1930 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
Events
- Samuel Minturn Peck becomes first Poet Laureate of Alabama, a title created for him.
Works published
Canada">Canadian poetry">Canada
- Alfred Bailey, Tao: A Ryerson Poetry Chap Book,.
- Wilson MacDonald, Caw-Caw Ballads Montclair, NJ: Pine Tree Publishing.
- E. J. Pratt:
- * The Roosevelt and the Antinoe, Toronto: Macmillan.
- *Verses of the Sea, Toronto: Macmillan. intr. by Charles G.D. Roberts.
- W. W. E. Ross, Laconics.
United Kingdom">English poetry">United Kingdom
- Richard Aldington, editor, Imagist AnthologyAn Anthology of War Poems, compiled by Frederick Brereton
- W. H. Auden, Poems, his first published book
- Samuel Beckett, Whoroscope, his first separately published work; Irish poet published in France
- Julian Bell, Winter Movement
- Hilaire Belloc, New Canterbury Tales, illustrated by Nicholas Bentley
- Edmund Blunden, The Poems of Edmund Blunden
- Basil Bunting, Redimiculum Matellarum, his first book of poems, published in Milan
- Roy Campbell, South African native published in the United Kingdom:
- * Adamastor
- * Poems
- Catherine Carswell, The Life of Robert Burns, biography
- Elizabeth Daryush, Verses
- T. S. Eliot:
- * Ash Wednesday
- * Marina
- * Translator, Anabasis, translation from the original French of Saint-John Perse's Anabase 1924; London: Faber
- William Empson, Seven Types of Ambiguity, a book of criticism
- Stella Gibbons, The Mountain Beast, and Other Poems
- Gerard Manley Hopkins, Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins, edited by Charles Williams
- Brian Howard, God Save the King
- D. H. Lawrence :
- * Nettles
- * The Triumph of the Machine
- Hugh MacDiarmid, pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve, To Circumjack Cencrastus; or, The Curly Snake, written and published in English and Scots
- 'Æ', pen name of George William Russell, Enchantment, and Other Poems
- Edith Sitwell, Collected Poems
- Stephen Spender, Twenty Poems
- Katharine Tynan, Collected Poems
- Humbert Wolfe, The Uncelestial City
- D. B. Wyndham-Lewis and Charles Lee, compilers, ''The Stuffed Owl: an anthology of bad verse''
United States">American poetry">United States
- W. H. Auden, Poems
- Hart Crane, The Bridge
- Babette Deutsch, Fire for the Night
- Richard Eberhart, A Bravery of Earth
- Robert Frost, Collected Poems
- Horace Gregory, Chelsea Rooming House
- Stanley J. Kunitz, Intellectual Things
- William Ellery Leonard, This Midland City
- Archibald MacLeish, New Found Land
- Edgar Lee Masters, Leechee Nuts
- Ezra Pound, A Draft of XXX Cantos, American poet writing in Europe
- Lizette Woodworth Reese, White April
- Edward Arlington Robinson, The Glory of the Nightingales
- Allen Tate, Three Poems
- Sara Teasdale, Stars To-night
- Yvor Winters, ''The Proof''
Other in English
- Samuel Beckett, Whoroscope, Irish writer published in the United Kingdom
- Una Marson, Tropic Reveries, the first "noted" collection of poems by a West Indian woman
- Brian O'Nolan, "Ad Astra", in Blackrock College Annual, Irish writer
- Quentin Pope, editor, Kowhai Gold, anthology of New Zealand poetry
Works published in other languages
France">French poetry">France
- René Char, Ralentir travaux
- Paul Claudel, Le Soulier de satin, France
- Michel Deguy, French academic, essayist, translator and poet
- Robert Desnos, Corps et biens: poemes 1919-1929
- Léon-Paul Fargue, Sous la lampe
- Henri Michaux, Un Certain Plume, in which the character Plume, a symbolic, alienated underdog, first appears
- Pierre Reverdy, Pierres blanches
- Jules Supervielle, ''Le Forçat innocent''
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:- Ananta Pattanayak, Raktasikha, Oriya-language
- Dimbeshwar Neog, Indradhanu, Assamese-language
- Kazi Nazrul Islam, translator, Rubaiyat-i-Haphij, translated from the Persian quatrains of the poet Shiraji Hafiz into Bengali
- Laxmi Prasad Devkota, Muna Madan, मुनामदन, Nepali
- Maraimalai Atikal, Manikkavacakar Varalarum Kalamum, a two-volume study of Manikkavacakar, a saint-poet of the Saivaite sect, in Tamil; criticism
- Mathuranatha Shastri, adaptor, Sahitya-Vaibhava, various Hindi poems translated into Sanskrit and adapted
- T. P. Meenakshisundaram, Valluvarum Makalirum, on the concept of womanhood in the works of ancient Tamil poets; scholarship
- Yatindranath Sengupta, Marumaya, Bengali
Spanish language
- Enrique Bustamante y Ballivián, Junin, Peru
- León de Greiff, Libro de signos, precedido de Los pingüinos peripatéticos; seguido de Fantasías de nubes al viento , Columbia
- Federico García Lorca, Poeta en Nueva York written this year, published posthumously in 1940, first translation into English as "A Poet in New York", 1988)
- León Felipe, Veersos y oraciones del caminante, second volume ; Spain
- Luis Fabio Xammar, Pensativamente, Peru
Other
- Gonzalve Desaulniers, Les bois qui chantent; French language;, Canada
- Jens August Schade, Hjertebogen, Denmark
- J. Slauerhoff, Serenade, Dutch
Awards and honors
- John Masefield becomes Poet Laureate of the UK.
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Conrad Aiken: Selected Poems
- Frost Medal: Jessie Rittenhouse and to Bliss Carman, and George Edward Woodberry
Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- January 1
- * Adunis or "Adonis", Syrian-born Arabic poet and essayist who makes his career largely in Lebanon and France
- * Jean-Pierre Duprey, French poet and sculptor
- January 5 - Jesús Rosas Marcano, Venezuelan poet
- January 23 - Derek Walcott, Caribbean St. Lucian-born English-language poet, playwright, writer and visual artist
- February 15 - Bruce Dawe, Australian poet
- March - Alvin Aubert, African-American poet and scholar
- March 21 - Roger-Arnould Rivière, French poet
- March 26 - Gregory Corso, American poet
- April 8 - Miller Williams, American poet, translator and editor
- May 3 - Juan Gelman, Argentine poet
- May 8 - Gary Snyder, American poet, essayist, lecturer and environmental activist
- May 11 - Kamau Brathwaite, Caribbean native of Barbados, writer, poet, dramatist and academic
- May 12 - Mazisi Kunene, South African poet
- May 23 - Friedrich Achleitner, Austrian architect and poet
- June 9 - Roberto Fernández Retamar, Cuban poet and literary critic
- June 11 - Roy Fisher, English poet and jazz pianist
- June 23 - Anthony Thwaite, English poet, writer and editor, married to the writer Ann Thwaite
- August 17 - Ted Hughes, English poet and children's writer, Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1984
- September 25 - Shel Silverstein, American writer of children's verse
- October 10 - Harold Pinter, English playwright, poet, actor, theatre director, screenwriter, human rights activist, winner of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature
- October 24 - Elaine Feinstein, English poet, novelist, short-story writer, playwright, biographer and translator
- November 16 - Chinua Achebe, Nigerian writer and poet
- November 19 - Bernard Noel, French poet and writer
- November 20 - Bai Hua, Chinese poet, dramatist and novelist
- December 2 - Jon Silkin, English poet
- December 27 - Attoor Ravi Varma, Indian Malayalam poet and translator
- Also:
- * Tony Connor, English poet and playwright
- * Adolph Endler, German
- * Brian Higgins, British poet, mathematician and rugby league player
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- March 2 - D. H. Lawrence, English author, poet, playwright, essayist and literary critic, from tuberculosis
- April 10 - Alfred Williams, English "hammerman poet"
- April 14 - Vladimir Mayakovsky, Russian poet, committed suicide
- April 21 - Robert Bridges, English Poet Laureate
- April 29 - Maria Polydouri, Greek poet, from tuberculosis