1928 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). January 16 – English novelist and poet Thomas Hardy's ashes are interred in Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey in London; pallbearers at the ceremony include Stanley Baldwin, J. M. Barrie, John Galsworthy, Edmund Gosse, A. E. Housman, Rudyard Kipling, Ramsay MacDonald and George Bernard Shaw. At the same time, Hardy's heart is interred where he wished to be buried, in the grave of his first wife, Emma, in the churchyard of his parish of birth, Stinsford ("Mellstock") in Dorset.
1925 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature, including Irish or France. January – Ezra Pound returns to Rapallo, Italy from Sicily to settle permanently after a brief stay the year before. February 11 – Eli Siegel wins The Nation Poetry Prize for "Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana". February 21 – First issue of The New Yorker magazine is published. November 21 – First issue of McGill Fortnightly Review, a publication of Montreal Group of modernist poets and the first organ to feature modernist poetry, fiction, and literary criticism in Canada.
1916 in poetry—Closing lines of "Easter, 1916" by W. B. Yeats Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). February 5 – Cabaret Voltaire is opened by German performance poet Hugo Ball and his future wife Emmy Hennings in the back room of Ephraim Jan's Holländische Meierei in Zürich, Switzerland; although surviving only until the summer it is pivotal in the creation of the Dada movement in art, poetry and literature.
1912 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). January – The Poetry Review, edited by Harold Monro, supersedes the Poetical Gazette as the journal of the Poetry Society, just renamed from the Poetry Recital Society. April 14–15 – Sinking of the RMS Titanic: The ocean liner strikes an iceberg and sinks on her maiden voyage from the United Kingdom to the United States. This leads to a flood of Titanic poems, including Thomas Hardy's "The Convergence of the Twain".
1940 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
1862 in poetryMine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword: His truth is marching on. first stanza of Julia Ward Howe's Battle Hymn of the Republic conceived as both poem and lyrics to a popular tune and first published in February in The Atlantic Monthly Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
1934 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). April 6 – Rudyard Kipling and W. B. Yeats are awarded the Gothenburg Prize for Poetry. September – T. S. Eliot (with his first love, Emily Hale) visits the English Cotswolds manor house and garden which gives rise to his poem Burnt Norton.
1931 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Louis Zukofsky edits the February issue of Poetry magazine. The issue eventually will be recognized as the founding document of the Objectivist poets. It features poetry by Zukofsky, Charles Reznikoff, Carl Rakosi, George Oppen, Basil Bunting, William Carlos Williams, Kenneth Rexroth, and many others. Also in the issue: Zukofsky's essay "Sincerity and Objectification".
1922 in poetry— Opening lines from The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot, first published this year Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). February 2 Who Goes with Fergus? by W. B. Yeats (first published in 1892) is the song that haunts James Joyce's autobiographical character Stephen Dedalus in the novel Ulysses, first published complete in book form today. Stephen sings it to his mother as she lies dying, and her ghost returns to taunt him with it.
2008 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). June 18 – Release in the United Kingdom of a new film, The Edge of Love, concerning Dylan Thomas' relationship with two women, starring Keira Knightley, Sienna Miller, Cillian Murphy and Matthew Rhys (as Thomas). September – A United Kingdom examination board, Assessment and Qualifications Alliance, asks schools to withdraw copies of its anthology which contain the poem, Education for Leisure by Carol Ann Duffy after some teachers complained about the poem's reference to knives.