Overview of the events of 1927 in poetry
Overview of the events of 1927 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Works published in other languages
- 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:
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]
- Keshavlal Dhruv, ed., Pandarma Shatakna Prachin Gurjar Kavyo, compilation of 15th-century Gujarati poems
- Ratnahas, Harishchandrakhyan, translated by Keshavlal Dhruv
Spanish language
- Rafael Alberti, El alba del alheli (1925–1926) ("The Dawn of the Wallflower")[18]
- 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"])[18]
- Federico García Lorca, Canciones ("Songs")
- Miguel de Unamuno, Romancero del destierro ("Ballads of Exile")[18]
Other languages
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
- 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)