1924 in poetry
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Events
- October 10 - Ezra Pound leaves Paris permanently and moves to Rapallo, Italy. He stays there briefly, moving on to Sicily.McGill Daily Literary Supplement started at McGill University in Montreal, Canada by A. J. M. Smith, F. R. Scott, Leon Edel, and later joined by A. M. Klein and Leo Kennedy. The periodical, which publishes poems and articles on contemporary trends, is the first in Canada to offer consistent commentary on modernist principles in poetry and literature.
- Daniel Corkery publishes the study of 18th century Irish poetry, The Hidden Ireland.
Works published
Australia">Australian poetry">Australia
- Arthur Henry Adams, Fifty Nursery Rhymes with Music, Australian
- Edwin James Brady, The Land of the Sun
- C. J. Dennis, Rose of Spadgers
- Kenneth Slessor, Thief of the Moon, Sydney: Hand press of J. T. Kirtley, Australia
India">Indian poetry">India in English">Indian poetry in English">in English
- Sri Aurobindo, Love and Death, Madras: Shama's Publishing House
United Kingdom">English poetry">United Kingdom
- Kenneth H. Ashley, Up Hill and Down Dale
- Roy Campbell, The Flaming Terrapin
- T. S. Eliot, Homage to John Dryden From Overseas, verse from the British colonies; the first published anthology to include Caribbean poetry, with works by nine Jamaican poets included
- Aldous Huxley, Little Mexican, and Other Stories
- John Masefield, Sard Harker
- Susan Miles, The Hares
- A. A. Milne, When We Were Very Young, for children
- Edith Sitwell, The Sleeping Beauty
- A. H. Stockwell, editor, Eastern Dreams: a Selection of Verse, London; anthology; Indian poetry in English, published in the United Kingdom
- Humbert Wolfe, Kensington Gardens
- W. B. Yeats, The Cat and the Moon, and Certain Poems, drama and verse, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
United States">American poetry">United States
- H.D., Heliodora and Other Poems
- Hilda Conkling, Silverhorn
- William Faulkner, The Marble Faun
- Robinson Jeffers, Tamar and Other Poems
- William Ellery Leonard, Tutankhamen and After
- Archibald MacLeish, The Happy Marriage and Other Poems
- Edgar Lee Masters, The New Spoon River
- Marianne Moore, Observations
- James Oppenheim, The Sea
- John Crowe Ransom, Chills and Fever
- Mark Van Doren, ''Spring Thunder''
Other in English
- A. H. Stockwell, editor, Eastern Dreams: a Selection of Verse, London; anthology; Indian poetry in English, published in the United Kingdom
- W. B. Yeats, The Cat and the Moon, and Certain Poems, drama and verse, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
Works published in other languages
France">French poetry">France
Anthologie des écrivains morts à la guerre- Robert Desnos, Deuil pour deuil
- Francis Jammes, Livres des quatrains, published each year from 1922 to 1925
- Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo, La coupe de cendres, Malagasy poet writing in French
- Pierre Reverdy, Les Épaves du ciel
- Saint-John Perse, pen name of Marie-René Alexis Saint-Léger:
- * Amitié du prince, Paris: Ronald Davis
- * Anabase, Paris: Gallimard
Other languages
- Delmira Agustini, Obras completas : Volume 1, El rosario de Eros; Volume 2: Los astros del abismo, posthumously published, Montevideo, Uruguay: Máximo García
- Hugo Ball, 7 schizophrene Sonette, German poet in Switzerland
- Villem Grünthal-Ridala, Toomas ja Mai, Estonia
- Sir Muhammad Iqbal, Bang-i-Dara, the first philosophical poetry book the author writes and publishes in Urdu rather than Persian
- Vladimir Mayakovsky, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Soviet Russia
- Gabriela Mistral, Ternura: canciones de niños, Madrid: Saturnino Calleja
- Pablo Neruda, Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada, Chile
- Sergei Yesenin, Land of Scoundrels, ''Soviet Russia''
Awards and honors
Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- February 8 - Lisel Mueller, American poet
- March 2 - Edgar Bowers American poet
- March 5 - David Ferry, American poet and translator
- March 22 - Michael Hamburger, British translator, poet, critic, memoirist and academic
- April 2 - Lauris Edmond, New Zealand poet
- April 21 - P. Bhaskaran, Indian, Malayalam-language poet and film songwriter
- May 3 - Yehuda Amichai יהודה עמיחי, Israeli poet and one of the first to write in colloquial Hebrew
- May 7 - Marjorie Boulton, English poet and literary critic writing also in Esperanto
- May 12 - Claribel Alegría, Nicaraguan novelist, poet and writer in Nicaragua and El Salvador
- June 7 - Edward Field, American poet and author
- June 29
- * Cid Corman, American poet, translator and editor
- * John Haines, American poet
- July 19 - Vassar Miller, American poet
- August 22 - Ada Jafri, Urdu poet
- August 28 - Janet Frame New Zealand poet, writer and novelist
- September 28 - James Berry, Jamaican-born poet
- October 9 - Jane Cooper, American poet
- October 20 - Robert Peters, American poet, critic, scholar, playwright and editor
- October 29 - Zbigniew Herbert, Polish poet, essayist, moralist and member of the Polish resistance during World War II; perhaps the most famous and most translated of Polish writers
- November 25 - Takaaki Yoshimoto 吉本隆明, also known as "Ryūmei Yoshimoto", Japanese poet, literary critic and philosopher; father of the writer Banana Yoshimoto and cartoonist Haruno Yoiko
- November 28 - Dennis Brutus, South African poet and anti-Apartheid activist, imprisoned in the cell next to Nelson Mandela's on Robben Island from 1963 to 1965; earns the Lifetime Honorary Award by the South African Department of Arts and Culture for lifelong dedication to African and world poetry and literary arts
- December 20 - Friederike Mayröcker, Austrian poet
- December 21 - Alphonse Allain, French Norman language poet
- December 24 - Nissim Ezekiel, Indian poet, playwright and art critic writing in English.
- Also:
- * Elizabeth Bartlett, English poet
- * Matthew Mead, English poet and editor
Deaths
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- January 16 - Kumaran Asan, 50, Indian, Malayalam-language poet
- May 4 - Edith Nesbit, 65, English author and poet whose children's works were published under the name "E. Nesbit"
- July 19 - Kingsley Fairbridge, 39, South African editor of a poetry anthology and humanitarian
- August 25 - Velma Caldwell Melville, 66, American editor and writer
- December 8 - Bochō Yamamura 山村 暮鳥, 40, Japanese vagabond Christian preacher who gained attention as a writer of tales and songs for children and as a poet
- December 15 - William Herbert Carruth, 65, American poet
- December 23 - Thomas William Hodgson Crosland, 59?, English poet