1927 in poetry

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Events

* T. S. Eliot enters the Church of England and assumes British citizenship

Works published

* 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"
* Ezra Pound, "Exile"
* 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"

Popular literature

*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

Children's poetry

*A.A. Milne, "Now We are Six

Awards and honors

* Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Leonora Speyer, "Fiddler's Farewell"

Births

* 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
* October 16 — Gunter Grass, German author and poet
* October 20 — Oskar Pastior (died 2006), Romanian-born German poet and translator
* 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.

Deaths

* 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

ee also

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