- Source: 1935 in poetry
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Events
June 3 – Canadian poet Charles G. D. Roberts is knighted.
June 15
Gay English poet W. H. Auden enters a marriage of convenience with Erika Mann.
Premiere of T. S. Eliot's verse drama Murder in the Cathedral at Canterbury Cathedral in England.
American poet George Oppen joins the Communist Party, where his organizing work will increasingly take precedence over his poetry; he writes no more verse until 1958.
Picasso's poetry begins to be written.
Tomb of Hafez in Shiraz, Persia, is rebuilt.
Works published in English
= Canada
=Arthur Bourinot, Selected Poems (1915–1935).
E. J. Pratt, The Titanic, Toronto: Macmillan.
Kenneth Leslie, Lowlands Low: Poems. Halifax: McCurdy
Wilson MacDonald, The Song Of The Undertow and Other Poems. Toronto, Buffalo: S.J.R. Saunders, Broadway.
Wilson MacDonald, Quintrains Of "Callender" and Other Poems. Toronto: S.J.R. Saunders.
Tom MacInnes, Rhymes of a Rounder, Canada
Duncan Campbell Scott, The Green Cloister, Canada
Francis Sherman, The Complete Poems of Francis Sherman. Lorne Pierce ed. Toronto: Ryerson.
= India, in English
=Sundhindra Dutt, Orchestra ( Poetry in English ),
Govind Krishna Chettur, The Shadow of God: A Sonnet Sequence ( Poetry in English ), London: Longmans, published in the United Kingdom
Nizamat Jung, Islamic Poems ( Poetry in English ), Hyderabad: Government Central Press
= United Kingdom
=George Barker, Poems
Samuel Beckett, Echo's Bones and Other Precipitates
Norman Cameron, The Winter House
Cecil Day-Lewis:
Collected Poems 1929–1933
A Time to Dance, and Other Poems
Walter de la Mare, Poems 1919 to 1934
T. S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral
Christopher Hassall, Poems of Two Years
Eiluned Lewis, December Apples (Welsh poet published in the United Kingdom)
Louis MacNeice, Poems
Herbert Read, Poems 1914–34
James Reeves, The Natural Need (with preface, in verse, by Laura Riding)
Siegfried Sassoon, Vigils
Humbert Wolfe:
The Fourth of August, sonnets
Stings and Wings
X at Oberammergau
W. B. Yeats, A Full Moon in March, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
= United States
=John Peale Bishop, Minute Particulars
Robert P. Tristram Coffin, Strange Holiness
Countee Cullen, The Medea and Some Poems
E. E. Cummings, No Thanks
Kenneth Fearing, Poems
John Gould Fletcher, XXIV Elegies
Hamlin Garland, Iowa, O Iowa
Horace Gregory, Chorus for Survival
Robinson Jeffers, Solstice and Other Poems
James Weldon Johnson, Selected Poems
Edgar Lee Masters, Invisible Landscapes
Marianne Moore, Selected Poems
John G. Neihardt, The Song of the Messiah
Edwin Arlington Robinson, King Jasper
Muriel Rukeyser, Theory of Flight
Karl Shapiro, Poems
Wallace Stevens, Ideas of Order, includes "Farewell to Florida", "The Idea of Order at Key West", "Academic Discourse at Havana", "Like Decorations in a Nigger Cemetery", and "A Postcard from the Volcano"), Alcestis Press (enlarged edition, 1936)
Robert Penn Warren, Thirty-Six Poems
William Carlos Williams, An Early Martyr and Other Poems
= Other in English
=Allen Curnow (New Zealand):
Three Poems (Caxton)
Poetry and Language, a brief poetry manifesto (Caxton)
C. J. Dennis, The Singing Garden, Australia
W. B. Yeats, A Full Moon in March, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
Rex Ingamells, Gumtops, Australia
Works published in other languages
= France
=René Char, Le Marteau sans maitre
René Daumal, Le Contre-ciel
Paul Éluard, Facile
Francis Jammes:
Alouette
De tout temps à jamais, Paris: Gallimard
Henri Michaux, La Nuit remue
Catherine Pozzi (died 1934), "Ave", "Vale", "Scopolamine", "Nova", "Maya" and "Nyx", published in Mesures
= Indian subcontinent
=Including all of the British colonies which later became India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Listed alphabetically by first name, regardless of surname:
Gujarati
Balawantrai Thakore, Mharon Sonnet
Jhaverchand Meghani, Yugavandana
Jhinabhai Desai Snehrashmi, Arghya, the author's first poetry collection; many of the poems display patriotism and love for the poor
Kavi Nhanalal, Ketalank Kavyo, Part 3 (Part 1 published 1903; Part 2 in 1908); the first part made Nhanalal's reputation as the best Gujarati lyric poet; the collection is known for its metrical innovations, creative power and mix of modern and old folk elements
Kishorlal Mashruvala, translator, Vidayuelae — Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet from English into Gujarati
Mansukhlal Jhaveri, Phooldal
Urdu
Akbar Allahabadi, Kulliyat-i Akbar Allahabadi, in four volumes, published (fourteen years after his death in 1921) from this year through 1939; Indian, Urdu-language
M. Diyauddin, translator, Kālam-i-Tagore, translated from the Bengali of Rabindranath Tagore, with Tagore involved in the translation, into Urdu
Muhammad Iqbal, Bal-i Jibrial, alternate spelling: "Bal-i Jibril" ("Wings of Gabriel"), includes rubaiyat qitas and ghazals; famous poems in the volume: "Iblees Ki Majlis-e-Shura" ("The Parliament of Satan"), "Jibrail-o-Iblis", "Lenin Khuda Ke Hazur main" ("Lenin in the Court of God"), "Punjab ke Dehqan se" ("To the Punjab Peasants"); "This is regarded as a milestone in Urdu poetry", according to Indian academic Siser Kumar Das; inspired by Iqbal's 1933 visit to Spain
Other Indian languages
Bal Krisna Rav, Abhas, Indian, Hindi-language
Changampuzha Krishna Pillai, Baspanjali ("Offering of tears"), the author's first poetry collection, Malayalam
Duvvuri Rami Reddi, translator, Panasala — translation of Omar Khayyám's Rubaiyat from Persian into Telugu
Jayshankar Prasad, Kamayani, said to be the greatest poem of the Chayavadi (Indian romantic) movement; 15 cantos, each named after an emotion; Hindi
Mahjoor, "Gristi Kur", Kashmiri poem in the Vatsan form comparing the refreshing traits of peasants as compared with less lively aristocrats; published in the August 1 issue of Hamdard
Rabindranath Tagore, Ses Saptak, in this and in some of the author's other books in the mid-1930s, he introduced a new rhythm in poetry that "had a tremendous impact on the modern poets", according to Indian academic Sisir Kumar Das; Bengali
Ulloor Paramesvara Iyer, Dipavali, Malayalam
= Spanish language
=Peru
Xavier Abril, Difícil trabajo
Manuel Moreno Jimeno, Los malditos
Emilio Vasquez, Tawantinsuyo
Emilio Adolfo von Westphalen, Abolición de la muerte
Spain
Vicente Aleixandre:
La destrucción o el amor ("Destruction or/as Love")
Pasión de la tierra ("Passion of the Earth"), written 1928–1929
Germán Bleiberg, El cantar de la noche ("The Song of the Night")
Gabriel Celaya, Marea del silencio ("Tide of Silence")
Federico García Lorca:
Llanto por Ignacio Sánchez Mejías ("Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejías")
Seis poemas galegos ("Six Galician poems")
Luis Rosales, Abril ("April")
= Other languages
=Constantine Cavafy, Ποιήματα (Piimata, or "Poems of C.P. Cavafy"), Greek
Bernard Kangro, Sonetid, Estonia
Kersti Merilaas, Loomingus, Estonia
Giorgos Seferis, Μυθιστόρημα ("Tale of Legends"), Greek
Awards and honors
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry - Audrey Wurdemann, Bright Ambush
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 14 – Labhshankar Thakar (died 2016), Indian Gujarati poet, playwright and story writer
January 16 – Inger Christensen (died 2009), Danish poet, writer, novelist, essayist and children's book author
January 18 – Jon Stallworthy (died 2014), English poet, literary critic and academic
January 30 – Richard Brautigan (died 1984), American writer and poet
January 27 – D. M. Thomas (died 2023), English novelist, poet, and translator from Cornwall
February 14 – Grigore Vieru (died 2009), Moldovan poet writing in Romanian, strong promoter of the Romanian language in Moldova
March 13 – Kofi Awoonor (killed 2013), Ghanaian poet and author whose work combines the poetic traditions of his native Ewe people and contemporary and religious symbolism to depict Africa during decolonization
April 4 – Michael Horovitz (died 2021), German-born English poet, translator, editor and performer
April 6 – J. P. Clark (died 2020), Nigerian English-language poet and playwright
April 16 – Sarah Kirsch (died 2013), German
May 5 – Eddie Linden (died 2023), British poet
May 13 – Taku Miki 三木卓 pen name of Tomita Miki, Japanese Shōwa period poet and novelist in the Han ("Inundation") poetry circle (Surname: Miki)
May 14 – Roque Dalton (died 1975), leftist Salvadoran poet and journalist writing about death, love and politics
May 25 – Jay Wright, African-American poet, playwright and essayist
May 26 – Michael Benedikt (died 2007), American poet
June 1 – Clayton Eshleman (die 2021), American poet, translator and editor
June 6 – Joy Kogawa, Canadian poet and novelist
June 10 – Rukhl Fishman (died 1984), Israeli poet
June 12 – Christoph Meckel (died 2020), German poet
June 24 – Taufiq Ismail, Indonesian poet and activist
July 2 – Nanni Balestrini (died 2019), Italian experimental poet, author and visual artist of the Neoavanguardia
July 29 – Pat Lowther (murdered by her husband in 1975), Canadian poet
August 12 – A. B. Spellman, African-American poet, music critic, music historian, arts administrator and author
August 24 – Rosmarie Waldrop, German-born American poet and translator (primary English translator of Edmond Jabès)
August 25 – Charles Wright, American poet
September 10 – Mary Oliver (died 2018), American poet
September 20 – Wong Phui Nam (died 2022), Malaysian economist and English-language poet
September 24 – Robert Kelly, American poet associated with the deep image group
September 30 – Arturo Corcuera (died 2017), Peruvian poet
November 7 – Wahyu Sulaiman Rendra (died 2009), Indonesian poet, born Willibrordus Surendra Broto Rendra, popularly known as W. S. Rendra and also as "Si Burung Merak" and "The Peacock"
November 15 – Gustaf Sobin (died 2005), American expatriate poet and novelist
December 1 – George Bowering, Canadian novelist, poet, historian and biographer
December 10 – Shūji Terayama 寺山 修司 (died 1983), Japanese avant-garde poet, playwright, writer, film director and photographer (surname: Terayama)
December 13 – Adélia Prado, Brazilian poet
December 25 – Bhupi Sherchan (died 1989), Nepali poet
December 27 – Syed Shamsul Haque (died 2016), Bengali poet, lyricist, playwright and essayist
December 29 – Yevgeny Rein (Евгений Рейн), Russian poet
Also
Johari M. Amini (aka Jewel Christine McLawler Latimore and Johari M. Kunjufu), African American
James Applewhite, American
Sam Cornish, African American
Russell Edson (died 2014), American
Andrew Hoyem, American typographer, letterpress printer, publisher, poet and preservationist; founder and director of Arion Press in San Francisco
Desmond O'Grady, Irish poet and translator; former editor of The Transatlantic Review and organizer of the Spoleto International Poetry Festival
David R. Slavitt, American writer and translator
Ahmos Zu-Bolton II, African American
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
March 26 – Tekkan Yosano 与謝野 鉄幹 (born 1873), pen-name of Yosano Hiroshi, late Meiji period, Taishō and early Shōwa period Japanese author and poet; husband of author Yosano Akiko; grandfather of cabinet minister and politician Kaoru Yosano
April 6 – Edwin Arlington Robinson (born 1869), American poet, three-time Pulitzer Prize winner
July 17 – George William Russell (born 1867), Anglo-Irish supporter of Irish nationalism, critic, poet, and painter who wrote under the pseudonym Æ, mystical writer, and centre of a group of followers of theosophy
August 11 – Sir William Watson (born 1858), English traditionalist poet noted for the political content of his verse
September 18 – Alice Dunbar Nelson (born 1875), African American poet, journalist and political activist during the Harlem Renaissance; married to poet Paul Laurence Dunbar
November 23 – Louise Mack (born 1870) Australian poet, journalist and novelist
November 30 – Fernando Pessoa (born 1888), Portuguese poet and writer; cause of death listed as cirrhosis
December 17 – Lizette Woodworth Reese (born 1856), American poet
See also
Poetry
List of poetry awards
List of years in poetry
Notes
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- Columbia University Press
- Britania Raya
- Thomas Stearns Eliot
- Robert Frost
- Sumatera Barat
- Julian Tuwim
- In Our Time (kumpulan cerpen)
- Thomas Gray
- Richard Brautigan
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