1930 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

List of years in poetry (table)
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Events

• Samuel Minturn Peck becomes first Poet Laureate of Alabama, a title created for him.

Works published

Canada

• Alfred Bailey, Tao: A Ryerson Poetry Chap Book, (Ryerson).[1]
• Wilson MacDonald, Caw-Caw Ballads Montclair, NJ: Pine Tree Publishing.[2]
• E. J. Pratt:
  • The Roosevelt and the Antinoe, Toronto: Macmillan.
  • Verses of the Sea, Toronto: Macmillan. intr. by Charles G.D. Roberts.
• W. W. E. Ross, Laconics.[3]

United Kingdom

• Richard Aldington, editor, Imagist Anthology
• An Anthology of War Poems, compiled by Frederick Brereton
• W. H. Auden, Poems, his first published book (accepted by T. S. Eliot on behalf of Faber & Faber, which remains Auden's publisher for the rest of his life); English poet living and publishing in the United States
• Samuel Beckett, Whoroscope, his first separately published work;[4] Irish poet published in France
• Julian Bell, Winter Movement
• Hilaire Belloc, New Canterbury Tales, illustrated by Nicholas Bentley[4]
• Edmund Blunden, The Poems of Edmund Blunden[4]
• Roy Campbell, a South African native published in the United Kingdom:
  • Adamastor[4]
  • Poems
• Basil Bunting, Redimiculum Matellarum, his first book of poems, published in Milan.
• Catherine Carswell, The Life of Robert Burns, biography
• Elizabeth Daryush, Verses
• T. S. Eliot:
  • Ash Wednesday
  • Marina[4]
  • Translator (and writer of the introduction), Anabasis, translation from the original French of Saint-John Perse's Anabase 1924; London: Faber[5]
• William Empson, Seven Types of Ambiguity, a book of criticism
• Stella Gibbons, The Mountain Beast, and Other Poems[4]
• Gerard Manley Hopkins, Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins, edited by Charles Williams (see also Poems 1918)[4]
• D. H. Lawrence (both posthumous[4]):
  • Nettles[4]
  • The Triumph of the Machine[4]
• Hugh MacDiarmid, pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve, To Circumjack Cencrastus; or, The Curly Snake, written and published in English and Scots[4]
• 'Æ', pen name of George William Russell, Enchantment, and Other Poems[4]
• Edith Sitwell, Collected Poems[4]
• Stephen Spender, Twenty Poems[4]
• Katharine Tynan, Collected Poems
• Humbert Wolfe, The Uncelestial City[4]
• D. B. Wyndham-Lewis and Charles Lee, compilers, The Stuffed Owl: an anthology of bad verse

United States

• W. H. Auden, Poems[6]
• Hart Crane, The Bridge[6]
• Babette Deutsch, Fire for the Night[6]
• Richard Eberhart, A Bravery of Earth[6]
• Robert Frost, Collected Poems[6]
• Horace Gregory, Chelsea Rooming House[6]
• Stanley J. Kunitz, Intellectual Things[6]
• William Ellery Leonard, This Midland City[6]
• Archibald MacLeish, New Found Land[6]
• Edgar Lee Masters, Leechee Nuts[6]
• Ezra Pound, A Draft of XXX Cantos,[6] American poet writing in Europe
• Lizette Woodworth Reese, White April[6]
• Edward Arlington Robinson, The Glory of the Nightingales[6]
• Allen Tate, Three Poems[6]
• Sara Teasdale, Stars To-night[6]
• Yvor Winters, The Proof[6]

Other in English

• Samuel Beckett, Whoroscope, Irish writer published in the United Kingdom
• Una Marson, Tropic Reveries, the first "noted" collection of poems by a West Indian woman[7]
• Brian O'Nolan, "Ad Astra", in Blackrock College Annual, Irish writer (his first published work)
• Quentin Pope, editor, Kowhai Gold, anthology of New Zealand poetry (published in London & New York)[8]

Works published in other languages

France

• René Char, Ralentir travaux[9]
• Paul Claudel, Le Soulier de satin, France[10]
• Michel Deguy, French academic, essayist, translator and poet[11]
• Robert Desnos, Corps et biens: poemes 1919–1929[11]
• Léon-Paul Fargue, Sous la lampe[11]
• Henri Michaux, Un Certain Plume ("A Person Called Plume"), in which the character Plume, a symbolic, alienated underdog, first appears[12]
• Pierre Reverdy, Pierres blanches[11]
• Jules Supervielle, Le Forçat innocent[11]

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:

• Ananta Pattanayak, Raktasikha, Oriya-language[13]
• Dimbeshwar Neog, Indradhanu, Assamese-language[13]
• Kazi Nazrul Islam, translator, Rubaiyat-i-Haphij, translated from the Persian quartrians of the poet Shiraji Hafiz into Bengali[13]
• Laxmi Prasad Devkota, Muna Madan, मुनामदन, Nepali
• Maraimalai Atikal, Manikkavacakar Varalarum Kalamum, a two-volume study of Manikkavacakar, a saint-poet of the Saivaite sect, in Tamil; criticism[13]
• Mathuranatha Shastri, adaptor, Sahitya-Vaibhava, various Hindi poems translated into Sanskrit and adapted[13]
• T. P. Meenakshisundaram, Valluvarum Makalirum, on the concept of womanhood in the works of ancient Tamil poets; scholarship[13]
• Yatindranath Sengupta, Marumaya, Bengali[13]

Spanish language

• Enrique Bustamante y Ballivián, Junin, Peru[14]
• León de Greiff, Libro de signos, precedido de Los pingüinos peripatéticos; seguido de Fantasías de nubes al viento (Segundo Mamotreto), Columbia
• Federico García Lorca, Poeta en Nueva York written this year, published posthumously in 1940, first translation into English as "A Poet in New York", 1988)
• León Felipe, Veersos y oraciones del caminante ("Verses and Prayers of the Walker"), second volume (first volume, 1920); Spain[15]
• Luis Fabio Xammar, Pensativamente, Peru[16]

Other

• Gonzalve Desaulniers, Les bois qui chantent; French language;, Canada[17]
• Jens August Schade, Hjertebogen ("The Heart Book"), Denmark[18]
• J. Slauerhoff, Serenade, Dutch

Awards and honors

• John Masefield becomes Poet Laureate of the UK.
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Conrad Aiken: Selected Poems
• Frost Medal: Jessie Rittenhouse and (posthumously) to Bliss Carman, and George Edward Woodberry

Births

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

• January 1
  • Adunis or "Adonis" (Ali Ahmad Said Esber), Syrian-born Arabic poet and essayist who makes his career largely in Lebanon and France
  • Jean-Pierre Duprey (died 1959), French poet and sculptor
• January 5 – Jesús Rosas Marcano, Venezuelan poet (d. 2001)
• January 23 – Derek Walcott (died 2017), Caribbean St. Lucian-born English-language poet, playwright, writer and visual artist
• February 15 – Bruce Dawe (died 2020), Australian poet
• March – Alvin Aubert (died 2014), African American poet and scholar
• March 21 – Roger-Arnould Rivière (suicide 1959), French poet
• March 26 – Gregory Corso (died 2001), American poet
• April 8 – Miller Williams, American poet, translator and editor
• May 3 – Juan Gelman (died 2014), Argentine poet
• May 8 – Gary Snyder, American poet, essayist, lecturer and environmental activist
• May 11 – Kamau Brathwaite (died 2020), Caribbean native of Barbados, writer, poet, dramatist and academic
• May 12 – Mazisi Kunene (died 2006), South African poet
• May 23 – Friedrich Achleitner (died 2019), Austrian architect and poet
• June 9 – Roberto Fernández Retamar (died 2019), Cuban poet and literary critic
• June 11 – Roy Fisher (died 2017), English poet and jazz pianist
• June 23 – Anthony Thwaite, English poet and writer married to the writer Ann Thwaite
• August 17 – Ted Hughes (died 1998), English poet and children's writer, Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1984
• September 25 – Shel Silverstein (died 1999), American writer of children's verse
• October 10 – Harold Pinter (died 2008), English playwright, poet, actor, theatre director, screenwriter, human rights activist, winner of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature
• October 24 – Elaine Feinstein (died 2019), English poet, novelist, short-story writer, playwright, biographer and translator
• November 16 – Chinua Achebe (died 2013), Nigerian writer and poet
• November 20 – Bai Hua (died 2019), Chinese poet, dramatist and novelist
• December 2 – Jon Silkin (died 1997), English poet
• December 27 – Attoor Ravi Varma (died 2019), Indian Malayalam poet and translator
• Also:
  • Tony Connor, English poet and playwright
  • Adolph Endler, German[19]

Deaths

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

• March 2 – D. H. Lawrence (born 1885), English author, poet, playwright, essayist and literary critic, from tuberculosis
• April 10 – Alfred Williams (born 1877), English "hammerman poet"
• April 14 – Vladimir Mayakovsky (born 1893), Russian poet, committed suicide
• April 21 – Robert Bridges (born 1844), English Poet Laureate
• April 29 – Maria Polydouri (born 1902), Greek poet, from tuberculosis

See also

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

Notes

1. "Biographical Sketch," Dr. Alfred Goldsworthy Bailey fonds, Lib.UNB.ca, Web, Jan. 5, 2009.
2. Search results: Wilson MacDonald, Open Library, Web, May 10, 2011.
3. Gustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books
4. Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
5. Web page titled "Saint-John Perse: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1960: Bibliography" Archived 2009-07-24 at WebCite at the Nobel Prize Website, retrieved July 20, 2009
6. Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
7. "Selected Timeline of Anglophone Caribbean Poetry" in Williams, Emily Allen, Anglophone Caribbean Poetry, 1970–2001: An Annotated Bibliography, page xvii, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002, ISBN 978-0-313-31747-7, retrieved via Google Books, February 7, 2009
8. Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "New Zealand Poetry" article, "Anthologies" section, p 837
9. Brée, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983
10. Hartley, Anthony, editor, The Penguin Book of French Verse: 4: The Twentieth Century, Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1967
11. Auster, Paul, editor, The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets, New York: Random House, 1982 ISBN 0-394-52197-8
12. Classe, Olive, editor, Encyclopedia of literary translation into English, "Henri Michaux" article, p 945, Volume 2, publisher: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000, retrieved via Google Books, August 10, 2009
13. Das, Sisir Kumar and various, History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956: struggle for freedom: triumph and tragedy, Volume 2, 1995, published by Sahitya Akademi, ISBN 978-81-7201-798-9, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008
14. Fitts, Dudley, editor, Anthology of Contemporary Latin-American Poetry/Antología de la Poesía Americana Contemporánea Norfolk, Conn., New Directions, (also London: The Falcoln Press, but this book was "Printed in U.S.A.), 1947, p 595
15. Debicki, Andrew P., Spanish Poetry of the Twentieth Century: Modernity and Beyond, University Press of Kentucky, 1995, ISBN 978-0-8131-0835-3, retrieved via Google Books, November 21, 2009
16. Fitts, Dudley, editor, Anthology of Contemporary Latin-American Poetry/Antología de la Poesía Americana Contemporánea Norfolk, Conn., New Directions, (also London: The Falcoln Press, but this book was "Printed in U.S.A.), 1947, p 649
17. Story, Noah, The Oxford Companion to Canadian History and Literature, "Poetry in French" article, pp 651-654, Oxford University Press, 1967
18. "Danish Poetry" article, p 272, in Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
19. Hofmann, Michael, ed. (2006). Twentieth-Century German Poetry: An Anthology. Macmillan/Farrar, Straus and Giroux.