1952 in poetry

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

Events

• November — The Group British poetry movement of the 1950s and 1960s began at Downing College, Cambridge University, Philip Hobsbaum along with two friends — Tony Davis and Neil Morris — dissatisfied with the way poetry was read aloud in the university, decided to place a notice in the undergraduate newspaper Varsity for people interested in forming a poetry discussion group. Five others, including Peter Redgrove came along to the first meeting. This poetry discussion group met once a week during term. The group was later moved to London.
• E. E. Cummings is appointed to a Charles Eliot Norton Professorship at Harvard.
• Contact, a mimeographed poetry magazine, founded by Ramond Souster (ceases publication in 1954; Contact Press, an important publisher of Canadian poetry, also founded (closes in 1967)^[1]

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

• Alfred G. Bailey, Border River^[2]
• Jay Macpherson, Nineteen Poems^[2]
• James Reaney, The Red Heart, written by a student of Northrop Frye; winner of the Governor General's Award; marks the beginning of the "mythopoeic school" of Canadian poetry^[1]

Indian subcontinent in English

• Nissim Ezekiel, A Time to Change^[3]
• Sri Aurobindo, Last Poems, mostly philosophical, mystical poetry^[3]
• Themis (poet), Poems, 74 mystical lyrics, from the Aurobindoean school^[3]

New Zealand

• James K. Baxter, Louis Johnson and Anton Vogt, Poems Unpleasant, Christchurch: Pegasus Press
• A. R. D. Fairburn:
  • Three Poems^[4]
  • Strange Rendezvous^[4]
• Keith Sinclair, Songs for a Summer and Other Poems
• Robert Thompson, editor, 13 New Zealand Poets

United Kingdom

• William Buchan, 3rd Baron Tweedsmuir, Personal Poems
• Lawrence Durrell, A Key To Modern Poetry
• Nissim Ezekiel, Time To Change, Indian living at this time in the United Kingdom^[5]
• Michael Hamburger, translator into English from the German original of Austrian Georg Trakl's Decline: 12 Poems, Guido Morris / Latin Press,
• David Jones, The Anathemata
• Dylan Thomas, In Country Sleep, including the poem "Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night"
• R.S. Thomas, An Acre of Land

United States

• R. P. Blackmur, Language as Gesture, criticism^[6]
• Robert Creeley, Le Fou, American published in Europe^[7]
• Archibald Macleish, Collected Poems, 1917–1952, winner of the Pulitzer Prize^[6]
• W. S. Merwin, A Mask for Janus, Yale University Press^[8]
• Frank O'Hara, A City in Winter and Other Poems^[9]
• Kenneth Rexroth, The Dragon and the Unicorn, a verse journal of his European travels^[6]
• Wallace Stevens, Selected Poems, Fortune Press^[10]
• Jesse Stuart, Kentucky Is my Land^[9]
• New World Writing the first of an annual paperback anthology of prose, drama and poetry; continues to 1959 in poetry^[6]
• Peter Viereck, The First Morning^[9]
• Yvor Winter, Collected Poems^[9]

Other

• R. Berndt, editor, Djanggawul, anthology of Australian poetry^[11]
• Seaforth Mackenzie, editor Australian Poetry, 1951-2, Sydney: Angus and Robertson; Australia

Works published in other languages

France

• Rene-Guy Cadou, Helene ou le regne vegetal, Volume 1, published posthumously (died 1951)^[12]
• Jean Cayrol, Les Mots sont aussi des demeures 1952^[12]
• Jean Cocteau, Le Chiffre sept^[12]
• Pierre Emmanuel, pen name of Noël Mathieu, Babel^[12]
• Jean Grosjean, Le Livre du juste^[12]
• Benjamin Péret, Air mexicain^[13]
• Raymond Queneau, Si tu t'imagines^[13]
• Francis Ponge, La Rage de lexpression^[13]
• Georges Schéhadé, Les Poésies^[12]

Indian subcontinent

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

Hindi

• Haradayalu Singh, Ravan, poem written in Braja Bhasa; with characters from classical epic poems and presenting Ravana in a sympathetic light; 17 chapters^[3]
• Narmada Prasad Khare, Svar-Pathey^[3]
• Ramadhari Singh Dinakar, Rasmi Rathi, epic poem about Karna, a character in the Mahabharata^[3]

Kannada

• D. V. Gundappa, translator, Umarana Osage, translated from the English of Edward Fitzgerald's translation of The Rubaiyatt of Omar Khayyam^[3]
• M. Gopalakrishna Adiga, Nadedu Banna Dari, poems showing the transition in Indian poetry from the more idealistic Navodaya tradition to Navya poetry which is more pessimistic and uses imagery to provide structure; Kannada^[3]
• Pejavara Sadashiva Rao, Varuna, written before 1950, but differing distinctly from navodaya poetry; using original rhythm and with subject matter from the experiences of an alienated individual; including "Natyotsava", considered by some critics as the earliest navya poem in the Kannada language; published posthumously (the author died at age 26 in Italy)^[3]

Other languages of the Indian subcontinent

• Amrita Pritam, Sarghi Vela, romantic and progressive poems; Punjabi^[3]
• Bahinabai, Bahinabaici Kavita, Marathi^[3]
• Birendra Chattopadhyay, Ranur Janya, Bengali^[3]
• Chandranath Mishra, Yugacakra, humorous and satirical poems by "a major poet of Maithili", according to Indian academic Sisir Kumar Das (see also Unata pal 1972, a revised and expanded edition)^[3]
• Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Dast-e-Saba, Urdu^[3]
• Gangaprasad Upadhyay, Arodaya mahakavya, epic poem on Swami Dayananda; Sanskrit^[3]
• Jnanindra Barma Eka Ratri, Uttara Kranti, Ratnarakha, Oriya^[3]
• Mir Shaban Dar, Qissa-e-Bahram Shah, popular romantic poem in masnavi form, modeled on a Persian poem; Kashmiri^[3]
• Parsram Rohra, Sitar, Sindhi^[3]
• Pinakin Thakore, Alap, Gujarati^[3]
• Pir Atiquallah, Pirnama, comic narrative poem in masnavi form on the "Ways of the Pir"; shows the influence of Maqbool; Kashmiri^[3]
• Rayaprolu Subba Rao, Rupanavanitamu, poems honoring womanhood and spiritual love; Telugu^[3]
• Sreedhara Menon, Onappattukar, Malayalam^[3]

Other languages

• Sean O Riordain, Eireaball Spideoige, including "Adhlacadh Mo Mhathar", "Malairt", "Cnoc Melleri" and "Siollabadh", Gaelic-language, Ireland^[14]
• Wisława Szymborska: Dlatego żyjemy ("That's Why We Are Alive"), Poland

Awards and honors

• Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (later the post would be called "Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress"): William Carlos Williams appointed this year (but did not serve).
• Bollingen Prize: Marianne Moore
• Frost Medal: Carl Sandburg
• National Book Award for Poetry: Marianne Moore, Collected Poems
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Marianne Moore, Collected Poems
• King's Gold Medal for Poetry: Andrew Young
• Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Padraic Colum

Births

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

• January 2 – Jimmy Santiago Baca, American poet and writer
• January 10 – Dorianne Laux, American poet
• January 17 – Barry Dempster, a Canadian poet and novelist
• January 20 – Roo Borson, pen name of Ruth Elizabeth Borson, American native living in Canada
• January 24 – Alice Fulton, an American poet, author, and MacArthur Foundation fellow
• March 12 – Naomi Shihab Nye, American poet and songwriter born to a Palestinian father and American mother
• April 12 – Gary Soto, Mexican-American poet and author
• June 20 – Vikram Seth, Indian poet, novelist, travel writer, librettist, children's writer, biographer and memoirist
• June 5 – Mark Jarman, American poet and critic often identified with the "New Narrative" branch of the New Formalism
• August 5 – D. C. Reid, a Canadian poet, novelist and short story writer
• August 28 – Rita Dove, an African American poet and author and former Poet Laureate of the United States
• October 26 – Andrew Motion English poet, novelist, biographer and Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom
• November 7 – Malca Litovitz, Canadian poet, author and educator
• December 20 – Sky Gilbert, a Canadian poet, writer, actor, academic and drag performer

• Also:
  • Maxine Chernoff — American poet and writer
  • Judith Ortiz Cofer born in Hormigueros, Puerto Rico, an author of poetry, short stories, autobiography, essays, and young adult novels
  • Carla Harryman, American poet and playwright
  • Jan Horner
  • Carole Langille
  • Myron Lysenko, Australian^[15]
  • Alberto Rios American poet and writer
  • Carolyn Smart, English-Canadian poet and educator
  • Elizabeth Spires, American poet and academic
  • Susan Stewart — American poet, academic and literary critic
  • thalia, Australian

Deaths

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

• February 3 – Kambara Ariake 蒲原有明 pen-name of Kambara Hayao (born 1876), Taishō and Showa period Japanese poet and novelist
• March 1 – Masao Kume 久米正雄 (born 1891), late Taishō period and early Showa period Japanese playwright, novelist and haiku poet (under the pen-name of Santei)
• August 22 – E. J. Brady (born 1869), Australian
• September 26 – George Santayana (born 1863), Spanish-American philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist
• November 16 – Charles Maurras, 84, French author, poet, and critic
• November 18 – Paul Éluard, 56, French poet who broke with Surrealism when he became a Stalinist
• November 23 – Aaro Hellaakoski, Finnish poet
• December 27 – Patrick Joseph Hartigan, who wrote under the pen name "Joseph O'Brien" (born 1878), Australian

• Also:
  • Wendy Jenkins, Australian^[16]
  • Roger Vitrac, poet and dramatist
  • Arthur Sheerly Cripps

See also

Poetry portal

• Poetry
• List of poetry awards
• List of years in poetry

Notes

1. ^ ^{a b} Gnarowsky, Michael, "Poetry in English, 1918-1960", article in The Canadian Encyclopedia, retrieved February 8, 2009
2. ^ ^{a b} Gustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books
3. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v} Das, Sisir Kumar, "A Chronology of Literary Events / 1911–1956", in Das, Sisir Kumar and various, History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956: struggle for freedom: triumph and tragedy, Volume 2, 1995, published by Sahitya Akademi, ISBN 9788172017989, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008
4. ^ ^{a b} [ "A. R. D. Fairburn" article] in The Encyclopedia of New Zealand, 1966 website, accessed April 21, 2008
5. ^ [1]Joffe, Lawrence, "Nissim Ezekiel: Gifted poet nurturing English-language verse in India", obituary, The Guardian, March 9, 2004, accessed October 16, 2007
6. ^ ^{a b c d} Burt, Daniel S., The Chronology of American Literature, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, ISBN 9780618168217, retrieved via Google Books, February 14, 2009
7. ^ Everett, Nicholas, "Robert Creeley's Life and Career" at the Modern American Poetry website, accessed May 1, 2008
8. ^ Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, editors, The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, W. W. Norton & Company, 1973, ISBN 0393093573
9. ^ ^{a b c d} Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press ("If the title page is one year later than the copyright date, we used the latter since publishers frequently postdate books published near the end of the calendar year." — from the Preface, p vi)
10. ^ Web page titled "Wallace Stevens (1879 - 1955)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved April 9, 2009. Archived 2009-05-04.
11. ^ Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "Australian Poetry" article, Anthologies section, p 108
12. ^ ^{a b c d e f} Bree, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983
13. ^ ^{a b c} Auster, Paul, editor, The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets, New York: Random House, 1982 ISBN 0394521978
14. ^ Crotty, Patrick, Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology, Belfast, The Blackstaff Press Ltd., 1995, ISBN 0856405612
15. ^ "Scotch Literature Festival 2003: Myron Lysenko". Scotch College, Melbourne. http://library.scotch.vic.edu.au/litfest03/authors/lysenko.htm. Retrieved 2007-05-24. 
16. ^ "Jenkins, Wendy". AustLit Database. http://www.austlit.edu.au/run?ex=ShowAgent&agentId=A(bS. Retrieved 2007-05-24.