Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
April 23 – Opening of Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C.
April 26 – 32-year-old American poet Hart Crane throws himself overboard from the steamship Orizaba in the Gulf of Mexico en route from Mexico to New York in a state of alcoholic depression; his body is never recovered.
July – W. B. Yeats leases Riversdale house in the Dublin suburb of Rathfarnham.
In Vietnam, the New Poetry (Thơ mới) period begins, marked by an article and a poem of Phan Khôi, inaugurating modern literature in that country
T. S. Eliot begins his 1932–33 Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard University (published in 1933 as The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism).
Dorothy Livesay, Signpost. Toronto: Macmillan.
E. J. Pratt, Many Moods, Toronto: Macmillan.
W. W. E. Ross, Sonnets.
Govind Krishna Chettur:
Gumataraya and other Sonnets for all Moods, Mangalore: Basel Mission Bookshop
The Temple tank and Other Poems, Mangalore: Basel Mission Bookshop
The Triumph of Love: A Sonnet Sequence, Mangalore: Basel Mission Bookshop
Baldoon Dhingra, Beauty's Sanctuary, Lahore: Civil and Military Gazette Press
Theodore W. La Touche, The Lion Kings of Lanka, Secunderabad: self-published
Manjeri Sundaraman Manjeri, Saffron and Gold and Other Poems, Madras: Shakti Karyalayam
Nanikram Vasanmal Thadani, The Garden of the East, Karachi: Bharat Publishing House
Æ, pen name of George William Russell, Song and its Fountains
Edmund Blunden, Halfway House
W. H. Auden, The Orators: An English study
Roy Campbell, Pomegranates
W. H. Davies, Poems, 1930–31
Lord Alfred Douglas and others, ed. by John Gawsworth, Known Signatures: new poems
Lawrence Durrell, Ten Poems
T. S. Eliot, Selected Essays 1917–1932, criticism
Thomas Hardy, Collected Poems
Julian Huxley, The Captive Shrew and other Poems of a Biologist
F. R. Leavis, New Bearings in English Poetry attacks late Victorian and Georgian poetry and praises Ezra Pound, T. S.