This article covers 1272 in poetry. Births Shiwu (died 1352), Chinese Chan poet and hermit.The Zen Works of Stonehouse: Poems and Talks of a 14th-Century Chinese Hermit, Red Pine, 1999, p. xi Deaths Enzo of Sardinia (born 1218), knight and general who wrote poems after being captured and imprisoned for more than 20 years. References