1909 in poetry

Years in poetry:	1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912
Years in literature:	1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912
Decades in poetry:	1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s
Centuries in poetry:	19th century 20th century 21st century
Centuries:	19th century · 20th century · 21st century
Decades:	1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s
Years:	1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912

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Andrew Cecil Bradley, Oxford Lectures on Poetry
Founding of the Poetry Recital Society (now the Poetry Society)
T.E. Hulme leaves the Poets' Club, and starts meeting with F.S. Flint and other poets in a new group which Hulme referred to as the 'Secession Club'; they meet at the Eiffel Tower restaurant in London's Soho district to discuss plans to reform contemporary poetry through free verse and the tanka and haiku and the removal of all unnecessary verbiage from poems. In April, Ezra Pound is introduced to the group and joins it.

Thomas Hardy, Time's Laughingstocks
George Meredith, Last Poems
Ezra Pound, Personae
Robert Service, Ballads of a Cheechako
John Millington Synge, Poems and Translations
The Poets' Club publishes two anthologies: For Christmas MDCCCCVIII (January 1909) and The Book of the Poets' Club (December) including the first examples of Imagist poetry
William Carlos Williams, Poems

February 14 — A.M. Klein (died 1972) Ukrainian-born Canadian poet, essayist and author of short stories
February 28 — Stephen Spender (died 1995), English poet, novelist and essayist who concentrated on themes of social injustice and the class struggle
May 1 — Yannis Ritsos, Greek
May 9 — Robert Garioch (died 1981), a Scots-language poet, translator, and key member in the literary revival of the language in the mid-20th century
July 27 — Charles Brasch (died 1973), a New Zealand poet, literary editor, arts patron and founding editor of the literary journal Landfall
October 12 — Dorothy Livesay (died 1996), Canadian poet
date not known — John Glassco (Canada)