1927 in poetry

Events

• June 29 - T. S. Eliot enters the Church of England; in November he takes British citizenship.
• July 7 - James Joyce's collection Pomes Penyeach is published by Shakespeare and Company in Paris.
• August - T. S. Eliot's poem Journey of the Magi is published in Faber and Gwyer's Ariel poems series illustrated by E. McKnight Kauffer.

  Works published

Canada">Canadian poetry">Canada

• Alfred Bailey, 'Songs of the Saguenay and other poems.
• Wilson MacDonald, An Ode On The Diamond Jubilee Of Confederation. Toronto: W. MacDonald.
• E. J. Pratt, The Iron Door: An Ode, Toronto: Macmillan.
• Charles G.D. Roberts, The Vagrant of Time''..

  India">Indian poetry">India in English">Indian poetry in English">in English

• Swami Ananda Acharya:
• * Sara and other poems, Roros, Norway: Odegards Trykkeri 106 pages
• * Arctic Swallows
• Harindranath Chattopadhyaya, Collected Plays and Poems, 44 sonnets Madras: printed at Hogarth Press
• Joseph Furtado, A Goan Fiddler
• Peroze P. Meherjee, Poems in Prose, London: Luzac and Co., posthumously published
• Gwendoline Goodwin, editor, An Anthology of Modern Indian Poetry'', London: John Murray; anthology, published in the United Kingdom

  Ireland">Irish poetry">Ireland

• James Joyce, Pomes Penyeach, published in Paris
• W.B. Yeats:
• * October Blast, including "Among School Children", published in the United Kingdom
• * Stories of Red Hanrahan and the Secret Rose, poetry and fiction

  United Kingdom">English poetry">United Kingdom

• G. K. Chesterton, Collected Poems
• Joe Corrie, The Image o' God and Other Poems, Scottish poet
• W. H. Davies, A Poet's Calendar
• T. S. Eliot
• * Journey of the Magi
• * "Salutation" is published in December in Saturday Review of Literature; also published in January 1928 in Eliot's own Criterion magazine
• Gwendoline Goodwin, editor, An Anthology of Modern Indian Poetry, London: John Murray; anthology; Indian poetry in English, published in the United Kingdom
• Robert Graves, Poems 1914-26
• Teresa Hooley, Songs of All Seasons
• Violet Jacob, The Northern Lights and other poems, Scottish poet
• A. A. Milne, Now We are Six
• William Plomer, Notes for Poems
• Edith Sitwell, Rustic Elegies
• Osbert Sitwell, England Reclaimed
• Iris Tree, The Traveller and other Poems
• Humbert Wolfe
• * Cursory Rhymes
• * Requiem
• W.B. Yeats
• * October Blast, including "Among School Children", Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
• * Stories of Red Hanrahan and the Secret Rose, poetry and fiction

  United States">American poetry">United States

• Sherwood Anderson, A New Testament
• Countee Cullen, Copper Sun
• Donald Davidson, The Tall Men
• Langston Hughes, Fine Clothes to the Jew
• Robinson Jeffers, The Women at Point Sur
• James Weldon Johnson:
• * God's Trombones
• * God's Promises
• Amy Lowell, Ballads for Sale
• John Livingston Lowes, The Road to Xanadu, a book on the composition of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Kubla Khan"
• Don Marquis, archy 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
• Alice Dunbar Nelson, Caroling Dusk - a collection of African-American poets
• 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

  Other in English

• Shaw Neilson, New Poems, Sydney, Bookfellow, Australia

  Works published in other languages

France">French poetry">France

• Guillaume Apollinaire, pen name of Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky, Julie; ou, La Rose, posthumously published
• Jean Cocteau, Opéra, Oeuvres poétiques
• Robert Desnos, La liberté ou l'amour!
• Henri Michaux, Qui je fus, Paris: N.R.D.
• Charles Vildrac, Prolongements, France

  Indian">Indian poetry">Indian subcontinent

Bengali">Bengali poetry">Bengali

• Jibanananda Das, Jhara Palak, the author's first book of poems; Bengali
• Mohitlal Majumdar, Bismarani, Bengali
• Yatindranath Sengupta, Marusikha, Bengali

  Other Indian languages

• Bhai Vir Singh, Bijalian De Har, short poems, mostly lyrical and didactic, Punjabi
• Muhammad Iqbal, Zabur-i-Ajam including the poems "Gulshan-i Raz-i Jadid" and "Bandagi Nama", India
• Yaganab Changezi and Mirza Yas, Ayat-i Vijdani, Urdu
• Keshavlal Dhruv, ed., Pandarma Shatakna Prachin Gurjar Kavyo, compilation of 15th-century Gujarati poems
• Ratnahas, Harishchandrakhyan, translated by Keshavlal Dhruv

  Spanish language

Peru">Peruvian poetry">Peru

• Carlos Oquendo de Amat, 5 metros de poemas

  Spain">Spanish poetry">Spain

• Rafael Alberti, El alba del alheli
• Luis Cernuda, Perfil del aire
• Federico García Lorca, Canciones
• Miguel de Unamuno, Romancero del destierro

  Other languages

• Vladislav Khodasevich, European Night, Russian poet published in Germany
• Hendrik Marsman, Paradise Regained, Netherlands

  Awards and honors

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

  Births

• January 8 - Charles Tomlinson, English poet, translator, academic and artist
• February 1 - Galway Kinnell, American poet
• February 16 - Pearse Hutchinson, Scottish-born Irish poet, broadcaster and translator
• April 8
• * Judson Jerome, American poet
• * Phyllis Webb, Canadian poet and radio broadcaster
• April 12 - Don Coles, Canadian poet
• June 7 - Martin Carter, Guyanese poet
• June 20 - Simin Behbahani, Persian poet
• June 26 - Robert Kroetsch, Canadian poet and novelist
• July 9 - David Diop, French Senegalese poet
• July 22 - John Tripp, Anglo-Welsh poet in whose memory the annual John Tripp Spoken Poetry Award is presented
• July 28 - John Ashbery, American poet, chancellor of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
• August 6 - Richard Murphy, Irish-born poet
• August 7 - Larry Eigner, American poet, early in his career associated with the Black Mountain poets; later recognized as precursor to other poetic movements, e.g., Language poetry
• August 15 - Patrick Galvin, Irish poet and dramatist
• September 7 - Molly Holden, English poet
• September 20 - Elisabet Hermodsson, Swedish poet and artist
• September 30 - W. S. Merwin, American poet, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
• October 16 - Günter Grass, German author and poet, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
• October 19 - Edwin Brock, English poet
• October 20 - Oskar Pastior, Romanian-born German poet and translator
• November 20 - Kikuo Takano, Japanese poet and mathematician
• December 3 - James Wright, American poet

  Deaths

• April 6 - Florence Earle Coates, American poet, dies in Hahnemann Hospital, Philadelphia
• June 9 - Adolfo León Gómez, Colombian poet
• July 5 - Lesbia Harford, Australian poet
• July 7 - Charles Mair, Canadian poet
• September 14 - Hugo Ball, German Dada author and poet
• September 15 - Herman Gorter, Dutch poet and socialist
• October 8 - Ricardo Güiraldes, Argentine-born novelist and poet
• October 26 - Yagi Jūkichi, 八木重吉, Japanese poet