Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish

Irish poetry

The history of Irish poetry includes the poetries of two languages, one in Irish and the other in English. The complex interplay between these two traditions, and between both of them and other poetries in English, has produced a body of work that is both rich in variety and difficult to...

 or France

French poetry

French poetry is a category of French literature. It may include Francophone poetry composed outside France and poetry written in other languages of France.-French prosody and poetics:...

).

Events

• John Betjeman
  John Betjeman
  Sir John Betjeman, CBE was an English poet, writer and broadcaster who described himself in Who's Who as a "poet and hack".He was a founding member of the Victorian Society and a passionate defender of Victorian architecture...
  
   becomes Poet Laureate
  Poet Laureate
  A poet laureate is a poet officially appointed by a government and is often expected to compose poems for state occasions and other government events...
  
  
• The Belfast Group
  The Belfast Group
  The Belfast Group was a poets' workshop which was organized by Philip Hobsbaum when he moved to Belfast in October 1963 to lecture in English at Queen's University....
  
  , a discussion group of poets in Northern Ireland, went out of existence this year. The group was started by Philip Hobsbaum
  Philip Hobsbaum
  Philip Dennis Hobsbaum was a British teacher, poet and critic.-Life:Hobsbaum was born into a Polish Jewish family in London, and brought up in Bradford, in Yorkshire. He read English at Downing College, Cambridge, where he was taught and heavily influenced by F. R. Leavis...
  
   when he moved to Belfast in 1963
  1963 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* January 26 – Raghunath Vishnu Pandit, an Indian poet who wrote in both Konkani and Marathi languages, publishes five books of poems this day* The Belfast Group, a discussion group of poets in...
  
   and which included Seamus Heaney
  Seamus Heaney
  Seamus Heaney is an Irish poet, writer and lecturer. He lives in Dublin. Heaney has received the Nobel Prize in Literature , the Golden Wreath of Poetry , T. S. Eliot Prize and two Whitbread prizes...
  
  , Michael Longley
  Michael Longley
  Michael Longley, CBE is a Northern Irish poet from Belfast.-Life and career:Longley was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution and subsequently read Classics at Trinity College, Dublin, where he edited Icarus...
  
  , James Simmons, Paul Muldoon
  Paul Muldoon
  Paul Muldoon is an Irish poet. He has published over thirty collections and won a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the T. S. Eliot Prize. He held the post of Oxford Professor of Poetry from 1999 - 2004. At Princeton University he is both the Howard G. B. Clark ’21 Professor in the Humanities and...
  
  , Ciaran Carson
  Ciaran Carson
  Ciaran Gerard Carson is a Belfast, Northern Ireland-born poet and novelist.-Early years:Ciaran Carson was born in Belfast into an Irish-speaking family...
  
  , Stewart Parker
  Stewart Parker
  James Stewart Parker was a Northern Irish poet and playwright.He was born in Sydenham, Belfast, of a Protestant working class family. While still in his teens, he contracted bone cancer and had a leg amputated...
  
  , Bernard MacLaverty
  Bernard MacLaverty
  Bernard MacLaverty is a writer of fiction. He was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on 14 September 1942, and lived there until 1975 when he moved to Scotland with his wife, Madeline, and four children...
  
   and the critics Edna Longley
  Edna Longley
  Edna Longley is an Irish literary critic and cultural commentator specialising in modern Irish and British poetry.Now Professor Emerita at Queen's University Belfast, as a lecturer and later Professor of English at Queen's, Longley exerted a significant moderating and enabling influence on the...
  
   and Michael Allen.
• The American Poetry Review
  The American Poetry Review
  The American Poetry Review is an American poetry magazine printed every other month on tabloid-sized newsprint.Founded in 1972 by Stephen Berg, APR has always been published from editorial offices in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Berg is one of three editors, along with David Bonanno and Elizabeth...
  
  founded by Stephen Berg in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  Philadelphia is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Philadelphia County, with which it is coterminous. The city is located in the Northeastern United States along the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers. It is the fifth-most-populous city in the United States,...
  
  .
• May — Joseph Brodsky
  Joseph Brodsky
  Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky , was a Russian poet and essayist.In 1964, 23-year-old Brodsky was arrested and charged with the crime of "social parasitism" He was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1972 and settled in America with the help of W. H. Auden and other supporters...
  
   is expelled from the Soviet Union.
• W. H. Auden
  W. H. Auden
  Wystan Hugh Auden , who published as W. H. Auden, was an Anglo-American poet,The first definition of "Anglo-American" in the OED is: "Of, belonging to, or involving both England and America." See also the definition "English in origin or birth, American by settlement or citizenship" in See also...
  
  , now a U.S. citizen, declares his New York neighborhood is too dangerous and returns to Oxford from the United States.
• James K. Baxter
  James K. Baxter
  James Keir Baxter was a poet, and is a celebrated figure in New Zealand society.-Biography:Baxter was born in Dunedin to Archibald Baxter and Millicent Brown and grew up near Brighton. He was named after James Keir Hardie, a founder of the British Labour Party. His father had been a conscientious...
  
  , one of New Zealand
  New Zealand literature
  New Zealand literature is essentially literature in English that is either written by New Zealanders, or migrants, dealing with New Zealand themes or places and is primarily a 20th Century creation...
  
  's best-known poets, writes two original poems on the wallpaper of a room in the home of painter Michael Illingworth and his wife Dene. Soon after, Baxter died. In 1973, after Baxter's death, the Illingworths removed the sections of wallpaper containing the poems and sent them to the Hocken Library to be stored with Baxter's other papers.

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:

Australia

Australian literature

Australian literature is the written or literary work produced in the area or by the people of the Commonwealth of Australia and its preceding colonies. During its early western history, Australia was a collection of British colonies, therefore, its literary tradition begins with and is linked to...

• A.D. Hope, Collected Poems
• Les Murray
  Les Murray (poet)
  Leslie Allan Murray, AO , known as Les Murray, is an Australian poet, anthologist and critic. His career spans over forty years, and he has published nearly 30 volumes of poetry, as well as two verse novels and collections of his prose writings...
  
  , Poems Against Economics

Canada

Canadian poetry

- Beginnings:The earliest works of poetry, mainly written by visitors, described the new territories in optimistic terms, mainly targeted at a European audience...

• Earle Birney
  Earle Birney
  Earle Alfred Birney, OC, FRSC was a distinguished Canadian poet and novelist, who twice won the Governor General's Award, Canada's top literary honor, for his poetry.-Life:...
  
  , Judith Copithorne, Andrew Suknaski, Bill Bissett
  Bill Bissett
  bill bissett is a Canadian poet famous for his anti-conventional style. He often does not capitalise his name or use capital letters.-Life:...
  
  , Four Parts Sand a selection of works by these concrete poets
• Leonard Cohen
  Leonard Cohen
  Leonard Norman Cohen, is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, poet and novelist. Cohen published his first book of poetry in Montreal in 1956 and his first novel in 1963. His work often explores religion, isolation, sexuality and interpersonal relationships...
  
  , The Energy of Slaves
• David Helwig
  David Helwig
  David Helwig is a Canadian poet, novelist and essayist.David Helwig was born in Toronto, Ontario, where he spent his early childhood years. When he was ten years old, his family moved to Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, where his father ran a small business repairing and refinishing furniture and...
  
  , The Best Name of Silence
• George Johnston
  George Benson Johnston
  George Benson Johnston was a Canadian poet , translator, and academic "best known for lyric poetry that delineates with good-humoured wisdom the pleasures and pains of suburban family life." He also had an international reputation as a scholar and translator of the Icelandic Sagas.-Life:Johnston...
  
  , Happy Enough: Poems 1935–1972.
• Dennis Lee
  Dennis Lee (author)
  Dennis Beynon Lee, OC, MA is a Canadian poet, teacher, editor, and critic born in Toronto, Ontario. He is also a children's writer, well known for his book of children's rhymes, Alligator Pie.-Life:...
  
  , Civil Elegies and Other Poems. Toronto: Anansi.
• Kenneth Leslie
  Kenneth Leslie
  Kenneth Leslie was a Canadian poet and songwriter, and an influential political activist in the United States during the 1930s and 1940s. He was the founder and editor of The Protestant Digest , which had a peak circulation of over 50,000 subscribers...
  
  , O'Malley to the Reds And Other Poems. Halifax: By the Author.
• Dorothy Livesay
  Dorothy Livesay
  Dorothy Kathleen May Livesay, was a Canadian poet who twice won the Governor General`s Award in the 1940s, and was "senior woman writer in Canada" during the 1970s and 1980s.-Life:...
  
  , Collected Poems: The Two Seasons. Toronto: Mcgraw-Hill Ryerson.
• Gwendolyn MacEwen
  Gwendolyn MacEwen
  Gwendolyn Margaret MacEwen was a Canadian poet and novelist. A "sophisticated, wide-ranging and thoughtful writer," she published more than 20 books in her brief life. "A sense of magic and mystery from her own interests in the Gnostics, Ancient Egypt and magic itself, and from her wonderment at...
  
  :
  • * The Shadow-Maker. Toronto: Macmillan.
  • The Armies of the Moon. Toronto: Macmillan, 1972. ISBN 9780770508685
• Don McKay
  Don McKay
  Don McKay, CM is an award-winning Canadian poet, editor, and educator.Born in Owen Sound, Ontario and raised in Cornwall, McKay was educated at the University of Western Ontario and the University of Wales, where he earned his PhD in 1971...
  
  , Moccasins on Concrete: Poems (Canada
  Canadian literature
  Canadian literature is literature originating from Canada. Collectively it is often called CanLit. Some criticism of Canadian literature has focused on nationalistic and regional themes, although this is only a small portion of Canadian Literary criticism...
  
  )
• James Reaney
  James Reaney
  James Crerar Reaney was an influential Canadian poet, playwright, librettist, and professor, "whose works transform small-town Ontario life into the realm of dream and symbol."...
  
  , Poems.
• Charles Sangster
  Charles Sangster
  Charles Sangster was a Canadian poet whose 1856 volume, The St. Lawrence and the Saguenay, "was received with unanimous acclaim as the best and most important book of poetry produced in Canada until that time." He was "the first poet who made appreciative use of Canadian subjects in his poetical...
  
  , The St Lawrence and the Saguenay and other poems; Hesperus and other poems and lyrics, intro. Gordon Johnston (Toronto: University of Toronto Press and Buffalo, N.Y.)
• Raymond Souster
  Raymond Souster
  Raymond Holmes Souster, OC is a Canadian poet whose writing career spans almost 70 years. He has published more than 50 volumes of his own verse, and edited or co-edited a dozen volumes of others' poetry...
  
  , Selected Poems of Raymond Souster. Michael Maklem ed. Ottawa: Oberon Press.
• Wilfred Watson
  Wilfred Watson
  Wilfred Watson was professor emeritus of English at Canada's University of Alberta for many years. He was also an experimental Canadian poet and dramatist, whose innovative plays had a considerable influence in the 1960s...
  
  , The Sorrowful Canadians

India

Indian poetry

Indian poetry, and Indian literature in general, has a long history dating back to Vedic times. They were written in various Indian languages such as Vedic Sanskrit, Classical Sanskrit, Oriya, Tamil, Kannada, Bengali and Urdu. Poetry in foreign languages such as Persian and English also have a...

 in English

Indian Poetry in English

Henry Louis Vivian Derozio is considered the first poet in the lineage of Indian English Poetry. A significant and torch bearer poet is Nissim Ezekiel and the significant poets of the post-Derozio and pre-Ezekiel times are Toru Dutt, Sarojini Naidu, Rabindranath Tagore and Sri Aurobindo...

• Meena Alexander
  Meena Alexander
  Meena Alexander is an internationally acclaimed poet, scholar, and writer. Born in Allahabad, India, and raised in India and Sudan, Alexander lives and works in New York City, where she is Distinguished Professor of English at Hunter College in the and at the CUNY Graduate Center in the...
  
  , Without Place ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop
  Writers Workshop
  Writers Workshop is a Calcutta-based literary publisher founded by the poet-professor P. Lal in 1958. Over the next few decades it published many new authors in urban literature of the post-independence period. These authors later became big names.-History:...
  
  , India .
• Ruskin Bond
  Ruskin Bond
  Ruskin Bond, born 19 May 1934, is an Indian author of British descent. He is considered to be an icon among Indian writers and children's authors and a top novelist....
  
  , It isn't Time That's Passing: Poems, 1970–71 ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop
  Writers Workshop
  Writers Workshop is a Calcutta-based literary publisher founded by the poet-professor P. Lal in 1958. Over the next few decades it published many new authors in urban literature of the post-independence period. These authors later became big names.-History:...
  
  , India .
• Margaret Chatterjee, The Sandalwood Tree ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop
  Writers Workshop
  Writers Workshop is a Calcutta-based literary publisher founded by the poet-professor P. Lal in 1958. Over the next few decades it published many new authors in urban literature of the post-independence period. These authors later became big names.-History:...
  
  , India
• Dilip Chitre
  Dilip Chitre
  Dilip Purushottam Chitre was one of the foremost Indian writers and critics to emerge in the post Independence India. Apart from being a very important bilingual writer, writing in Marathi and English, he was also a painter and filmmaker.-Biography:He was born in Baroda on 17 September 1938...
  
  , Ambulance Ride ( Poetry in English ),
• Gauri Deshpande
  Gauri Deshpande
  Gauri Deshpande was a novelist, short story writer, and poet from Maharashtra, India. She wrote in Marathi and English....
  
  , Beyond the Slaughter House,( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop
  Writers Workshop
  Writers Workshop is a Calcutta-based literary publisher founded by the poet-professor P. Lal in 1958. Over the next few decades it published many new authors in urban literature of the post-independence period. These authors later became big names.-History:...
  
  , India
• Shree Devi, Shades of Green ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop
  Writers Workshop
  Writers Workshop is a Calcutta-based literary publisher founded by the poet-professor P. Lal in 1958. Over the next few decades it published many new authors in urban literature of the post-independence period. These authors later became big names.-History:...
  
  , India
• Mary Vasanti Erulkar, Mandala 2/5 ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop
  Writers Workshop
  Writers Workshop is a Calcutta-based literary publisher founded by the poet-professor P. Lal in 1958. Over the next few decades it published many new authors in urban literature of the post-independence period. These authors later became big names.-History:...
  
  , India
• Samir Das Gupta, Paling Shadows Poetry in English, Calcutta: Writers Workshop
  Writers Workshop
  Writers Workshop is a Calcutta-based literary publisher founded by the poet-professor P. Lal in 1958. Over the next few decades it published many new authors in urban literature of the post-independence period. These authors later became big names.-History:...
  
  , India
• Nandita Haksar, Ego and Other Poems, Delhi: Orient Longman
• Gopal R. Honnalgere, A Gesture of Fleshless Sound ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop
  Writers Workshop
  Writers Workshop is a Calcutta-based literary publisher founded by the poet-professor P. Lal in 1958. Over the next few decades it published many new authors in urban literature of the post-independence period. These authors later became big names.-History:...
  
  , India .
• Dilip Kumar Roy, Hark! His Flute!, Poona: Hari Krishna Mandir
• Syed Ameerudin:
  • Poems of Protest, Sumter, South Carolina, United States: Poetry Eastwest; Indian
    Indian poetry
    Indian poetry, and Indian literature in general, has a long history dating back to Vedic times. They were written in various Indian languages such as Vedic Sanskrit, Classical Sanskrit, Oriya, Tamil, Kannada, Bengali and Urdu. Poetry in foreign languages such as Persian and English also have a...
    
     poet, writing in English
    Indian Poetry in English
    Henry Louis Vivian Derozio is considered the first poet in the lineage of Indian English Poetry. A significant and torch bearer poet is Nissim Ezekiel and the significant poets of the post-Derozio and pre-Ezekiel times are Toru Dutt, Sarojini Naidu, Rabindranath Tagore and Sri Aurobindo...
    
     published in the United States
  • What the Himalayas said and Other Poems, Madras: Kalaivendhan Publishers
• Pritish Nandy
  Pritish Nandy
  Pritish Nandy is a Indian poet, painter, journalist, politician, media and television personality, animal activist and film producer. He is Bengali by ethnicity. He was member of Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian parliament representing Maharashtra based party Shiv Sena...
  
  , editor, Indian Poetry in English, anthology
• Saleem Peerandina, editor, Contemporary Indian Poetry in English: An Assessment and Selection, anthology, Madras: Macmillan India Ltd.

Ireland

Irish poetry

The history of Irish poetry includes the poetries of two languages, one in Irish and the other in English. The complex interplay between these two traditions, and between both of them and other poetries in English, has produced a body of work that is both rich in variety and difficult to...

• Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
  Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
  Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin is an Irish poet born in Cork .-Life:Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin is the daughter of Eilís Dillon and Professor Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin. She was educated at University College Cork and The University of Oxford. She lives in Dublin with her husband Macdara Woods, and they have one...
  
  , Acts and Monuments, Dublin: The Gallery Press
• Seamus Heaney
  Seamus Heaney
  Seamus Heaney is an Irish poet, writer and lecturer. He lives in Dublin. Heaney has received the Nobel Prize in Literature , the Golden Wreath of Poetry , T. S. Eliot Prize and two Whitbread prizes...
  
  , Wintering Out
  Wintering Out
  Wintering Out is a collection of poems written by Irish Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney.In Northern Ireland, the phrase "to winter out" means "to see through and survive a crisis". Some critics contend that this volume of poetry is representative of Heaney's desire to ride out the Troubles and hope...
  
  , Faber & Faber, Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom
  English poetry
  The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...
  
  
• Pearse Hutchinson
  Pearse Hutchinson
  Pearse Hutchinson is an Irish poet, broadcaster and translator.-Childhood and education:Pearse Hutchinson was born in Glasgow. His father, Harry Hutchinson, a Scottish printer whose own father had left Dublin to find work in Scotland, was Sinn Féin treasurer in Glasgow and was interned in Frongoch...
  
  , Watching the Morning Grow, including "Sometimes Feel", Gallery Press
• Thomas Kinsella
  Thomas Kinsella
  Thomas Kinsella is an Irish poet, translator, editor, and publisher.-Early life and work:Kinsella was born in Lucan, County Dublin. He spent much of his childhood with relatives in rural Ireland. He was educated in the Irish language at the Model School, Inchicore and the O'Connell Christian...
  
  , Notes from the Land of the Dead Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
  English poetry
  The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...
  
  
• Derek Mahon, Lives. Oxford University Press, Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom
  English poetry
  The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...
  
  
• W. R. Rodgers
  W. R. Rodgers
  William Robert Rodgers , known as Bertie, and born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, was probably best known as a poet, but was also a prose essayist, a book reviewer, a radio broadcaster and script writer, a lecturer and, latterly, a teacher, as well as a former Presbyterian minister.-Early life:He...
  
  , Collected Poems, Northern Ireland poet, published in the United Kingdom
  English poetry
  The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...
  
  ; posthumous

New Zealand

New Zealand literature

New Zealand literature is essentially literature in English that is either written by New Zealanders, or migrants, dealing with New Zealand themes or places and is primarily a 20th Century creation...

• James K. Baxter
  James K. Baxter
  James Keir Baxter was a poet, and is a celebrated figure in New Zealand society.-Biography:Baxter was born in Dunedin to Archibald Baxter and Millicent Brown and grew up near Brighton. He was named after James Keir Hardie, a founder of the British Labour Party. His father had been a conscientious...
  
  :
  • Autumn Testament, not posthumous
  • Stonegut Sugar Works, Junkies and the Fuzz, Ode to Auckland, and Other Poems, posthumous
• Alistair Campbell
  Alistair Campbell (poet)
  Alistair Te Ariki Campbell, ONZM was a New Zealand poet, playwright, and novelist. His father was a New Zealand Scot and his mother a Cook Island Maori from Penrhyn Island.-Biography:...
  
  , Kapiti : Selected Poems 1947-71. Christchurch: Pegasus Press
• Allen Curnow
  Allen Curnow
  Thomas Allen Munro Curnow ONZ CBE was a New Zealand poet and journalist. Curnow was born in Timaru and educated at Christchurch Boys' High School, Canterbury University, and Auckland University...
  
  , Trees, Effigies, Moving Objects
• Bill Manhire
  Bill Manhire
  William "Bill" Manhire, CNZM is an award-winning New Zealand poet, short story writer, and professor, New Zealand's inaugural Poet Laureate.-Biography:...
  
  , The Elaboration
• Kendrick Smithyman
  Kendrick Smithyman
  William Kendrick Smithyman was an award-winning New Zealand poet and one of the most prolific of that nation's poets in the 20th century.-Family and early life:...
  
  , Earthquake Weather

United Kingdom

English poetry

The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...

• James Aitchison
  James Aitchison
  James Aitchison was a Scottish first class cricketer. Only two other players have appeared more times in first class cricket for Scotland and he holds the team's record for most career runs and highest individual score....
  
  , Sounds Before Sleep
• Anne Beresford, Footsteps
• Martin Booth
  Martin Booth
  Martin Booth was a prolific British novelist and poet. He also worked as a teacher and screenwriter, and was the founder of the Sceptre Press.-Early life:...
  
  , The Crying Embers
• Alan Brownjohn
  Alan Brownjohn
  Alan Charles Brownjohn FRSL is an English poet and novelist.He was born in London and educated at Merton College, Oxford. He taught until 1979, when he became a full-time writer...
  
  , Warrior's Career
• Florence Bull, Saint David's Day
• Kevin Crossley-Holland
  Kevin Crossley-Holland
  Kevin John William Crossley-Holland is an English translator, children's author and poet.-Life and career:Born in Mursley, north Buckinghamshire, Holland grew up in Whiteleaf, a small village in the Chilterns...
  
  , The Rain-Giver
• Douglas Dunn
  Douglas Dunn
  Douglas Eaglesham Dunn, OBE is a Scottish poet, academic, and critic. He currently lives in Scotland.-Background:Dunn was born in Inchinnan, Renfrewshire. He was educated at the Scottish School of Librarianship, and worked as a librarian before he started his studies in Hull...
  
  , The Happier Life
• D. J. Enright
  D. J. Enright
  Dennis Joseph Enright was a British academic, poet, novelist and critic, and general man of letters.-Life:He was born in Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, and educated at Leamington College and Downing College, Cambridge...
  
  , Daughters of Earth
• Elaine Feinstien, At the Edge, Sceptre Press
• James Fenton
  James Fenton
  James Martin Fenton is an English poet, journalist and literary critic. He is a former Oxford Professor of Poetry.-Life and career:...
  
  , Terminal Moraine
• Seamus Heaney
  Seamus Heaney
  Seamus Heaney is an Irish poet, writer and lecturer. He lives in Dublin. Heaney has received the Nobel Prize in Literature , the Golden Wreath of Poetry , T. S. Eliot Prize and two Whitbread prizes...
  
  , Wintering Out
  Wintering Out
  Wintering Out is a collection of poems written by Irish Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney.In Northern Ireland, the phrase "to winter out" means "to see through and survive a crisis". Some critics contend that this volume of poetry is representative of Heaney's desire to ride out the Troubles and hope...
  
  , Faber & Faber, Northern Ireland
  Irish poetry
  The history of Irish poetry includes the poetries of two languages, one in Irish and the other in English. The complex interplay between these two traditions, and between both of them and other poetries in English, has produced a body of work that is both rich in variety and difficult to...
  
   native published in the United Kingdom
• Michael Horovitz
  Michael Horovitz
  Michael Horovitz is an English poet, artist and translator.-Life and career:Michael Horovitz was the youngest of ten children who were brought to England from Nazi Germany by their parents, both of whom were part of a network of European-rabbinical families...
  
  , The Wolverhampton Wanderer
• Ted Hughes
  Ted Hughes
  Edward James Hughes OM , more commonly known as Ted Hughes, was an English poet and children's writer. Critics routinely rank him as one of the best poets of his generation. Hughes was British Poet Laureate from 1984 until his death.Hughes was married to American poet Sylvia Plath, from 1956 until...
  
  , Selected Poems 1957–1967 (see also Selectd Poems 1982
  1982 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:*Final edition of This Magazine published....
  
  , New Selected Poems 1995
  1995 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* February 16 — Announcement that 300 poems by S.T...
  
  )
• Thomas Kinsella
  Thomas Kinsella
  Thomas Kinsella is an Irish poet, translator, editor, and publisher.-Early life and work:Kinsella was born in Lucan, County Dublin. He spent much of his childhood with relatives in rural Ireland. He was educated in the Irish language at the Model School, Inchicore and the O'Connell Christian...
  
  , Notes from the Land of the Dead Irish
  Irish poetry
  The history of Irish poetry includes the poetries of two languages, one in Irish and the other in English. The complex interplay between these two traditions, and between both of them and other poetries in English, has produced a body of work that is both rich in variety and difficult to...
  
   poet published in the United Kingdom
• Liz Lochhead
  Liz Lochhead
  Liz Lochhead is a Scottish poet and dramatist, originally from Newarthill in North Lanarkshire.-Background:After attending Glasgow School of Art, Lochhead lectured in fine art for eight years before becoming a professional writer....
  
  , Memo for Spring
• George MacBeth
  George MacBeth
  George Mann MacBeth was a Scottish poet and novelist. He was born in Shotts, Lanarkshire.When he was three, his family moved to Sheffield....
  
  , Collected Poems 1958-70
• Derek Mahon, Lives. Oxford University Press, Northern Ireland
  Irish poetry
  The history of Irish poetry includes the poetries of two languages, one in Irish and the other in English. The complex interplay between these two traditions, and between both of them and other poetries in English, has produced a body of work that is both rich in variety and difficult to...
  
   native published in the United Kingdom
• Adrian Mitchell
  Adrian Mitchell
  Adrian Mitchell FRSL was an English poet, novelist and playwright. A former journalist, he became a noted figure on the British anti-authoritarian Left. For almost half a century he was the foremost poet of the country's anti-Bomb movement...
  
  , Ride the Nightmare
• Edwin Morgan, Glasgow Sonnets
• Norman Nicholson
  Norman Nicholson
  Norman Cornthwaite Nicholson OBE, , was an English poet, known for his association with the Cumberland town of Millom...
  
  , A Local Habitation
• Brian Patten
  Brian Patten
  -Background:Born near Liverpool's docks, he attended Sefton Park School in the Smithdown Road area of Liverpool, where he was noted for his essays and greatly encouraged in his work by Harry Sutcliffe his form teacher. He left school at fifteen and began work for The Bootle Times writing a column...
  
  , And Sometimes It Happens
• Mervyn Peake
  Mervyn Peake
  Mervyn Laurence Peake was an English writer, artist, poet and illustrator. He is best known for what are usually referred to as the Gormenghast books. They are sometimes compared to the work of his older contemporary J. R. R...
  
  , A Book of Nonsense
• Peter Porter
  Peter Porter (poet)
  Peter Neville Frederick Porter, OAM was a British-based Australian poet.-Life:Porter was born in Brisbane, Australia, in 1929. His mother, Marion, died of a burst gall-bladder in 1938. He attended the Church of England Grammar School and left school at 18, and went to work as a trainee journalist...
  
  , Preaching to the Converted
• Sally Purcell
  Sally Purcell
  Sally Purcell was a British poet and translator. She produced several English translations of poetry and literary works, including the first English translation of Hélène Cixous's The Exile of James Joyce or the Art of Replacement, and published at least six volumes of her own...
  
  , The Holly Queen
• Peter Redgrove
  Peter Redgrove
  Peter William Redgrove was a prolific and widely respected British poet, who also wrote works with his second wife Penelope Shuttle on menstruation and women's health, novels and plays.-Life:...
  
  , Dr Faust's Sea-Spiral Spirit, and Other Poems
• R. S. Thomas
  R. S. Thomas
  Ronald Stuart Thomas was a Welsh poet and Anglican clergyman, noted for his nationalism, spirituality and deep dislike of the anglicisation of Wales...
  
  , H'm, Welsh
• Norman Nicholson
  Norman Nicholson
  Norman Cornthwaite Nicholson OBE, , was an English poet, known for his association with the Cumberland town of Millom...
  
  , A Local Habitation
• Kathleen Raine
  Kathleen Raine
  Kathleen Jessie Raine was a British poet, critic, and scholar writing in particular on William Blake, W. B. Yeats and Thomas Taylor. Known for her interest in various forms of spirituality, most prominently Platonism and Neoplatonism, she was a founder member of the Temenos Academy.-Life:Raine was...
  
  , the Lost Country
• W. R. Rodgers
  W. R. Rodgers
  William Robert Rodgers , known as Bertie, and born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, was probably best known as a poet, but was also a prose essayist, a book reviewer, a radio broadcaster and script writer, a lecturer and, latterly, a teacher, as well as a former Presbyterian minister.-Early life:He...
  
  , Collected Poems, Northern Ireland
  Irish poetry
  The history of Irish poetry includes the poetries of two languages, one in Irish and the other in English. The complex interplay between these two traditions, and between both of them and other poetries in English, has produced a body of work that is both rich in variety and difficult to...
  
   poet, published in the United Kingdom; posthumous
• Vernon Scannell
  Vernon Scannell
  Vernon Scannell was a British poet and author. He was at one time a professional boxer, and wrote novels about the sport.-Personal life:Vernon Scannell was born in 1922 in Spilsby, Lincolnshire...
  
  , Selected Poems
• Peter Scupham
  Peter Scupham
  -Life:He studied at Emmanuel College, Cambridge.He founded The Mandeville Press with John Mole. He lives in Norfolk, and runs a catalogue book business with Margaret Steward.-Awards:* 1990 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature...
  
  , The Snowing Globe
• Stevie Smith
  Stevie Smith
  Florence Margaret Smith, known as Stevie Smith was an English poet and novelist.-Life:Stevie Smith, born Florence Margaret Smith in Kingston upon Hull, was the second daughter of Ethel and Charles Smith. Contemporary Women Poets...
  
  , Scorpion, and Other Poems, posthumous

Anthologies in the United Kingdom

• Helen Gardner, The New Oxford Book of English Verse, replaced the 1939 revised selection by Quiller and Couch. 1972
• John Heath-Stubbs
  John Heath-Stubbs
  John Francis Alexander Heath-Stubbs OBE was an English poet and translator, known for his verse influenced by classical myths, and the long Arthurian poem Artorius .- Biography :...
  
  , co-editor, Penguin Modern Poets 20

United States

• A.R. Ammons:
  • Briefings: Poems Small and Easy
  • Collected Poems: 1951–1971, winner of the National Book Award
    National Book Award
    The National Book Awards are a set of American literary awards. Started in 1950, the Awards are presented annually to American authors for literature published in the current year. In 1989 the National Book Foundation, a nonprofit organization which now oversees and manages the National Book...
    
     in 1973
    1973 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Canadian poet and author, Michael Ondaatje adapts his 1970 book of poetry, The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, into a play which this year is first produced in Stratford, Ontario; it will appear in...
    
    
• John Ashbery
  John Ashbery
  John Lawrence Ashbery is an American poet. He has published more than twenty volumes of poetry and won nearly every major American award for poetry, including a Pulitzer Prize in 1976 for his collection Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror. But Ashbery's work still proves controversial...
  
  , Three Poems
• W. H. Auden
  W. H. Auden
  Wystan Hugh Auden , who published as W. H. Auden, was an Anglo-American poet,The first definition of "Anglo-American" in the OED is: "Of, belonging to, or involving both England and America." See also the definition "English in origin or birth, American by settlement or citizenship" in See also...
  
  , Epistle to a Godson
• Ted Berrigan
  Ted Berrigan
  -Early life:Berrigan was born in Providence, Rhode Island, on November 15, 1934. After high school, he spent a year at Providence College before joining the U.S. Army in 1954 to serve in the Korean War. After three years in the Army, he finished his college studies at the University of Tulsa in...
  
  , Ron Padgett
  Ron Padgett
  Ron Padgett is an American poet, essayist, fiction writer, translator, and a member of the New York School. Bean Spasms, Padget's first collection of poems, was published in 1967 and written with Ted Berrigan...
  
  , and Tom Clark
  Tom Clark (poet)
  Tom Clark is an American poet, editor and biographer. Clark was born on the Near West Side of Chicago and educated at the University of Michigan where he received a Hopwood Award for poetry. On March 22, 1968, he married Angelica Heinegg, at St. Mark’s Church, New York City...
  
  , Back In Boston Again
• John Berryman
  John Berryman
  John Allyn Berryman was an American poet and scholar, born in McAlester, Oklahoma. He was a major figure in American poetry in the second half of the 20th century and was considered a key figure in the Confessional school of poetry...
  
  , Delusions, Etc. (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux) posthumous
• Elizabeth Bishop
  Elizabeth Bishop
  Elizabeth Bishop was an American poet and short-story writer. She was the Poet Laureate of the United States from 1949 to 1950, a Pulitzer Prize winner in 1956 and a National Book Award Winner for Poetry in 1970. Elizabeth Bishop House is an artists' retreat in Great Village, Nova Scotia...
  
   and Emanuel Brasil, editors, An Anthology of Twentieth Century Brazilian Poetry (Wesleyan University Press)
• Harold Bloom
  Harold Bloom
  Harold Bloom is an American writer and literary critic, and is Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University. He is known for his defense of 19th-century Romantic poets, his unique and controversial theories of poetic influence, and his prodigious literary output, particularly for a literary...
  
  , Yeats (criticism)
• Joseph Brodsky
  Joseph Brodsky
  Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky , was a Russian poet and essayist.In 1964, 23-year-old Brodsky was arrested and charged with the crime of "social parasitism" He was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1972 and settled in America with the help of W. H. Auden and other supporters...
  
  : Poems, Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ardis, Russian
  Russian literature
  Russian literature refers to the literature of Russia or its émigrés, and to the Russian-language literature of several independent nations once a part of what was historically Russia or the Soviet Union...
  
  –American
• Gwendolyn Brooks
  Gwendolyn Brooks
  Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks was an American poet. She was appointed Poet Laureate of Illinois in 1968 and Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1985.-Biography:...
  
  , Aurora
• Robert Creeley
  Robert Creeley
  Robert Creeley was an American poet and author of more than sixty books. He is usually associated with the Black Mountain poets, though his verse aesthetic diverged from that school's. He was close with Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, John Wieners and Ed Dorn. He served as the Samuel P...
  
  , A Day Book
• Stephen Dobyns
  Stephen Dobyns
  Stephen J. Dobyns is an American poet and novelist born in Orange, New Jersey, and residing in Westerly, RI.-Life:Was born on February 19, 1941 in Orange, New Jersey to Lester L., a minister, and Barbara Johnston...
  
  , Concurring Beasts
• Hilda Doolittle (H.D.), Hermetic Definition
• Ed Dorn
  Ed Dorn
  Edward Merton Dorn was an American poet and teacher often associated with the Black Mountain poets. His most famous work is Gunslinger.-Overview:...
  
  :
  • The Hamadryas Baboon at the Lincoln Park Zoo, Wine Press
  • Gunslinger
    Gunslinger (Ed Dorn poem)
    Gunslinger is the title of a long poem in six parts by Ed Dorn. Book I was first published in 1968, Book II in 1969, The Cycle in 1971, The Winterbook in 1972, Bean News in 1972, and 'Book IIII' as part of the complete Slinger in 1975...
    
    , Book III: The Winterbook, Prologue to the Great Book IV Kornerstone, Frontier Press
• Michael S. Harper
  Michael S. Harper
  Michael Steven Harper is an American poet from Brooklyn, who was the Poet Laureate of Rhode Island from 1988 to 1993. He has published ten books of poetry, two of which, "Dear John, Dear Coltrane" and "Images of Kin" , have been nominated for the National Book Award. A great deal of his poetry...
  
  , Song: "I want a Witness"
• LeRoi Jones as Amiri Baraka
  Amiri Baraka
  Amiri Baraka , formerly known as LeRoi Jones, is an American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays, and music criticism...
  
  , Spirit Reach
• Philip Levine
  Philip Levine (poet)
  Philip Levine is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet best known for his poems about working-class Detroit. He taught for over thirty years at the English Department of California State University, Fresno and held teaching positions at other universities as well...
  
  , They Feed They Lion
• Archibald MacLeish
  Archibald MacLeish
  Archibald MacLeish was an American poet, writer, and the Librarian of Congress. He is associated with the Modernist school of poetry. He received three Pulitzer Prizes for his work.-Early years:...
  
  , The Human Season: Selected Poems, 1926–1972, selected poems
• James Merrill
  James Merrill
  James Ingram Merrill was an American poet whose awards include the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Divine Comedies...
  
  , Braving the Elements
• Ned O'Gorman
  Ned O'Gorman
  - Biographical notes :Born Edward Charles O'Gorman to Annette de Bouthillier-Chavigny and Samuel Franklin Engs O'Gorman in New York City, Ned O'Gorman spent most of his early life in Southport, Connecticut, and Bradford, Vermont. In 1950, he graduated from St. Michael's College in Vermont and later...
  
  , The Flag the Hawk Flies
• Mary Oliver
  Mary Oliver
  Mary Oliver is an American poet who has won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. The New York Times described her as "far and away, this country's [America's] best-selling poet".-Early life:...
  
  , The River Styx, Ohio, and Other Poems
• George Oppen
  George Oppen
  George Oppen was an American poet, best known as one of the members of the Objectivist group of poets. He abandoned poetry in the 1930s for political activism, and later moved to Mexico to avoid the attentions of the House Un-American Activities Committee...
  
  , Collected Poems (only in Great Britain) and Seascape: Needle's Eye
• Michael Palmer
  Michael Palmer
  Michael Palmer is an American poet and translator. He attended Harvard University where he earned a BA in French and a MA in Comparative Literature. He has worked extensively with Contemporary dance for over thirty years and has collaborated with many composers and visual artists...
  
  , Blake's Newton (Black Sparrow Press)
• Kenneth Rexroth
  Kenneth Rexroth
  Kenneth Rexroth was an American poet, translator and critical essayist. He is regarded as a central figure in the San Francisco Renaissance, and paved the groundwork for the movement...
  
  :
  • 100 Poems from the French, (translator)
  • Orchard Boat, (translator)
• Theodore Roethke
  Theodore Roethke
  Theodore Roethke was an American poet, who published several volumes of poetry characterized by its rhythm, rhyming, and natural imagery. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1954 for his book, The Waking.-Biography:...
  
  , Straw for Fire, posthumous selections made by David Wagoner
  David Wagoner
  David Russell Wagoner is an American poet who has written many poetry collections and ten novels. Two of his books have been nominated for National Book Awards....
  
   from the poet's notebooks
• Louis Simpson
  Louis Simpson
  Louis Aston Marantz Simpson is an American poet. He won the 1964 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his work At The End Of The Open Road.-Life:...
  
  , Adventures of the Letter I, including "American Dreams" and "Doubting"
• Patti Smith
  Patti Smith
  Patricia Lee "Patti" Smith is an American singer-songwriter, poet and visual artist, who became a highly influential component of the New York City punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album Horses....
  
  , Seventh Heaven
  Seventh Heaven (book)
  Seventh Heaven is a poetry collection by Patti Smith, published in 1972.- Contents :# "Seventh Heaven"# "Sally"# "Jeanne Darc"# "Renee Falconetti"# "A Fire of Unknown Origin"# "Edie Sedgwick"# "Crystal"# "Marianne Faithfull"# "Girl Trouble"...
  
  
• James Tate
  James Tate (writer)
  James Tate is an American poet whose work has earned him the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. He is a professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters...
  
  , Absences
• Eleanor Ross Taylor
  Eleanor Ross Taylor
  Eleanor Ross Taylor is an American poet who has published six collections from 1960 to 2009. Her work received little recognition until 1998, but since then has received several of the major poetry prizes...
  
  , Welcome Eumenides
• Rosmarie Waldrop
  Rosmarie Waldrop
  Rosmarie Waldrop is a contemporary American poet, translator and publisher. Born in Germany, she has lived in the United States since 1958. She has lived in Providence, Rhode Island since the late 1960s...
  
  , The Aggressive Ways of the Casual Stranger (Random House)
• Juan Rodolfo Wilcock
  Juan Rodolfo Wilcock
  Juan Rodolfo Wilcock was an Argentinian author, poet, critic and translator. He was the son of Charles Leonard Wilcock and Ida Romegialli.- Early life :Wilcock was born at Buenos Aires....
  
   (Argentine
  Argentina
  Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
  
  ), La sinagoga degli iconoclasti, translated into English as The Temple of Iconoclasts

Other in English

• Wayne Brown (poet), On the Coast, Caribbean
  Caribbean poetry
  Caribbean poetry is any form of poem, rhyme, or song that gets its derivatives from the Caribbean. This type of media became popular primarily in the early 1900s with the works of poets Linton Kwesi Johnson, Kamau Brathwaite, and Derek Walcott.-Origins:...
  
  
• Zulfikar Ghose
  Zulfikar Ghose
  Zulfikar Ghose is a novelist, poet and essayist. A native of Pakistan who has long lived in Texas, he writes in the surrealist mode of much Latin American fiction, blending fantasy and harsh realism....
  
  , The Violent West, a Pakistani poet, lecturing in Texas
• Anthony McNeill
  Anthony McNeill
  Roy Anthony "Tony" McNeill was a Jamaican poet, considered one of the most promising West Indian writers of his generation, whose career was cut short by his early death....
  
  , Reel from "The Life Movie", Jamaica
  Caribbean poetry
  Caribbean poetry is any form of poem, rhyme, or song that gets its derivatives from the Caribbean. This type of media became popular primarily in the early 1900s with the works of poets Linton Kwesi Johnson, Kamau Brathwaite, and Derek Walcott.-Origins:...
  
  
• Wole Soyinka
  Wole Soyinka
  Akinwande Oluwole "Wole" Soyinka is a Nigerian writer, poet and playwright. He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature, where he was recognised as a man "who in a wide cultural perspective and with poetic overtones fashions the drama of existence", and became the first African in Africa and...
  
  , A Shuttle in the Crypt

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:

Canada

Canadian poetry

- Beginnings:The earliest works of poetry, mainly written by visitors, described the new territories in optimistic terms, mainly targeted at a European audience...

, in French

• Paul Chamberland, Éclats de la pierre noire d'oû rejaillit ma vie
• Gilles Hénault, complete works
• Gustave Lamarche, complete works
• Rina Lasnier
  Rina Lasnier
  Rina Lasnier, was a Canadian, Québécoise poet. Born in St-Grégoire d'Iberville=Mont-Saint-Grégoire, Quebec, she attended Collège Marguerite Bourgeoys and the Université de Montréal...
  
  , complete works
• Fernand Ouellette, complete works
• Suzanne Paradis
  Suzanne Paradis
  Suzanne Paradis is a Canadian poet, novelist and critic based in Quebec.-Books:* Les Enfants* A temps, le bonheur* Les Hauts Cris* La Chasse aux autres*Les Cormorans*L'Oeuvre de pierre...
  
  , Il y eut un matin
• Jean-Guy Pilon
  Jean-Guy Pilon
  Jean-Guy Pilon, OC, CQ, FRSC is a Quebec poet.Born in Saint-Polycarpe, Quebec, he received a law degree from the Université de Montréal in 1954.-Honours:* In 1967, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada....
  
  , Silences pour une souveraine, Ottawa: Éditions de l'Université d'Ottawa
• Félix A. Savard, Le Bouscueil
• Gemma Tremblay, Souffles du midi
• Pierre Trottier
  Pierre Trottier
  Pierre Trottier is a Canadian novelist. He won the Prix David in 1960.-Awards:* David Price for the Sleeping Beauties 1960* Price of the society of men of letters to The Return of Oedipus in 1964....
  
  , Sainte-Mémoire

France

French poetry

French poetry is a category of French literature. It may include Francophone poetry composed outside France and poetry written in other languages of France.-French prosody and poetics:...

• Marc Alyn
  Marc Alyn
  Marc Alyn , is a French poet.-Life:He was mobilized to Algeria in 1957.He lived far from Paris, a farmhouse in Uzès, Gard....
  
  , Infini au delà
• Philippe Chabaneix, Musiques d'avant la nuit
• Andrée Chedid
  Andrée Chedid
  Andrée Chedid was a French poet and novelist of Lebanese descent.-Life:Chedid was born in Cairo on 20 March 1920. When she was ten, she was sent to a boarding school, where she learned English and French. At fourteen, she left for Europe. She then returned to Cairo to go...
  
  , Visage premier
• Maurice Courant, Soleil de ma mémoire
• Micheline Dupray, L'Herbe est trop douce
• Gérard Genette
  Gérard Genette
  Gérard Genette is a French literary theorist, associated in particular with the structuralist movement and such figures as Roland Barthes and Claude Lévi-Strauss, from whom he adapted the concept of bricolage.-Life:...
  
  , Figures III, one of three volumes of a work of critical scholarship in poetics – general theory of literary form and analysis of individual works — the Figures volumes are concerned with the problems of poetic discourse and narrative in Stendhal, Flaubert and Proust and in Baroque poetry (see also Figures I 1966
  1966 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Raymond Souster founds the League of Canadian Poets...
  
  , Figures II 1969
  1969 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* FIELD magazine founded at Oberlin College...
  
  )
• Eugène Guillevic
  Eugène Guillevic
  Eugène Guillevic was one of the better known French poets of the second half of the 20th century. Professionally, he went under just the single name "Guillevic".-Life:...
  
  , Encoches
• Edmond Jabès
  Edmond Jabes
  ----Edmond Jabès was a Jewish writer and poet, and one of the best known literary figures to write in French after World War II.- Life :...
  
  , Aély
• Pierre Loubière, Mémoire buisonnière
• Pierre Moussaric, Chansons du temps présent
• Marie Noël, Chants des quatre temps (posthumous)
• Hélène Parmelin, De Songe et de silence
• Saint-John Perse
  Saint-John Perse
  Saint-John Perse was a French poet, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1960 "for the soaring flight and evocative imagery of his poetry." He was also a major French diplomat from 1914 to 1940, after which he lived primarily in the USA until 1967.-Biography:Alexis Leger was...
  
  , Œuvres Complètes, Paris: Gallimard
• Denis Roche, Le Mécrit
• Claude Royet-Journoud
  Claude Royet-Journoud
  Claude Royet-Journoud is a contemporary French poet and artist living in Paris .-Overview:Royet-Journoud's publications in French include his tetralogy, published between 1972 and 1997: Le Renversement, La Notion d'Obstacle, Les Objets contiennent l'infini, and Les Natures indivisibles...
  
  , Le Renversement
• Claire de Soujeole, Pas dans la rosée

Germany

German literature

German literature comprises those literary texts written in the German language. This includes literature written in Germany, Austria, the German part of Switzerland, and to a lesser extent works of the German diaspora. German literature of the modern period is mostly in Standard German, but there...

• Heinrich Böll
  Heinrich Böll
  Heinrich Theodor Böll was one of Germany's foremost post-World War II writers. Böll was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize in 1967 and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1972.- Biography :...
  
  , Gedichte, nine poems
• Andreas Okopenko
  Andreas Okopenko
  Andreas Okopenko was an Austrian writer.Andreas Okopenko's father was a Ukrainian physician and his mother was Austrian. From 1939, the family lived in Vienna. After studying chemistry at the University of Vienna Okopenko was active in the industry. Starting from 1950 he dedicated himself...
  
  , Orte wechselnden Unbehagens
• Reiner Kunze
  Reiner Kunze
  Reiner Kunze is a German writer and GDR dissident. He studied media and journalism at the University of Leipzig. In 1968, he left the GDR state party SED following the communist Warsaw Pact countries invasion of Czechoslovakia in response to the Prague Spring. He had to publish his work under...
  
  , Zimmerlautstärke
• Peter Huchel
  Peter Huchel
  Peter Huchel , born Hellmut Huchel, was a German poet.-Life:Huchel was born in Lichterfelde near Berlin. From 1923 to 1926 Huchel studied literature and philosophy in Berlin, Freiburg and Vienna. Between 1927 and 1930 he travelled to France, Romania, Hungary and Turkey...
  
  , Neue Gedichte
• Günter Kunert
  Günter Kunert
  Günter Kunert is a German writer who left the German Democratic Republic to live in the Federal Republic of Germany ....
  
  , Offenere Ausgang
• Beat Brechbühl, Der gechlagene Hund pisst an die Saüle des Tempels
• Heiner Bastian, Tod im Leben, a long poem

Hebrew

Hebrew literature

Hebrew literature consists of ancient, medieval, and modern writings in the Hebrew language. It is one of the primary forms of Jewish literature, though there have been cases of literature written in Hebrew by non-Jews...

• Abraham Shlonsky, Ketavim
• David Fogel, Kol ha-Shirim, collected by Dan Pagis
  Dan Pagis
  Dan Pagis was an Israeli poet, lecturer and holocaust survivor. He was born in Rădăuţi, Bukovina in Romania and imprisoned as a child in a concentration camp in Ukraine...
  
  , edited by Y. Cohen
• E. Zussman, Atzai Tamid
• T. Ribner, Ain Lehashiv
• Yair Hurvitz
  Yair Hurvitz
  Yair Hurvitz was an Israeli poet who began publishing poetry in the 1960's. His poems mark a return to the tradition of Haim Nachman Bialik...
  
  , Narkisim le-Malhut Madmena
• Abba Kovner
  Abba Kovner
  Abba Kovner was a Lithuanian Jewish Hebrew poet, writer, and partisan leader. He became one of the great poets of modern Israel. He was a cousin of the Israeli Communist Party leader Meir Vilner.-Biography:...
  
  , Lahakat ha-Katzav

India

Indian poetry

Indian poetry, and Indian literature in general, has a long history dating back to Vedic times. They were written in various Indian languages such as Vedic Sanskrit, Classical Sanskrit, Oriya, Tamil, Kannada, Bengali and Urdu. Poetry in foreign languages such as Persian and English also have a...

Listed in alphabetical order by first name:

• Chandranath Mishra, Unata pal, humorous and satirical poems by "a major poet of Maithili", according to Indian academic Sisir Kumar Das (a revised and expanded edition of Yugacakra 1952
  1952 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* November — The Group British poetry movement of the 1950s and 1960s began at Downing College, Cambridge University, Philip Hobsbaum along with two friends — Tony Davis and Neil Morris...
  
  )
• Harumal Isardas Sadarangani, Piraha Ji Bakha, Sindhi
  Sindhi poetry
  Sindhi language poetry continues an oral tradition of a thousand years. The verbal verses were based on folk stories. Sindhi is one of the oldest languages of the Indus Valley having own literary colour both in poetry and prose. Sindhi poetry is very rich in thoughts as well as contain variety of...
  
  -language
• Hiren Bhattacharya, Mor Des Mor Premar Kavita ("Poems of My Country and of My Love"), Assamese
  Assamese Poetry
  Assamese poetry, poetry in Assamese language.-History:Sanskrit literature, the fountain head of most of the Indian literature, supplied not only the themes of medieval Assamese literature, but also has inspired many a writer of modern Assamese literature to undertake creative writings in context of...
  
   language
• Namdeo Dhasal
  Namdeo Dhasal
  Namdeo Laxman Dhasal is a Marathi writer and Dalit activist from Maharashtra, India.-Biography:Dhasal was born on February 15, 1949, in a village near Pune, India. A member of the Mahar Dalit class, he grew up in dire poverty...
  
  , Golpitha; Marathi
  Marathi poetry
  -Earliest Prominent Marathi Poetry:The two poets, Namadev and Dnyaneshwar , wrote the earliest significant poetry in Marathi. They were respectively born in 1270 and 1275 CE in Maharashtra, India, and both wrote religious poetry. A little over 400 verses in the so-called “abhang” form are...
  
  -language
• Niranjan Bhagat
  Niranjan Bhagat
  Niranjan Bhagat, ; born May 18, 1926 in Ahmedabad), full name Niranjan Narhari Bhagat, is a Gujarati poet and commentator who won the 1999 Sahitya Akademi Award for Gujarati language for his critic Gujarati Sahiyta-Purvardha Uttarardha...
  
  , Kavina Ketlak Prashno (Indian
  Indian poetry
  Indian poetry, and Indian literature in general, has a long history dating back to Vedic times. They were written in various Indian languages such as Vedic Sanskrit, Classical Sanskrit, Oriya, Tamil, Kannada, Bengali and Urdu. Poetry in foreign languages such as Persian and English also have a...
  
  , writing in Gujarati), criticism
• Vasant Abaji Dahake
  Vasant Abaji Dahake
  Vasant Abaji Dahake is a Marathi poet, playwright, short story writer, artist, and critic from Amaravati district in the Maharashtra state of India. He is awarded Sahitya Akademi Award for his collection ` Chitralipi' for the year 2009....
  
  , Yogabhrashta, (translated into English by Ranjit Hoskote
  Ranjit Hoskote
  Ranjit Hoskote is a contemporary Indian poet, art critic, cultural theorist and independent curator.-Early life and education:...
  
   and Mangesh Kulkarni as A Terrorist of the Spirit;New Delhi: Harper Collins/Indus, 1992
  1992 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:The Forward Book of Poetry, an annual anthology of best British poems, is published for the first time by the Forward Poetry Trust. By 2003, the publication was selling 5,000 to 7,000 copies a year...
  
  ); Marathi
  Marathi poetry
  -Earliest Prominent Marathi Poetry:The two poets, Namadev and Dnyaneshwar , wrote the earliest significant poetry in Marathi. They were respectively born in 1270 and 1275 CE in Maharashtra, India, and both wrote religious poetry. A little over 400 verses in the so-called “abhang” form are...
  
  -language
• Yumlembam Ibomcha Singh, Shingnaba Vol. I & II, Imphal; Manipuri-language

Italy

Italian poetry

-Important Italian poets:* Giacomo da Lentini a 13th Century poet who is believed to have invented the sonnet.* Guido Cavalcanti Tuscan poet, and a key figure in the Dolce Stil Novo movement....

• Riccardo Bacchelli
  Riccardo Bacchelli
  Riccardo Bacchelli was an Italian writer.His first novel was Il filo meraviglioso di Lodovico Clo’ . Then he wrote La città degli amanti . He was one of the founders of the Bagutta Prize.His more popular work was Il mulino del Po ,...
  
  , La stella del mattino
• Marino Moretti, Tre anni e un giorno
• Aldo Palazzeschi
  Aldo Palazzeschi
  Aldo Palazzeschi was the pen name of Aldo Giurlani, an Italian novelist, poet, journalist and essayist.-Biography:...
  
  , Via dalle cento stelle
• Tommaso Landolfi
  Tommaso Landolfi
  Tommaso Landolfi was an Italian author and translator.Born in Pico, province of Frosinone, he wrote numerous grotesque tales and novels, sometimes on the border of speculative fiction, science fiction and realism...
  
  , Viola di morte, winner of the Fiuggi Prize
• Edoardo Sanguineti
  Edoardo Sanguineti
  Edoardo Sanguineti was an Italian writer who was born in Genoa.-Biography:During the 1960s he was a leader of the neo avant-garde Gruppo 63 movement, founded in 1963 at Solunto....
  
  , Wirrwarr
• Giorgio Manganelli
  Giorgio Manganelli
  Giorgio Manganelli was an Italian journalist, avant-garde writer and literary critic. A native of Milan, he was one of the leaders of the avant-garde literary movement in Italy in the 1960s. He was a baroque and expressionist writer. Manganelli translated Edgar Allan Poe's complete stories and...
  
  , Agli Dei ulteriori
• Ferdinando Camon
  Ferdinando Camon
  Ferdinando Camon is a contemporary Italian writer. He is married to a journalist and has two sons: Alessandro Camon, a film producer/writer who lives in Los Angeles, and Alberto, who teaches criminal procedure and lives in Bologna...
  
  , La vita eterna

Norway

Norwegian literature

Norwegian literature is literature composed in Norway or by Norwegian people. The history of Norwegian literature starts with the pagan Eddaic poems and skaldic verse of the 9th and 10th centuries with poets such as Bragi Boddason and Eyvindr Skáldaspillir...

• Hans Børli
  Hans Børli
  Hans Børli was a Norwegian poet and writer, who besides his writings worked as a lumberjack all his life. He was born in Eidskog, in South-Eastern Norway, close to the Norwegian border to Sweden. He was buried at Eidskog Church.-Biography:Hans Børli was raised on a small farm in a road-less area...
  
  , Kyndelsmesse
• Per Arneberg
  Per Arneberg
  Per Arneberg was a Norwegian poet, prosaist and translator, born in Tønsberg.Among his books are Dagen og natten , Oslostreif and Oktobernetter . He edited the poetry anthology Norsk lyrikk. Mellomkrigstiden .He was awarded the Riksmål Society Literature Prize in 1971.-References:...
  
  , Oktobernetter
• Ernst Orvil
  Ernst Orvil
  Ernst Orvil was a Norwegian novelist, short story writer, lyricist and playwright. He made his literary debut with the novel Birger in 1932. His first poetry collection was Bølgeslag ....
  
  , Nok sagt

Russia

Russian literature

Russian literature refers to the literature of Russia or its émigrés, and to the Russian-language literature of several independent nations once a part of what was historically Russia or the Soviet Union...

• Konstantin Simonov
  Konstantin Simonov
  Konstantin Mikhailovich Simonov was a Russian/Soviet author, known especially as a war poet.-Early years:He was born in Petrograd. His mother was born Princess Obolenskaya, of a Rurikid family. His father, an officer in the Tsar's army, left Russia after the Revolution in 1917. He died in Poland...
  
  , Vietnam. Summer 1970
• Aleksandr Bezymenski, The Law of the Heart, collected poems
• David Kugultinov, Kalmyk poet, Revolt of the Intellect

Spain

Spanish poetry

Spanish poetry is the poetic tradition of Spain. It may include elements of Spanish literature, and literatures written in languages of Spain other than Castilian, such as Catalan literature....

• Matilde Camus
  Matilde Camus
  Matilde Camus is a Spanish poet who has written research works. She was born in Santander, Cantabria.-Research Works:*Vicenta García Miranda, una poetisa extremeña ....
  
  , Manantial de amor (Love Spring)
• Pedro Salinas
  Pedro Salinas
  Pedro Salinas y Serrano was a Spanish poet and member of the Generation of '27. He was also a scholar and critic of Spanish literature, teaching at universities in Spain, England, and the United States....
  
  , Poesía, selected by Julio Cortázar
  Julio Cortázar
  Julio Cortázar, born Jules Florencio Cortázar, was an Argentine writer. Cortázar, known as one of the founders of the Latin American Boom, influenced an entire generation of Spanish speaking readers and writers in the Americas and Europe.-Early life:Cortázar's parents, Julio José Cortázar and...
  
  
• Ángel González, Palabra sobre palabra
• Saul Yukievich, Fundadores de la nueva poesía latinoamericana, a collection of studies published in Spain by an Argentinian
• Darie Novaceanu and J.M. Caballero Bonald, translators and editors, Poesía rumana contemporánea, a bilingual edition of Romanian poems translated into Spanish.

Latin America

Latin American literature

Latin American literature consists of the oral and written literature of Latin America in several languages, particularly in Spanish, Portuguese, and indigenous languages of the Americas. It rose to particular prominence globally during the second half of the 20th century, largely due to the...

• Hugo Achugar
  Hugo Achúgar
  Hugo Achugar is a Uruguayan poet, essayist, and researcher.-Biography:Achugar graduated from the Artigas Institute for Teachers with a degree in literature, and taught secondary education until, dismissed by the dictatorship, he relocated to Venezuela...
  
  , Con bigote triste
• Rafael Méndez Dorich, editor, Profundo Centro,, an anthology (Lima), Peru
• Aída Vitale, Oidor andante
• Idea Vilariño, Poemas de amor

Yiddish language

Yiddish literature

Yiddish literature encompasses all belles lettres written in Yiddish, the language of Ashkenazic Jewry which is related to Middle High German. The history of Yiddish, with its roots in central Europe and locus for centuries in Eastern Europe, is evident in its literature.It is generally described...

• Asya, Quiver of Boughs
• Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman
  Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman
  Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman is a Yiddish poet and songwriter.-Biography:She was born in Vienna into an Eastern-European, Yiddish-speaking family; her family left for Czernowitz, Ukraine and settled there when Schaechter-Gottesman was a young child...
  
  , Footpaths Between Walls
• Zyameh Telesin, Cries of Memory
• Rachel Baumwoll, Longed For
• Israel's President Shazer:
  • During a Mission
  • For Myself
• Rivkah Bassman, Bright Stones
• Malkah Chefetz-Tuzman, Leaves Do Not Fall
• Rachel H. Korn, On the Edge of a Moment
• Joshuah Rivin, Rainbow of Song
• Saul Maltz, With Joy and Song (for younger readers)

Other

• Jørgen Gustava Brandt, Upraktiske digte. Udvalg, selected poems from 1953 to 1971, Denmark
  Danish literature
  Danish literature, a subset of Scandinavian literature, stretches back to the Middle Ages. Of special note across the centuries are the historian Saxo Grammaticus, the playwright Ludvig Holberg, the storyteller Hans Christian Andersen, the philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, and Karen Blixen who...
  
  
• Odysseus Elytis, The Light Tree And The Fourteenth Beauty (Το φωτόδεντρο και η δέκατη τέταρτη ομορφιά) and The Monogram (Το Μονόγραμμα) Greece
  Modern Greek literature
  Modern Greek literature refers to literature written in the Greek language from the 11th century, with texts written in a language that is more familiar to the ears of Greeks today than is the language of the early Byzantine literature, the compilers of the New Testament, or, of course, the...
  
  
• Nizar Qabbani
  Nizar Qabbani
  Nizar Tawfiq Qabbani was a Syrian diplomat, poet and publisher. His poetic style combines simplicity and elegance in exploring themes of love, eroticism, feminism, religion, and Arab nationalism...
  
  , Poems Against The Law, Syrian poet writing in Arabic
  Arabic poetry
  Arabic poetry is the earliest form of Arabic literature. Present knowledge of poetry in Arabic dates from the 6th century, but oral poetry is believed to predate that. Arabic poetry is categorized into two main types, rhymed, or measured, and prose, with the former greatly preceding the latter...
  
  
• Wisława Szymborska: Wszelki wypadek ("Could Have"), Poland
  Polish literature
  Polish literature is the literary tradition of Poland. Most Polish literature has been written in the Polish language, though other languages, used in Poland over the centuries, have also contributed to Polish literary traditions, including Yiddish, Lithuanian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, German and...
  
  
• Johannes Wulff, Udvalgte digte. Vi som er hinanden, collected poems from 1928 to 1970, Denmark
  Danish literature
  Danish literature, a subset of Scandinavian literature, stretches back to the Middle Ages. Of special note across the centuries are the historian Saxo Grammaticus, the playwright Ludvig Holberg, the storyteller Hans Christian Andersen, the philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, and Karen Blixen who...
  
  

Awards and honors

• Nobel Prize in Literature
  Nobel Prize in Literature
  Since 1901, the Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded annually to an author from any country who has, in the words from the will of Alfred Nobel, produced "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction"...
  
  : Heinrich Böll
  Heinrich Böll
  Heinrich Theodor Böll was one of Germany's foremost post-World War II writers. Böll was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize in 1967 and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1972.- Biography :...
  
  , West Germany
  German literature
  German literature comprises those literary texts written in the German language. This includes literature written in Germany, Austria, the German part of Switzerland, and to a lesser extent works of the German diaspora. German literature of the modern period is mostly in Standard German, but there...
  
  

Canada

Canadian poetry

- Beginnings:The earliest works of poetry, mainly written by visitors, described the new territories in optimistic terms, mainly targeted at a European audience...

• See 1979 Governor General's Awards
  1979 Governor General's Awards
  Each winner of the 1979 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit was selected by a panel of judges administered by the Canada Council for the Arts. The 1979 awards were the first in which a list of finalists was released a month before the presentation of the awards...
  
   for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

United Kingdom

English poetry

The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...

• Cholmondeley Award
  Cholmondeley Award
  The Cholmondeley Award is an annual award for poetry given by the Society of Authors in the United Kingdom. Awards honour distinguished poets, from a fund endowed by the late Dowager Marchioness of Cholmondeley in 1966...
  
  : Molly Holden
  Molly Holden
  Molly Winifred Holden was a British poet. Her maiden name is Gilbert, granddaughter of popular children's author Henry Gilbert.-Life:She grew up in Surrey, and Wiltshire.She graduated from King's College London in 1951....
  
  , Tom Raworth
  Tom Raworth
  Tom Raworth is a London-born poet and visual artist who has published over forty books of poetry and prose since 1966. His works has been translated and published in many countries. Raworth is a key figure in the British Poetry Revival. He lives in Brighton, England.-Early life and work:Raworth...
  
  , Patricia Whittaker
  Patricia Whittaker
  Patricia Whittaker is a former international cricketer who played 11 Tests and one women's One Day International for the West Indies between 1976 and 1979. A right-handed batsman and right-arm fast-medium bowler, she scored four Test half-centuries and claimed 25 wickets at an average of under...
  
  
• Eric Gregory Award
  Eric Gregory Award
  The Eric Gregory Award is given by the Society of Authors to British poets under 30 on submission. The awards are up to a sum value of £24000 annually....
  
  : Tony Curtis
  Tony Curtis (Welsh poet)
  Tony Curtis FRSL is an Anglo-Welsh poet.Curtis was born in Carmarthen and educated at the University of Wales, Swansea. He subsequently studied for the MFA degree at Goddard College, Vermont, becoming the only British writer ever to graduate from that course.His debut in print was Three Young...
  
  , Richard Burns
  Richard Burns
  Richard Alexander Burns was an English rally driver. He was born in Reading, Berkshire. He was the 2001 World Rally Champion, having previously finished runner-up in the series in 1999 and 2000. He also helped Mitsubishi to the world manufacturers' title in 1998, and Peugeot in 2002...
  
  , Brian Oxley, Andrew Greig
  Andrew Greig
  Andrew Greig is a Scottish writer. He grew up in Anstruther, Fife. He studied philosophy at the University of Edinburgh and is a former Glasgow University Writing Fellow and Scottish Arts Council Scottish/Canadian Exchange Fellow...
  
  , Robin Lee
  Robin Lee
  Robin Huntington Lee was an American figure skater. He was the 1935-1939 U.S. national champion. At age 12, he became the youngest skater to win the junior national title...
  
  , Paul Muldoon
  Paul Muldoon
  Paul Muldoon is an Irish poet. He has published over thirty collections and won a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the T. S. Eliot Prize. He held the post of Oxford Professor of Poetry from 1999 - 2004. At Princeton University he is both the Howard G. B. Clark ’21 Professor in the Humanities and...
  
  

United States

• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
  Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
  The Pulitzer Prize in Poetry has been presented since 1922 for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author. However, special citations for poetry were presented in 1918 and 1919.-Winners:...
  
  : James Wright
  James Wright (poet)
  James Arlington Wright was an American poet.Wright first emerged on the literary scene in 1956 with The Green Wall, a collection of formalist verse that was awarded the prestigious Yale Younger Poets Prize. But by the early 1960s, Wright, increasingly influenced by the Spanish language...
  
  , Collected Poems
• National Book Award for Poetry
  National Book Award for Poetry
  The National Book Award for Poetry has been given since 1950 and is part of the National Book Awards, which are given annually for outstanding literary works by American citizens...
  
  : Frank O'Hara
  Frank O'Hara
  Francis Russell "Frank" O'Hara was an American writer, poet and art critic. He was a member of the New York School of poetry.-Life:...
  
  , The Collected Works of Frank O'Hara
• Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: W. D. Snodgrass

Births

• Shimon Adaf
  Shimon Adaf
  Shimon Adaf is an Israeli poet and author born in Sderot.Shimon Adaf's first book of poetry, Icarus' Monologue won a prize from the Israeli Ministry of Education. In 1996–2000, Adaf studied at Tel Aviv University, simultaneously writing articles on literature, film and rock music for Israeli...
  
  , Israeli poet and author
• Rie Yasumi
  Rie Yasumi
  is a Japanese senryū poet, a graduate of Otemae University. Her real name is .-Bibliography:* 平凡な兎 , 2001, ISBN 9784890082841...
  
   やすみ りえ pen name of Reiko Yasumi 休 理英子, Japanese
  Japanese poetry
  Japanese poets first encountered Chinese poetry during the Tang Dynasty. It took them several hundred years to digest the foreign impact, make it a part of their culture and merge it with their literary tradition in their mother tongue, and begin to develop the diversity of their native poetry. For...
  
   Senryū
  Senryu
  is a Japanese form of short poetry similar to haiku in construction: three lines with 17 or fewer total morae . Senryū tend to be about human foibles while haiku tend to be about nature, and senryū are often cynical or darkly humorous while haiku are more serious...
  
  poet (a woman)

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• January 7 – John Berryman
  John Berryman
  John Allyn Berryman was an American poet and scholar, born in McAlester, Oklahoma. He was a major figure in American poetry in the second half of the 20th century and was considered a key figure in the Confessional school of poetry...
  
  , 57, American poet, from suicide (jumping off a bridge into the Mississippi River)
• January 8 – Kenneth Patchen
  Kenneth Patchen
  Kenneth Patchen was an American poet and novelist. Though he denied any direct connection, Patchen's work and ideas regarding the role of artists paralleled those of the Dadaists, the Beats, and Surrealists...
  
  , 60 (born 1911
  1911 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Britain establishes six copyright libraries to which copies of all books published in the country must be sent: Bodleian Library ; British Library ; National Library of Scotland ; National Library of...
  
  ), American poet and painter, of a heart attack
• January 11 – Padraic Colum
  Padraic Colum
  Padraic Colum was an Irish poet, novelist, dramatist, biographer, playwright, children's author and collector of folklore. He was one of the leading figures of the Celtic Revival.-Early life:...
  
  , 90, Irish
  Irish poetry
  The history of Irish poetry includes the poetries of two languages, one in Irish and the other in English. The complex interplay between these two traditions, and between both of them and other poetries in English, has produced a body of work that is both rich in variety and difficult to...
  
  –American poet
• February 5 – Marianne Moore
  Marianne Moore
  Marianne Moore was an American Modernist poet and writer noted for her irony and wit.- Life :Moore was born in Kirkwood, Missouri, in the manse of the Presbyterian church where her maternal grandfather, John Riddle Warner, served as pastor. She was the daughter of mechanical engineer and inventor...
  
  , 84 (born 1887
  1887 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Canada:* George Frederick Cameron, Lyrics on Freedom, Love and Death, posthumously published ....
  
  ), American Modernist poet and writer
• March 4 – Richard Church (poet)
  Richard Church (poet)
  Richard Thomas Church was an English writer, known as poet and critic; he also wrote novels and verse plays, and three well-received volumes of autobiography.-Life:...
  
  , 78, English
  English poetry
  The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...
  
   poet, critic and novelist
• May 22 – Cecil Day-Lewis
  Cecil Day-Lewis
  Cecil Day-Lewis CBE was an Irish poet and the Poet Laureate from 1968 until his death in 1972. He also wrote mystery stories under the pseudonym of Nicholas Blake...
  
  , 68 English
  English poetry
  The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...
  
   poet
• August 2 – Paul Goodman
  Paul Goodman (writer)
  Paul Goodman was an American sociologist, poet, writer, anarchist, and public intellectual. Goodman is now mainly remembered as the author of Growing Up Absurd and an activist on the pacifist Left in the 1960s and an inspiration to that era's student movement...
  
   (born 1911
  1911 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Britain establishes six copyright libraries to which copies of all books published in the country must be sent: Bodleian Library ; British Library ; National Library of Scotland ; National Library of...
  
  ), American poet, of a heart attack
• August 21 – A.M. Klein, 61, Ukrainian-Canadian
  Canadian poetry
  - Beginnings:The earliest works of poetry, mainly written by visitors, described the new territories in optimistic terms, mainly targeted at a European audience...
  
   poet and writer
• October 3 – Gladys Schmitt
  Gladys Schmitt
  Gladys Schmitt was an American writer, editor, and professor....
  
  , 63
• October 22 – James K. Baxter
  James K. Baxter
  James Keir Baxter was a poet, and is a celebrated figure in New Zealand society.-Biography:Baxter was born in Dunedin to Archibald Baxter and Millicent Brown and grew up near Brighton. He was named after James Keir Hardie, a founder of the British Labour Party. His father had been a conscientious...
  
  , 46, New Zealand
  New Zealand literature
  New Zealand literature is essentially literature in English that is either written by New Zealanders, or migrants, dealing with New Zealand themes or places and is primarily a 20th Century creation...
  
   poet
• November 1 – Ezra Pound
  Ezra Pound
  Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was an American expatriate poet and critic and a major figure in the early modernist movement in poetry...
  
  , 87, an American poet, critic and the driving force behind several Modernist
  Modernist poetry
  Modernist poetry refers to poetry written between 1890 and 1950 in the tradition of modernist literature in the English language, but the dates of the term depend upon a number of factors, including the nation of origin, the particular school in question, and the biases of the critic setting the...
  
   movements, notably Imagism
  Imagism
  Imagism was a movement in early 20th-century Anglo-American poetry that favored precision of imagery and clear, sharp language. The Imagists rejected the sentiment and discursiveness typical of much Romantic and Victorian poetry. This was in contrast to their contemporaries, the Georgian poets,...
  
   and Vorticism
  Vorticism
  Vorticism, an offshoot of Cubism, was a short-lived modernist movement in British art and poetry of the early 20th century. It was based in London but international in make-up and ambition.-Origins:...
  
  , from an intestinal blockage
• November 20 – Robert Fletcher (poet)
  Robert Fletcher (poet)
  Robert Fletcher , was an English verse writer.Fletcher seems to be identical with a student of Merton College, Oxford, who came from Warwickshire, proceeded B.A. in 1564, and M.A. in 1567. He was admitted a fellow in 1563, but in 1569 quarrelled with Bickley, the new warden. ‘For several...
  
  , 87, poet of "Don't Fence Me In"
• December 10 – Mark Van Doren
  Mark Van Doren
  Mark Van Doren was an American poet, writer and a critic, apart from being a scholar and a professor of English at Columbia University for nearly 40 years, where he inspired a generation of influential writers and thinkers including Thomas Merton, Robert Lax, John Berryman, and Beat Generation...
  
  , 78, American poet, academic and critic
• December 20 – Günter Eich
  Günter Eich
  Günter Eich was a German lyricist, dramatist, and author. He was born in Lebus, on the Oder River, and educated in Leipzig, Berlin, and Paris....
  
   (born 1907
  1907 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Canada:* Peter McArthur, The Prodigal and other Poems* Robert W...
  
  ) German poet, dramatist, and author
• Also:
  • Eileen Duggan
  • Andrew John Young

See also

• Poetry
  Poetry
  Poetry is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning...
  
  
• List of poetry awards
• List of years in poetry