Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events- April — Ilona Karmel and Henia Karmel, sisters from the Kraków Ghetto and together Polish Jewish prisoners of the Nazis, were on a forced death march when Germans in tanks crushed them and then shoved them, still living, into a mass grave. Soon after, a group of prisoners passed them, including a cousin of theirs. From their hiding place in her clothes, Henia Karmel ripped out some poems she and her sister had written and handed them to her cousin to give to her husband, Leon, back in Krakow. The cousin did deliver the poems, and the sisters were also saved by a nearby farmer who took them to a hospital. Henia wrote in 1947, "these poems are real, not just scribblings.[they] came about when I was still creating myself, experiencing the pain of separation. How I could have survived, you might ask? If so, sir, you know nothing of life. It lasted, that’s all." Henia wrote in her poem, "Snapshots": "My name is Number 906. / And guess what? I still write verse."
- May 2, 1945, Ezra Pound was arrested by Italian partisans, and taken (according to Hugh Kenner) "to their HQ in Chiavari, where he was soon released as possessing no interest." The next day, he turned himself in to U.S. forces. He was incarcerated in a United States Army detention camp outside Pisa, spending 25 days in an open cage before being given a tent. Here he appears to have suffered a nervous breakdown. While in the camp he drafted the Pisan Cantos, a section of the work in progress which marks a shift in Pound's work, being a meditation on his own and Europe's ruin and on his place in the natural world. The Pisan Cantos won the first Bollingen Prize from the Library of Congress in 1948.
- June — Australia's most celebrated literary hoax takes place when Angry Penguins is published with poems by the fictional Ern Malley. Poets James McAuley and Harold Stewart created the poems from lines of other poems and then sent them as the purported work of a recently deceased poet. The hoax was played on Max Harris, then a 22-year-old avant garde poet and critic who had started the modernist magazine, Angry Penguins. Harris and his circle of literary friends agreed that a hitherto completely-unknown modernist poet of great merit had come to light in suburban Australia. The Autumn 1944 edition of the magazine with the poems came out in mid-1945 due to wartime printing delays. An Australian newspaper uncovered the hoax within weeks. McAuley and Stewart loved early Modernist poets but despised later modernism and especially the well-funded Angry Penguins and were jealous of Harris's precocious success.
- Two small Canadian literary magazines, Preview and First Statement (each founded separately in 1942) combined to form Northern Review (which lasts until 1956).
[Roberts, Neil, editor, , Part III, Chapter 3, "Canadian Poetry", by Cynthia Messenger, Blackwell Publishing, 2003, ISBN 9781405113618, retrieved via Google Books, January 3, 2009]
- Kyk-over-al magazine founded in Guyana
[ in Williams, Emily Allen, Anglophone Caribbean Poetry, 1970–2001: An Annotated Bibliography, page xvii and following pages, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002, ISBN 9780313317477, retrieved via Google Books, February 7, 2009]
Works published in EnglishListed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately: - Irving Layton, Here and Now
[Gustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books]
- Elizabeth Smart, "By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept" (prose poem)
- * For the Time Being
[Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6]
- W. H. Auden, The Collected Poetry,
[Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press ("If the title page is one year later than the copyright date, we used the latter since publishers frequently postdate books published near the end of the calendar year." — from the Preface, p vi)] English poet living in the United States
- H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), "Tribute to the Angels",
[ second part of Trilogy (1944–46) about the experience of the Blitz in wartime London ]
- Randall Jarrell, Little Friend, Little Friend, including "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner", New York: Dial Press
[M. L. Rosenthal, The New Poets: American and British Poetry Since World War II, New York: Oxford University Press, 1967, "Selected Bibliography: Individual Volumes by Poets Discussed", pp 334-340]
- Wallace Stevens, Esthetique du Mal, Cummington Press
[Web page titled at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved April 9, 2009. 2009-05-04.]
Other in English- V.N. Bhushan, editor, The Peacock Lute: An Anthology of Poems in English by Indian Writers, Bombay: Padma Pub., 155 pages; Indian poetry in English
[Joshi, Irene, compiler, , "Poetry Anthologies" section, "University Libraries, University of Washington" website, "Last updated May 8, 1998", retrieved June 16, 2009. 2009-06-19.]
- Serapia Devi, The Book of Beneficent Grief and Other Poems, Lahore: R. S. Ram Jawaya Kapur; India, Indian poetry in English
[Naik, M. K., , p. 230, (published by Abhinav Publications, 1984, ISBN 0391032860, ISBN 9780391032866), retrieved via Google Books, June 12, 2009]
Works published in other languages- * La Diane française
[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 0394521978
- * Le Nouveau Crevecoeur, about the Resistance
[Bree, Germaine, ]Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983
- Saint-John Perse, Exil, suivi de Poème à l'étrangère; Pluies; Neiges Paris: Gallimard (a republication of Quatre poèmes, 1941-1944, Buenos Aires: Les Editions Lettres Françaises 1944), France
[Web page titled at the Nobel Prize Website, retrieved July 20, 2009. 2009-07-24.]
Indian subcontinentIncluding all of the British colonies that later became India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Listed alphabetically by first name, regardless of surname: - Abdul Ahad Azad, Daryav, the author's magnum opus, on the theme of political revolution
[Das, 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]
- * Kalam-e Mahjoor (No. 9), lyrics on love
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- * Payem-e Mahjoor (No. 2 and No. 3), in the Devangari script; on social and national themes
Other Indian languages- Devakanta Barua, Sagar dekhisa , Indian, Assamese-language
[Das, Sisir Kumar and various, , 1995, published by Sahitya Akademi, ISBN 9788172017989, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008]
- Firak, Urdu Ki 'ishqiyah sha'iri, a major Urdu poet's literary criticism in Urdu on the idea of love as expressed in that language's poetry
- Laksmiprasad Devkota, Sakuntal, the first epic poem in the Nepali language, 24 cantos in Sanskrit Varnik meters, and the diction is very "Sanskritized"
- Trilochan, Dharti, Hindi-language pragativadi poems largely on man's struggles and life's contraditions
Other languages- Mario Benedetti, La víspera indeleble ("Indelible Eve"), his first published book, Uruguay
[Web page titled (in Spanish), retrieved May 27, 2009. 2009-05-30.]
AwardsBirthsDeath years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: - July 7 – Ikezawa Natsuki 池澤夏樹, Japanese novelist, essayist, translator and poet who stopped publishing poetry in 1982 (surname: Ikezawa)
DeathsBirth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: - February 16 – Yun Dong-ju, (born 1917), Korean poet, died in a Japanese prison (surname: Yoon; also spelled "Yoon Dong-joo" and "Yun Tong-ju")
- December 14 — Maurice Baring, versatile English man of letters: a dramatist, poet, novelist, translator, essayist, travel writer, and war correspondent
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