1924 in poetry
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Events
- October 10 - Ezra Pound leaves Paris permanently and moves to Rapallo, Italy. He stays there briefly, moving on to Sicily.
- McGill Daily Literary Supplement started at McGill University in Montreal, Canada by A. J. M. Smith, F. R. Scott, Leon Edel, and later joined by A. M. Klein and . The periodical, which publishes poems and articles on contemporary trends, is the first in Canada to offer consistent commentary on modernist principles in poetry and literature.
- Daniel Corkery publishes the study of 18th century Irish poetry, The Hidden Ireland.
Works published
Australia">Australian poetry">Australia
- Arthur Henry Adams, Fifty Nursery Rhymes with Music, Australian
- Edwin James Brady, The Land of the Sun
- C. J. Dennis, Rose of Spadgers
- Kenneth Slessor, Thief of the Moon, Sydney: Hand press of J. T. Kirtley, Australia
India">Indian poetry">India in English">Indian poetry in English">in English
- Sri Aurobindo, Love and Death, Madras: Shama's Publishing House
United Kingdom">English poetry">United Kingdom
- Roy Campbell, The Flaming Terrapin
- T. S. Eliot, Homage to John Dryden
- From Overseas, verse from the British colonies; the first published anthology to include Caribbean poetry, with works by nine Jamaican poets included
- Aldous Huxley, Little Mexican, and Other Stories
- John Masefield, Sard Harker
- Susan Miles, The Hares
- A. A. Milne, When We Were Very Young, for children
- Edith Sitwell, The Sleeping Beauty
- A. H. Stockwell, editor, Eastern Dreams: a Selection of Verse, London; anthology; Indian poetry in English, published in the United Kingdom
- Humbert Wolfe, Kensington Gardens
- W. B. Yeats, The Cat and the Moon, and Certain Poems, drama and verse, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
United States">American poetry">United States
- Hilda Conkling, Silverhorn
- Hilda Doolittle, Heliodora and Other Poems
- William Faulkner, The Marble Faun
- Robinson Jeffers, Tamar and Other Poems
- William Ellery Leonard, Tutankhamen and After
- Archibald MacLeish, The Happy Marriage and Other Poems
- Edgar Lee Masters, The New Spoon River
- Marianne Moore, Observations
- James Oppenheim, The Sea
- John Crowe Ransom, Chills and Fever
- Mark Van Doren, Spring Thunder
Other in English
- A. H. Stockwell, editor, Eastern Dreams: a Selection of Verse, London; anthology; Indian poetry in English, published in the United Kingdom
- W. B. Yeats, The Cat and the Moon, and Certain Poems, drama and verse, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
Works published in other languages
France">French poetry">France
- Anthologie des écrivains morts à la guerre
- Robert Desnos, Deuil pour deuil
- Francis Jammes, Livres des quatrains, published each year from 1922 to 1925
- Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo, La coupe de cendres, Malagasy poet writing in French
- Pierre Reverdy, Les Épaves du ciel
- Saint-John Perse, pen name of Marie-René Alexis Saint-Léger:
- * Amitié du prince, Paris: Ronald Davis
- * Anabase, Paris: Gallimard
Other languages
- Delmira Agustini, Obras completas : Volume 1, El rosario de Eros; Volume 2: Los astros del abismo, posthumously published, Montevideo, Uruguay: Máximo García
- Hugo Ball, 7 schizophrene Sonette, German poet in Switzerland
- Villem Grünthal-Ridala, Toomas ja Mai, Estonia
- Sir Muhammad Iqbal, Bang-i-Dara, the first philosophical poetry book the author writes and publishes in Urdu rather than Persian
- Vladimir Mayakovsky, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Soviet Russia
- Gabriela Mistral, Ternura: canciones de niños, Madrid: Saturnino Calleja
- Pablo Neruda, Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada, Chile
Awards and honors
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Robert Frost, New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes
Births
- February 8 - Lisel Mueller, American poet
- March 2 - Edgar Bowers American poet
- March 5 - David Ferry, American poet and translator
- March 22 - Michael Hamburger, British translator, poet, critic, memoirist and academic
- April 2 - Lauris Edmond, New Zealand poet
- April 21 - P. Bhaskaran, Indian, Malayalam-language poet and film songwriter
- May 3 - Yehuda Amichai יהודה עמיחי, Israeli poet and one of the first to write in colloquial Hebrew
- May 7 - Marjorie Boulton, English poet and literary critic writing also in Esperanto
- May 12 - Claribel Alegría, Nicaraguan novelist, poet and writer in Nicaragua and El Salvador
- June 7 - Edward Field, American poet and author
- June 29
- * Cid Corman, American poet, translator and editor
- * John Haines, American poet
- July 19 - Vassar Miller, American poet
- August 22 - Ada Jafri, Urdu poet
- August 28 - Janet Frame New Zealand poet, writer and novelist
- September 28 - James Berry, Jamaican-born poet
- October 9 - Jane Cooper, American poet
- October 20 - Robert Peters, American poet, critic, scholar, playwright and editor
- October 29 - Zbigniew Herbert, Polish poet, essayist, moralist and member of the Polish resistance during World War II; perhaps the most famous and most translated of Polish writers
- November 25 - Takaaki Yoshimoto 吉本隆明, also known as "Ryūmei Yoshimoto", Japanese poet, literary critic and philosopher; father of the writer Banana Yoshimoto and cartoonist Haruno Yoiko
- November 28 - Dennis Brutus, South African poet and anti-Apartheid activist, imprisoned in the cell next to Nelson Mandela's on Robben Island from 1963 to 1965; earns the Lifetime Honorary Award by the South African Department of Arts and Culture for his lifelong dedication to African and world poetry and literary arts
- December 20 - Friederike Mayröcker, Austrian poet
- December 24 - Nissim Ezekiel, Indian poet, playwright and art critic writing in English.
- Also:
- * Elizabeth Bartlett, English poet
- * Matthew Mead, English poet and editor
Deaths
- January 16 - Kumaran Asan, 50, Indian, Malayalam-language poet
- May 4 - Edith Nesbit, 65, English author and poet whose children's works were published under the name "E. Nesbit"
- July 19 - Kingsley Fairbridge, 39, South African editor of a poetry anthology and humanitarian
- August 25 - Velma Caldwell Melville, 66, American editor and writer
- December 8 - Bochō Yamamura 山村 暮鳥, 40, Japanese vagabond Christian preacher who gained attention as a writer of tales and songs for children and as a poet
- December 15 - William Herbert Carruth, 65, American poet
- December 23 - Thomas William Hodgson Crosland, 59?, English poet