1947 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). February 17 – 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 – 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 – Muriel Spark becomes editor of Poetry Review in London from this month's issue. Dorothy Parker divorces Alan Campbell for the first time. Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately: Arthur Bourinot, The Collected Poems of Arthur S. Bourinot (Toronto: Ryerson Press). 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 Dorothy Livesay, Poems for People. Toronto: Ryerson. Governor General's Award 1947. E. J. Pratt: Behind the Log, Toronto: Macmillan. Ten Selected Poems, Toronto: Macmillan. Duncan Campbell Scott, The Circle of Affection, prose and verse Raymond Souster, Go To Sleep, World. Toronto: Ryerson. John Sutherland, editor, Other Canadians: An Anthology of the New Poetry in Canada, 1940-1946 (First Statement Press, 1947), anthology Harindranath Chattopadhyaya, Freedom Come ( Poetry in English ), Bombay: Nalanda Publications Serapia Devi, Rapid Visions ( Poetry in English ) Raul De Loyola Furtado, Selected Poems ( Poetry in English ), second edition, revised; Bombay (first edition 1942; third edition, revised 1967) Vinayaka Krishna Gokak, The Song of Life and Other Poems ( Poetry in English ), Bombay: Hind Kitabs P. R. Kaikini, Poems of the Passionate East ( Poetry in English ), Bombay Fredoon Kabraji, editor, This Strange Adventure: An Anthology of Poems in English by Indians 1828-1946, London: New India Pub.

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1942 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). March 28 – Spanish poet Miguel Hernández dies of tuberculosis as a political prisoner in a prison hospital having scrawled his last verse on the wall. April 3 – French poet Paul Éluard (Eugène Paul Grindel)'s poem "Liberté" is first published in the collection Poésie et vérité ("Poetry and truth") in Paris. In June it is reprinted by the magazine Fontaine, titled "Une seule pensée", to reach Vichy France.

1918 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). January 23 — English poet Robert Graves marries the painter Nancy Nicholson in London. Wedding guests include Wilfred Owen, who will be killed by the end of the year, and whose first nationally published poem appears 3 days later ("Miners" in The Nation). April — Hu Shih, chief advocate of the revolution in Chinese literature at this time, publishes an essay, "Constructive Literary Revolution - A Literature of National Speech" in New Youth proposing a four-point reform program.

1926 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). 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 William Henry Drummond, Complete Poems, posthumously published. Wilson MacDonald, Out Of The Wilderness.