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

Events

• The remains of English war poet Isaac Rosenberg, killed in World War I (1918) at the age of 28 and originally buried in a mass grave, are re-interred at Bailleul Road East Cemetery, Plot V, St. Laurent-Blangy, Pas de Calais, France.

• Poetry Bookshop in Bloomsbury, London, closes

Works published

India in English

• Swami Anand Acharya, Arctic Swallows and Other PoemsNaik, M. K., , p. 230, (published by Abhinav Publications, 1984, ISBN 0391032860, ISBN 9780391032866), retrieved via Google Books, June 12, 2009

• Krishnala M. Jhaveri, Further Milestones in Gujarati Literature written in English and translated into Gujarati; scholarship and criticism

• The Spirit of Oriental Poetry, London: Kegal Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 232 pages; anthology; published in the United KingdomJoshi, Irene, compiler, , "Poetry Anthologies" section, "University Libraries, University of Washington" website, "Last updated May 8, 1998", retrieved June 16, 2009. 2009-06-19.

United Kingdom

• Edmund Blunden, English PoemsCox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6

• W. H. Davies, The Birth of Song

• Hugh MacDiarmid, pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve:

• * A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle

• * Penny Wheep

• Edwin Muir, Chorus of the Newly Dead

• Laura Riding, The Close Chaplet

• Vita Sackville-West, The Land

• Siegfried Sassoon, Satirical Poems

• Kenneth Slessor, Earth-Visitors, London: Fanfrolico Press, Australian poet published in the United Kingdom

• The Spirit of Oriental Poetry, London: Kegal Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 232 pages; anthology; Indian poetry in English, published in the United KingdomJoshi, Irene, compiler, , "Poetry Anthologies" section, "University Libraries, University of Washington" website, "Last updated May 8, 1998", retrieved June 16, 2009. 2009-06-19.

• Humbert Wolfe:

• * Humoresque

• * News of the Devil

• W. B. Yeats, Autobiographies (autobiography), volume 6 of the Collected Edition published by Macmillan

United States

• Willa Cather, My Mortal EnemyLudwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press

• Hart Crane, White Buildings

• Countee Cullen, On These I Stand, Harper & RowRichard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, editors, The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, W. W. Norton & Company, 1973, ISBN 0393093573

• E. E. Cummings, is 5

• John Gould Fletcher, Branches of Adam

• Langston Hughes, The Weary Blues,Fleming, Robert, The African American Writer's Handbook: How to Get in Print and Stay in Print, , p 167 and following pages, Random House, 2000, ISBN 9780345423276, retrieved via Google Books, February 7, 2009

• Vachel Lindsay:

• * Going to the Stars

• * The Candle in the Cabin

• Amy Lowell, East Wind

• Archibald MacLeish, Streets in the Moon, including "The End of the World"

• Edgar Lee Masters, Lee: A Dramatic Poem

• John G. Neihardt, Collected Poems

• Dorothy Parker, Enough Rope

• Ezra Pound, Personae: The Collected Poems

• Sara Teasdale, Dark of the Moon

• Edith Wharton, Twelve Poems

• Louis Zukofsky completes "Poem beginning 'The'," incorporating fragments of the writings of Dante, Virginia Woolf, and Benito Mussolini, among others

Other in English

• W. F. Alexander and A. E. Currie, editors, A Treasury of New Zealand Verse, revised version (without preface) of New Zealand Verse, published in 1906, anthologyPreminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "New Zealand Poetry" article, "Anthologies" section, p 837

• William Henry Drummond, Complete Poems, posthumously published, CanadaGustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books

• Duncan Campbell Scott, Collected Poems, Canada

• Kenneth Slessor, Earth-Visitors, London: Fanfrolico Press, Australian poet published in the United Kingdom

Works published in other languages

France

• Louis Aragon, Le Mouvement perpetuel, influenced by surrealimBree, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983

• Paul Éluard, pen name of Paul-Eugène Grindel:

• * Dessous d'une vie

• * Capitale de la douleurAuster, Paul, editor, The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets, New York: Random House, 1982 ISBN 0394521978

• Francis Jammes, Ma France poétique, Paris: Mercure de France; FranceWeb page titled , at The Poetry Foundation website, retrieved August 30, 2009. 2009-09-03.

• Pierre Jean Jouve:

• * Mystérieuses Noces

• * Nouvelles Noces

Indian subcontinent

Including all of the British colonies that later became India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Listed alphabetically by first name, regardless of surname:

• Ahmad Din, Iqbal, a critical work on the poetry of Sir Mohammad Iqbal, Indian, Urdu-languageDas, Sisir Kumar, "A Chronology of Literary Events / 1911–1956", in Das, Sisir Kumar and various, , 1995, published by Sahitya Akademi, ISBN 9788172017989, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008

• Mohanlal Dalicand Desai, Jain Gurjar Kavio, Volume 1, literary history written in Gujarati, delving into Jain poets and including a list of manuscripts; in 1995, Indian literary scholar Sisir Kumar Das called it a "veru useful and important ork for students of Gujarati literature" (see also Volume 2 in 1931, Volume 3 1964)

• Ramanbhai Nilkanth, Kavita Ane Sahitya, four volumes of Gujarati poetry and prose; Volume 1, articles on prosody and rhetoric; Volume 2, articles on practical criticism; Volume 3, occasional lectures and essays; Volume 4 (published in 1929), some poems, short stories and essays on humor

• S. Sonusundara Bharati, Tacaratan Kuraiyum Kaikeyi Niraiyum, literary criticism in Tamil

Other languages

• Federico García Lorca, Oda a Salvador Dalí ("Ode to Salvador Dalí"), Spain

• Jacob Anker-Paulsen, Og kilderne springer, Denmark

Awards and honors

• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Amy Lowell, What's O'Clock

Births

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

• January 5 – W. D. Snodgrass (died 2009), American poet, academic and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1960

• February 18 – A. R. Ammons (died 2001), American author and poet

• March 3 – James Merrill (died 1995), American poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1977

• May 21 – Robert Creeley (died 2005), American poet, author and usually associated with the Black Mountain poets

• May 26 – Phyllis Gotlieb, Canadian science fiction novelist and poet

• June 3 – Allen Ginsberg (died 1997), American Beat poet

• June 5 – David Wagoner, American poet and novelist

• June 25 – Ingeborg Bachmann (died 1973) Austrian poet and author

• June 27 – Frank O'Hara (died 1966), American poet and key member of the New York School of poetry.

• June 29 – James K. Baxter (died 1972), New Zealand poet

• July 18 – Elizabeth Jennings (died 2001), English poet

• August 15 – Sukanta Bhattacharya (died 1947), Bengali

• September 1 – James Reaney (died 2008, Canadian poet, playwright and literary critic

• November 23 – Christopher Logue, English poet, playwright, screen writer and actor associated with the British Poetry Revival

• November 24 – Paul Blackburn (died 1971), American poet

• December 23 – Robert Bly, American poet, author, and leader of the Mythopoetic Men's Movement in the United States

• December 26 – Nabakanta Barua, also known as Ekhud Kokaideu, (died 2002), Assamese-language Indian novelist and poet

• Also:

• * Russell Atkins, African American

• * Marya Fiamengo

• * Nikos Karouzos (died 1990), Greek poet

• * Francis Edward Sparshott

Deaths

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

• April 7 – Ozaki Hōsai 尾崎 放哉 pen name of Ozaki Hideo (born 1885), Japanese late Meiji period and Taishō period poet (surname of this pen name: Ozaki)

• May 30 – Perceval Gibbon Welsh poet, author and journalist

• July 19 – Ada Cambridge (married name was Cross, but she kept her maiden name as her pen name), 81 (born 1844), English writer and poet living in Australia after 1870

• August 1 – Israel Zangwill, English poet

• November 17 – George Sterling (born 1869, American

• December 29 – Rainer Maria Rilke, 51, German poet, from leukemia

• Also:

• * Charles Montagu Doughty, (born 1843), English poet, writer, and traveller

• * Eva Selena Gore-Booth

• * Francis Joseph Sherman

See also

• Poetry

• List of poetry awards

• List of years in poetry

• New Objectivity in German literature and art