Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
Works published in English
Australia
Gün Gencer, General Poems: Australia facing the dawn and its result, published by the author, printed in Sydney by R.T. Kelly Allen Gilfillen, A Day, Melbourne: Melville and Mullen, drama and poetry Lilian Wooster Greaves, Poems by Lilian, Newtown, New South Wales: G. Baker Walker Bernard O'Dowd, Dawnward?, Australia Banjo Paterson, "Waltzing Matilda", Australia's most widely known bush ballad
Canada
Bliss Carman, From the Green Book of Bards
E. Pauline Johnson, also known as "Tekahionwake", Canadian Born
Charles G. D. Roberts, The Book of the Rose
United Kingdom
Robert Bridges, Now in Wintry Delights
Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (died 1720), The Poems of Anne, Countess of Winchilsea, edited by Myra Reynolds W. E. Henley, A Song of Speed Rudyard Kipling, The Five Nations Thomas MacDonagh, April and May, Irish poet published in Ireland John Masefield, Ballads Alfred Noyes, The Flower of Old Japan 'Æ' (George William Russell), The Nuts of Knowledge, lyrical poems old and new Thomas Traherne (died 1674), The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne W. B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom: In the Seven Woods, being poems of the Irish heroic age including "Adam's Curse", "The King's Threshold" and "The Hour-Glass" Ideas of Good and Evil, essays, including essays on Edmund Spenser, Percy Shelley and William Blake (criticism)
United States
Ambrose Bierce, Shapes of Clay
Willa Cather, Shapes of Clay
H. L. Mencken, Ventures into Verse
Josephine Preston Peabody, The Singing Leaves
George Sterling, The Testimony of the Suns
J. T. Trowbridge, Poetical Works
Other in English
Yone Noguchi, From the Eastern Sea
N. W. Pai, The Angel of Misfortune: A Fairy Tale, A Metrical Romance in Ten Books, Bombay: W. N. Mulgaokar and Co.India, Indian poetry in English W. B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom: In the Seven Woods, being poems of the Irish heroic age including "Adam's Curse", "The King's Threshold" and "The Hour-Glass" Ideas of Good and Evil, essays, including essays on Edmund Spenser, Percy Shelley and William Blake (criticism)
Works published in other languages
Konstantin Balmont, Будем как Солнце (Budem kak Solntse), Russia
Paul Claudel, Art poétique, criticism; France
Kavi Dalpatram Nanalal, Katlank Kavyo, Indian, Gujarati-language
Saint-Pol-Roux, pen name of Paul Roux, Anciennetés, France
Awards and honors
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: April 3 – Peter Huchel (died 1981), German poet May 25 – Ewart Milne (died 1987), Irish poet and radical May 30 – Countee Cullen (died 1946), African-American poet June 13 – Sanjayan, pen name of M. R. Nayar (died 1943), Indian, Malayalam-language poet June 17 – Jyoti Prasad Agarwala (died 1953), playwright, songwriter, poet, writer and film maker; Indian, writing in Assamese September 9 – Atul Chandra Hazarika (died 1986), poet, dramatist, children's story writer and translator; called "Sahitycharjya" by an Assamese literary society; Indian, writing in Assamese October 5 – Yaho Kitabatake 北畠 八穂 (died 1982), Japanese Shōwa period poet and children's fiction writer November 6 – Carl Rakosi, American poet November 15: Tatsuko Hoshino 星野立子 (died 1984), Japanese Shōwa period haiku poet and travel writer; founded Tamamo, a haiku magazine exclusively for women; in the Hototogisu literary circle; haiku selector for Asahi Shimbun newspaper; contributed to haiku columns in various newspapers and magazines (a woman) Jinzai Kiyoshi 神西清 (died 1957) Japanese Shōwa period novelist, translator, literary critic, poet and playwright December 4 – A. L. Rowse (died 1997), English poet, historian and Shakespeare scholar and biographer December 10 – William Plomer (died 1973), South African-born novelist, poet and literary editor December 31: Fumiko Hayashi 林 芙美子 (born this year or 1904 (sources disagree); died 1951), Japanese novelist, writer and poet (a woman) Lorine Niedecker (died 1970) the only woman associated with the Objectivist poets Also: Raymond Herbert McGrath (died 1977), Australian poet Rafael Méndez Dorich (died 1973), Peruvian poet