• Source: 1944 in poetry

      • Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).


      Events


      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.


      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:


      = Canada

      =
      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


      = India, in English

      =
      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. R. Kaikini, Look On Undaunted ( Poetry in English ), Bombay
      H. D. Sethna, Struggling Heights ( Poetry in English ), Bombay: Karnatak Publishing House
      Subho Tagore:
      Flames of Passion ( Poetry in English ), love poems in verse and in the form of prose poems; Calcutta: Susil Gupta Ltd.
      Rubble, translated by Nilima Devi into English from the original Bengali; Calcutta: The Futurist Publishing House


      = United Kingdom

      =
      Drummond Allison, The Yellow Night: Poems 1940-41-42-43, posthumous
      W. H. Auden, For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio, English poet living and publishing in the United States
      George Barker, Eros in Dogma
      Laurence Binyon, The Burning of the Leaves, and Other Poems
      John Betjeman, New Bats in Old Belfries
      Laurence Binyon, The Burning of the Leaves, and Other Poems
      Edmund Blunden, Shells by a Stream
      Alex Comfort, Elegies
      Crown and Sickle poetry anthology in Britain, featuring poets in the New Apocalyptics movement
      Walter De la Mare, Collected Rhymes and Verses
      Patric Dickinson, The Seven Days of Jericho
      T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets, contains "Burnt Norton" (first published 1936 and again 1941), "East Coker" (1940), "The Dry Salvages" (1941), "Little Gidding" (1942)
      Roy Fuller, A Lost Season
      W. S. Graham, The Seven Journeys
      Robert Greacen, Northern Harvest and One Recent Evening, Northern Ireland poet
      J. F. Hendry, and Henry Treece, editors, The Crown and Sickle, anthology
      Laurie Lee, The Sun My Monument
      John Lehmann, The Sphere of Glass, and Other Poems
      Louis MacNeice, Springboard
      R. P. L. Mogg, For This Alone, and Other Poems
      Mervyn Peake, Rhymes Without Reason
      John Pudney, Almanack of Hope
      Herbert Read, A World Within a War
      Lynette Roberts, Poems
      E. J. Scovell, Shadows of Chrysanthemums, and Other Poems
      William Soutar, The Expectant Silence
      A. P. Wavell (comp.), Other Men's Flowers, anthology
      Charles Williams, The Region of the Summer Stars


      = United States

      =
      Franklin P. Adams, Nods and Becks
      Conrad Aiken, The Soldier
      W. H. Auden, For the Time Being
      E. E. Cummings, 1 X 1
      Babette Deutsch, Take Them, Stranger
      Hilda Doolittle, writing under the pen name "H.D.", The Walls Do Not Fall, first part of Trilogy (1944–46) on the blitz in war-time London
      Stanley J. Kunitz, Passport to the War
      Robert Lowell, Land of Unlikeness, Cummington, Massachusetts: Cummington Press
      William Meredith, Love Letter from an Impossible Land
      Marianne Moore, Nevertheless
      Kenneth Rexroth, The Phoenix and the Tortoise
      Muriel Rukeyser, Beast in View
      Karl Shapiro, V-Letter and Other Poems
      Jesse Stuart, Album of Destiny
      Mark Van Doren, Seven Sleepers
      Louise Varèse, translator, Eloges and Other Poems, translated from the original French of Saint-John Perse; introduction by Archibald MacLeish, New York: Norton
      Robert Penn Warren, Selected Poems, 1923—1943
      William Carlos Williams:
      Collected Later Poems
      The Wedge


      = Other in English

      =
      James K. Baxter, Beyond the Palisade, his first volume of poetry, New Zealand
      Seaforth Mackenzie, The Moonlit Doorway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson; Australia
      Kenneth Slessor, One Hundred Poems, 1919-1939, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, Australia


      Works published in other languages


      Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:


      = France

      =
      Jean Cassou, Trente-trois sonnets composes au secret
      Robert Desnos, Contrée
      Paul Éluard, Au Rendez-vous allemand
      Pierre Jean Jouve, Pour les Ombres Lausanne, Switzerland: Cahiers de Poésie French poet published in Switzerland
      Alphonse Métérié, Les Cantiques du Frère Michel
      Saint-John Perse, French poet published in his native language while in exile in Argentina:
      Pluies, Buenos Aires: Les Editions Lettres Françaises (republished in Exil, suivi de Poème à l'étrangère; Pluies; Neiges Paris: Gallimard 1945)
      Quatre poèmes, 1941-1944, Buenos Aires: Les Editions Lettres Françaises (republished as Exil, suivi de Poème à l'étrangère; Pluies; Neiges Paris: Gallimard 1945)


      = 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:


      Gujarati


      Badarayan, Kedi
      Umashankar Joshi, Prachina, a "dialogue-poem"


      Hindi


      Anchala Rameshvar Shukla, Lal Cunar, lyrics celebrating love, youth and revolt
      Girija Kumar Mathur, Manjir, many of these poems have themes of nature and intense love
      Rangeya Raghav, Ajeya Khandhar, pragativadi-movement poetry about the battle of Stalingrad, depicted to illustrate the human struggle for freedom
      Shyam Narayan Pandey, Jauhar, depicting the self-sacrifice of Padmini, queen of Chittor, written in a folk style


      Other Indian languages


      A. N. Krishna Rao, Pragati Sila Sahitya, 15 essays in Kannada on the Pragatisila Caluvali (progressive movement) in Indian literature
      Bhimaraj Bhambiru, also known as "Mangal"; Mumgha Moti, written in doha form, the poems are addressed to an individual Mangala; Rajasthani-language
      Joseph Mundasseri, written in Malayalam-language:
      Manadandam, criticism about Indian classical literature, particularly Kalidasa
      Mattoli, a comparison of three major works of poetry: Kumaran Asan's Karuna, Vallathol's Magdalana Mariyam and Ulloor's Pingala
      K. V. Puttappa, also known as "Kuvempu", Kogile Mattu Soviet Russia, verses with a focus on the common man, which was pioneering for Kannada poetry of the time; a recurring theme in the poems is rejection of institutionalized religion
      Kshama Rao, Miralahari, Khanda Kavya poetry on Meera, the medieval Indian saint-poet; Sanskrit-language
      Mahjoor, Kalam-e-Mahjoor "No. 8", Kashmiri-language ghazals and vatsan's
      Mohammad Jamil Ahmad, Tazkirah-yi Sha'irat-i Urdu, literary criticism of Urdu-language women poets, with biographical information and selections from their poems
      Mohammad Mujib, Insha, adab aur adib, Urdu essays in literary criticism
      Prabhjot Kaur, Palkan Ohle, love poems; Punjabi-language
      Shrikrishna Powale, Agniparag; Marathi-language
      Va. Ramaswamy Ayyangar, Makakavi Paratiyar, Tamil biography of the Tamil poet Bharati


      = Spanish language

      =
      Delmira Agustini, Poesías, posthumously published (died 1914), prologue by Luisa Luisi (Montevideo, Claudio García & Co., Uruguay
      Vicente Aleixandre, Sombra del paraíso ("Shadows of Paradise"); Spain
      César Moro, pen name of César Quíspez Asín, Lettre d'amour, Peru
      Stella Sierra, Canciones de mar y luna ("Songs of Sea and Moon"), Panama


      = Other languages

      =
      Nathan Alterman, Plague Poems, Israel
      Nizar Qabbani, The Brunette Told Me, Syrian poet writing in Arabic
      Giorgos Seferis, Ημερολόγιο Καταστρώματος ΙΙ ("Deck Diary II"), Greece


      Awards and honors


      Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (later the post would be called "Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress"): Robert Penn Warren appointed this year. He would serve until 1945.
      Governor General's Award, poetry or drama: Day and Night, Dorothy Livesay (Canada)


      Births


      Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

      February 3 – Sandra Alcosser, American
      February 9 – Alice Walker, African-American novelist, poet, writer and feminist
      March 9 – Ndoc Gjetja (died 2010), Albanian poet and magazine editor
      March 21 – Pedro Pietri (died 2004), Puerto Rican and Nuyorican poet and playwright, co-founder of Nuyorican Poets Cafe
      March 25 – Jack Mapanje, Malawian poet and writer
      April 18 – Kathy Acker (died 1997), American postmodernist experimental novelist and punk poet
      July 18 – Wayne Brown (died 2009), Caribbean (Trinidadian-born)
      July 24 – Jalal Mansur Nuriddin (died 2018), American rap poet and musician
      August 4 – Penn Kemp, Canadian poet, novelist, playwright and sound poet
      August 22 – Tom Leonard (died 2018), Scottish
      August 24 - Paulo Leminski (died 1989), Brazilian poet and translator
      August 25
      Margaret Gibson (died 1999), African-American
      Sherley Anne Williams, African-American
      August 31 – Lorenzo Thomas, American
      September 24 – Eavan Boland (died 2020), Irish
      September 25 – bpNichol, Canadian
      October 10 – Linda Rogers, Canadian poet and children's writer
      October 12 – Lewis MacAdams, American poet, journalist and activist, founder of Friends of The Los Angeles River (FoLAR) in 1985
      October 16 – Paul Durcan, Irish
      November 24 – Jules Deelder (died 2019), Dutch
      November 25 – Kathryn Stripling Byer (died 2017), American poet, teacher; North Carolina Poet Laureate, 2005–2009
      December 3 – Craig Raine, English poet and critic
      December 10 – Carol Rumens, English poet, writer, literary editor and academic
      December 18 – Michael Davidson, American
      Also:
      David Constantine, English poet, translator, editor and academic
      Susan Ioannou, Canadian
      Mary Kinzie, American
      Patrick O'Connell (died 2005), Canadian
      Jergen Theobaldy, German
      Tim Thorne (died 2021), Tasmanian


      Deaths


      Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

      January 7 – Napoleon Lapathiotis (born 1888), Greek poet
      January 19 – Frederick George Scott (born 1861), Canadian poet
      February 9 – Agnes Mary Frances Duclaux (born 1857), English-born poet and biographer
      February 12 – Olive Custance, Lady Alfred Douglas (born 1874), English poet
      February 23 – Augusta Peaux (born 1859), Dutch poet
      March 5 – Alun Lewis (born 1915), Anglo-Welsh school poet and war poet, died on active service in Burma
      March 28 – Stephen Leacock (born 1869), Canadian writer and economist
      April 4 – John Peale Bishop (born 1892), American poet and man of letters
      May 22 – William Ellery Leonard (born 1876), American poet and academic
      June 5 – (Doris) Capel Boake (born 1889), Australian writer
      June 9 – Keith Douglas (born 1920), English war poet died in World War II in the D-Day invasion of Normandy, killed by enemy mortar fire while his regiment is advancing from Bayeux and buried at the war cemetery at Tilly-sur-Seuilles
      June – Joseph Campbell (born 1879), Irish poet and lyricist
      July 3 – A. H. Reginald Buller (born 1874), British/Canadian mycologist mainly known as a researcher of fungi and wheat rust who also wrote limericks, some of which were published in Punch
      July 18 – Thomas Sturge Moore (born 1870), English poet, author and artist
      August 25 – Musa Cälil (born 1905), Soviet Tatar poet and resistance fighter, executed in a Nazi German prison
      September 26 – Eunice Tietjens (born 1884), American poet, novelist, journalist, children's author, lecturer and editor
      September 30 – Baroness Gertrud von Puttkamer, writing as Marie-Madeleine (born 1881), German homoerotic poet, dies in a Nazi sanatorium
      October 2 or 3 – Benjamin Fondane (born 1898), Romanian-French Symbolist poet, critic and existentialist philosopher, gassed in Auschwitz concentration camp
      November 22 – Sadakichi Hartmann (born 1867), American art critic and poet
      November 24 – Jun Tsuji 辻 潤 (born 1884), Japanese author, poet, essayist, translator, musician and bohemian
      December 17 – Robert Nichols (born 1893), English war poet and dramatist
      Also:
      Olivia Ward Bush-Banks (born 1869), African and Native American poet and journalist
      K. V. Simon (born 1883), Indian, Malayalam-language poet
      David Vogel (born 1891), Hebrew poet, gassed in Auschwitz concentration camp


      See also



      Poetry
      List of poetry awards
      List of years in poetry


      Notes

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