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==Events==
* February 17 &ndash; 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 &ndash; ''[[Landfall (journal)|Landfall]]'' literary magazine is founded by [[Charles Brasch]] and first published by [[Caxton Press (New Zealand)]]; it becomes that country's oldest literary journal.
* November &ndash; [[Muriel Spark]] becomes editor of ''[[Poetry Review]]'' in London from this month's issue.
* [[Dorothy Parker]] divorces Alan Campbell for the first time.

==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:

===[[Canadian poetry|Canada]]===
* [[Arthur Bourinot]], ''The Collected Poems of Arthur S. Bourinot'' (Toronto: Ryerson Press).<ref name=biblio>"[http://www.biblio.com/books/148914845.html The Collected Poems of Arthur S. Bourinot]," Biblio.com, Web, Apr. 20, 2011.</ref>
* [[Paul Hiebert (writer)|Paul Hiebert]], ''[[Sarah Binks]]'', "the sweet songstess of Saskatchewan", [satirical fictional biography of a Prairie poet]
* [[Archibald Lampman]], ''Selected Poems'', edited by [[Duncan Campbell Scott]], published posthumously<ref name=pbcv>Gustafson, Ralph, ''The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse'', revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books</ref>
* [[Dorothy Livesay]], ''Poems for People''. Toronto: Ryerson.<ref>"[http://www.brocku.ca/canadianwomenpoets/Livesay.htm#works Dorothy Livesay (1909-1996): Works"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120905023413/http://www.brocku.ca/canadianwomenpoets/Livesay.htm#works |date=2012-09-05 }}, Canadian Women Poets, Brock University. Web, Mar. 18, 2011.</ref> '''Governor General's Award''' [[1947 Governor General's Awards|1947]].
* [[E. J. Pratt]]:
**''Behind the Log'', Toronto: Macmillan.
**''Ten Selected Poems'', Toronto: Macmillan.<ref>"Bibliography," ''Selected Poems of E. J. Pratt'', Peter Buitenhuis ed., Toronto: Macmillan, 1968, 207-208.</ref>
* [[Duncan Campbell Scott]], ''The Circle of Affection'', prose and verse<ref name=pbcv/>
* [[Raymond Souster]], ''Go To Sleep, World''. Toronto: Ryerson.<ref name=rpo>"[http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/513.html Notes on Life and Works] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110817195614/http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/513.html |date=2011-08-17 }}," Selected Poetry of Raymond Souster, Representative Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 7, 2011.</ref>
* [[John Sutherland (Canadian writer)|John Sutherland]], editor, ''Other Canadians: An Anthology of the New Poetry in [[Canadian literature|Canada]], 1940-1946'' (First Statement Press, 1947), anthology<ref>[http://www.ccca.ca/history/ozz/english/books/index.html Web 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</ref>

===[[Indian poetry|India]], [[Indian poetry in English|in English]]===
* [[Harindranath Chattopadhyaya]], ''Freedom Come'' ( Poetry in [[English language|English]] ), [[Bombay]]: Nalanda Publications<ref>Vinayak Krishna Gokak, [https://books.google.com/books?id=WLE8GVsAfEMC ''The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965)'', p 316], New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), {{ISBN|81-260-1196-3}}, retrieved August 6, 2010</ref>
* [[Serapia Devi]], ''Rapid Visions'' ( Poetry in [[English language|English]] )<ref name=mnkpipe>Naik, M. K., [https://books.google.com/books?id=FcH2MUnlQjQC ''Perspectives on Indian poetry in English''], p. 230, (published by Abhinav Publications, 1984, {{ISBN|0-391-03286-0}}, {{ISBN|978-0-391-03286-6}}), retrieved via Google Books, June 12, 2009</ref>
* [[Raul De Loyola Furtado]], ''Selected Poems'' ( Poetry in [[English language|English]] ), second edition, revised; [[Bombay]] (first edition [[1942 in poetry|1942]]; third edition, revised [[1967 in poetry|1967]])<ref name=mnkpipe/>
* [[Vinayaka Krishna Gokak]], ''The Song of Life and Other Poems'' ( Poetry in [[English language|English]] ), [[Bombay]]: Hind Kitabs<ref name=mnkpipe/>
* [[P. R. Kaikini]], ''Poems of the Passionate East'' ( Poetry in [[English language|English]] ), [[Bombay]]<ref>Vinayak Krishna Gokak, [https://books.google.com/books?id=WLE8GVsAfEMC ''The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965)'', p 322], New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), {{ISBN|81-260-1196-3}}, retrieved August 6, 2010</ref>
* [[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 Kingdom]]<ref>Vinayak Krishna Gokak, [https://books.google.com/books?id=WLE8GVsAfEMC ''The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965)'', p 309], New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), {{ISBN|81-260-1196-3}}, retrieved August 10, 2010</ref>

===[[English poetry|United Kingdom]]===
[[File:AgeOfAnxietyTitlePage.jpg|right|thumb|180px|Title page of ''[[The Age of Anxiety (poem)|The Age of Anxiety]]'' (1947); Auden specified the typography for this book.]]
* [[Kingsley Amis]], ''[[Bright November]]''<ref name=cocel>{{cite book|editor=Cox, Michael|title=The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2004|isbn=0-19-860634-6|url=https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm}}</ref>
* [[W. H. Auden]], ''The Age of Anxiety'' ([[English poetry|English]] native living in the [[American poetry|United States]])
* [[John Betjeman]], edited by W. H. Auden, ''Slick But Not Streamlined: poems & short pieces''
* [[Cairo poets]], edited by [[Keith Bullen (poet)|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''<ref name=cocel/>
* [[Philip Larkin]], ''A Girl in Winter''<ref name=cocel/>
* [[Laurie Lee]], ''The Bloom of Candles''<ref name=cocel/>
* [[Louis MacNeice]], ''The Dark Tower''
* [[John Pudney]], ''Low Life''<ref name=cocel/>
* [[Alan Ross]], ''The Derelict Day''<ref name=cocel/>
* [[Stephen Spender]], ''Poems of Dedication''<ref name=cocel/>
* [[Terence Tiller]], ''Unarm, Eros''<ref name=cocel/>
* [[Henry Treece]], ''The Haunted Garden''<ref name=cocel/>

===[[American poetry|United States]]===
* [[Conrad Aiken]], ''The Kid''<ref name=rmlaal>Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., ''Annals of American Literature: 1602&ndash;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." &mdash; from the Preface, p vi)</ref>
* [[W. H. Auden]], ''The Age of Anxiety'',<ref name=rmlaal/> [[English poetry|English]] native living in the [[American poetry|United States]]
* [[R. P. Blackmur]], ''The Good European''<ref name=rmlaal/>
* [[Cleanth Brooks]], ''[[The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry]]''
* [[Witter Bynner]], ''Take Away the Darkness''<ref name=rmlaal/>
* [[John Ciardi]], ''Other Skies''<ref name=rmlaal/>
* [[Louis Coxe]], ''The Sea Faring''<ref name=rmlaal/>
* [[August Derleth]], editor, ''[[Dark of the Moon: Poems of Fantasy and the Macabre]]''
* [[Robert Duncan (poet)|Robert Duncan]], ''Heavenly City, Earthly City''<ref name=rmlaal/>
* [[Richard Eberhart]], ''Burr Oaks'',<ref name=rmlaal/> including "The Fury of Aerial Bombardment"
* [[Robert Frost]], ''Steeple Bush''<ref name=rmlaal/>
* [[Jean Garrigue]], ''The Ego and the Centaur''<ref name=rmlaal/>
* [[Langston Hughes]], ''Fields of Wonder''<ref name=rmlaal/>
* [[Weldon Kees]], ''The Fall of Magicians''<ref name=rmlaal/> (his second book of poetry)
* [[Howard Nemerov]], ''The Image of the Law''<ref name=rmlaal/>
* [[John Frederick Nims]], ''The Iron Pastoral''<ref name=rmlaal/>
* [[Kenneth Patchen]], ''Panels for the Walls of Heaven''<ref name=rmlaal/>
* [[Karl Shapiro]], ''Trial of a Poet''<ref name=rmlaal/>
* [[William Jay Smith]], ''Poems''<ref name=rmlaal/>
* [[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"), Knopf<ref name=wspf>Web page titled [http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=6576 "Wallace Stevens (1879 - 1955)"]at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved April 9, 2009. 2009-05-04.</ref>
* [[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, [[Australian poetry|Australia]]
* [[Donagh MacDonagh]], ''The Hungry Grass'', [[Faber and Faber]], [[Irish poetry|Ireland]]
* [[Shaw Neilson]], ''Unpublished Poems'', edited by [[James Devaney]], [[Angus and Robertson]], [[Australian poetry|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:

===[[French poetry|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 in poetry|1955]]), posthumously published (died [[1918 in poetry|1918]])<ref name=gapf>Web page titled [http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=196 "Guillaume Apollinaire (1880 - 1918)"]at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved August 9, 2009. 2009-09-03.</ref>
* [[Antonin Artaud]]:
** ''Artaud le momo'' Paris: Bordas<ref name=anarpf>Web page titled [http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=226 "Antonin Artaud (1896 - 1948)"]  {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100808235048/http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=226 |date=2010-08-08 }} at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved August 25, 2009.</ref>
** ''Ce-git, précédé de la culture indienne'', Paris: K Editeur<ref name=anarpf/>
* [[André Breton]], ''Ode a Charles Fourier''<ref name=pa20cfv>Auster, Paul, editor, ''The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets'', New York: Random House, 1982, {{ISBN|0-394-52197-8}}</ref>
* [[Jean Cayrol]]:
** ''Je vivrai l'amour des autres''<ref name=gbtcfl>Bree, Germaine, ''Twentieth-Century French Literature'', translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983.</ref>
** ''On vous parle'', winner of the Prix Renaudot<ref name="gbtcfl"/>
* [[Blaise Cendrars]], pen name of Frédéric Louis Sauser, a [[Swiss poetry|Swiss]] novelist and poet naturalized as a [[French poetry|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''<ref name=pa20cfv/>
** ''Au coeur du monde''<ref name=pa20cfv/>
* [[Aimé Césaire]], ''[[Cahier d'un retour au pays natal]]'', expanded edition in book format, [[Martinique]] writer
* [[Jean Follain]], ''Exister''<ref name=pa20cfv/>
* [[Eugène Guillevic]], ''Exécutoire'', poems written during the German occupation of France<ref name=gbtcfl/>
* [[Pierre Jean Jouve]]:
** ''Hymne''<ref name=pa20cfv/>
** ''Requiem'', Lausanne, Switzerland: Mermod, French author published in Switzerland<ref>Cady, Andrea, [https://books.google.com/books?id=iOo1F2XaGIkC ''Measuring the visible: the verse and prose of Philippe Jaccottet''], p. 32, Editions Rodopi, 1992, retrieved via Google Books on August 20, 2009.</ref>
* [[Marie Noël]], ''Chants et psaumes d'automne''<ref name=gbtcfl/>
* [[Henri Pichette]], ''Apoèmes''<ref name=gbtcfl/>
* [[Raymond Queneau]], ''Exercices de style''<ref name=gbtcfl/>

===[[Indian poetry|Indian]] subcontinent===
Including India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Listed alphabetically by first name, regardless of surname:

====[[Hindi poetry|Hindi]]====
* [[Bal Krisna Rav]], ''Kavi ki Chavi''<ref name=skdhil/>
* [[Kedarnath Agarwal]]:
** ''Nind Ke Badal'', written in the language of common people by a notable poet of the ''[[Pragativadi]]'' movement<ref name=skdhil>Das, Sisir Kumar, "A Chronology of Literary Events / 1911&ndash;1956", in Das, Sisir Kumar and various, [https://books.google.com/books?id=sqBjpV9OzcsC ''History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956: struggle for freedom: triumph and tragedy, Volume 2''], 1995, published by [[Sahitya Akademi]], {{ISBN|978-81-7201-798-9}}, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008</ref>
** ''Yug Ki Ganga'', poems in the ''[[Pragativadi]]'' tradition<ref name=skdhil/>
* [[Mishra Dvarika Prasad]], epic based on [[Krishna]] legends from the ''[[Mahabharata]]'', ''[[Srimadbhagvata]]'', ''[[Sursagar]]'' and ''[[Sisupalavadha]]'', with contemporary elements; written in [[1942 in poetry|1942]] but published this year<ref name=skdhil/>
* [[Ram Dahin Mishra]], ''Kavya Darpan'', comparing [[Indian poetry|Indian]] and Western poetics; literary criticism<ref name=skdhil/>
* [[Ramadhari Singh Dinkar]], ''Samadheni''<ref name=skdhil/>
* [[Sumitranandan Pant]]:
** ''{{transl|hi|Svarn dhuli}}'', a translation of [[Swami Vivekanand]]'s ''Song of the Sanyasin'' into Hindi is included under the title ''Sanyasi Ke Git''<ref name=skdhil/>
** ''Svarna Kiran''<ref name=skdhil/>

====[[Marathi poetry|Marathi]]====
* [[B. B. Borkar]], ''Dudhasagar''<ref name=skdhil/>
* [[B. S. Mardhekar]], ''Kahi Kavita''<ref name=skdhil/>
* [[Shanta Shelke]], ''Varsa''<ref name=skdhil/>
* [[V. R. Kant]], ''Rudravina''<ref name=skdhil/>

====[[Oriya poetry|Oriya]]====
* [[Kalindi Charan Panigrahi]], romantic poems by one of the earliest modern poets in Indian literature<ref name=skdhil/>
* [[Mayadhar Mansinha]]:
** ''Kamalavana'', long, romantic poem<ref name=skdhil/>
** ''Jibanacita'', [[Oriya poetry|Oriya]]<ref name=skdhil/>
* [[Nityananda Mhapatra]], ''Pancajanya''<ref name=skdhil/>
* [[Sacchidananda Rout Roy]], ''Pandulipi'', poems written in free verse<ref name=skdhil/>

====Other languages of the Indian subcontinent====

* [[A. Muthusivan]], ''Kavitaiyum Valkkaiyum'', literary criticism written in [[Tamil poetry|Tamil]]<ref name=skdhil/>
* [[Akhtarul Imam]], ''Sabrang'', poems, some allegorical, some satiric, expressing dissatisfaction with traditional society; [[Urdu poetry|Urdu]]<ref name=skdhil/>
* [[Amrita Pritam]], ''Lamian Vatan'', mostly lyrical poems on romantic love, [[Punjabi poetry|Punjabi]]<ref name=skdhil/>
* [[Bishnu Dey]]:
** ''Purbalekh'', [[Bengali poetry|Bengali]]<ref name=skdhil/>
** [[Bishnu De]], ''Sandiper'', [[Bengali poetry|Bengali]]<ref name=skdhil/>
* [[Dimbeshwar Neog]], ''Asama''; [[Assamese poetry|Assamese]]-language
* [[Divya Prabha Bharali]], ''Banhi. Aparna'', her first book of poetry; [[Assamese poetry|Assamese]]-language<ref name=skdhil/>
* [[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 poetry|Dogri]]<ref name=skdhil/>
* [[Jhamandas Bhatia]], ''Sain Qutub Sah'', biography written in [[Sindhi poetry|Sindhi]] of the Sufi poet [[Qudub Shah]], who wrote in that language<ref name=skdhil/>
* [[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 poetry|Malayalam]]<ref name=skdhil/>
* [[Jyotsna Shukla]], ''Azadinan Geeto''; [[Gujarati poetry|Gujarati]]<ref name=20csjm>Mohan, Sarala Jag, [https://books.google.com/books?id=1lTnv6o-d_oC&dq=Urdu+poets&pg=PA100 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, {{ISBN|978-0-313-28778-7}}, retrieved December 10, 2008</ref>
* [[K. S. Narasimha Swamy]], ''Dipadamalli'', [[Kannada poetry|Kannada]]<ref name=skdhil/>
* [[Kaifi Azmi]], [[pen name]] of [[Asar Husain Rizvi]], ''Akhir-i Shab'', [[Urdu poetry|Urdu]]<ref name=skdhil/>
* [[Kashikanta Mishra]], ''Kobar-git'', marriage songs, [[Maithili poetry|Maithili]]<ref name=skdhil/>
* [[Manohar Sharma]], ''Aravali Ki Atma'', includes nature poems such as "Aravali", "Jharano" and "Tiba", [[Rajasthani poetry|Rajasthani]]<ref name=skdhil/>
* [[Shankara Balakrishna Joshi]], also known as "[[Sam. Ba. Joshi]]", ''Karnana Muru Citragulu'', literary criticism written in the [[Kannada poetry|Kannada]] language, studying the character of [[Karna]] as portrayed in three epics, ''[[Mahabharata]]'', ''[[Pampa Bharata]]'', and ''[[Kumaravyasa Bharata]]''<ref name=skdhil/>
* [[Vailoppalli Sridhara Menon]], ''Kannikkoyttu'', [[Malayalam poetry|Malayalam]]<ref name=skdhil/>

===Other languages===
* [[Thorkild Bjørnvig]], ''Stærnen bag Gavlen'' ("The Star Behind the Gable"), [[Danish poetry|Denmark]]<ref name=apnpe>"Danish Poetry" article, p 273, in Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., ''The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics'', 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications</ref>
* [[Nazik Al-Malaika]], ''Cholera'', [[Arabic poetry|Arabic]]-language book published in [[Iraqi poetry|Iraq]]<ref>"Arabic" section of "Literature" article in ''Britannica Book of the Year 2007'', published by Encyclopædia Britannica, online version retrieved January 14, 2009</ref>
* [[Alexander Mezhirov]], ''Дорога далеко'' ("The Road is Long"), edited by [[Pavel Antokolksy]], the author's first published book, Moscow<ref name=msajrl>Shrayer, Maxim, [https://books.google.com/books?id=8a392rarhCsC&pg=PA879 "Aleksandr Mezhirov"], p 879, ''An Anthology of Jewish-Russian Literature: Two Centuries of Dual Identity in Prose and Poetry'', publisher: M.E. Sharpe, 2007, {{ISBN|0-7656-0521-X}}, {{ISBN|978-0-7656-0521-4}}, retrieved via Google Books on May 27, 2009</ref>
* [[Giorgos Seferis]], ''Κίχλη'' ("The Thrush"), [[Modern Greek poetry|Greek]]
* [[Shinoe Shōda]], ''Sange'' ("Penitence"), [[tanka (poetry)|tanka]] anthology about the [[atomic bombing of Japan]], secretly published in defiance of censorship<ref>{{cite book|title=Writing Ground Zero: Japanese Literature and the Atomic Bomb|publisher=University of Chicago Press|last=Treat|first=John Whittier|year=1996|pages=189–197|isbn=9780226811789|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yv7a3mPbaAcC&pg=PA189}}</ref>
* [[Màrius Torres]] (died [[1942 in poetry|1942]]), ''Poesies'', [[Catalan people|Catalan]] [[Spanish poetry|Spanish]] poet published in [[Mexico]]

==Awards and honors==
* [[Frost Medal]]: [[Gustav Davidson]]
* [[Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress|Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress]] (later the post would be called "Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress"): [[Robert Lowell]] appointed this year.
* [[Pulitzer Prize for Poetry]]: [[Robert Lowell]], ''Lord Weary's Castle''
* [[Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets]]: [[Ridgely Torrence]]
* [[Canadian poetry|Canada:]] [[Governor General's Awards|Governor General's Award]], poetry or drama: ''Poems for People'', [[Dorothy Livesay]]<ref>[http://www.canadacouncil.ca/NR/rdonlyres/E22B9A3C-5906-41B8-B39C-F91F58B3FD70/0/cumulativewinners2010rev.pdf "Cumulative List of Winners of the Governor General's Literary Awards"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110514183017/http://www.canadacouncil.ca/NR/rdonlyres/E22B9A3C-5906-41B8-B39C-F91F58B3FD70/0/cumulativewinners2010rev.pdf |date=2011-05-14 }}, Canada Council. Web, Feb. 10, 2011.</ref>
* [[Australian poetry|Australia:]] [[Grace Leven Prize for Poetry]]: ''Pacific Sea'', [[Nan McDonald]]<ref>[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article18060944 "Strength and Sunshine" ''The Sydney Morning Herald'', 14 February 1948, p6]</ref>

==Births==
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
* January 2
** [[Ai (poet)|Ai]], born "Florence Anthony" (died [[2010 in poetry|2010]]), an [[American poetry|American]] poet who legally changes her name
** [[David Shapiro (poet)|David Shapiro]], [[American poetry|American]] poet, literary critic and art historian
* January 13 &ndash; [[David Scott (poet)|David Scott]] (died [[2022 in poetry|2022]]), [[English poetry|English]] Anglican priest, poet, playwright and spiritual writer
* January 18 &ndash; [[Takeshi Kitano]] 北野 武, [[Japanese poetry|Japanese]] filmmaker, film editor, screenwriter, comedian, actor, author, poet and painter (surname: Kitano)
* February 19
** [[Bin Ramke]], [[American poetry|American]] poet and editor
** [[Lev Rubinstein]] (died [[2024 in poetry|2024]]), [[Russian poetry|Russian]] poet, essayist and social activist
* April 3 &ndash; [[Srikrishna Alanahalli]] (died [[1989 in poetry|1989]]), [[Indian poetry|Indian]] [[Kannada poetry|Kannada]] novelist and poet
* April 13 &ndash; [[Rae Armantrout]], [[American poetry|American]] poet
* April 24 &ndash; [[Astrid Roemer]], [[Suriname]]-born [[Dutch-language literature|Dutch]] poet, novelist and playwright
* March 2 &ndash; [[Michael Schmidt (poet)|Michael Schmidt]], Mexican-born [[English poetry|English]] poet, academic, founder, editor and managing director of [[Carcanet Press]] and founder of ''[[PN Review]]''
* March 3 &ndash; [[Clifton Snider]], [[American poetry|American]] poet, novelist, literary critic, scholar and educator
* May 6 &ndash; Jerry Estrin (died [[1993 in poetry|1993]]), [[American poetry|American]] poet
* May 12 &ndash; [[Penelope Shuttle]], [[English poetry|English]] poet
* May 13 &ndash; [[Sukanta Bhattacharya]] (died 1947), [[Bengali poetry|Bengali]] poet
* May 16 &ndash; [[Cheryl Clarke]], [[American poetry|American]] poet and academic
* May 23 &ndash; [[Jane Kenyon]] (died [[1995 in poetry|1995]]), [[American poetry|American]] poet and translator
* May 27 &ndash; [[Felix Dennis]] (died [[2014 in poetry|2014]]), [[English poetry|English]] publisher and poet
* June 16 &ndash; [[Ellen Bass]], [[American poetry|American]] poet
* July 18 &ndash; [[Dermot Healy]] (died [[2014 in poetry|2014]]), [[Irish poetry|Irish]] novelist and poet
* July 25 &ndash; [[Leslie Scalapino]] (died [[2020 in poetry|2010]]), [[American poetry|American]] poet
* August 1 &ndash; [[Lorna Goodison]], Jamaican poet
* August 8 &ndash; [[Alurista]] (''nom de plume'' of Alberto Baltazar Urista Heredia), [[American poetry|American]] Chicano poet and activist
* October 13 &ndash; [[Joe Dolce]], [[Australian poetry|Australian]] poet and musician
* October 20 &ndash; [[Mikirō Sasaki]] 佐々木幹郎, also known as "Mikio Sasaki", [[Japanese poetry|Japanese]] poet and travel writer (surname: Sasaki)
* October 26 &ndash; [[Trevor Joyce]], [[Irish poetry|Irish]] poet
* November 13 &ndash; [[John Steffler]], [[Canadian poetry|Canadian]] poet and novelist
* November 30 &ndash; [[Sergio Badilla Castillo]], [[Chile]]an poet and dramatist
* December 26 &ndash; [[Liz Lochhead]], [[English poetry|Scottish]] poet and dramatist
* Also:
** [[Michael Casey (poet)|Michael Casey]], [[American poetry|American]] poet
** [[Gloria Frym]], American poet, fiction writer and essayist
** [[Reginald Gibbons]], [[American poetry|American]] poet
** [[Nasrollah Mardani]] (died 2003), [[Iranian poetry|Iranian]] poet
** [[Frank Ormsby]], Northern [[Irish poetry|Irish]] poet
** [[Molly Peacock]], [[American poetry|American]] poet of the [[New Formalism|New Formalist school]] and nonfiction writer
** [[Rosemary Sullivan]], [[Canadian poetry|Canadian]] poet, biographer and anthologist

==Deaths==
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
* April 9 &ndash; [[Desmond FitzGerald (politician)|Desmond FitzGerald]] (born [[1888 in poetry|1888]]), [[Irish poetry|Irish]] revolutionary, poet, publicist and politician
* April 12 &ndash; [[C. Louis Leipoldt]] (born [[1880 in poetry|1880]]), [[South African poetry|South African]] [[Afrikaans literature|Afrikaans]] poet, writer and pediatrician
* April 30 &ndash; [[Anna Wickham]] (born [[1883 in poetry|1883]]), [[English poetry|English]] poet (suicide by hanging)
* June 25 &ndash; [[Minnie Gow Walsworth]] (born [[1859 in poetry|1859]]), [[American poetry|American]] poet
* July 13 &ndash; [[Yone Noguchi]] 野口米次郎 (born [[1875 in poetry|1875]]), [[Japanese poetry|Japanese]] poet, fiction writer, essayist and literary critic in both Japanese and English; father of the sculptor [[Isamu Noguchi]]
* September 15 &ndash; [[Richard Le Gallienne]] (born [[1866 in poetry|1866]]), [[English poetry|English]] poet and writer
* December 19 &ndash; [[Duncan Campbell Scott]] (born [[1862 in poetry|1862]]), [[Canadian poetry|Canadian]] poet and writer

==See also==
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* [[Poetry]]
* [[List of poetry awards]]
* [[List of years in poetry]]

==Notes==
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{{Schools of poetry}}
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