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none Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). 1954 poetry literature Events January 25 – Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood is broadcast posthumously on BBC Radio. February – W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman move to an apartment on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Spring – Robert Creeley founds and edits the Black Mountain Review.Everett, Nicholas, "Robert Creeley's Life and Career" https://web.archive.org/web/20080705161256/http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/creeley/life.htm 2008-07-05 at the Modern American Poetry website, accessed May 1, 2008 Publication of American literary theorist William K. Wimsatt's collected essays Verbal Icon: Studies in the Meaning of Poetry, including the influential critical essays “The Intentional Fallacy” and “The Affective Fallacy” cowritten with Monroe Beardsley.Leitch, Vincent B. Cain, William E. Finke, Laurie A. Johnson, Barbara E. McGowan, John Williams, Jeffrey J. William K. Wimsatt Jr. and Monroe C. Beardsley Leitch, Vincent B. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism https://archive.org/details/nortonanthologyo00vinc registration New York W. W. Norton & Co 2001 1371–1374 9780393974294 Jack Kerouac reads Dwight Goddard's A Buddhist Bible, which will influence him greatly. 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 Daryl Hine, Five PoemsGustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books Irving Layton, In the Midst of My Fever. Palma de Mallorca, Spain: Divers Press."Irving Layton: Publications https://web.archive.org/web/20110714042105/http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/layton/pub.htm 2011-07-14 ," Canadian Poetry Online, Web, May 7, 2011. Irving Layton, The Long Pea-Shooter. Montreal: Laocoon Press.Irving Layton: Publications https://web.archive.org/web/20110714042105/http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/layton/pub.htm 2011-07-14 ," Canadian Poetry Online, Web, May 7, 2011. Jay Macpherson, O Earth Return P. K. Page, The Metal and the Flower, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, CanadaWeb page titled "Canadian Poets / P. K. Page, Published Works" https://web.archive.org/web/20090418072137/http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/page/pub.htm 2009-04-18 , at the University of Toronto Library website, retrieved January 3, 2009 Raymond Souster, A Dream That Is Dying. Toronto: Contact Press"Notes on Life and Works https://web.archive.org/web/20110817195614/http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/513.html 2011-08-17 ," Selected Poetry of Raymond Souster, Representative Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 7, 2011. Raymond Souster, Walking Death. Toronto: Contact Press. F. R. Scott, Events and Signals. Toronto: Ryerson Press."F.R. Scott: Publications https://web.archive.org/web/20130408081000/http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/scott_fr/pub.htm 2013-04-08 ," Canadian Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 7, 2011. A. J. M. Smith, A Sort of Ecstasy; Michigan State College Press / Ryerson Press. India, in English Sri Aurobindo: Collected Poems (Poetry in English), Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo AshramR. Saraswathi, "The Theme of Love in Sri Aurobindo's Savitri", p 64, in Indian English Poetry: Critical Perspectives, edited by Jaydipsinh Dodiya, 2000, Delhi: Prabhat Kumar Sharma for Sarup & Sons, 81-7625-111-9, retrieved via Google Books on July 17, 2010 Savitri ( Poetry in English ), Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo AshramR. Saraswathi, "The Theme of Love in Sri Aurobindo's Savitri", p 63, in Indian English Poetry: Critical Perspectives, edited by Jaydipsinh Dodiya, 2000, Delhi: Prabhat Kumar Sharma for Sarup & Sons, 81-7625-111-9, retrieved via Google Books on July 17, 2010 R. de L. Furtado, The Centre, Hamilton, Ontario: Cromlech Press; Indian author published in CanadaLal, P., Modern Indian Poetry in English: An Anthology & a Credo, p 439, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, second edition, 1971 (however, on page 597 an "editor's note" states contents "on the following pages are a supplement to the first edition" and is dated "1972") Nizamat Jung, Poems (Poetry in English), edited and published by Zahir Ahmed in HyderabadVinayak Krishna Gokak, The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965), p 313, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), 81-260-1196-3, retrieved August 6, 2010 Prithwi Singh Nahar, The Wind of Silence (Poetry in English), songs, sonnets and other poems; Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo AshramVinayak Krishna Gokak, The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965), p 322, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), 81-260-1196-3, retrieved August 6, 2010 C. Raju, This Modern Age, foreword by Amarnath Jha K. S. R. Sastry, A Vision of India, Madras: Raja Power PressVinayak Krishna Gokak, The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965), p 314, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), 81-260-1196-3, retrieved August 6, 2010 United Kingdom W. H. Auden, The Shield of Achilles, English poet living in the United States at this time Sir John Betjeman, A Few Late Chrysanthemums George Mackay Brown, The Storm, Scotland Thom Gunn, Fighting Terms, Fantasy Press John Heath-Stubbs, A Charm Against the Toothace Philip Larkin, The Less Deceived David Raikes (posthumous), The Poems of David Raikes Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom P. Cruttwell, The Shakespearean Moment, criticism, United KingdomPreminger, 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 G. Hartmann, The Unmediated Vision, criticism, United Kingdom W. K. Wimsatt Jr., The Verbal Icon, criticism, United Kingdom 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 United States Léonie Adams, PoemsLudwig, 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) W. H. Auden, The Shield of Achilles, English poet living in the United States at this time Louise Bogan, Collected Poems, 1923–1953 E. E. Cummings, Poems, 1923–1954 Babette Deutsch, Animal, Vegetable, Mineral Anthony Hecht, A Summoning of Stones Daniel G. Hoffman, An Armada of Thirty Wales Robinson Jeffers, Hungerfield and Other Poems Weldon Kees, Poems 1947–1954 Archibald MacLeish, Songs for Eve W. S. Merwin, The Dancing Bears, New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press (reprinted as part of The First Four Books of Poems, 1975)Web page titled "W. S. Merwin (1927- )" at the Poetry Foundation Web site, retrieved June 8, 2010 Edna St. Vincent Millay, Mine the Harvest Marianne Moore, The Fables of La Fontaine Howard Moss, The Toy Fair Kenneth Patchen, The Famous Boating Party May Swenson, Another Animal 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"), KnopfWeb page titled "Wallace Stevens (1879 - 1955)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved April 9, 2009. 2009-05-04. E. B. White, The Second Tree from the Corner William Carlos Williams, The Desert Music and Other Poems 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 StatesPreminger, 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 Other Martin Carter, Poems of Resistance, Guyana"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, 978-0-313-31747-7, retrieved via Google Books, February 7, 2009 Wilson Harris, Eternity to Season, Guyana Frank Prince, Soldiers Bathing and Other Poems, South African Keith Sinclair, Strangers or Beasts: Poems, New Zealand Works published in other languages French language Canada, in French Jean-Guy Pilon, Les cloîtres de l'été, Montréal: l'HexagoneWeb page titled "Jean-Guy Pilon" https://web.archive.org/web/20110706164351/http://www.academiedeslettresduquebec.ca/jeanguy_pilon.html 2011-07-06 at L’Académie des lettres du Québec website (in French), retrieved October 20, 2010 France Louis Aragon, Les Yeux et la memoireAuster, Paul, editor, The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets, New York: Random House, 1982 0-394-52197-8 Jean Cocteau, Clair–obscurBrée, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983 René Daumal, Poésie noire, poésie blanche, posthumously published (died 1944) Jean Follain, Appareil de la terre Jean Grosjean, Fils de l'homme Henri Michaux, Face au verrous India In each section, listed in alphabetical order by first name: Hindi Girija Kumar Mathur, Dhup ke dhanDas, Sisir Kumar and various, History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956: struggle for freedom: triumph and tragedy, Volume 2, 1995, published by Sahitya Akademi, 978-81-7201-798-9, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008 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 Premchand, Sahitya Ka Uddesya, literary essays; published posthumously Malayalam P. K. Paramesvaran Nair, Adhunika Sahitya Caritram, history of Malayalam literature (later translated into English and published by Sahitya Akademi in 1967 under the title History of Malayalam Literature) P. Kunjiraman Nair, Kaliyacchan, poems reflecting traditional ways of life in Kerala Sreedhara Menon, Kunnimenikal Sukumar Azhikode, Asante Sitakavyam, critical assessment of Kumaran Asan's Cintavishtayaya Urdu Gian Chand Jain, ur Urdu ki nasri dastanen, literary criticism on classical Urdu fiction ("dastan"), written in that language Jigar Brelvi, Payam-i Savitri, a narrative poem on Savitri, a figure from Hindu mythology; Urdu Masood Husain Khan, Urdu zaban aur adab, critical study on the Urdu language and literature Other languages of the Indian subcontinent Baldev Gajra, also known as "Gumnam", Gumnam Sada, nationalist poems; Sindhi Buddhadeb Basu, Sahitya Carca, essays on various literary topics; Bengali Jayant Pathak, Marmar, the author's first poetry collection; Gujarati M. Gopalakrishna Adiga, Cendemaddale, Kannada Mohan Singh, Awazan, lyrics with a "romantic progressive ideology", according to Indian academic Sisir Kumar Das; Punjabi Nand Lal Ambardar, Loel Ta Husun, including "Roopavat", Kashmiri Nirendranath Chakraborty (also transliterated into English as Nirendranath Chakravarti, ), Nilnirjan (also transliterated into English as Nirendranath Chakravarti), mostly love poems, although one or two have political elements, Kolkata: Signet Press; Bengali-languageWeb page title "Nirendranath Chakravarti" https://web.archive.org/web/20120214214239/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=11144 2012-02-14 , at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 15, 2010 Raghunath Singh Samyal, Dogra Desa Te Dogari Boli, Dogri poetry praising Dograland, Dogra people and the Dogri language Tulasibahadur Chetri, nicknamed "Apatan", Samkalpa ("Resolve"), Nepali Madhunapantula Satyanarayanashastri, also spelled "Madhunapantula Satyanarayana Sastri", Andhra Puranamu, Telugu, (surname: Madhunapantula) Manoj Das, Padadvani, Oriya 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 Visvanatha Satyanarayana, Nannayagari prasanna Katha Kalitartha Yukti, critical appraisal of Nannaya; Telugu Other languages Simin Behbahani, Ja-ye Pa ("Footprint"), Persia José Santos Chocano, Obras completas, pról. de Luis Alberto Sánchez Madrid, Aguilar, Peruvian poetry published in SpainWeb page titled "José Santos Chocano" https://web.archive.org/web/20120823025830/http://www.ale.uji.es/chocano.htm August 23, 2012 at the Jaume University website, retrieved August 29, 2011 Haim Gouri, Shirei Hotam ("Poems of the Seal"), Israeli writing in Hebrewhttp://www.ithl.org.il/author_info.asp?id=101 Archived copy 2007-10-06 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20070930024232/http://www.ithl.org.il/author_info.asp?id=101 2007-09-30 Web page titled "Haim Gouri" at the Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature Web site, accessed October 6, 2007 Sorley MacLean, Hallaig, Scottish Gaelic (in Gairm 8)http://www.sorleymaclean.org/english/poetry_periodicals.htm Poetry in Periodicals and Anthologies Sorley MacLean 2011-04-01 Pier Paolo Pasolini, La meglio gioventù, Friulian language published in Italy Maria Luisa Spaziani, Le acque del sabato, Italy Wisława Szymborska, pl Pytania zadawane sobie ("Questioning Yourself"), Poland Tin Ujević, Žedan kamen na studencu ("Thirsty stone at the wellspring"), Croatian Awards and honors National Book Award for Poetry: Conrad Aiken, Collected Poems Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Theodore Roethke: The Waking King's Gold Medal for Poetry: Ralph Hodgson Bollingen Prize: W. H. Auden Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Louise Townsend Nicholl and Oliver St. John Gogarty Canada: Governor General's Award, poetry or drama: The Metal and the Flower, P. K. Page "Cumulative List of Winners of the Governor General's Literary Awards https://web.archive.org/web/20110514183017/http://www.canadacouncil.ca/NR/rdonlyres/E22B9A3C-5906-41B8-B39C-F91F58B3FD70/0/cumulativewinners2010rev.pdf 2011-05-14 ", Canada Council. Web, Feb. 10, 2011. http://www.canadacouncil.ca/NR/rdonlyres/E22B9A3C-5906-41B8-B39C-F91F58B3FD70/0/cumulativewinners2010rev.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20110514183017/http://www.canadacouncil.ca/NR/rdonlyres/E22B9A3C-5906-41B8-B39C-F91F58B3FD70/0/cumulativewinners2010rev.pdf 2011-05-14 Births Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: February 9 – Ian Duhig, English poet February 13 – Vijay Seshadri, Indian poet, essayist and literary critic who emigrates to the United States c. 1959 February 21 – Francisco X. Alarcón (died 2016), Mexican-American poet February 27 – Thylias Moss, African-American poet, writer and playwright March 4 – Irina Ratushinskaya, Russian samizdat poet March 26 – Dorothy Porter (died 2008), Australian April 17 – Erín Moure, Canadian May 5 – Hamid Ismailov, Uzbek writer May 25 – Alexei Parshchikov (died 2009), Russian poet, critic and translator who emigrates to the United States in 1991 July 5 – Kevin Hart, Australian 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 poet August 8 – Yu Jian, ChinaPatten, Simon, "Yu Jian" https://web.archive.org/web/20070709091425/http://china.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=977 2007-07-09 , article at Poetry International retrieved November 22, 2008 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 December 27 – David Baker, American Also: Catherine Anderson (poet), American Robert Boates, Canadian Brother Resistance, Trinidadian (died 2021) Janet Charman, New Zealand Imtiaz Dharker, Pakistan-born British Cornelius Eady, African American David Hallett, Australian Sotiris Kakisis, Greek Jan Heller Levi, American Ahmed Matar, Iraqi poet Ibrahim Nasrallah, Jordanian-Palestinian poet and novelist Luis J. Rodriguez, American poet, novelist, journalist, critic and columnist Stephen Sartarelli, poet and translator Deb Westbury (died 2018),Pretty Ron Deb Westbury, poet of the senses and Struggle Street https://www.smh.com.au/national/deb-westbury-poet-of-the-senses-and-struggle-street-20180411-h0yn46.html 27 May 2018 9 April 2018 Australian Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January 1 – Leonard Bacon, 66 (born 1887), American poet February 6 – Maxwell Bodenheim, 62 (born 1892), American poet and novelist known as the "King of Greenwich Village Bohemians", murdered March 28 – Francis Brett Young, 73 (born 1884), English novelist and poet August 3 – Fumiko Nakajo 中城ふみ子, pen name of Noe Fumiko 野江富美子, 32 (born 1922), Japanese tanka poet who dies young 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), Japanese, Meiji period haiku poet; Masaoka Shiki's pupil. October 22 Jibanananda Das (born 1899), Bengali poet Oswald de Andrade (born 1890), Brazilian poet and polemicist See also Poetry Poetry List of poetry awards List of years in poetry Notes Category:20th-century poetry *