1927 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
Events
- 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 illustrated by E. McKnight Kauffer.
Works published
Canada">Canadian poetry">Canada
- Alfred Bailey, Songs of the Saguenay and other poems.
- Wilson MacDonald, An Ode On The Diamond Jubilee Of Confederation. Toronto: W. MacDonald.
- E. J. Pratt, The Iron Door: An Ode, Toronto: Macmillan.
- Charles G.D. Roberts, The Vagrant of Time..
India">Indian poetry">India in English">Indian poetry in English">in English
- Swami Ananda Acharya:
- * Sara and other poems, Roros, Norway: Odegards Trykkeri 106 pages
- * Arctic Swallows
- Harindranath Chattopadhyaya, Collected Plays and Poems, 44 sonnets Madras: printed at Hogarth Press
- Joseph Furtado, A Goan Fiddler
- Peroze P. Meherjee, Poems in Prose, London: Luzac and Co., posthumously published
- Gwendoline Goodwin, editor, An Anthology of Modern Indian Poetry, London: John Murray; anthology, published in the United Kingdom
Ireland">Irish poetry">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
United Kingdom">English poetry">United Kingdom
- G. K. Chesterton, Collected Poems
- Joe Corrie, The Image o' God and Other Poems, Scottish poet
- W. H. Davies, A Poet's Calendar
- T. S. Eliot
- * Journey of the Magi
- * "Salutation" 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
- Robert Graves, Poems 1914-26
- Teresa Hooley, Songs of All Seasons
- Violet Jacob, The Northern Lights and other poems, Scottish poet
- A. A. Milne, Now We are Six
- William Plomer, Notes for Poems
- Edith Sitwell, Rustic Elegies
- Osbert Sitwell, England Reclaimed
- Iris Tree, The Traveller and other Poems
- Humbert Wolfe
- * 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
United States">American poetry">United States
- Sherwood Anderson, A New Testament
- Countee Cullen, Copper Sun
- Donald Davidson, The Tall Men
- Langston Hughes, Fine Clothes to the Jew
- Robinson Jeffers, The Women at Point Sur
- James Weldon Johnson:
- * God's Trombones
- * God's Promises
- Amy Lowell, Ballads for Sale
- John Livingston Lowes, The Road to Xanadu, a book on the composition of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Kubla Khan"
- Don Marquis, archy and mehitabel, presented fictionally as a collection of vers libre poems typed by a former-poet-turned-cockroach who jumps on the keys of a typewriter
- Alice Dunbar Nelson, Caroling Dusk - a collection of African-American poets
- 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''
Other in English
- Shaw Neilson, New Poems, Sydney, Bookfellow, Australia
Works published in other languages
France">French poetry">France
- Guillaume Apollinaire, pen name of Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky, Julie; ou, La Rose, posthumously published
- Jean Cocteau, Opéra, Oeuvres poétiques
- Robert Desnos, La liberté ou l'amour!
- Henri Michaux, Qui je fus, Paris: N.R.D.
- Charles Vildrac, Prolongements, France
Indian">Indian poetry">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">Bengali poetry">Bengali
- Jibanananda Das, Jhara Palak, the author's first book of poems; Bengali
- Mohitlal Majumdar, Bismarani, Bengali
- Yatindranath Sengupta, Marusikha, Bengali
Other Indian languages
- Bhai Vir Singh, Bijalian De Har, short poems, mostly lyrical and didactic, Punjabi
- Muhammad Iqbal, Zabur-i-Ajam including the poems "Gulshan-i Raz-i Jadid" and "Bandagi Nama", India
- Yaganab Changezi and Mirza Yas, Ayat-i Vijdani, Urdu
- Keshavlal Dhruv, ed., Pandarma Shatakna Prachin Gurjar Kavyo, compilation of 15th-century Gujarati poems
- Ratnahas, Harishchandrakhyan, translated by Keshavlal Dhruv
Spanish language
Peru">Peruvian poetry">Peru
- Carlos Oquendo de Amat, ''5 metros de poemas''
Spain">Spanish poetry">Spain
- Rafael Alberti, El alba del alheli
- Luis Cernuda, Perfil del aire
- Federico García Lorca, Canciones
- Miguel de Unamuno, ''Romancero del destierro''
Other languages
- Chen Xiaocui, Cuilou Yincao, China
- Vladislav Khodasevich, European Night, Russian poet published in Germany
- Hendrik Marsman, Paradise Regained, Netherlands
Awards and honors
- Newdigate Prize: G. E. Trevelyan, Julia, Daughter of Claudius
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Leonora Speyer, ''Fiddler's Farewell''
Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- January 8 - Charles Tomlinson, English poet, translator, academic and artist
- February 1 - Galway Kinnell, American poet
- February 16 - Pearse Hutchinson, Scottish-born Irish poet, broadcaster and translator
- April 7 - Giampiero Neri, born Giampietro Pontiggia, Italian poet
- April 8
- * Judson Jerome, American poet
- * Phyllis Webb, Canadian poet and radio broadcaster
- April 12 - Don Coles, Canadian poet
- June 7 - Martin Carter, Guyanese poet
- June 8 - George Lamming, Barbadian poet
- June 20 - Simin Behbahani, Persian poet
- June 26 - Robert Kroetsch, Canadian poet and novelist
- July 9 - David Diop, French Senegalese poet
- July 22 - John Tripp, Anglo-Welsh poet in whose memory the annual John Tripp Spoken Poetry Award is presented
- July 28 - John Ashbery, American poet, 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, 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, Irish poet and dramatist
- September 7 - Molly Holden, English poet
- September 20 - Elisabet Hermodsson, Swedish poet and artist
- September 30 - W. S. Merwin, American poet, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
- October 16 - Günter Grass, German author and poet, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
- October 19 - Edwin Brock, English poet
- October 20 - Oskar Pastior, Romanian-born German poet and translator
- November 20 - Kikuo Takano, Japanese poet and mathematician
- December 3 - James Wright, American poet
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- January 4 - Süleyman Nazif, سلیمان نظیف, Turkish poet and politician, pneumonia
- April 6 - Florence Earle Coates, American poet, dies in Hahnemann Hospital, Philadelphia
- June 9 - Adolfo León Gómez, Colombian poet
- July 5 - Lesbia Harford, Australian poet
- July 7 - Charles Mair, Canadian poet
- September 14 - Hugo Ball, German Dada author and poet
- September 15 - Herman Gorter, Dutch poet and socialist
- October 8 - Ricardo Güiraldes, Argentine-born novelist and poet
- October 26 - Yagi Jūkichi, 八木重吉, Japanese poet