1949 in poetry

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Years:	1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952

[edit] Events

Yannis Ritsos, incarcerated in a Greek concentration camp, writes poems which will finally be published in 1975 in the book Petrinos khronos
George Hill Dillon steps down as editor of Poetry Magazine (he took the job in 1937).

Gwendolyn Brooks, Annie Allen
Allen Curnow (New Zealand):
- The Axe, a verse play with a Pacific setting (Caxton)^[1]
- At Dead Low Water and Sonnets (Caxton)^[1]
Hilda Doolittle (H.D.), By Avon River
Basil Dowling, Canterbury, New Zealand^[2]
Haim Gouri, Pirhei Esh ("Flowers of Fire, Years of Fire"), Israeli writing in Hebrew^[3]
Carlos de Oliveira - Descida aos Infernos
Kenneth Rexroth, The Art of Worldly Wisdom
Donald A. Stauffer, The Golden Nightingale: Essays on Some Principles of Poetry in the Lyrics of William Butler Yeats, New York: Macmillan, United States criticism^[4]
William Carlos Williams, Paterson, Book III
Judith Wright, Woman to Man

Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (later the post would be called "Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress"): Elizabeth Bishop appointed this year.
Pulitzer Prize for poetry: Peter Viereck, Terror and Decorum
Bollingen Prize: Ezra Pound — provoking a firestorm of criticism because of his pro-Fascist activities before and during World War II.^[5]

February 6 — Eliot Weinberger, American essayist & principal translator of Octavio Paz in English
March 14 — Lynn Emanuel, American poet
April 13 — Marilyn Bowering, Canadian poet and novelist
May 13 — Christopher Reid, English poet, essayist, cartoonist, writer, and exponent of Martian poetry
June 21:
- John Agard playwright, poet, and children's writer from Guyana, who moved to England in 1977
- Jane Urquhart, Canadian poet and author
July 5 — Pier Giorgio di Cicco Italian-Canadian poet
August 2 — Bei Dao, (北島, literally meaning "Northern Island"), the pseudonym of Chinese poet Zhao Zhenkai, the most notable representative of the Misty Poets, a group of Chinese poets who reacted against the restrictions of the Cultural Revolution
date not known:
- Agha Shahid Ali, English poet (died in 2001)
- Michael Blumenthal (poet)
- David Bottoms
- Olga Broumas Greek-born and raised, English-language poet in the United States
- Ralph Burns (poet)
- Victor Hernandez Cruz
- Alice Major, Canadian poet
- Mary di Michele, Canadian poet and writer
- Bob Orr, New Zealand
- Barbara Ras
- Liam Rector
- David St. John
- Robyn Sarah
- C.D. Wright (Carolyn D. Wright), an American poet

May 6 — Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian poet, playwright and Nobel Laureate
date not known:
- Lilian Bowes-Lyon, English poet
- Alice Corbin Henderson (born 1881), American poet
- William Hervey Allen

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^ ^a ^b Allen Curnow Web page at the New Zealand Book Council website, accessed April 21, 2008
^ Web page titled "Ursula Bethall" in An Encyclopedia of New Zealand, 1966 website, accessed April 21, 2008
^ [1]Web page titled "Haim Gouri" at the Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature Web site, accessed October 6, 2007
^ Untitled review by A. Norman Jeffares, of book in The Review of English Studies, New Series, Vol. 2, No. 7 (Jul., 1951), pp. 291-293
^ Ackroyd, Peter, Ezra Pound, Thames and Hudson Ltd., London, 1980, "Chronology" chapter, p 118