2024 in poetry

Events

• March 21 – World Poetry Day events
• * in Edinburgh, Scotland
• * in Granada, Spain
• June 6–16 – The 2024 Genoa International Poetry Festival took place in Genoa, Italy.
• September 23–29 – The Tell It Slant Poetry Festival took place at the Emily Dickinson Museum in Amherst, Massachusetts, U.S.
• November 14–17 – The Ars Poetica festival took place in Bratislava, Slovakia; poems read there were also anthologized.

Selection of works published in English

United Kingdom">English poetry">United Kingdom

• Rachael Allen, God Complex
• Isabel Galleymore, Baby Schema
• Alistair McGowan, Not What We Were Expecting
• Rachel Mann, ''Eleanor Among the Saints''

United States">American poetry">United States

• Victoria Chang, With My Back to the World
• Pedro Iniguez, ''Mexicans on the Moon''

Other in English

• Victoria Kennefick, Egg/Shell, Irish poet published in England

Works published in other languages

Ukrainian language

• Karol Gwóźdź, Приховані думки / Myśli ukryte, translated from the original Silesian language into Ukrainian; publisher: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego,

Deaths

• January 4 – Fred Chappell, American author and poet
• January 5 – Jorge Aguilar Mora, Mexican poet and critic
• January 5 – Catrìona NicGumaraid, Scottish poet
• February 4 – N. K. Desam, Indian poet
• February 5 – Jimi Solanke, Nigerian actor, poet, and playwright
• March 10 – Alta, American feminist
• March 10 – Margot Lemire, Canadian poet and dramatist
• October 10 – Fleur Adcock, New Zealand poet