August 3 —
Russian poet
Nikolay Gumilyov's fate is sealed when he is arrested in the
Soviet Union by the
Cheka on charges of being a monarchist; on August 24 the Petrograd Cheka decrees execution of all 61 participants of the "Tagantsev Conspiracy", including Gumilyov. The exact dates and locations of their executions and burials are still unknown. He had divorced
Russian poet
Anna Akhmatova in
1918.
December 31 —
Mexican poet
Manuel Maples Arce distributes the first
Stridentist manifesto, Comprimido estridentista, in the broadsheet Actual n°1 (Mexico City).
Mrs. C. A. Dawson-Scott founds
PEN, an international Association of Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists, in London with
John Galsworthy, who becomes the organisation's first President; first members include
Joseph Conrad,
George Bernard Shaw and
H. G. Wells
Sri Aurobindo, Love and Death, long poem about the triumph of love over death, concerning the Ruru-Priyumvada legend (somewhat like the Greek Orpheus-Eurydice and the Indian Satvitri-Satyavan myths)[2]
Toru Dutt, Life and Letters of Toru Dutt, London, Milford: Oxford University Press, Indian poet, writing in English, published in the
United Kingdom[3]
Maneck B. Pithawalla, A Wedding Feast, Karachi: M. B. Pithawalla[4]* Poets of John Company, Calcutta: Tahcker, Spink and Co., 134 pages; anthology[5]
K. S. R. Sastry, The Epic of Indian Womanhood, Madras: Imperial Trading Co.[6]
Puran Singh, The Sisters of the Spinning Wheel and Other Sikh Poems, London: Dent[6]
Patrick Joseph Hartigan, published under the
pen name "Joseph O'Brien", Around the Boree Log and Other Verses, very popular
Australian book of poetry which went into five editions and 18,000 copies by 1926; widely popularized across eastern Australia by recitations of John Byrne, praised in Ireland and the United States, made into a film in 1925, and 20 poems of the book were set to music in 1933; includes "
Said Hanrahan", from which "We'll all be rooned" became an Australian catch phrase[11]
Including all of the British colonies that later became India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Listed alphabetically by first name, regardless of surname:
Govindagraj, Vagvaijayanti, 160 poems, including love poems and verses on social and mystic topics; with an introduction by
N. C. Kelkar,
Marathi-language[2]
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article (Indian poets listed by first name, when listed alphabetically, whether or not it is a surname):
Ramkrishna Sharma (died
1986),
Indian,
Nepali-language critic, essayist, poet and short-story writer called the father of modern literary criticism in Nepali
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article (Indian poets listed by first name, when listed alphabetically, whether or not it is a surname):
^Joshi, Irene, compiler,
"Poetry Anthologies"Archived 2009-08-30 at the
Wayback Machine, "Poetry Anthologies" section, "University Libraries, University of Washington" website, "Last updated May 8, 1998", retrieved June 16, 2009. 2009-06-19.
^Auster, Paul, editor, The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets, New York: Random House, 1982
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