1927 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events

Hermann Hesse, photographed this year

• T. S. Eliot enters the Church of England and assumes British citizenship

Works published

Canada

• Alfred Bailey, 'Songs of the Saguenay and other poems.^[1]
• Wilson MacDonald, An Ode On The Diamond Jubilee Of Confederation. Toronto: W. MacDonald.^[2]
• E.J. Pratt, The Iron Door: An Ode, Toronto: Macmillan.^[3]
• Charles G.D. Roberts, The Vagrant of Time. (Toronto: Ryerson).

India in English

• Swami Ananda Acharya:
  • Sara and other poems ( Poetry in English ), Roros, Norway: Odegards Trykkeri 106 pages^[4]
  • Arctic Swallows ( Poetry in English ) ^[5]
• Harindranath Chattopadhyaya, Collected Plays and Poems, 44 sonnets,^[6] Madras: printed at Hogarth Press;^[7]
• Joseph Furtado, A Goan Fiddler ( Poetry in English ) ,^[6]
• Peroze P. Meherjee, Poems in Prose ( Poetry in English ), London: Luzac and Co., posthumously published (died 1925)^[8]
• Gwendoline Goodwin, editor, An Anthology of Modern Indian Poetry, London: John Murray; anthology ( Poetry in English ) , published in the United Kingdom .^[9]

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^[10]

United Kingdom

• G. K. Chesterton, Collected Poems^[10]
• W. H. Davies, A Poet's Calendar^[10]
• T. S. Eliot:
  • "The Journey of the Magi"^[10]
  • "Salutation" (later to become part II of Ash-Wednesday, published in 1930) was published in December in Saturday Review of Literature. It was 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^[9]
• Robert Graves, Poems 1914–26^[10]
• A.A. Milne, Now We are Six^[10]
• Edith Sitwell, Rustic Elegies^[10]
• Osbert Sitwell, England Reclaimed^[10]
• Humbert Wolfe:
  • Cursory Rhymes^[10]
  • Requiem^[10]
• 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^[10]

United States

• Sherwood Anderson, A New Testament^[11]
• Countee Cullen, Copper Sun^[12]
• Donald Davidson, The Tall Men^[11]
• Langston Hughes, Fine Clothes to the Jew^[13]
• Robinson Jeffers, The Women at Point Sur^[11]
• James Weldon Johnson:
  • God's Trombones^[11]
  • God's Promises
• Amy Lowell, Ballads for Sale^[11]
• John Livingston Lowes, The Road to Xanadu, a book on the composition of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Kubla Khan" (scholarship)
• Don Marquis, archy and mehitabel,^[11] presented fictionally as a collection of vers libre poems typed by a former-poet-turned-cockroach who jumps on the keys of a typewriter
• 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 (1921)

Other in English

• Shaw Neilson, New Poems, Sydney, Bookfellow, Australia

Works published in other languages

France

• Guillaume Apollinaire, pen name of Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky, Julie; ou, La Rose, posthumously published (died 1918)^[14]
• Jean Cocteau, Opéra, Oeuvres poétiques^[15]
• Robert Desnos, La liberté ou l'amour! ("Liberty or Love!")
• Henri Michaux,Qui je fus("Who I Was"), Paris: N.R.D.^[16]
• Charles Vildrac, Prolongements, France

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

• Jibanananda Das, Jhara Palak, the author's first book of poems; Bengali^[6]
• Mohitlal Majumdar, Bismarani, Bengali^[6]
• Yatindranath Sengupta, Marusikha, Bengali ^[6]

Other Indian languages

• Bhai Vir Singh, Bijalian De Har, short poems, mostly lyrical and didactic, Punjabi^[6]
• Muhammad Iqbal, Zabur-i-Ajam ("Persian Psalms") including the poems "Gulshan-i Raz-i Jadid" ("New Garden of Secrets") and "Bandagi Nama" ("Book of Slavery"), India^[6]
• Yaganab Changezi and Mirza Yas (writing under the pen name "Husain"), Ayat-i Vijdani, Urdu^[6]

Spain

• Rafael Alberti, El alba del alheli (1925–1926) ("The Dawn of the Wallflower")^[17]
• Luis Cernuda, Perfil del aire ("Profile of Air", which later appeared as Primeras poesías ["First Poems"] in the author's complete works, La realidad y el deseo ["Reality and Desire"])^[17]
• Federico García Lorca, Canciones ("Songs")
• Miguel de Unamuno, Romancero del destierro ("Ballads of Exile")^[17]

Other languages

• Jacob Anker-Paulsen, Klemtende hjærte. Udvalgte digte fra ti aar og nye, Denmark

Awards and honors

• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Leonora Speyer, Fiddler's Farewell

Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• January 8 – Charles Tomlinson, British poet, translator, academic, and artist
• February 1 – Galway Kinnell, American poet
• April 8 – Phyllis Webb, Canadian poet and radio broadcaster
• June 7 – Martin Carter (died 1997), Guyanese poet
• June 26 – Robert Kroetsch (died 2011), Canadian poet and novelist
• July 28 – John Ashbery, American poet, former chancellor of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
• August 7 – Larry Eigner (died 1996), American poet early in his career was associated with the Black Mountain poets; later was recognized as precursor to other poetic movements, ie., Language poetry
• September 30 – W. S. Merwin, American poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
• October 16 – Günter Grass, German author and poet
• October 19 – Edwin Brock (died 1997), English poet
• October 20 – Oskar Pastior (died 2006), Romanian-born German poet and translator
• November 20 – Kikuo Takano (died 2006), Japanese poet and mathematician
• December 3 – James Wright, (died 1980), American poet

• Also:
  • Henry Coulette
  • David Diop
  • Molly Holden (died 1981)
  • Judson Jerome, American
  • Richard Moore, American poet and academic
  • Richard Murphy, Irish poet
  • John Tripp (died 1986), Anglo-Welsh poet in whose memory the annual John Tripp Spoken Poetry Award is presented.

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• April 6 – Florence Earle Coates, American poet, dies in Hahnemann Hospital, Philadelphia.
• July 5 – Lesbia Harford, Australian poet
• September 14 – Hugo Ball, 41, German author and poet.
• October 8 – Ricardo Güiraldes, Argentine novelist and poet
• October 26 – Yagi Jūkichi, 八木重吉 (born 1898), Japanese (surname: Yagi)

• Also:
  • Adolfo León Gómez, Colombian poet
  • Emma Marie Caillard
  • Charles Mair, Canadian poet

See also

Poetry portal

• Poetry
• List of poetry awards
• List of years in poetry
• New Objectivity in German literature and art
• Generation of '27 in Spanish poetry

Notes