1927 in poetry

Years in poetry:	1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930
Years in literature:	1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930
Decades in poetry:	1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s
Centuries in poetry:	19th century 20th century 21st century
Centuries:	19th century · 20th century · 21st century
Decades:	1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s
Years:	1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930

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G.K. Chesterton, Collected Poems
Robert Desnos, La liberté ou l'amour! (French for "Liberty or Love!")
T.S. Eliot, "The Journey of the Magi"
Federico García Lorca, Canciones (Spanish for "Songs")
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")
James Weldon Johnson, God's Promises
James Joyce, Pomes Penyeach
J.L. Lowes, The Road to Xanadu, a book on the composition of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Kubla Khan"
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)
Charles Vildrac, Prolongements (France)
W.B. Yeats, October Blast, including "Among School Children"

Don Marquis, archie 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

January 8 — Charles Tomlinson, British poet, translator, academic, and artist
February 1 — Galway Kinnell, American poet
April 8 — Phyllis Webb, Canadian poet and radio broadcaster
June 7 — Martin Carter (died 1997), Guyanese poet
July 28 — John Ashbery, American poet, former chancellor of the Academy of American Arts and Letters and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
September 30 — W. S. Merwin, American poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
December 3 — James Wright, (died 1980), American poet
date not known:
- Henry Coulette
- David Diop
- Larry Eigner, American poet associated with the Black Mountain poets
- Richard Murphy, Irish poet and winner of many awards
- John Tripp, Anglo-Welsh poet in whose memory the annual John Tripp Spoken Poetry Award is presented.

July 5 - Lesbia Harford, Australian poet
September 14 - Hugo Ball, 41, German author and poet.
October 8 - Ricardo Güiraldes, Argentine novelist and poet
date not known:
- Adolfo León Gómez, Colombian poet
- Emma Marie Caillard
- Charles Mair, Canadian poet

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