Overview of the events of 1937 in poetry
Overview of the events of 1937 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
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:
- Gangula Sayi Reddi, Kapu bidda, poems on the condition of farmers; Telugu[16]
- Gurram Jashuva, editor, Khanda Kavyamu or Jashuva Khandakavyalu, in seven volumes, published from this year to 1949; anthology of Telagu poetry[16]
- Peer Aziz Ullah Haqqani, Qissa-e-Mumtaz E Benazir, a large masnavi of Romantic mysticism; Telugu; posthumous[16]
- Srirangam arayanababu, Rudhirajyoti, Telugu[16]
- Vedula Satyanarayan Shastri, Dipavali, romantic lyrics, Telugu[16]
- Mehr Lal Soni Zia Fatehabadi Noor-e-Mashriq (The Light of the East) - Collection of nazms, geets and sonnets published by Jyoti Prasad Gupta, Jyoti Printing Works, Esplanade, Delhi in 1937.
Other Indian languages
- Anupa Sharma, Siddharth, a Hindi epic in 18 chapters on the story of Gautama Buddha[16]
- D. R. Bendre, also known as Ambikatanaya Datta, Sakhigita, the title poem is autobiographical; Kannada[16]
- Devandas Kishinani, 'Purab Sandes, Indian, Sindhi-language[16]
- Ghulam Mohammad Hanafi, Jang-e Amir Hamza, a Jangnama, based on an episode in the movement to spread Islam; Kashmiri[16]
- Hijam Anganhal Simha, Singel Indu, a long narrative Meitei poem[16]
- Manjewshwara Govinda Pai, Golgotha, long narrative poem on the final days of Jesus Christ, Kannada[16]
- Riddhinath Jha, Pravasi Mithiles, verses praising the Maharaja of Darbhanga; Maithili[16]
- Siyaramsharan Gupta, Bapu, on Gandhi and his ideology, Hindi[16]
Spanish language
Other in Spanish
Other
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 1:
- January 14 – J. Bernlef, born Hendrik Jan Marsman (died 2012), Dutch poet, novelist and translator
- February 21 – Mervyn Morris, Jamaican poet
- February 27 – Peter Hamm (died 2019), German poet, author, journalist, editor and literary critic
- April 10 – Bella Akhmadulina (died 2010), Russian poet
- April 23 – Coleman Barks, American poet who, although he neither speaks nor reads Persian, is nonetheless renowned as a translator of Rumi and other mystic poets of Persia
- April 30 – Tony Harrison, English poet and playwright
- May 11 – Michael Heller, American poet
- May 21 – Glen Sorestad, Canadian poet
- June 8 – Gillian Clarke, native Welsh, English-language poet, playwright, editor, broadcaster, lecturer and translator (from Welsh)
- June 10 – Susan Howe, American poet and critic closely associated with the Language poets
- July 3 – Milovan Danojlić, Serbian poet and essayist (died 2022)
- July 10 – Kurt Bartsch, German poet[21]
- July 29 – Eleanor Wilner, American poet and editor
- August 3
- September 14 – Douglas Oliver (died 2000), British poet
- October 11 – R. H. W. Dillard, American poet, author, critic and translator
- November 4 – W. Dabney Stuart, American poet
- November 9
- November 11 – Alicia Ostriker, American poet and academic
- November 19 – Meg Campbell (died 2007), New Zealand poet and wife of Alistair Campbell
- December 1 – Eugene B. Redmond, African-American poet
- December 31 – Nicolas Born (died 1979), German poet
- Also:
Deaths
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- March 8 – Albert Verwey (born 1865), Dutch poet
- June 22 – Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo (born 1901?), Malagasy poet writing in French; suicide
- July 6 – Alex McDade (born 1905), Scottish poet and labourer; killed in the Spanish Civil War
- July 18 – Julian Bell (born 1908), English poet, and a member of a family whose notable members include his parents, Clive and Vanessa Bell; his aunt, Virginia Woolf; his younger brother, writer Quentin Bell; and his half-sister, writer and painter Angelica Garnett; killed in the Spanish Civil War
- August 11 – Edith Wharton (born 1862), American novelist, short story writer, designer and poet
- September 8 – Anna Hempstead Branch (born 1875), American poet
- October 22 – Chūya Nakahara 中原 中也 (born 1907), early Shōwa period Japanese poet (surname: Nakahara)
- December 26 – Ivor Gurney (born 1890), English composer and poet; tuberculosis while suffering delusional insanity
- December 29 – Don Marquis (born 1878), American poet, artist, newspaper columnist, humorist, playwright and author best known for creating the characters "Archy" and "Mehitabel"
- Also – Constance Woodrow (born 1899), English-born Canadian poet