Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
January 25 – Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood is broadcast posthumously on BBC Radio.
February – W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman move to an apartment on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
Spring – Robert Creeley founds and edits the Black Mountain Review.
Publication of American literary theorist William K. Wimsatt's collected essays Verbal Icon: Studies in the Meaning of Poetry, including the influential critical essays “The Intentional Fallacy” and “The Affective Fallacy” cowritten with Monroe Beardsley.
Jack Kerouac reads Dwight Goddard's A Buddhist Bible, which will influence him greatly.
Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:
Daryl Hine, Five Poems
Irving Layton, In the Midst of My Fever. Palma de Mallorca, Spain: Divers Press.
Irving Layton, The Long Pea-Shooter. Montreal: Laocoon Press.
Jay Macpherson, O Earth Return
P. K. Page, The Metal and the Flower, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, Canada
Raymond Souster, A Dream That Is Dying. Toronto: Contact Press
Raymond Souster, Walking Death. Toronto: Contact Press.
F. R. Scott, Events and Signals. Toronto: Ryerson Press.
A. J. M. Smith, A Sort of Ecstasy; Michigan State College Press / Ryerson Press.
Sri Aurobindo:
Collected Poems (Poetry in English), Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram
Savitri ( Poetry in English ), Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram
R. de L. Furtado, The Centre, Hamilton, Ontario: Cromlech Press; Indian author published in Canada
Nizamat Jung, Poems (Poetry in English), edited and published by Zahir Ahmed in Hyderabad
Prithwi Singh Nahar, The Wind of Silence (Poetry in English), songs, sonnets and other poems; Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram
C. Raju, This Modern Age, foreword by Amarnath Jha
K. S. R. Sastry, A Vision of India, Madras: Raja Power Press
W. H.