1952 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). August 12 — Night of the Murdered Poets, the execution of thirteen Soviet Jews in the Lubyanka Prison in Moscow, Soviet Union, including several poets. November — The Group British poetry movement of the 1950s and 1960s begins at Downing College, University of Cambridge: Philip Hobsbaum along with two friends – Tony Davis and Neil Morris – dissatisfied with the way poetry has been read aloud in the university, decides to place a notice in the undergraduate newspaper Varsity for people interested in forming a poetry discussion group. Five others, including Peter Redgrove, come along to the first meeting. The group meets once a week during term; it moves to London in 1955. E. E. Cummings is appointed to a Charles Eliot Norton Professorship at Harvard. Contact, a mimeographed poetry magazine, founded by Ramond Souster (ceases publication in 1954); Contact Press, an important publisher of Canadian poetry, is also founded (closes in 1967). Lines Review, a Scottish poetry magazine, is founded by Callum Macdonald in Edinburgh. Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately: Alfred Bailey, Border River Earle Birney, Trial of a City and Other Verse. Toronto: Ryerson. Louis Dudek, Raymond Souster and Irving Layton. Cerberus. Toronto: Contact Press, 1952. Louis Dudek, The Searching Image. Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1952. Louis Dudek, Twenty-Four Poems. Toronto: Contact Press, 1952. Wilson MacDonald, The Lyric Year. Toronto: Ryerson. Jay Macpherson, Nineteen Poems E. J. Pratt, Towards the Last Spike, Toronto: Macmillan. Governor General's Award 1952. Sri Aurobindo, Last Poems ( Poetry in English ), mostly philosophical, mystical poetry; Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, posthumously published (died 1950), posthumously published (died 1950) Dilip Kumar Roy, Sri Aurobindo Came to Me, Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram Themis, Poems ( Poetry in English ), 74 mystical lyrics, from the Aurobindoean school; Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram G.

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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). September 12 – Abraham Sutzkever, a Polish Jew writing poetry in Yiddish, escapes the Vilna Ghetto with his wife and hides in the forests. Sutzkever and fellow Yiddish poet Shmerke Kaczerginsky, fight against the Nazis as partisans. During the Nazi era, Sutzkever writes more than eighty poems, whose manuscripts he manages to save for postwar publication.