1947 in poetry

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

Events[]

• February 17 – On the death of Montserrat-born British fantasy fiction writer M. P. Shiel, his supposed title to the Kingdom of Redonda passes to London poet John Gawsworth.
• March – Landfall literary magazine is founded by Charles Brasch and first published by Caxton Press (New Zealand); it becomes that country's oldest literary journal.
• November – Muriel Spark becomes editor of Poetry Review in London from this month's issue.
• Dorothy Parker divorces Alan Campbell for the first time.

Works published in English[]

Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:

Canada[]

• Arthur Bourinot, The Collected Poems of Arthur S. Bourinot (Toronto: Ryerson Press).^[1]
• Paul Hiebert, Sarah Binks, "the sweet songstess of Saskatchewan", [satirical fictional biography of a Prairie poet]
• Archibald Lampman, Selected Poems, edited by Duncan Campbell Scott, published posthumously^[2]
• Dorothy Livesay, Poems for People. Toronto: Ryerson.^[3] Governor General's Award 1947.
• E. J. Pratt:
  • Behind the Log, Toronto: Macmillan.
  • Ten Selected Poems, Toronto: Macmillan.^[4]
• Duncan Campbell Scott, The Circle of Affection, prose and verse^[2]
• Raymond Souster, Go To Sleep, World. Toronto: Ryerson.^[5]
• John Sutherland, editor, Other Canadians: An Anthology of the New Poetry in Canada, 1940-1946 (First Statement Press, 1947), anthology^[6]

India, in English[]

• Harindranath Chattopadhyaya, Freedom Come ( Poetry in English ), Bombay: Nalanda Publications^[7]
• , Rapid Visions ( Poetry in English )^[8]
• , Selected Poems ( Poetry in English ), second edition, revised; Bombay (first edition 1942; third edition, revised 1967)^[8]
• Vinayaka Krishna Gokak, The Song of Life and Other Poems ( Poetry in English ), Bombay: Hind Kitabs^[8]
• , Poems of the Passionate East ( Poetry in English ), Bombay^[9]
• Fredoon Kabraji, editor, This Strange Adventure: An Anthology of Poems in English by Indians 1828-1946, London: New India Pub. Co., 140 pages; Indian poetry published in the United Kingdom^[10]

United Kingdom[]

Title page of The Age of Anxiety (1947); Auden specified the typography for this book.

• Kingsley Amis, ^[11]
• W. H. Auden, The Age of Anxiety (English native living in the United States)
• John Betjeman, edited by W. H. Auden, Slick But Not Streamlined: poems & short pieces
• Cairo poets, edited by Keith Bullen and John Cromer, Salamander: A Miscellany of Poetry (anthology)
• F. W. Harvey, Gloucestershire: A Selection from the Poems of F. W. Harvey (English poet published in Scotland)
• Hamish Henderson, Elegies for the Dead in Cyrenaica (Scottish poet published in England)
• Patrick Kavanagh, A Soul For Sale^[11]
• Philip Larkin, A Girl in Winter^[11]
• Laurie Lee, The Bloom of Candles^[11]
• Louis MacNeice, The Dark Tower
• John Pudney, Low Life^[11]
• Alan Ross, The Derelict Day^[11]
• Stephen Spender, Poems of Dedication^[11]
• Terence Tiller, Unarm, Eros^[11]
• Henry Treece, The Haunted Garden^[11]

United States[]

• Conrad Aiken, The Kid^[12]
• W. H. Auden, The Age of Anxiety,^[12] English native living in the United States
• R. P. Blackmur, The Good European^[12]
• Cleanth Brooks, The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry
• Witter Bynner, Take Away the Darkness^[12]
• John Ciardi, Other Skies^[12]
• Louis Coxe, The Sea Faring^[12]
• August Derleth, editor, Dark of the Moon: Poems of Fantasy and the Macabre
• Robert Duncan, Heavenly City, Earthly City^[12]
• Richard Eberhart, Burr Oaks,^[12] including "The Fury of Aerial Bombardment"
• Robert Frost, Steeple Bush^[12]
• Jean Garrigue, The Ego and the Centaur^[12]
• Langston Hughes, Fields of Wonder^[12]
• Weldon Kees, The Fall of Magicians^[12] (his second book of poetry)
• Howard Nemerov, The Image of the Law^[12]
• John Frederick Nims, The Iron Pastoral^[12]
• Kenneth Patchen, Panels for the Walls of Heaven^[12]
• Karl Shapiro, Trial of a Poet^[12]
• William Jay Smith, Poems^[12]
• Wallace Stevens, Transport to Summer (includes "The Pure Good of Theory," "A Word With Jose Rodriguez-Feo," "Description without Place," "The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm," "Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction," and "Esthetique du Mal"), Knopf^[13]
• Richard Wilbur, The Beautiful Changes and Other Poems, New York: Reynal and Hitchcock
• Louis Zukofsky begins writing Bottom: on Shakespeare, a long work of literary philosophy

Other in English[]

• Victor Daley, Creeve Roe, posthumously published, Australia
• Donagh MacDonagh, The Hungry Grass, Faber and Faber, Ireland
• Shaw Neilson, Unpublished Poems, edited by James Devaney, Angus and Robertson, Australia

Works published in other languages[]

Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:

France[]

• Guillaume Apollinaire, pen name of Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky, Ombre de mon amour, publisher: P. Cailler Vesenaz (revised edition entitled Poèmes a Lou, 1955), posthumously published (died 1918)^[14]
• Antonin Artaud:
  • Artaud le momo Paris: Bordas^[15]
  • Ce-git, précédé de la culture indienne, Paris: K Editeur^[15]
• André Breton, Ode a Charles Fourier^[16]
• Jean Cayrol:
  • Je vivrai l'amour des autres^[17]
  • On vous parle, winner of the Prix Renaudot^[17]
• Blaise Cendrars, pen name of Frédéric Louis Sauser, a Swiss novelist and poet naturalized as a French citizen in 1916; all of his poetry (which he stopped writing in 1924) was published this year in these two volumes:
  • Du monde entier^[16]
  • Au coeur du monde^[16]
• Aimé Césaire, Cahier d'un retour au pays natal, expanded edition in book format, Martinique writer
• Jean Follain, Exister^[16]
• Eugène Guillevic, Exécutoire, poems written during the German occupation of France^[17]
• Pierre Jean Jouve:
  • Hymne^[16]
  • Requiem, Lausanne, Switzerland: Mermod, French author published in Switzerland^[18]
• Marie Noël, Chants et psaumes d'automne^[17]
• Henri Pichette, Apoèmes^[17]
• Raymond Queneau, Exercices de style^[17]

Indian subcontinent[]

Including India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Listed alphabetically by first name, regardless of surname:

Hindi[]

• , Kavi ki Chavi^[19]
• Kedarnath Agarwal:
  • Nind Ke Badal, written in the language of common people by a notable poet of the Pragativadi movement^[19]
  • Yug Ki Ganga, poems in the Pragativadi tradition^[19]
• , epic based on Krishna legends from the Mahabharata, , and , with contemporary elements; written in 1942 but published this year^[19]
• , Kavya Darpan, comparing Indian and Western poetics; literary criticism^[19]
• , Samadheni^[19]
• Sumitranandan Pant:
  • Svarn dhuli, a translation of Swami Vivekanand's Song of the Sanyasin into Hindi is included under the title Sanyasi Ke Git^[19]
  • Svarna Kiran^[19]

Marathi[]

• B. B. Borkar, Dudhasagar^[19]
• B. S. Mardhekar, Kahi Kavita^[19]
• Shanta Shelke, Varsa^[19]
• , Rudravina^[19]

Oriya[]

• Kalindi Charan Panigrahi, romantic poems by one of the earliest modern poets in Indian literature^[19]
• :
  • Kamalavana, long, romantic poem^[19]
  • Jibanacita, Oriya^[19]
• , Pancajanya^[19]
• , Pandulipi, poems written in free verse^[19]

Other languages of the Indian subcontinent[]

• , Kavitaiyum Valkkaiyum, literary criticism written in Tamil^[19]
• , Sabrang, poems, some allegorical, some satiric, expressing dissatisfaction with traditional society; Urdu^[19]
• Amrita Pritam, Lamian Vatan, mostly lyrical poems on romantic love, Punjabi^[19]
• Bishnu Dey:
  • Purbalekh, Bengali^[19]
  • , Sandiper, Bengali^[19]
• , Asama; Assamese-language
• , Banhi. Aparna, her first book of poetry; Assamese-language^[19]
• , Vira Gulaba, modern ballad on the heroism and skillfulness of Gulab Singh (later Maharaja Gulab Singh of Jammu and Kashmir), in the battle of Jammu against Sikh invaders; Dogri^[19]
• , Sain Qutub Sah, biography written in Sindhi of the Sufi poet , who wrote in that language^[19]
• Joseph Mundasseri, Rupabhadrata, literary criticism which found fault with the Marxist school of literary criticism; the debate caused by the book resulted in a split in the progressive literary movement; Malayalam^[19]
• , Azadinan Geeto; Gujarati^[20]
• , Dipadamalli, Kannada^[19]
• Kaifi Azmi, pen name of , Akhir-i Shab, Urdu^[19]
• , Kobar-git, marriage songs, Maithili^[19]
• Manohar Sharma, Aravali Ki Atma, includes nature poems such as "Aravali", "Jharano" and "Tiba", Rajasthani^[19]
• , also known as "", Karnana Muru Citragulu, literary criticism written in the Kannada language, studying the character of Karna as portrayed in three epics, Mahabharata, Pampa Bharata, and ^[19]
• , Kannikkoyttu, Malayalam^[19]

Other languages[]

• Thorkild Bjørnvig, Stærnen bag Gavlen ("The Star Behind the Gable"), Denmark^[21]
• Nazik Al-Malaika, Cholera, Arabic-language book published in ^[22]
• Alexander Mezhirov, Дорога далеко ("The Road is Long"), edited by , the author's first published book, Moscow^[23]
• Giorgos Seferis, Κίχλη ("The Thrush"), Greek
• Shinoe Shōda, Sange ("Penitence"), tanka anthology about the atomic bombing of Japan, secretly published in defiance of censorship^[24]
• Màrius Torres (died 1942), Poesies, Catalan Spanish poet published in Mexico

Awards and honors[]

• Frost Medal: Gustav Davidson
• Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (later the post would be called "Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress"): Robert Lowell appointed this year.
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Robert Lowell, Lord Weary's Castle
• Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Ridgely Torrence
• Canada: Governor General's Award, poetry or drama: Poems for People, Dorothy Livesay^[25]
• Australia: Grace Leven Prize for Poetry: Pacific Sea, Nan McDonald^[26]

Births[]

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

• January 2
  • Ai, born "Florence Anthony" (died 2010), an American poet who legally changes her name
  • David Shapiro, American poet, literary critic and art historian
• January 18 – Takeshi Kitano 北野 武, Japanese filmmaker, film editor, screenwriter, comedian, actor, author, poet and painter (surname: Kitano)
• February 19 – Bin Ramke, American poet and editor
• April 3 – Srikrishna Alanahalli (died 1989), Indian Kannada novelist and poet
• April 13 – Rae Armantrout, American poet
• April 24 – Astrid Roemer, Suriname-born Dutch poet, novelist and playwright
• March 2 – Michael Schmidt, Mexican-born English poet, academic, founder, editor and managing director of Carcanet Press and founder of PN Review
• March 3 – Clifton Snider, American poet, novelist, literary critic, scholar and educator
• May 6 – Jerry Estrin (died 1993), American poet
• May 12 – Penelope Shuttle, English poet
• May 13 – Sukanta Bhattacharya (died 1947), Bengali poet
• May 16 – Cheryl Clarke, American poet and academic
• May 23 – Jane Kenyon (died 1995), American poet and translator
• May 27 – Felix Dennis (died 2014), English publisher and poet
• June 16 – Ellen Bass, American poet
• July 18 – Dermot Healy (died 2014), Irish novelist and poet
• July 25 – Leslie Scalapino (died 2010), American poet
• August 1 – Lorna Goodison, Jamaican poet
• August 8 – Alurista (nom de plume of Alberto Baltazar Urista Heredia), American Chicano poet and activist
• October 13 – Joe Dolce, Australian poet and musician
• October 20 – Mikirō Sasaki 佐々木幹郎, also known as "Mikio Sasaki", Japanese poet and travel writer (surname: Sasaki)
• October 26 – Trevor Joyce, Irish poet
• November 13 – John Steffler, Canadian poet and novelist
• November 30 – Sergio Badilla Castillo, Chilean poet and dramatist
• December 26 – Liz Lochhead, Scottish poet and dramatist
• Also:
  • Michael Casey, American poet
  • Gloria Frym, American poet, fiction writer and essayist
  • Reginald Gibbons, American poet
  • Nasrollah Mardani (died 2003), Iranian poet
  • Frank Ormsby, Northern Irish poet
  • Molly Peacock, American poet of the New Formalist school and nonfiction writer
  • Rosemary Sullivan, Canadian poet, biographer and anthologist

Deaths[]

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

• April 9 – Desmond FitzGerald (born 1888), Irish revolutionary, poet, publicist and politician
• April 12 – C. Louis Leipoldt (born 1880), South African Afrikaans poet, writer and pediatrician
• April 30 – Anna Wickham (born 1883), English poet (suicide by hanging)
• July 13 – Yone Noguchi 野口米次郎 (born 1875), Japanese poet, fiction writer, essayist and literary critic in both Japanese and English; father of the sculptor Isamu Noguchi
• September 15 – Richard Le Gallienne (born 1866), English poet and writer
• December 19 – Duncan Campbell Scott (born 1862), Canadian poet and writer

See also[]

• Poetry
• List of poetry awards
• List of years in poetry

Notes[]