1947 in poetry

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Events

February 17 - On the death of Montserrat-born British fantasy fiction writer M. P. Shiel, his supposed title to the Kingdom of Redonda passes to London poet John Gawsworth.
March - Landfall literary magazine is founded by Charles Brasch and first published by Caxton Press (New Zealand); it becomes that country's oldest literary journal.
November - Muriel Spark becomes editor of Poetry Review in London from this month's issue.
Dorothy Parker divorces Alan Campbell for the first time.

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">Canadian poetry">Canada

Arthur Bourinot, The Collected Poems of Arthur S. Bourinot.
Paul Hiebert, Sarah Binks, "the sweet songstess of Saskatchewan",
Archibald Lampman, Selected Poems, edited by Duncan Campbell Scott, published posthumously
Dorothy Livesay, Poems for People. Toronto: Ryerson. Governor General's Award 1947.
E. J. Pratt:
*Behind the Log, Toronto: Macmillan.
*Ten Selected Poems, Toronto: Macmillan.
Duncan Campbell Scott, The Circle of Affection, prose and verse
Raymond Souster, Go To Sleep, World. Toronto: Ryerson.
John Sutherland, editor, Other Canadians: An Anthology of the New Poetry in Canada, 1940-1946, anthology

India">Indian poetry">India, in English">Indian poetry in English">in English

Harindranath Chattopadhyaya, Freedom Come, Bombay: Nalanda Publications
Serapia Devi, Rapid Visions
Raul De Loyola Furtado, Selected Poems, second edition, revised; Bombay
Vinayaka Krishna Gokak, The Song of Life and Other Poems, Bombay: Hind Kitabs
P. R. Kaikini, Poems of the Passionate East, Bombay
Fredoon Kabraji, editor, This Strange Adventure: An Anthology of Poems in English by Indians 1828-1946, London: New India Pub. Co., 140 pages; Indian poetry published in the United Kingdom

United Kingdom">English poetry">United Kingdom

Kingsley Amis, Bright November
W. H. Auden, The Age of Anxiety
John Betjeman, edited by W. H. Auden, Slick But Not Streamlined: poems & short pieces
Cairo poets, edited by Keith Bullen and John Cromer, Salamander: A Miscellany of Poetry
F. W. Harvey, Gloucestershire: A Selection from the Poems of F. W. Harvey
Hamish Henderson, as Seumas Mor Maceanruig, collected Ballads of World War II
Patrick Kavanagh, A Soul For Sale
Philip Larkin, A Girl in Winter
Laurie Lee, The Bloom of Candles
Louis MacNeice, The Dark Tower
John Pudney, Low Life
Alan Ross, The Derelict Day
Stephen Spender, Poems of Dedication
Terence Tiller, Unarm, Eros
Henry Treece, ''The Haunted Garden''

United States">American poetry">United States

Conrad Aiken, The Kid
W. H. Auden, The Age of Anxiety, English native living in the United States
R. P. Blackmur, The Good European
Cleanth Brooks, The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry
Witter Bynner, Take Away the Darkness
John Ciardi, Other Skies
Louis Coxe, The Sea Faring
August Derleth, editor, Dark of the Moon: Poems of Fantasy and the Macabre
Robert Duncan, Heavenly City, Earthly City
Richard Eberhart, Burr Oaks, including "The Fury of Aerial Bombardment"
Robert Frost, Steeple Bush
Jean Garrigue, The Ego and the Centaur
Langston Hughes, Fields of Wonder
Weldon Kees, The Fall of Magicians
Howard Nemerov, The Image of the Law
John Frederick Nims, The Iron Pastoral
Kenneth Patchen, Panels for the Walls of Heaven
Karl Shapiro, Trial of a Poet
William Jay Smith, Poems
Wallace Stevens, Transport to Summer, Knopf
Richard Wilbur, The Beautiful Changes and Other Poems, New York: Reynal and Hitchcock
Louis Zukofsky begins writing Bottom: on Shakespeare, a long work of literary philosophy

Other in English

Victor Daley, Creeve Roe, posthumously published, Australia
Donagh MacDonagh, The Hungry Grass, Faber and Faber, Ireland
Shaw Neilson, Unpublished Poems, edited by James Devaney, Angus and Robertson, Australia

Works published in other languages

Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:

France">French poetry">France

Guillaume Apollinaire, pen name of Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky, Ombre de mon amour, publisher: P. Cailler Vesenaz, posthumously published
Antonin Artaud:
* Artaud le momo Paris: Bordas
* Ce-git, précédé de la culture indienne, Paris: K Editeur
André Breton, Ode a Charles Fourier
Jean Cayrol:
* Je vivrai l'amour des autres
* On vous parle, winner of the Prix Renaudot
Blaise Cendrars, pen name of Frédéric Louis Sauser, a Swiss novelist and poet naturalized as a French citizen in 1916; all of his poetry was published this year in these two volumes:
* Du monde entier
* Au coeur du monde
Aimé Césaire, Cahier d'un retour au pays natal, expanded edition in book format, Martinique writer
Jean Follain, Exister
Eugène Guillevic, Exécutoire, poems written during the German occupation of France
Pierre Jean Jouve:
* Hymne
* Requiem, Lausanne, Switzerland: Mermod, French author published in Switzerland
Marie Noël, Chants et psaumes d'automne
Henri Pichette, Apoèmes
Raymond Queneau, ''Exercices de style''

Indian">Indian poetry">Indian subcontinent

Including India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Listed alphabetically by first name, regardless of surname:

Hindi">Hindi poetry">Hindi

Bal Krisna Rav, Kavi ki Chavi
Kedarnath Agarwal:
* Nind Ke Badal, written in the language of common people by a notable poet of the Pragativadi movement
* Yug Ki Ganga, poems in the Pragativadi tradition
Mishra Dvarika Prasad, epic based on Krishna legends from the Mahabharata, Srimadbhagvata, Sursagar and Sisupalavadha, with contemporary elements; written in 1942 but published this year
Ram Dahin Mishra, Kavya Darpan, comparing Indian and Western poetics; literary criticism
Ramadhari Singh Dinkar, Samadheni
Sumitranandan Pant:
* , a translation of Swami Vivekanand's Song of the Sanyasin into Hindi is included under the title Sanyasi Ke Git
* ''Svarna Kiran''

Marathi">Marathi poetry">Marathi

B. B. Borkar, Dudhasagar
B. S. Mardhekar, Kahi Kavita
Shanta Shelke, Varsa
V. R. Kant, ''Rudravina''

Oriya">Oriya poetry">Oriya

Kalindi Charan Panigrahi, romantic poems by one of the earliest modern poets in Indian literature
Mayadhar Mansinha:
* Kamalavana, long, romantic poem
* Jibanacita, Oriya
Nityananda Mhapatra, Pancajanya
Sacchidananda Rout Roy, Pandulipi, poems written in free verse

Other languages of the Indian subcontinent

A. Muthusivan, Kavitaiyum Valkkaiyum, literary criticism written in Tamil
Akhtarul Imam, Sabrang, poems, some allegorical, some satiric, expressing dissatisfaction with traditional society; Urdu
Amrita Pritam, Lamian Vatan, mostly lyrical poems on romantic love, Punjabi
Bishnu Dey:
* Purbalekh, Bengali
* Bishnu De, Sandiper, Bengali
Dimbeshwar Neog, Asama; Assamese-language
Divya Prabha Bharali, Banhi. Aparna, her first book of poetry; Assamese-language
Dinu Bhai Pant, Vira Gulaba, modern ballad on the heroism and skillfulness of Gulab Singh, in the battle of Jammu against Sikh invaders; Dogri
Jhamandas Bhatia, Sain Qutub Sah, biography written in Sindhi of the Sufi poet Qudub Shah, who wrote in that language
Joseph Mundasseri, Rupabhadrata, literary criticism which found fault with the Marxist school of literary criticism; the debate caused by the book resulted in a split in the progressive literary movement; Malayalam
Jyotsna Shukla, Azadinan Geeto; Gujarati
K. S. Narasimha Swamy, Dipadamalli, Kannada
Kaifi Azmi, pen name of Asar Husain Rizvi, Akhir-i Shab, Urdu
Kashikanta Mishra, Kobar-git, marriage songs, Maithili
Manohar Sharma, Aravali Ki Atma, includes nature poems such as "Aravali", "Jharano" and "Tiba", Rajasthani
Shankara Balakrishna Joshi, also known as "Sam. Ba. Joshi", Karnana Muru Citragulu, literary criticism written in the Kannada language, studying the character of Karna as portrayed in three epics, Mahabharata, Pampa Bharata, and Kumaravyasa Bharata
Vailoppalli Sridhara Menon, Kannikkoyttu, Malayalam

Other languages

Thorkild Bjørnvig, Stærnen bag Gavlen, Denmark
Nazik Al-Malaika, Cholera, Arabic-language book published in Iraq
Alexander Mezhirov, Дорога далеко, edited by Pavel Antokolksy, the author's first published book, Moscow
Giorgos Seferis, Κίχλη, Greek
Shinoe Shōda, Sange, tanka anthology about the atomic bombing of Japan, secretly published in defiance of censorship
Màrius Torres, Poesies, Catalan Spanish poet published in Mexico

Awards and honors

Frost Medal: Gustav Davidson
Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress : Robert Lowell appointed this year.
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Robert Lowell, Lord Weary's Castle
American Poets: Ridgely Torrence
Canada: Governor General's Award, poetry or drama: Poems for People, Dorothy Livesay
Australia: Grace Leven Prize for Poetry: Pacific Sea, Nan McDonald

Births

Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:

January 2
* Ai, born "Florence Anthony", an American poet who legally changes her name
* David Shapiro, American poet, literary critic and art historian
January 13 - David Scott, English Anglican priest, poet, playwright and spiritual writer
January 18 - Takeshi Kitano 北野武, Japanese filmmaker, film editor, screenwriter, comedian, actor, author, poet and painter
January 22 - Vladimir Oravsky, Swedish author and film director
February 19
* Bin Ramke, American poet and editor
* Lev Rubinstein, Russian poet, essayist and social activist
March 2 - Michael Schmidt, Mexican-born English poet, academic, founder, editor and managing director of Carcanet Press and founder of PN Review
March 3 - Clifton Snider, American poet, novelist, literary critic, scholar and educator
April 3 - Srikrishna Alanahalli, Indian Kannada novelist and poet
April 13 - Rae Armantrout, American poet
April 27 - Astrid Roemer, Suriname-born Dutch poet, novelist and playwright
May 6 - Jerry Estrin, American poet
May 12 - Penelope Shuttle, English poet
May 13 - Sukanta Bhattacharya, Bengali poet
May 16 - Cheryl Clarke, American poet and academic
May 23 - Jane Kenyon, American poet and translator
May 27 - Felix Dennis, English publisher and poet
June 16 - Ellen Bass, American poet
July 18 - Dermot Healy, Irish novelist and poet
July 25 - Leslie Scalapino, American poet
August 1 - Lorna Goodison, Jamaican poet
August 8 - Alurista, American Chicano poet and activist
October 13 - Joe Dolce, Australian poet and musician
October 20 - Mikirō Sasaki 佐々木幹郎, also known as "Mikio Sasaki", Japanese poet and travel writer
October 26 - Trevor Joyce, Irish poet
November 13 - John Steffler, Canadian poet and novelist
November 30 - Sergio Badilla Castillo, Chilean poet and dramatist
December 26 - Liz Lochhead, Scottish poet and dramatist
Also:
* Michael Casey, American poet
* Gloria Frym, American poet, fiction writer and essayist
* Reginald Gibbons, American poet
* Nasrollah Mardani, Iranian poet
* Frank Ormsby, Northern Irish poet
* Molly Peacock, American poet of the New Formalist school and nonfiction writer
* Rosemary Sullivan, Canadian poet, biographer and anthologist

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:

April 9 - Desmond FitzGerald, Irish revolutionary, poet, publicist and politician
April 12 - C. Louis Leipoldt, South African Afrikaans poet, writer and pediatrician
April 30 - Anna Wickham, English poet
June 25 - Minnie Gow Walsworth, American poet
July 13 - Yone Noguchi 野口米次郎, Japanese poet, fiction writer, essayist and literary critic in both Japanese and English; father of the sculptor Isamu Noguchi
September 15 - Richard Le Gallienne, English poet and writer
December 19 - Duncan Campbell Scott, Canadian poet and writer