1928 in poetry

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Events

• September 21 – The Gorseth Kernow is set up at Boscawen-Un in Cornwall by Henry Jenner ("Gwas Myghal") and others.
• November 6 – Xu Zhimo writes his poem 再別康橋 (simplified Chinese 再别康桥, Zài Bié Kāngqiáo, "On Leaving Cambridge Once More").
• Russian poets Daniil Kharms and Alexander Vvedensky found OBERIU (a Russian acronym for "An Association of Real Art"), an avant-garde grouping of Russian post-Futurist poets in the 1920s-1930s
• American poets Charles Reznikoff, George Oppen and Louis Zukofsky meet in New York City; they will become some of the founders of the Objectivist poets group.
• The clerihew, the comic pseudo-biographical verse form associated with Edmund Clerihew Bentley, is mentioned in print for the first time.^[1]

Works published in English

Canada

• Dorothy Livesay, Green Pitcher. Toronto: Macmillan.^[2]
• Seranus, Later Poems and New Villanelles (Toronto: Ryerson).^[3]
• Arthur Stringer, A Woman At Dusk and Other Poems. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill.

India, in English

• V. N. Bhusan, Silhouettes, Masulpatam: Youth of Asia Society; India, Indian poetry in English^[4]
• Joseph Furtado, A Goan Fiddler^[5]
• Shyam Sunder Lal Chordia, Chitor and Other Poems, Bombay: D. B. Taraporevala Sons and Co.^[6]

United Kingdom

• Rupert Brooke, Collected Poems, see also 1946^[7]
• Roy Campbell, The Wayzgoose, a lampoon, in rhyming couplets, on the cultural shortcomings of South Africa; South African native published in the United Kingdom, and at this time living there^[7]
• W. H. Davies, Collected Poems^[7]
• T. S. Eliot:
  • "Perch' Io non Spero" (later to become part I of Ash-Wednesday, published in 1930) was published in the Spring, 1928 issue of Commerce along with a French translation.^[8]
  • A Song for Simeon printed in September by Faber & Gwyer as part of its Ariel poems series.^[9]
• H. S. Milford, editor, The Oxford Book of English Verse of the Romantic Period, 1798-1837: 1798-1837, Clarndon Press, anthology^[10]
• Thomas Hardy, Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres, (posthumous)
• D. H. Lawrence, Collected Poems^[7]
• John Masefield, Midsummer Night, and Other Tales in Verse^[7]
• Laura Riding, Love as Love, Death as Death^[7]
• Siegfried Sassoon, The Heart's Journey^[7]
• A. J. A. Symons, An Anthology of 'Nineties' Verse^[7]
• Humbert Wolfe:
  • The Silver Cat, and Other Poems^[7]
• This Blind Rose^[7]
• W.B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom):
  • The Tower, including "Sailing to Byzantium" and "Leda and the Swan", Irish
  • The Death of Synge, and Other Passages from an Old Diary (poetry)^[7]

United States

• W. H. Auden, Poems^[11]
• Stephen Vincent Benét, John Brown's Body^[11]
• E. E. Cummings, Christmas Tree^[11]
• John Gould Fletcher, The Black Rock^[11]
• Robert Frost, West-Running Brook
• Robert Hillyer, The Seventh Hill^[11]
• Robinson Jeffers, Cawdor and Other Poems^[11]
• William Ellery Leonard, A Son of Earth^[11]
• Archibald MacLeish, The Hamlet of A. MacLeish^[11]
• Edgar Lee Masters, Jack Kelso: A Dramatic Poem^[11]
• Joseph Moncure March, "The Wild Party"
• Edna St. Vincent Millay, The Buck in the Snow^[11]
• Dorothy Parker, Sunset Gun^[11]
• Ezra Pound:
  • Selected Poems, edited by T. S. Eliot, London,^[12] American poet living in Europe
  • A Draft of the Cantos 17–27^[11]
• Edward Arlington Robinson, Sonnets, 1889–1927^[11]
• Carl Sandburg, Good Morning, America^[11]
• Allen Tate, Mr. Pope and Other Poems,^[11] including "Ode to the Confederate Dead"
• Amos Wilder, Arachne: poems, Yale University Press
• Elinor Wylie, Trivial Breath^[11]
• Louis Zukofsky completes the original versions of "A" 1, 2, 3 and 4, which have been compared to Pound's Cantos; the fragmentary long poem will be a lifelong project

Other in English

• John Le Gay Brereton, Swags Up, Australia
• Roy Campbell, The Wayzgoose: A South African Satire, South Africa
• W.B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom:
  • The Tower, including "Sailing to Byzantium" and "Leda and the Swan", Irish
  • The Death of Synge, and Other Passages from an Old Diary (poetry)^[7]

Works published in other languages

France

• René Char, Les Cloches sur le coeur^[13]
• Léon-Paul Fargue:
  • Banalité^[14]
  • Vulturne^[14]
• Francis Jammes, Diane^[15]
• Pierre Jean Jouve, Les Noces^[16]
• Alphonse Métérié, Nocturnes^[13]
• Benjamin Péret, Le grand jeu^[14]
• Pierre Reverdy, La Balle au bond^[14]
• Tristan Tzara, pen name of Sami Rosenstock, Indicateur des chemins de coeur^[14]

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:

• Cherian Mappila, also known as "Cheriyan Mappila",^[17] Shri Yesu Vijayam (also spelled "Sriyesuvijayam"),^[17] long poem about the life of Jesus, India, Malayalam language;^[18] a poem on a Christian theme; called the first major contribution to Indian literature by a Christian poet^[17]
• Nalini Bala Devi, Sandhiyar Sur, Assamese^[17]
• Peer Ghulam Mohammad Hanafi, Bagh-O Bahar, tales in verse in the Kashmiri language, derived from Urdu tales^[17]
• Sri Sri, Prabhava, Telugu^[17]
• Vakil Ghulam Ahmad Shah Qureshi, Pani Gulzar, Kashmiri^[17]

Spanish language

Spain

• Vicente Aleixandre, Ambito ("Milieu"), the author's first book of poems^[19]
• Federico García Lorca, Primer romancero gitano ("Gypsy Ballads")
• Jorge Guillén, Cántico, first edition, with 75 poems in five sections (enlarged edition, with 125 poems, 1936)^[19]

Other in Spanish

• Martín Adan, La case de cartón, a novel in verse, Peru^[20]
• José Varallanos, El hombre del Ande que asesinó su esperanza, Peru^[20]

Other languages

• Nérée Beauchemin, Patrie intime; French language;, Canada^[21]
• Aaro Hellaakoski, Jääpeili, Finland
• Stefan George, Das neue Reich ("The New Reich"); German^[22]
• Eugenio Montale, Ossi di seppia ("Cuttlefish Bones"), second edition, with six new poems and an introduction by Alfredo Gargiulo (first published in 1925; third edition, 1931), Lanciano: Carabba; Italy^[23]
• Takahashi Shinkichi, Takahashi Shinkichi shishu ("Poetical Works by Takahashi Shinkichi"), Tokyo: Nanso Shoin, Japan (Surname: Takahashi)^[24]

Awards and honors

• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Edwin Arlington Robinson wins his third Pulitzer Prize for Poetry this decade, this time for Tristram

Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• January 1 – Iain Crichton Smith (died 1998), Scot writing poetry, short stories and novels in both English and Scottish Gaelic
• January 10 – Philip Levine (died 2015), American poet, educator and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
• February 2 – Cynthia Macdonald, American
• February 14 – Bruce Beaver (died 2004). Australian poet
• March 4 – Alan Sillitoe, English poet and writer and one of the "Angry Young Men" of the 1950s
• March 28 – Vayalar Rama Varma (died 1975), Indian, Malayalam-language poet and film songwriter^[18]
• April 4 – Maya Angelou (died 2014), African-American poet
• April 7 – Gael Turnbull (died 2004), Scottish poet
• May 4 – Thomas Kinsella, Irish poet, translator, editor and publisher
• June 27 – Peter Davison (died 2004), American poet, essayist, teacher, lecturer, editor, and publisher
• July 4 – Ted Joans (died 2003) African-American trumpeter, jazz poet and painter
• September 20
  • Alberto de Lacerda (died 2007), Mozambique-born Portuguese poet
  • Donald Hall, American poet and the U.S. Poet Laureate
• September 22 – Irving Feldman, American poet and educator
• September 22 – Édouard Glissant (died 2011), French-Martiniquan poet and writer.^[25]
• November 9 – Anne Sexton (died 1974), American poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1967
• December 10 – Milan Rufus (died 2009), Slovak poet and academic^[26]

• Also:
  • Carol Bergé
  • R. F. Brissenden
  • Don Coles, Canadian
  • William Dickey (poet), American
  • Dave Etter, American
  • Gene Frumkin, American
  • Conrad Hilberry, American
  • Hertha Kraftner (died 1951), German^[27]
  • Lo Fu (poet) (Luo Fu) (pen name of Mo Luofu), Chinese poet, writer and translator^[28]

Deaths

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• January 11 – Thomas Hardy, English novelist and poet
• February 5 – David McKee Wright (born 1869), Irish-born poet and journalist, active in New Zealand and Australia
• February 19 – Ina Coolbrith (born 1841), American poet, writer and librarian
• March 18 – Paul van Ostaijen
• March 24 – Charlotte Mew (born 1869), English poet, from suicide
• May 16 – Edmund Gosse, poet and critic
• July 20 – Kostas Karyotakis, Greek
• August 16 – Antonín Sova
• September 17 – Bokusui Wakayama, 若山 牧水 (born 1885), Japanese "Naturalist" tanka poet
• December 16 – Elinor Wylie, poet and novelist

See also

• Poetry
• List of years in poetry
• New Objectivity in German literature and art
• Oberiu movement in Russian art and poetry

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