Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
T. S. Eliot founds the Poetry Book Society in the U.K.
George Plimpton, Peter Matthiessen and Harold L. Humes found The Paris Review.
Nuovi Argomenti, an influential Italian literary magazine, founded by Alberto Carrocci and Alberto Moravia in Rome.
The October issue of Atlantic Monthly magazine in the United States publishes "Perspectives of India", anthologizing poems from India.
November 5 – Dylan Thomas, on a poetry reading tour of the United States, is admitted to Saint Vincent's hospital in Manhattan in a coma from which he does not recover before his death on November 9.
Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:
Robert Finch, A Century has Roots.
Irving Layton, Love the Conqueror Worm. Toronto: Contact Press.
Douglas Le Pan, The Net and the Sword, Canada
E. J. Pratt, The Titanic, Canada
Raymond Souster, Shake Hands with the Hangman: Poems 1940-52 Toronto: Contact Press.
Nissim Ezekiel, Sixty Poems ( Poetry in English ), Bombay
Harindranath Chattopadhyaya:
I Sing of Man and Other Poems ( Poetry in English ), Bombay: People's Publishing House
Spring in Winter ( Poetry in English ), Delhi: Atma Ram
Manjeri Sundaraman Manjeri, Rhapsody in Red ( Poetry in English ),
Romen, The Golden Apocalypse, Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram
Sri Aurobindo, The Future Poetry, essays on literary criticism, drawing on the author's (also published) views of art and life, (first appeared in the Arya, 1917–1920; later expanded with the author's letters on art, literature and poetry in the Centenary Library edition, Volume 9, 1971)
Charles Causley, Survivor's Leave
Sir John Betjeman, A Few Late Chrysanthemums
Louis MacNeice, Autumn Sequel
Charlotte Mew (died 1928), Collected Poems
Lewis Spence, Collected Poems
John Heath-Stubbs, New Poems
John Heath-Stubbs and David Wright.