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Concept
1944 in poetry
Summary
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June 1 & June 5 – The first and (modified) second lines respectively of Paul Verlaine's 1866 poem Chanson d'automne (Les sanglots longs des violons de l'automne / Bercent mon cœur d'une langueur monotone.) are broadcast by the Allies over BBC Radio Londres among coded messages to the French Resistance to prepare for the D-Day landings (second broadcast at 22:15 local time). In the ensuing Invasion of Normandy English soldier-poet Keith Douglas is killed; Vernon Scannell (as John Bain) experiences the incident that gives rise to the poem "Walking Wounded" (1965) and is wounded; and, during lulls in the fighting, Dennis B. Wilson is writing the poem that will be published as Elegy of a Common Soldier in 2012.
October 2 – Dylan Thomas is best man at the wedding of his friend and fellow Welsh poet Vernon Watkins in London - but fails to turn up.
Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:
E. K. Brown, On Canadian Poetry, revised edition (scholarship), Canada
Ralph Gustafson, editor, Canadian Accent, anthology
A. M. Klein:
The Hitleriad
Poems
Dorothy Livesay, Day and Night. Toronto: Ryerson. Governor General's Award 1944.
E. J. Pratt, Collected Poems of E. J. Pratt, Toronto: Macmillan.
Ronald Hambleton, editor Unit of five: Louis Dudek, Ronald Hambleton, P. K. Page, Raymond Souster, James Wreford, anthology, Toronto: Ryerson Press, Canada
Harindranath Chattopadhyay:
Blood of Stones ( Poetry in English ), including "On the Pavement of Calcutta", a realistic description of suffering in the Bengal famine of 1943; Bombay: Padma Publications
Lyrics ( Poetry in English ), Bombay: Padma Publications
Nolini Kanta Gupta, To the Height ( Poetry in English ),
Humayun Kabir, Mahatma and Other Poems( Poetry in English ); except for the title poem "Mahatama", inspired by the Quit India Movement, and "Rabindranath Tagore", the other poems are reprinted from the author's Poems 1932
Fredoon Kabraji, A Minor Georgian's Swan Song ( Poetry in English ), Publisher: Basil Blackwell, Indian poet published in the United Kingdom
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