Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events February 17 – On the death of Montserrat-born British fantasy fiction writer M. P. Shiel, his supposed title to the Kingdom of Redonda passes to London poet John Gawsworth. March – Landfall literary magazine is founded by Charles Brasch and first published by Caxton Press (New Zealand); it becomes that country's oldest literary journal. May – Dorothy Parker divorces Alan Campbell for the first time. November – Muriel Spark becomes editor of Poetry Review in London from this month's issue.
Works published in English Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:
Canada Arthur Bourinot, The Collected Poems of Arthur S. Bourinot (Toronto: Ryerson Press)."The Collected Poems of Arthur S. Bourinot," Biblio.com, Web, Apr. 20, 2011. Paul Hiebert, Sarah Binks, "the sweet songstress of Saskatchewan" [satirical fictional biography of a Prairie poet] Archibald Lampman, Selected Poems, edited by Duncan Campbell Scott, published posthumouslyGustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books Dorothy Livesay, Poems for People. Toronto: Ryerson."Dorothy Livesay (1909-1996): Works" , Canadian Women Poets, Brock University. Web, Mar. 18, 2011. Governor General's Award 1947. E. J. Pratt: Behind the Log, Toronto: Macmillan. Ten Selected Poems, Toronto: Macmillan."Bibliography," Selected Poems of E. J. Pratt, Peter Buitenhuis ed., Toronto: Macmillan, 1968, 207-208. Duncan Campbell Scott, The Circle of Affection, prose and verse Raymond Souster, Go To Sleep, World. Toronto: Ryerson."Notes on Life and Works ," Selected Poetry of Raymond Souster, Representative Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 7, 2011. John Sutherland, editor, Other Canadians: An Anthology of the New Poetry in Canada, 1940-1946 (First Statement Press, 1947), anthologyWeb page titled "One Zero Zero A Virtual Library of English Canadian Small Press 1945 - 2044" at the Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art website, accessed April 23, 2008
India, in English Harindranath Chattopadhyaya, Freedom Come ( Poetry in English ), Bombay: Nalanda PublicationsVinayak 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 Serapia Devi, Rapid Visions ( Poetry in English )Naik, M. K., Perspectives on Indian poetry in English, p. 230, (published by Abhinav Publications, 1984, , ), retrieved via Google Books, June 12, 2009 Raul De Loyola Furtado, Selected Poems ( Poetry in English ), second edition, revised; Bombay (first edition 1942; third edition, revised 1967) Vinayaka Krishna Gokak, The Song of Life and Other Poems ( Poetry in English ), Bombay: Hind Kitabs P. R. Kaikini, Poems of the Passionate East ( Poetry in English ), BombayVinayak Krishna Gokak, The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965), p 322, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), , retrieved August 6, 2010 Fredoon Kabraji, editor, This Strange Adventure: An Anthology of Poems in English by Indians 1828-1946, London: New India Pub. Co., 140 pages; Indian poetry published in the United KingdomVinayak Krishna Gokak, The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965), p 309, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), , retrieved August 10, 2010
United Kingdom
Kingsley Amis, Bright November W. H. Auden, The Age of Anxiety (English native living in the United States) John Betjeman, edited by W. H. Auden, Slick But Not Streamlined: poems & short pieces Cairo poets, edited by Keith Bullen and John Cromer, Salamander: A Miscellany of Poetry (anthology) F. W. Harvey, Gloucestershire: A Selection from the Poems of F. W. Harvey (English poet published in Scotland) Hamish Henderson, as Seumas Mor Maceanruig, collected Ballads of World War II Patrick Kavanagh, A Soul For Sale Philip Larkin, A Girl in Winter Laurie Lee, The Bloom of Candles Louis MacNeice, The Dark Tower John Pudney, Low Life Alan Ross, The Derelict Day Stephen Spender, Poems of Dedication Terence Tiller, Unarm, Eros Henry Treece, The Haunted Garden
United States Conrad Aiken, The KidLudwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press ("If the title page is one year later than the copyright date, we used the latter since publishers frequently postdate books published near the end of the calendar year." — from the Preface, p vi) W. H. Auden, The Age of Anxiety, English native living in the United States R. P. Blackmur, The Good European Cleanth Brooks, The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry Witter Bynner, Take Away the Darkness John Ciardi, Other Skies Louis Coxe, The Sea Faring August Derleth, editor, Dark of the Moon: Poems of Fantasy and the Macabre Robert Duncan, Heavenly City, Earthly City Richard Eberhart, Burr Oaks, including "The Fury of Aerial Bombardment" Robert Frost, Steeple Bush Jean Garrigue, The Ego and the Centaur Langston Hughes, Fields of Wonder Weldon Kees, The Fall of Magicians (his second book of poetry) Howard Nemerov, The Image of the Law John Frederick Nims, The Iron Pastoral Kenneth Patchen, Panels for the Walls of Heaven Karl Shapiro, Trial of a Poet William Jay Smith, Poems Wallace Stevens, Transport to Summer (includes "The Pure Good of Theory," "A Word With Jose Rodriguez-Feo," "Description without Place," "The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm," "Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction," and "Esthetique du Mal"), KnopfWeb page titled "Wallace Stevens (1879 - 1955)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved April 9, 2009. 2009-05-04. Richard Wilbur, The Beautiful Changes and Other Poems, New York: Reynal and Hitchcock Louis Zukofsky begins writing Bottom: on Shakespeare, a long work of literary philosophy
Other in English Victor Daley, Creeve Roe, posthumously published, Australia Donagh MacDonagh, The Hungry Grass, Faber and Faber, Ireland Shaw Neilson, Unpublished Poems, edited by James Devaney, Angus and Robertson, Australia
Works 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:
France Guillaume Apollinaire, pen name of Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky, Ombre de mon amour, publisher: P. Cailler Vesenaz (revised edition entitled Poèmes a Lou, 1955), posthumously published (died 1918)Web page titled "Guillaume Apollinaire (1880 - 1918)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved August 9, 2009. 2009-09-03. Antonin Artaud: Artaud le momo Paris: BordasWeb page titled "Antonin Artaud (1896 - 1948)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved August 25, 2009. Ce-git, précédé de la culture indienne, Paris: K Editeur André Breton, Ode a Charles FourierAuster, Paul, editor, The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets, New York: Random House, 1982, Jean Cayrol: Je vivrai l'amour des autresBree, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983. On vous parle, winner of the Prix Renaudot Blaise Cendrars, pen name of Frédéric Louis Sauser, a Swiss novelist and poet naturalized as a French citizen in 1916; all of his poetry (which he stopped writing in 1924) was published this year in these two volumes: Du monde entier Au coeur du monde Aimé Césaire, Cahier d'un retour au pays natal, expanded edition in book format, Martinique writer Jean Follain, Exister Eugène Guillevic, Exécutoire, poems written during the German occupation of France Pierre Jean Jouve: Hymne Requiem, Lausanne, Switzerland: Mermod, French author published in SwitzerlandCady, Andrea, Measuring the visible: the verse and prose of Philippe Jaccottet, p. 32, Editions Rodopi, 1992, retrieved via Google Books on August 20, 2009. Marie Noël, Chants et psaumes d'automne Henri Pichette, Apoèmes Raymond Queneau, Exercices de style
Indian subcontinent Including India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Listed alphabetically by first name, regardless of surname:
Hindi Bal Krisna Rav, Kavi ki Chavi Kedarnath Agarwal: Nind Ke Badal, written in the language of common people by a notable poet of the Pragativadi movementDas, 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 Yug Ki Ganga, poems in the Pragativadi tradition Mishra Dvarika Prasad, epic based on Krishna legends from the Mahabharata, Srimadbhagvata, Sursagar and Sisupalavadha, with contemporary elements; written in 1942 but published this year Ram Dahin Mishra, Kavya Darpan, comparing Indian and Western poetics; literary criticism Ramadhari Singh Dinkar, Samadheni Sumitranandan Pant: , a translation of Swami Vivekanand's Song of the Sanyasin into Hindi is included under the title Sanyasi Ke Git Svarna Kiran
Marathi B. B. Borkar, Dudhasagar B. S. Mardhekar, Kahi Kavita Shanta Shelke, Varsa V. R. Kant, Rudravina
Oriya Kalindi Charan Panigrahi, romantic poems by one of the earliest modern poets in Indian literature Mayadhar Mansinha: Kamalavana, long, romantic poem Jibanacita, Oriya Nityananda Mhapatra, Pancajanya Sacchidananda Rout Roy, Pandulipi, poems written in free verse
Other languages of the Indian subcontinent
A. Muthusivan, Kavitaiyum Valkkaiyum, literary criticism written in Tamil Akhtarul Imam, Sabrang, poems, some allegorical, some satiric, expressing dissatisfaction with traditional society; Urdu Amrita Pritam, Lamian Vatan, mostly lyrical poems on romantic love, Punjabi Bishnu Dey: Purbalekh, Bengali Bishnu De, Sandiper, Bengali Dimbeshwar Neog, Asama; Assamese-language Divya Prabha Bharali, Banhi. Aparna, her first book of poetry; Assamese-language Dinu Bhai Pant, Vira Gulaba, modern ballad on the heroism and skillfulness of Gulab Singh (later Maharaja Gulab Singh of Jammu and Kashmir), in the battle of Jammu against Sikh invaders; Dogri Jhamandas Bhatia, Sain Qutub Sah, biography written in Sindhi of the Sufi poet Qudub Shah, who wrote in that language Joseph Mundasseri, Rupabhadrata, literary criticism which found fault with the Marxist school of literary criticism; the debate caused by the book resulted in a split in the progressive literary movement; Malayalam Jyotsna Shukla, Azadinan Geeto; GujaratiMohan, Sarala Jag, Chapter 4: "Twentieth-Century Gujarati Literature" (Google books link), in Natarajan, Nalini, and Emanuel Sampath Nelson, editors, Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, , retrieved December 10, 2008 K. S. Narasimha Swamy, Dipadamalli, Kannada Kaifi Azmi, pen name of Asar Husain Rizvi, Akhir-i Shab, Urdu Kashikanta Mishra, Kobar-git, marriage songs, Maithili Manohar Sharma, Aravali Ki Atma, includes nature poems such as "Aravali", "Jharano" and "Tiba", Rajasthani Shankara Balakrishna Joshi, also known as "Sam. Ba. Joshi", Karnana Muru Citragulu, literary criticism written in the Kannada language, studying the character of Karna as portrayed in three epics, Mahabharata, Pampa Bharata, and Kumaravyasa Bharata Vailoppalli Sridhara Menon, Kannikkoyttu, Malayalam
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