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.