1930 in poetry

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Events

* Frost Medal inaugurated by the Poetry Society of America
* John Masefield becomes Poet Laureate
* British poet Basil Bunting, in Europe, contacts American poet Louis Zukofsky in New York City on the recommendation of Ezra Pound; Bunting and Zukofsky will become friends and members of the Objectivist poets group.

Works published

* Richard Aldington, editor, "Imagist Anthology"
* W. H. Auden, "Poems", his first published book (accepted by T. S. Eliot on behalf of Faber & Faber, which remained Auden's publisher for the rest of his life)
* Samuel Beckett, "Whoroscope"
* Basil Bunting, "Redimiculum Matellarum", his first book of poems, published in Milan.
* Hart Crane, "The Bridge"
* T. S. Eliot - "Ash Wednesday"
* William Empson, "Seven Types of Ambiguity", a book of criticism
* 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)
* "I'll Take My Stand" a collection of essays considered the manifesto of the Southern Agrarians school of poetry and literature
* Q. Pope, editor, "Kowhai Gold", anthologyPreminger, 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]

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 Carmen, and George Edward Woodberry

Births

* January 23 — Derek Walcott, native of St. Lucia, poet, playwright, writer and visual artist who writes in English
* February 28 — Bruce Dawe, Australian poet
* March 26 — Gregory Corso (died 2001), American
* May 8 — Gary Snyder, American poet, essayist, lecturer, and environmental activist
* May 11 — Edward Brathwaite, Barbadian writer, poet and dramatist
* May 12 — Mazisi Kunene (died 2006), South African poet
* August 17 — Ted Hughes (died 1998), English poet and children's writer
* September 25 — Shel Silverstein (died 1999), American writer of children's verse
* November 16 — Chinua Achebe, Nigerian writer and poet
* date not known:
** Adonis or "Adunis", pen name of Ali Ahmad Said Asbar, Syrian-born poet and essayist who has made his career largely in Lebanon and France and who writes in Arabic
** Adolph Endler, German [Hofmann, Michael, editor, "Twentieth-Century German Poetry: An Anthology", Macmillan/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006]
** Roy Fisher
** Jon Silkin (died 1997), British poet.
** Anthony Thwaite, British poet and writer married to the writer Ann Thwaite

Deaths

* March 2 — D. H. Lawrence, novelist and poet, from tuberculosis
* April 21 — Robert Bridges, Poet Laureate
* Date not known — Maria Polydouri, Greek

Notes

ee also

*Poetry
* List of poetry awards
* List of years in poetry