Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). [edit] Events [edit] Works published in English Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately: [edit] Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom - P. Cruttwell, The Shakespearean Moment, criticism, United Kingdom[4]
- G. Hartmann, The Unmediated Vision, criticism, United Kingdom[4]
- W. K. Wimsatt Jr., The Verbal Icon, criticism, United Kingdom[4]
- Jon Silkin, The Peaceable Kingdom, including "Death of a Son (who died in a mental hospital aged one)"
- Dylan Thomas, Quite Early One Morning, New Directions Publishers
- Leonie Adams, Poems[5]
- W. H. Auden, The Shield of Achilles, English poet living in the United States at this time
- Louise Bogan, Collected Poems, 1923–1953[5]
- E. E. Cummings, Poems, 1923–1954[5]
- Babette Deutsch, Animal, Vegetable, Mineral[5]
- Anthony Hecht, A Summoning of Stones[5]
- Daniel G. Hoffman, An Armada of Thirty Wales[5]
- Robinson Jeffers, Hungerfield and Other Poems[5]
- Weldon Kees, Poems 1947–1954[5]
- Archibald MacLeish, Songs for Eve[5]
- W. S. Merwin, The Dancing Bears[5]
- Edna St. Vincent Millay, Mine the Harvest[5]
- Marianne Moore, The Fables of La Fontaine[5]
- Howard Moss, The Toy Fair[5]
- Kenneth Patchen, The Famous Boating Party[5]
- May Swenson, Another Animal[5]
- Wallace Stevens, The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens, includes "The Rock," previously unpublished section including "The Poem That Took the Place of a Mountain," "A Quiet Normal Life," "Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour," "The Rock," "The Planet on the Table," and "Not Ideas about the Thing but the Thing Itself"), Knopf[6]
- E. B. White, The Second Tree from the Corner[5]
- William Carlos Williams, The Desert Music and Other Poems
[edit] Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States - Hugh Kenner, Wyndham Lewis: A Critical Guidebook, criticism, United States
- W. C. Williams, Selected Essays, criticism, United States[7]
[edit] Works published in other languages Including India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Listed alphabetically by first name, regardless of surname: - Girija Kumar Mathur, Dhup ke dhan[11]
- Namvar Singh, Chayavad, literary criticism that offers a radically new interpretation of the romantic movement in Hindi poetry; shows the social foundations of Hindi romanticism and its ties to the progressive movement that followed it[11]
- Premchand, Sahitya Ka Uddesya, literary essays; published posthumously[11]
[edit] Other languages of the Indian subcontinent - Baldev Gajra, also known as "Gumnam", Gumnam Sada, nationalist poems; Sindhi[11]
- Buddhadeb Basu, Sahitya Carca, essays on various literary topics; Bengali[11]
- Jayant Pathak, Marmar, the author's first poetry collection; Gujarati[11]
- M. Gopalakrishna Adiga, Cendemaddale, Kannada[11]
- Mohan Singh, Awazan, lyrics with a "romantic progressive ideology", according to Indian academic Sisir Kumar Das; Punjabi[11]
- Nand Lal Ambardar, Loel Ta Husun, including "Roopavat", Kashmiri[11]
- Nirendranath Chakraborty, Nilnirjan, mostly love poems, although one or two have political elements, Bengali[11]
- Raghunath Singh Samyal, Dogra Desa Te Dogari Boli, Dogri poetry praising Dograland, Dogra people and the Dogri language[11]
- P. Kunjiraman Nair, Kaliyacchan, poems reflecting traditional ways of life in Kerala; Malayalam[11]
- Tulasibahadur Chetri, nicknamed "Apatan", Samkalpa ("Resolve"), Nepali[11]
- Madhunapantula Satyanarayanashastri, also spelled "Madhunapantula Satyanarayana Sastri", Andhra Puranamu, Telugu, (surname: Madhunapantula)[11]
- Manoj Das, Padadvani, Oriya[11]
- Satramdas, also known as "Sail", Rama Katha, 32 cantos in a Persian meter, written in the wake of the partition of India in 1947; Sindhi[11]
- Visvanatha Satyanarayana, Nannayagari prasanna Katha Kalitartha Yukti, critical appraisal of Nannaya; Telugu[11]
[edit] Other languages [edit] Awards and honors [edit] Births Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: - March 26 – Dorothy Porter (died 2008), Australian
- April 17 – Erin Mouré, Canadian
- May 25 – Alexei Parshchikov (died 2009), Russian poet, critic and translator who emigrated to the United States in 1991
- July 19 – Jane Eaton Hamilton, Canadian short story writer, poet and photographer
- July 31 – Kim Addonizio, American poet and novelist
- August 6 – Lorna Dee Cervantes, American
- August 8 – Yu Jian, China[13]
- August 15 – Mary Jo Salter, American
- October 15 – Peter Bakowski, Australian
- November 10 – Joy Goswami, Indian Bengali poet (a man)
- December 5 – Lynda Hull, American
- December 20 – Sandra Cisneros, American poet and author
- Also:
- Catherine Anderson (poet), American
- David Baker, American
- Robert Boates, Canadian
- Janet Charman, New Zealand
- Cornelius Eady, African American poet
- David Hallett, Australian
- Kevin Hart, Australian
- Sotiris Kakisis, Greek
- Jan Heller Levi, American
- Thylias Moss, African American poet, writer, and playwright
- Luis J. Rodriguez, American poet, novelist, journalist, critic, and columnist
- Stephen Sartarelli, poet and translator
- Vijay Seshadri poet, essayist, and literary critic
- Deb Westbury, Australian
[edit] Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: - January 1 – Leonard Bacon (poet), 66 (born 1887)
- March 28 – Francis Brett Young, 73 (born 1884), English novelist and poet
- May 26 – Maxwell Bodenheim, 62 (born 1892), American poet and novelist known as the "King of Greenwich Village Bohemians"
- August 3 – Fumiko Nakajo 中城ふみ子, pen name of Noe Fumiko 野江富美子 (born 1922), Japanese tanka poet who died at age 32 after a turbulent life and struggle with breast cancer, as recorded in her poetry (surname: Nakajo)
- August 18 – Samukawa Sokotsu 寒川鼠骨(born 1875),Haiku poet in Japan of Meiji period. Masaoka Shiki's pupil.
- October 22 – Jibananda Das (born 1899), Bengali poet
[edit] See also - ^ Everett, Nicholas, "Robert Creeley's Life and Career" at the Modern American Poetry website, accessed May 1, 2008
- ^ a b Gustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books
- ^ Web page titled "Canadian Poets / P.K. Page, Published Works", at the University of Toronto Library website, retrieved January 3, 2009
- ^ a b c Preminger, Alex, and Brogan, T.V.F., editors, The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Princeton University Press, 1993, "English Poetry" article, "History and Criticism" section, p 353
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press ("If the title page is one year later than the copyright date, we used the latter since publishers frequently postdate books published near the end of the calendar year." — from the Preface, p vi)
- ^ Web page titled "Wallace Stevens (1879 - 1955)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved April 9, 2009. Archived 2009-05-04.
- ^ Preminger, Alex, and Brogan, T.V.F., editors, The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Princeton University Press, 1993, "American Poetry" article, "History and Criticism" section, p 66
- ^ a b "Selected Timeline of Anglophone Caribbean Poetry" in Williams, Emily Allen, Anglophone Caribbean Poetry, 1970–2001: An Annotated Bibliography, page xvii and following pages, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002, ISBN 9780313317477, retrieved via Google Books, February 7, 2009
- ^ a b Auster, Paul, editor, The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets, New York: Random House, 1982 ISBN 0394521978
- ^ a b c d Bree, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w Das, Sisir Kumar and various, History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956: struggle for freedom: triumph and tragedy, Volume 2, 1995, published by Sahitya Akademi, ISBN 9788172017989, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008
- ^ [1]Web page titled "Haim Gouri" at the Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature Web site, accessed October 6, 2007
- ^ Patten, Simon, "Yu Jian", article at Poetry International retrieved November 22, 2008
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