- Source: 1927 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
June 29 – T. S. Eliot enters the Church of England; in November he takes British citizenship.
July 7 – James Joyce's collection Pomes Penyeach is published by Shakespeare and Company in Paris.
August – T. S. Eliot's poem Journey of the Magi is published in Faber and Gwyer's Ariel poems series (London) illustrated by E. McKnight Kauffer.
Works published
= Canada
=Alfred Bailey, Songs of the Saguenay and other poems.
Wilson MacDonald, An Ode On The Diamond Jubilee Of Confederation. Toronto: W. MacDonald.
E. J. Pratt, The Iron Door: An Ode, Toronto: Macmillan.
Charles G.D. Roberts, The Vagrant of Time. (Toronto: Ryerson).
= India in English
=Swami Ananda Acharya:
Sara and other poems (Poetry in English), Roros, Norway: Odegards Trykkeri 106 pages
Arctic Swallows (Poetry in English)
Harindranath Chattopadhyaya, Collected Plays and Poems, 44 sonnets Madras: printed at Hogarth Press
Joseph Furtado, A Goan Fiddler (Poetry in English)
Peroze P. Meherjee, Poems in Prose (Poetry in English), London: Luzac and Co., posthumously published (died 1925)
Gwendoline Goodwin, editor, An Anthology of Modern Indian Poetry, London: John Murray; anthology (Poetry in English), published in the United Kingdom
= Ireland
=James Joyce, Pomes Penyeach, published in Paris
W. B. Yeats:
October Blast, including "Among School Children", published in the United Kingdom
Stories of Red Hanrahan and the Secret Rose, poetry and fiction
= United Kingdom
=G. K. Chesterton, Collected Poems
Joe Corrie, The Image o' God and Other Poems, Scottish poet
W. H. Davies, A Poet's Calendar
T. S. Eliot
Journey of the Magi
"Salutation" (later to become part II of Ash Wednesday, published in 1930) is published in December in Saturday Review of Literature; also published in January 1928 in Eliot's own Criterion magazine
Gwendoline Goodwin, editor, An Anthology of Modern Indian Poetry, London: John Murray; anthology; Indian poetry in English, published in the United Kingdom
Robert Graves, Poems 1914–26
Teresa Hooley, Songs of All Seasons
Violet Jacob, The Northern Lights and other poems, Scottish poet
A. A. Milne, Now We are Six
William Plomer, Notes for Poems
Edith Sitwell, Rustic Elegies
Osbert Sitwell, England Reclaimed
Iris Tree, The Traveller and other Poems
Humbert Wolfe
Cursory Rhymes
Requiem
W. B. Yeats
October Blast, including "Among School Children", Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
Stories of Red Hanrahan and the Secret Rose, poetry and fiction
= United States
=Sherwood Anderson, A New Testament
Countee Cullen, Copper Sun
Donald Davidson, The Tall Men
Langston Hughes, Fine Clothes to the Jew
Robinson Jeffers, The Women at Point Sur
James Weldon Johnson:
God's Trombones
God's Promises
Amy Lowell, Ballads for Sale
John Livingston Lowes, The Road to Xanadu, a book on the composition of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Kubla Khan" (scholarship)
Don Marquis, archy and mehitabel, presented fictionally as a collection of vers libre poems typed by a former-poet-turned-cockroach who jumps on the keys of a typewriter
Alice Dunbar Nelson, Caroling Dusk - a collection of African-American poets
Charles Reznikoff, Five Groups of Verse self-published in 375 copies and containing material from his earlier "Uriel Accosta: A Play" and A Fourth Group of Verse (1921)
= Other in English
=Shaw Neilson, New Poems, Sydney, Bookfellow, Australia
Works published in other languages
= France
=Guillaume Apollinaire, pen name of Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky, Julie; ou, La Rose, posthumously published (died 1918)
Jean Cocteau, Opéra, Oeuvres poétiques
Robert Desnos, La liberté ou l'amour! ("Liberty or Love!")
Henri Michaux, Qui je fus("Who I Was"), Paris: N.R.D.
Charles Vildrac, Prolongements, France
= Indian subcontinent
=Including all of the British colonies that later became India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Listed alphabetically by first name, regardless of surname:
Bengali
Jibanananda Das, Jhara Palak, the author's first book of poems; Bengali
Mohitlal Majumdar, Bismarani, Bengali
Yatindranath Sengupta, Marusikha, Bengali
Other Indian languages
Bhai Vir Singh, Bijalian De Har, short poems, mostly lyrical and didactic, Punjabi
Muhammad Iqbal, Zabur-i-Ajam ("Persian Psalms") including the poems "Gulshan-i Raz-i Jadid" ("New Garden of Secrets") and "Bandagi Nama" ("Book of Slavery"), India
Yaganab Changezi and Mirza Yas (writing under the pen name "Husain"), Ayat-i Vijdani, Urdu
Keshavlal Dhruv, ed., Pandarma Shatakna Prachin Gurjar Kavyo, compilation of 15th-century Gujarati poems
Ratnahas, Harishchandrakhyan, translated by Keshavlal Dhruv
= Spanish language
=Peru
Carlos Oquendo de Amat, 5 metros de poemas ("5 Meters of Poems")
= Spain
=Rafael Alberti, El alba del alheli (1925–1926) ("The Dawn of the Wallflower")
Luis Cernuda, Perfil del aire ("Profile of Air", which later appeared as Primeras poesías ["First Poems"] in the author's complete works, La realidad y el deseo ["Reality and Desire"])
Federico García Lorca, Canciones ("Songs")
Miguel de Unamuno, Romancero del destierro ("Ballads of Exile")
= Other languages
=Chen Xiaocui, Cuilou Yincao, China
Vladislav Khodasevich, European Night, Russian poet published in Germany
Hendrik Marsman, Paradise Regained, Netherlands
Awards and honors
Newdigate Prize: G. E. Trevelyan, Julia, Daughter of Claudius (first female winner)
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Leonora Speyer, Fiddler's Farewell
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 8 – Charles Tomlinson (died 2015), English poet, translator, academic and artist
February 1 – Galway Kinnell (died 2014), American poet
February 16 – Pearse Hutchinson (died 2012), Scottish-born Irish poet, broadcaster and translator
April 7 – Giampiero Neri, born Giampietro Pontiggia (died 2023), Italian poet
April 8
Judson Jerome (died 1991), American poet
Phyllis Webb, Canadian poet and radio broadcaster
April 12 – Don Coles (died 2017), Canadian poet
June 7 – Martin Carter (died 1997), Guyanese poet
June 8 – George Lamming (died 2022), Barbadian poet
June 20 – Simin Behbahani (died 2014), Persian poet
June 26 – Robert Kroetsch (died 2011), Canadian poet and novelist
July 9 – David Diop (died 1960), French Senegalese poet
July 22 – John Tripp (died 1986), Anglo-Welsh poet in whose memory the annual John Tripp Spoken Poetry Award is presented
July 28 – John Ashbery (died 2017), American poet, chancellor of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
August 6 – Richard Murphy, Irish-born poet
August 7 – Larry Eigner (died 1996), American poet, early in his career associated with the Black Mountain poets; later recognized as precursor to other poetic movements, e.g., Language poetry
August 15 – Patrick Galvin (died 2011), Irish poet and dramatist
September 7 – Molly Holden (died 1981), English poet
September 20 – Elisabet Hermodsson (died 2017), Swedish poet and artist
September 30 – W. S. Merwin (died 2019), American poet, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
October 16 – Günter Grass (died 2015), German author and poet, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
October 19 – Edwin Brock (died 1997), English poet
October 20 – Oskar Pastior (died 2006), Romanian-born German poet and translator
November 20 – Kikuo Takano (died 2006), Japanese poet and mathematician
December 3 – James Wright (died 1980), American poet
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 4 – Süleyman Nazif, سلیمان نظیف (born 1870), Turkish poet and politician, pneumonia
April 6 – Florence Earle Coates (born 1850), American poet, dies in Hahnemann Hospital, Philadelphia
June 9 – Adolfo León Gómez (born 1857), Colombian poet
July 5 – Lesbia Harford (born 1892), Australian poet
July 7 – Charles Mair (born 1838), Canadian poet
September 14 – Hugo Ball (born 1886), German Dada author and poet
September 15 – Herman Gorter (born 1864), Dutch poet and socialist
October 8 – Ricardo Güiraldes (born 1886), Argentine-born novelist and poet
October 26 – Yagi Jūkichi, 八木重吉 (born 1898), Japanese poet (surname: Yagi)
See also
Poetry
List of poetry awards
List of years in poetry
New Objectivity in German literature and art
Generation of '27 in Spanish poetry
Notes
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Ferenc Puskás
- Britania Raya
- William Plomer
- Penyair perang
- Boris Lavrenyov
- Majapahit
- Thomas Stearns Eliot
- Regweda
- Mistikisme
- Conrad Aiken
- 1927 in poetry
- Generation of '27
- Empire Poetry League
- American poetry
- List of years in poetry
- 1927
- Now We Are Six
- 1917 in literature
- 1902 Nobel Prize in Literature
- Hugo Ball
