1944 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). June 1 & June 5 – The first and (modified) second lines respectively of Paul Verlaine's 1866 poem Chanson d'automne (Les sanglots longs des violons de l'automne / Bercent mon cœur d'une langueur monotone.) are broadcast by the Allies over BBC Radio Londres among coded messages to the French Resistance to prepare for the D-Day landings (second broadcast at 22:15 local time). In the ensuing Invasion of Normandy English soldier-poet Keith Douglas is killed; Vernon Scannell (as John Bain) experiences the incident that gives rise to the poem "Walking Wounded" (1965) and is wounded; and, during lulls in the fighting, Dennis B. Wilson is writing the poem that will be published as Elegy of a Common Soldier in 2012. October 2 – Dylan Thomas is best man at the wedding of his friend and fellow Welsh poet Vernon Watkins in London - but fails to turn up. Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately: E. K. Brown, On Canadian Poetry, revised edition (scholarship), Canada Ralph Gustafson, editor, Canadian Accent, anthology A. M. Klein: The Hitleriad Poems Dorothy Livesay, Day and Night. Toronto: Ryerson. Governor General's Award 1944. E. J. Pratt, Collected Poems of E. J. Pratt, Toronto: Macmillan. Ronald Hambleton, editor Unit of five: Louis Dudek, Ronald Hambleton, P. K. Page, Raymond Souster, James Wreford, anthology, Toronto: Ryerson Press, Canada Harindranath Chattopadhyay: Blood of Stones ( Poetry in English ), including "On the Pavement of Calcutta", a realistic description of suffering in the Bengal famine of 1943; Bombay: Padma Publications Lyrics ( Poetry in English ), Bombay: Padma Publications Nolini Kanta Gupta, To the Height ( Poetry in English ), Humayun Kabir, Mahatma and Other Poems( Poetry in English ); except for the title poem "Mahatama", inspired by the Quit India Movement, and "Rabindranath Tagore", the other poems are reprinted from the author's Poems 1932 Fredoon Kabraji, A Minor Georgian's Swan Song ( Poetry in English ), Publisher: Basil Blackwell, Indian poet published in the United Kingdom P.

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1936 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). January – Canadian Poetry Magazine first published by the Canadian Authors Association, with E. J. Pratt's active involvement. It becomes associated with more traditional poetry, very popular in Canada at this time. May In Nazi Germany, the SS magazine Das Schwarze Korps attacks the expressionist and experimental poetry of German Gottfried Benn as degenerate, Jewish and homosexual.

1954 in poetry

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.

1945 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). March 4 — Pablo Neruda elected a Communist party senator in Chile. He officially joins the Communist Party of Chile four months later. April — Ilona Karmel and Henia Karmel, sisters from the Kraków Ghetto and together Polish Jewish prisoners of the Nazis, are on a forced death march when Germans in tanks crush them and then shove them, still living, into a mass grave.