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Events
Works published
- John Berryman, Poems
- Earle Birney , David and Other Poems
- Walter De la Mare, Collected Poems
- T. S. Eliot, "Little Gidding", published in New English Weekly
- John Heath-Stubbs, Wounded Thammuz
- Patrick Kavanagh, The Great Hunger
- Alun Lewis, Raiders' Dawn, on a soldier's life in the World War II
- Erik Lindegren, Manen utan väg ("The Man Without a Way"), Sweden
- Leslie Norris, Tongue of Beauty
- Henry Reed, "The Naming of Parts", published in the New Statesman
Awards and honors
Births
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- Gladys Cardiff, American poet and academic
- Mahmoud Darwish, Palestinian poet and prose writer
- Stuart Dybek, American poet and author
- Mark DeFoe
- Douglas Eaglesham Dunn
- Jennifer Footman
- Marilyn Hacker, American poet, critic, and reviewer
- David Henderson, poet associated with the Umbra workshop and Black Arts Movement
- Pat Mora, female Mexican-American author and poet
- Arthur Nortje, South African poet (died 1970)
- Henry Taylor
- Jakob van Hoddis (born 1887), German
Deaths
- February 2 — Daniil Kharms, 36, early Soviet-era surrealist and absurdist poet, writer, dramatist, and founder of OBERIU poetry school, probably of starvation in his cell at a Leningrad asylum, after his arrest
- March 28 — Miguel Hernández, Spanish poet
- April 24 — Lucy Maud Montgomery, known as "L.M. Montgomery", a Canadian poet and author best known for a series of novels beginning with Anne of Green Gables
- May 26 — Libero Bovio, Italian poet in the Neapolitan dialect
- March 28 — Miguel Hernández, 31, Spanish poet, from tuberculosis in harsh conditions during his imprisonment in Spain
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See also
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