1935 in poetry

Events

• June 3 - Canadian poet Charles G. D. Roberts is knighted.
• June 15
• * W. H. Auden enters a marriage of convenience with Erika Mann.
• * Premiere of T. S. Eliot's verse drama Murder in the Cathedral at Canterbury Cathedral in England.
• George Oppen joins the Communist Party, where his organizing work will increasingly take precedence over his poetry; he writes no more verse until 1958.
• Picasso's poetry begins to be written.
• Tomb of Hafez in Shiraz, Persia, is rebuilt.

  Works published in English

Canada">Canadian poetry">Canada

• Arthur Bourinot, Selected Poems .
• E. J. Pratt, The Titanic, Toronto: Macmillan.
• Kenneth Leslie, Lowlands Low: Poems. Halifax: McCurdy
• Wilson MacDonald, The Song Of The Undertow and Other Poems. Toronto, Buffalo: S.J.R. Saunders, Broadway.
• Wilson MacDonald, Quintrains Of "Callender" and Other Poems. Toronto: S.J.R. Saunders.
• Tom MacInnes, Rhymes of a Rounder, Canada
• Duncan Campbell Scott, The Green Cloister, Canada
• Francis Sherman, The Complete Poems of Francis Sherman. Lorne Pierce ed. Toronto: Ryerson.

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

• Sundhindra Dutt, Orchestra,
• Govind Krishna Chettur, The Shadow of God: A Sonnet Sequence, London: Longmans, published in the United Kingdom
• Nizamat Jung, Islamic Poems, Hyderabad: Government Central Press

  United Kingdom">English poetry">United Kingdom

• George Barker, Poems
• Samuel Beckett, Echo's Bones and Other Precipitates
• Norman Cameron, The Winter House
• Cecil Day-Lewis:
• * Collected Poems 1929-1933
• * A Time to Dance, and Other Poems
• Walter de la Mare, Poems 1919 to 1934
• T. S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral
• Christopher Hassall, Poems of Two Years
• Eiluned Lewis, December Apples
• Louis MacNeice, Poems
• Herbert Read, Poems 1914-34
• James Reeves, The Natural Need
• Siegfried Sassoon, Vigils
• Humbert Wolfe:
• * The Fourth of August, sonnets
• * Stings and Wings
• * X at Oberammergau
• W. B. Yeats, A Full Moon in March, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom

  United States">American poetry">United States

• John Peale Bishop, Minute Particulars
• Robert P. Tristram Coffin, Strange Holiness
• Countee Cullen, The Medea and Some Poems
• E. E. Cummings, No Thanks
• Kenneth Fearing, Poems
• John Gould Fletcher, XXIV Elegies
• Hamlin Garland, Iowa, O Iowa
• Horace Gregory, Chorus for Survival
• Robinson Jeffers, Solstice and Other Poems
• James Weldon Johnson, Selected Poems
• Edgar Lee Masters, Invisible Landscapes
• Marianne Moore, Selected Poems
• John G. Neihardt, The Song of the Messiah
• Edwin Arlington Robinson, King Jasper
• Muriel Rukeyser, Theory of Flight
• Karl Shapiro, Poems
• Wallace Stevens, Ideas of Order, includes "Farewell to Florida", "The Idea of Order at Key West", "Academic Discourse at Havana", "Like Decorations in a Nigger Cemetery", and "A Postcard from the Volcano"), Alcestis Press
• Robert Penn Warren, Thirty-Six Poems
• William Carlos Williams, An Early Martyr and Other Poems

  Other in English

• Allen Curnow :
• *Three Poems
• *Poetry and Language, a brief poetry manifesto
• C. J. Dennis, The Singing Garden, Australia
• W. B. Yeats, A Full Moon in March, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
• Rex Ingamells, Gumtops, Australia

  Works published in other languages

France">French poetry">France

• René Char, Le Marteau sans maitre
• René Daumal, Le Contre-ciel
• Paul Éluard, Facile
• Francis Jammes:
• * Alouette
• * De tout temps à jamais, Paris: Gallimard
• Henri Michaux, La Nuit remue
• Catherine Pozzi, "Ave", "Vale", "Scopolamine", "Nova", "Maya" and "Nyx", published in Mesures

  Indian">Indian poetry">Indian subcontinent

Gujarati">Gujarati poetry">Gujarati

• Balawantrai Thakore, Mharon Sonnet
• Jhaverchand Meghani, Yugavandana
• Jhinabhai Desai Snehrashmi, Arghya, the author's first poetry collection; many of the poems display patriotism and love for the poor
• Kavi Nhanalal, Ketalank Kavyo, Part 3 ; the first part made Nhanalal's reputation as the best Gujarati lyric poet; the collection is known for its metrical innovations, creative power and mix of modern and old folk elements
• Kishorlal Mashruvala, translator, Vidayuelae — Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet from English into Gujarati
• Mansukhlal Jhaveri, Phooldal

  Urdu">Urdu poetry">Urdu

• Akbar Allahabadi, Kulliyat-i Akbar Allahabadi, in four volumes, published from this year through 1939; Indian, Urdu-language
• M. Diyauddin, translator, Kālam-i-Tagore, translated from the Bengali of Rabindranath Tagore, with Tagore involved in the translation, into Urdu
• Muhammad Iqbal, Bal-i Jibrial, alternate spelling: "Bal-i Jibril", includes rubaiyat qitas and ghazals; famous poems in the volume: "Iblees Ki Majlis-e-Shura", "Jibrail-o-Iblis", "Lenin Khuda Ke Hazur main", "Punjab ke Dehqan se" ; "This is regarded as a milestone in Urdu poetry", according to Indian academic Siser Kumar Das; inspired by Iqbal's 1933 visit to Spain

  Other Indian languages

• Bal Krisna Rav, Abhas, Indian, Hindi-language
• Changampuzha Krishna Pillai, Baspanjali, the author's first poetry collection, Malayalam
• Duvvuri Rami Reddi, translator, Panasala — translation of Omar Khayyám's Rubaiyat from Persian into Telugu
• Jayshankar Prasad, Kamayani, said to be the greatest poem of the Chayavadi movement; 15 cantos, each named after an emotion; Hindi
• Mahjoor, "Gristi Kur", Kashmiri poem in the Vatsan form comparing the refreshing traits of peasants as compared with less lively aristocrats; published in the August 1 issue of Hamdard
• Rabindranath Tagore, Ses Saptak, in this and in some of the author's other books in the mid-1930s, he introduced a new rhythm in poetry that "had a tremendous impact on the modern poets", according to Indian academic Sisir Kumar Das; Bengali
• Ulloor Paramesvara Iyer, Dipavali, Malayalam

  Spanish language

Peru">Peruvian poetry">Peru

• Xavier Abril, Difícil trabajo
• Manuel Moreno Jimeno, Los malditos
• Emilio Vasquez, Tawantinsuyo
• Emilio Adolfo von Westphalen, Abolición de la muerte

  Spain">Spanish poetry">Spain

• Vicente Aleixandre:
• * La destrucción o el amor
• * Pasión de la tierra, written 1928-1929
• Germán Bleiberg, El cantar de la noche
• Gabriel Celaya, Marea del silencio
• Federico García Lorca:
• * Llanto por Ignacio Sánchez Mejías
• * Seis poemas galegos
• Luis Rosales, Abril

  Other languages

• Constantine Cavafy, Ποιήματα, Greek
• Bernard Kangro, Sonetid, Estonia
• Kersti Merilaas, Loomingus, Estonia
• Giorgos Seferis, Μυθιστόρημα, Greek

  Awards and honors

• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry - Audrey Wurdemann, Bright Ambush

  Births

• January 14 - Labhshankar Thakar, Indian Gujarati poet, playwright and story writer
• January 16 - Inger Christensen, Danish poet, writer, novelist, essayist and children's book author
• January 18 - Jon Stallworthy, English poet, literary critic and academic
• January 30 - Richard Brautigan, American writer and poet
• January 27 - D. M. Thomas, English novelist, poet, and translator from Cornwall
• February 14 - Grigore Vieru, Moldovan poet writing in Romanian, strong promoter of the Romanian language in Moldova
• March 13 - Kofi Awoonor, Ghanaian poet and author whose work combines the poetic traditions of his native Ewe people and contemporary and religious symbolism to depict Africa during decolonization
• April 4 - Michael Horovitz, German-born English poet, editor and performer
• April 16 - Sarah Kirsch, German
• May 5 - Eddie Linden, British poet
• May 13 - Taku Miki 三木卓 pen name of Tomita Miki, Japanese Shōwa period poet and novelist in the Han poetry circle
• May 14 - Roque Dalton, leftist Salvadoran poet and journalist writing about death, love and politics
• May 25 - Jay Wright, African American poet, playwright and essayist
• May 26 - Michael Benedikt, American poet
• June 1 - Clayton Eshleman, American poet, translator and editor
• June 6 - Joy Kogawa, Canadian poet and novelist
• June 12 - Christoph Meckel, German poet
• June 24 - Taufiq Ismail, Indonesian poet and activist
• July 2 - Nanni Balestrini, Italian experimental poet, author and visual artist of the Neoavanguardia
• July 29 - Pat Lowther, Canadian poet
• August 12 - A. B. Spellman, African American poet, music critic, music historian, arts administrator and author
• August 24 - Rosmarie Waldrop, German-born American poet and translator
• August 25 - Charles Wright, American poet
• September 10 - Mary Oliver, American poet
• September 24 - Robert Kelly, American poet associated with the deep image group
• September 30 - Arturo Corcuera, Peruvian poet
• November 7 - Wahyu Sulaiman Rendra, Indonesian poet, born Willibrordus Surendra Broto Rendra, popularly known as W. S. Rendra and also as "Si Burung Merak" and "The Peacock"
• November 15 - Gustaf Sobin, American expatriate poet and novelist
• December 1 - George Bowering, Canadian novelist, poet, historian and biographer
• December 10 - Shūji Terayama 寺山 修司, Japanese avant-garde poet, playwright, writer, film director and photographer
• December 13 - Adélia Prado, Brazilian poet
• December 25 - Bhupi Sherchan, Nepali poet
• December 27 - Syed Shamsul Haque, Bengali poet, lyricist, playwright and essayist
• December 29 - Yevgeny Rein, Russian poet
• Also
• * Johari M. Amini, African American
• * James Applewhite, American
• * Sam Cornish, African American
• * Russell Edson, American
• * Andrew Hoyem, American typographer, letterpress printer, publisher, poet and preservationist; founder and director of Arion Press in San Francisco
• * Desmond O'Grady, Irish poet and translator; former editor of The Transatlantic Review and organizer of the Spoleto International Poetry Festival
• * David R. Slavitt, American writer and translator
• * Ahmos Zu-Bolton II, African American

  Deaths

• March 26 - Tekkan Yosano 与謝野 鉄幹, pen-name of Yosano Hiroshi, late Meiji period, Taishō and early Shōwa period Japanese author and poet; husband of author Yosano Akiko; grandfather of cabinet minister and politician Kaoru Yosano
• April 6 - Edwin Arlington Robinson, American poet and three-time Pulitzer Prize winner
• July 17 - George William Russell, Anglo-Irish supporter of Irish nationalism, critic, poet, and painter who wrote under the pseudonym Æ, mystical writer, and centre of a group of followers of theosophy
• August 11 - Sir William Watson, English traditionalist poet popular for the political content of his verse
• September 18 - Alice Dunbar Nelson, African American poet, journalist and political activist during the Harlem Renaissance; married to poet Paul Laurence Dunbar
• November 23 - Louise Mack Australian poet, journalist and novelist
• November 30 - Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese poet and writer; cause of death listed as cirrhosis
• December 17 - Lizette Woodworth Reese, American poet