1981 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). American poet Jane Greer launches Plains Poetry Journal, an advance guard of the New Formalism movement. Final issue of L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E magazine published in the United States. First issue of Conjunctions literary journal published in the United States. This year, "the word 'Martianism' comes into use, through the verse of Craig Raine and his associates, presenting a vision of life on Earth as seen by a visiting Martian," the 1982 Britannica Book of the Year reports (p.
1974 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). April – The dictatorship in Portugal falls; in the six months prior, with increasing repression and a discouraging atmosphere, little new work has been published; yet later in the year, not much new poetry is published either as "writers who had based their style on censor-proof allusiveness and their themes on protest would now have to do some retooling".
1955 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). April – Wallace Stevens is baptized a Catholic by the chaplain of St. Francis Hospital in Hartford, Connecticut, where Stevens spends his last days suffering from terminal cancer. After a brief release from the hospital, Stevens is readmitted and dies on August 2 at the age of 76. July 30 – Philip Larkin makes a train journey in England from Hull to Grantham which inspires his poem The Whitsun Weddings.
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".
1892 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). William Butler Yeats founds the National Literary Society in Dublin. A. C.
1893 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). June 14 – Opening of Shelley Memorial at University College, Oxford (from which the poet was expelled in 1811), designed by Basil Champneys with a reclining nude marble statue of Percy Bysshe Shelley by Edward Onslow Ford Founding of Vangiya Sahitya Parishad in Bengal William Wilfred Campbell, The Dread Voyage Poems. Toronto: William Briggs.