literature, Australian poet * May 26 – Libero Bovio (born 1883 in poetry, 1883), Italian poetry, Italian poet in the Neapolitan dialect * May 29 – Akiko Yosano 与謝野 晶子 pen name of Yosano Shiyo (born 1878 in poetry, 1878), late Meiji period, Taishō period and early Shōwa period Japanese poetry, Japanese poet, pioneering feminist, pacifist and social reformer; one of the most famous, and most controversial, post-classical woman poets of Japan (surname: Yosano) * September 3/4 – Annie Wall Barnett (born 1859 in poetry, 1859), American poetry, American poet, writer, litterateur * September 12 – Patrick R. Chalmers (born 1872 in poetry, 1872), Irish poetry, Irish writer on field sports and poet * October 29 – Màrius Torres (born 1910 in poetry, 1910), Catalan people, Catalan Spanish poetry, Spanish poet, from tuberculosis * November 2 – Hakushū Kitahara 北原 白秋, pen name of Kitahara Ryūkichi 北原 隆吉 (born 1885 in poetry, 1885), Taishō period, Taishō and Shōwa period Japanese poetry, Japanese ''waka (poetry), tanka'' poet (surname: Kitahara) * November 4 – Clementine Krämer (born 1873 in poetry, 1873), German poetry, German poet and short-story writer, in Theresienstadt concentration camp * December 23 – Konstantin Balmont (born 1867 in poetry, 1867), Russian Symbolist poet, in ParisSee also
* Poetry * List of poetry awards * List of years in poetryNotes
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