1927 in poetry

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Events

Hermann Hesse, photographed this year

• 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.^[1]
• Wilson MacDonald, An Ode On The Diamond Jubilee Of Confederation. Toronto: W. MacDonald.^[2]
• E. J. Pratt, The Iron Door: An Ode, Toronto: Macmillan.^[3]
• 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^[4]
  • Arctic Swallows (Poetry in English) ^[5]
• Harindranath Chattopadhyaya, Collected Plays and Poems, 44 sonnets^[6] Madras: printed at Hogarth Press^[7]
• Joseph Furtado, A Goan Fiddler (Poetry in English)^[6]
• Peroze P. Meherjee, Poems in Prose (Poetry in English), London: Luzac and Co., posthumously published (died 1925)^[8]
• Gwendoline Goodwin, editor, An Anthology of Modern Indian Poetry, London: John Murray; anthology (Poetry in English), published in the United Kingdom^[9]

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^[10]

United Kingdom

• G. K. Chesterton, Collected Poems^[10]
• Joe Corrie, The Image o' God and Other Poems, Scottish poet
• W. H. Davies, A Poet's Calendar^[10]
• T. S. Eliot
  • Journey of the Magi^[10]
  • "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^[9]
• Robert Graves, Poems 1914–26^[10]
• Teresa Hooley, Songs of All Seasons
• Violet Jacob, The Northern Lights and other poems, Scottish poet
• A. A. Milne, Now We are Six^[10]
• William Plomer, Notes for Poems
• Edith Sitwell, Rustic Elegies^[10]
• Osbert Sitwell, England Reclaimed^[10]
• Iris Tree, The Traveller and other Poems
• Humbert Wolfe^[10]
  • 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^[10]

United States

• Sherwood Anderson, A New Testament^[11]
• Countee Cullen, Copper Sun^[12]
• Donald Davidson, The Tall Men^[11]
• Langston Hughes, Fine Clothes to the Jew^[13]
• Robinson Jeffers, The Women at Point Sur^[11]
• James Weldon Johnson:
  • God's Trombones^[11]
  • God's Promises
• Amy Lowell, Ballads for Sale^[11]
• 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,^[11] presented fictionally as a collection of vers libre poems typed by a former-poet-turned-cockroach who jumps on the keys of a typewriter
• 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)^[14]
• Jean Cocteau, Opéra, Oeuvres poétiques^[15]
• Robert Desnos, La liberté ou l'amour! ("Liberty or Love!")
• Henri Michaux,Qui je fus("Who I Was"), Paris: N.R.D.^[16]
• 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^[6]
• Mohitlal Majumdar, Bismarani, Bengali^[6]
• Yatindranath Sengupta, Marusikha, Bengali ^[6]

Other Indian languages

• Bhai Vir Singh, Bijalian De Har, short poems, mostly lyrical and didactic, Punjabi^[6]
• 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^[6]
• Yaganab Changezi and Mirza Yas (writing under the pen name "Husain"), Ayat-i Vijdani, Urdu^[6]
• 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")^[17]

Spain

• Rafael Alberti, El alba del alheli (1925–1926) ("The Dawn of the Wallflower")^[18]
• 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"])^[18]
• Federico García Lorca, Canciones ("Songs")
• Miguel de Unamuno, Romancero del destierro ("Ballads of Exile")^[18]

Other languages

• Vladislav Khodasevich, European Night, Russian poet published in Germany

Awards and honors

• 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 8
  • Judson Jerome (died 1991), American poet
  • Phyllis Webb, Canadian poet and radio broadcaster
• April 12 – Don Coles, Canadian poet
• June 7 – Martin Carter (died 1997), Guyanese 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, American poet, former 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 30 – W. S. Merwin, American poet and 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:

• 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
• 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

1. "Biographical Sketch," Dr. Alfred Goldsworthy Bailey fonds, Lib.UNB.ca, Web, May 5, 2011.
2. Search results: Wilson MacDonald, Open Library, Web, May 10, 2011.
3. "Bibliography," Selected Poems of E. J. Pratt, Peter Buitenhuis ed., Toronto: Macmillan, 1968, 207-208.
4. Web page titled "South Asian literature in English, Pre-independence era", compiled by Irene Joshi, at "University of Washington Libraries" website, "Last updated May 8, 1998", retrieved July 30, 2009. Archived 2009-08-02.
5. Vinayak Krishna Gokak, The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965), p 314, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), ISBN 81-260-1196-3, retrieved August 6, 2010
6. Das, Sisir Kumar, "A Chronology of Literary Events / 1911–1956", in 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 978-81-7201-798-9, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008
7. Vinayak Krishna Gokak, The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965), p 316, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), ISBN 81-260-1196-3, retrieved August 6, 2010
8. Vinayak Krishna Gokak, The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965), p 313, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), ISBN 81-260-1196-3, retrieved August 6, 2010
9. Joshi, Irene, compiler, "Poetry Anthologies", "Poetry Anthologies" section, "University Libraries, University of Washington" website, "Last updated May 8, 1998", retrieved June 16, 2009. Archived 2009-06-19.
10. Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
11. Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
12. Fleming, Robert, The African American Writer's Handbook: How to Get in Print and Stay in Print, "African American Book Timeline", p 167 and following pages, Random House, 2000, ISBN 978-0-345-42327-6, retrieved via Google Books, February 7, 2009
13. Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, editors, The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, W. W. Norton & Company, 1973, ISBN 0-393-09357-3
14. Web page titled "Guillaume Apollinaire (1880 - 1918)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved August 9, 2009. Archived 2009-09-03.
15. Brée, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983
16. Michaux, Henri, edited by David Ball, Henri Michaux: Anthology 1927-1984 Selected, Translated and Presented by David Ball, Introduction by David Ball, p xxii, Footnote 4, University of California Press, 1997, retrieved via Google Books, August 10, 2009
17. Web page titled "5 METROS DE POEMAS / 5 METERS OF POEMS BY CARLOS OQUENDO DE AMAT" Bomblog website, retrieved May 11, 2013
18. Debicki, Andrew P., Spanish Poetry of the Twentieth Century: Modernity and Beyond, University Press of Kentucky, 1995, ISBN 978-0-8131-0835-3, retrieved via Google Books, November 21, 2009