1927 in poetry

Events

• June 29 – T. S. Eliot enters the Church of England; in November he takes British citizenship.
• July 7 – James Joyce's collection Pomes Penyeach is published by Shakespeare and Company in Paris.
• August – T. S. Eliot's poem Journey of the Magi is published in Faber and Gwyer's Ariel poems series (London) illustrated by E. McKnight Kauffer.

Works published

[[Canadian poetry|Canada]]

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

[[Indian poetry|India]] [[Indian poetry in English|in English]]

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

[[Irish poetry|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

[[English poetry|United Kingdom]]

• G. K. Chesterton, Collected Poems
• Joe Corrie, The Image o' God and Other Poems, Scottish poet
• W. H. Davies, A Poet's Calendar
• T. S. Eliot
  • Journey of the Magi
  • "Salutation" (later to become part II of Ash Wednesday, published in 1930) is published in December in Saturday Review of Literature; 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
• Robert Graves, Poems 1914–26
• Teresa Hooley, Songs of All Seasons
• Violet Jacob, The Northern Lights and other poems, Scottish poet
• A. A. Milne, Now We are Six
• William Plomer, Notes for Poems
• Edith Sitwell, Rustic Elegies
• Osbert Sitwell, England Reclaimed
• Iris Tree, The Traveller and other Poems
• Humbert Wolfe
  • Cursory Rhymes
  • Requiem
• 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

[[American poetry|United States]]

• Sherwood Anderson, A New Testament
• Countee Cullen, Copper Sun
• Donald Davidson, The Tall Men
• Langston Hughes, Fine Clothes to the Jew
• Robinson Jeffers, The Women at Point Sur
• James Weldon Johnson:
  • God's Trombones
  • God's Promises
• Amy Lowell, Ballads for Sale
• 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, presented fictionally as a collection of vers libre poems typed by a former-poet-turned-cockroach who jumps on the keys of a typewriter
• Alice Dunbar Nelson, Caroling Dusk - a collection of African-American poets
• 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

[[French poetry|France]]

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

[[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:

[[Bengali poetry|Bengali]]

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

Other Indian languages

• Bhai Vir Singh, Bijalian De Har, short poems, mostly lyrical and didactic, Punjabi
• 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
• Yaganab Changezi and Mirza Yas (writing under the pen name "Husain"), Ayat-i Vijdani, Urdu
• Keshavlal Dhruv, ed., Pandarma Shatakna Prachin Gurjar Kavyo, compilation of 15th-century Gujarati poems
• Ratnahas, Harishchandrakhyan, translated by Keshavlal Dhruv

Spanish language

[[Peruvian poetry|Peru]]

• Carlos Oquendo de Amat, 5 metros de poemas ("5 Meters of Poems")

[[Spanish poetry|Spain]]

• Rafael Alberti, El alba del alheli (1925–1926) ("The Dawn of the Wallflower")
• 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"])
• Federico García Lorca, Canciones ("Songs")
• Miguel de Unamuno, Romancero del destierro ("Ballads of Exile")

Other languages

• Chen Xiaocui, Cuilou Yincao, China
• Vladislav Khodasevich, European Night, Russian poet published in Germany
• Hendrik Marsman, Paradise Regained, Netherlands

Awards and honors

• Newdigate Prize: G. E. Trevelyan, Julia, Daughter of Claudius (first female winner)
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Leonora Speyer, Fiddler's Farewell

Births

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

• January 8 – Charles Tomlinson (died 2015), English poet, translator, academic and artist
• February 1 – Galway Kinnell (died 2014), American poet
• February 16 – Pearse Hutchinson (died 2012), Scottish-born Irish poet, broadcaster and translator
• April 7 – Giampiero Neri, born Giampietro Pontiggia (died 2023), Italian poet
• April 8
  • Judson Jerome (died 1991), American poet
  • Phyllis Webb, Canadian poet and radio broadcaster
• April 12 – Don Coles (died 2017), Canadian poet
• June 7 – Martin Carter (died 1997), Guyanese poet
• June 8 – George Lamming (died 2022), Barbadian poet
• June 20 – Simin Behbahani (died 2014), Persian poet
• June 26 – Robert Kroetsch (died 2011), Canadian poet and novelist
• July 9 – David Diop (died 1960), French Senegalese poet
• July 22 – John Tripp (died 1986), Anglo-Welsh poet in whose memory the annual John Tripp Spoken Poetry Award is presented
• July 28 – John Ashbery (died 2017), American poet, chancellor of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
• August 6 – Richard Murphy, Irish-born poet
• August 7 – Larry Eigner (died 1996), American poet, early in his career associated with the Black Mountain poets; later recognized as precursor to other poetic movements, e.g., Language poetry
• August 15 – Patrick Galvin (died 2011), Irish poet and dramatist
• September 7 – Molly Holden (died 1981), English poet
• September 20 – Elisabet Hermodsson (died 2017), Swedish poet and artist
• September 30 – W. S. Merwin (died 2019), American poet, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
• October 16 – Günter Grass (died 2015), German author and poet, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
• 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

Deaths

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

• January 4 – Süleyman Nazif, سلیمان نظیف (born 1870), Turkish poet and politician, pneumonia
• April 6 – Florence Earle Coates (born 1850), American poet, dies in Hahnemann Hospital, Philadelphia
• June 9 – Adolfo León Gómez (born 1857), Colombian poet
• July 5 – Lesbia Harford (born 1892), Australian poet
• July 7 – Charles Mair (born 1838), Canadian poet
• September 14 – Hugo Ball (born 1886), German Dada author and poet
• September 15 – Herman Gorter (born 1864), Dutch poet and socialist
• October 8 – Ricardo Güiraldes (born 1886), Argentine-born novelist and poet
• October 26 – Yagi Jūkichi, 八木重吉 (born 1898), Japanese poet (surname: Yagi)

Notes

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