Overview of the events of 1923 in poetry
Overview of the events of 1923 in poetry
And miles to go before I sleep.
—From Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", first published this year in his collection New Hampshire
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Works published in other languages
Indian subcontinent
Including all of the British colonies that later became India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Listed alphabetically by first name, regardless of surname:
- Bahar-e-Gulshan-e-Kashmir, anthology of traditional Kashmiri poetry, mostly the vatsans and ghazals of Mahmood Gami[7]
- Pendyalu Venkatasubrahmanya Shastri, critical account of the Mahabharata and its interpretation (second edition published in 1933), Telugu-language criticism[7]
- Penumarti Venkataratnam, Sandhya ragamu, romantic poems; a well-known work in the field of Telugu poetry[7]
Other in India
- Seemab Akbarabadi, Naistaan, Urdu
- Bharati, Kuyil Pattu-Kannan Pattu-Parata Arupattaru, consists of three works, including Kuyil Pattu, written in 1912, a long narrative poem of 741 lines, written in the traditional Kalivenpa meter, called "a landmark in the field of modern Tamil poetry" by Sisir Kumar Das; Parati Arupattaru, 66-verse autobiographical work[7]
- Chandra Kanta Agarwala, Binbaragi, 12 important poems about the past glory of Assam, ancient Assamese ballads strongly influenced the poems; Assamese language[7]
- G. Sankara Kurup, Sahitya Kantukam, lyrical Malayalam poems modelled on those of Vallathol Narayana Menon, with original themes, context and diction; the author later published three other volumes with the same title[7]
- Godavarish Mishra, Kisalaya, Oriya-language[7]
- Imam Baksh Nasikh, Divan-i Nasikh, two volumes, Urdu[7]
- Jhaverchand Meghani, Veninan Phool (Gujarati-language)[20]
- Kumaran Asan, Karuna, based on the Buddhist legend of Vasavadatta and Upagupta; the author's last poem and an extremely popular one; celebrates compassion (karuna), Malayalam language[7]
- Mahananda Sapkota, Manalahari, Nepali language[7]
- Manishankar Bhatt "Kant", Purvalap, a work with a conspicuous romantic mood and classical diction, considered a landmark of Gujarati poetry, according to Sisir Kumar Das; published on the day the poet died[7]
- Nagardas Amarjee Pandya, Rukmini-Harana, epic Sanskrit mahakavya on a mythological theme[7]
- Puran Singh, Khulle Maidan, blank verse, Punjabi language[7]
- Sarasvatibhai Bhide, editor, Abhinavakavyamala, Volume 5, Marathi-language anthology of modern women poets[7]
- Sukumar Ray, Abol Tabol ("literally, "weird and random"), nonsense verse, Sisir Kumar Das has called it "one of the landmarks in the history of Bengali literature for children"[7]
- Yatindranath Sengupta, Maricika, known for their innovative rhythm and imagery in Bengali poetry, very different from the followers of Rabindranath Tagore[7]
Other languages
- Otto Gelsted, Reklameskibet ("The Show Boat"), Denmark[22]
- Enrique González Rojo, Sr., El puerto y otros poemas, Mexico
- Sir Muhammad Iqbal, Payam-i-Mashriq (Message from the East), philosophical poetry in Persian
- Vladislav Khodasevich, Heavy Lyre, Russian poet published in Germany
- Hendrik Marsman, Verzen, Netherlands
- Vladimir Mayakovsky, About That, Soviet Russia
- Pablo Neruda, Crepusculario ("Book of Twilights"), Chile
- Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus, Austria
- J. Slauerhoff, Archipel ("Archipelago"), Netherlands
- David Vogel, Lifney Hasha'ar Ha'afel ("Before the Dark Gate"), Hebrew language, published in Vienna, the only book of poems published in the author's lifetime[23]
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 9 – David Holbrook (died 2011), English poet, novelist and academic
- January 13 – Pinkie Gordon Lane (died 2008), African American poet[24]
- January 15 – Ivor Cutler (died 2006), Scottish poet, songwriter and humorist
- January 16 – Anthony Hecht (died 2004), American poet
- January 23 – John Logan (died 1987), American poet
- February 2 – James Dickey (died 1997), American poet and novelist
- February 4 – Cola Franzen (died 2018), American translator
- February 12 – Alan Dugan (died 2003), American poet
- March 18 – Ryūichi Tamura 田村隆 (died 1998), Japanese Shōwa period poet, essayist and translator of English-language novels and poetry
- March 21 – Nizar Qabbani (died 1998), Syrian diplomat, poet and publisher
- March 27 – Louis Simpson (died 2012), Jamaican-born American poet, winner of the 1964 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
- March 30 – Milton Acorn (died 1986), Canadian poet, writer and playwright nicknamed "The People's Poet"
- April 3
- May 21 – Dorothy Hewett (died 2002), Australian feminist poet, playwright and novelist
- June 24 – Yves Bonnefoy (died 2002), French poet
- June 29 – Pablo García Baena (died 2018), Spanish poet
- July 2 – Wisława Szymborska (died 2012), Polish poet, essayist and translator, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1996
- July 16 – Mari Evans (died 2017), African-American poet, author, playwright, academic and television producer
- September 13 – Miroslav Holub (died 1998), Czech poet and immunologist
- September 22 – Dannie Abse (died 2014), Welsh poet and writer
- October 9 – Haim Gouri (died 2018), Israeli poet in Hebrew, novelist and documentary filmmaker
- October 24 – Denise Levertov (died 1997), English-born American poet
- November 9 – James Schuyler (died 1991), American poet and a central figure in the New York School
- November 22 – Tu An (蒋壁厚, Jiǎng Bìhoù; died 2017), Chinese poet and translator
- December 21 – Richard Hugo, born Richard Hogan (died 1982), American poet
- December 20 – Aco Šopov (died 1982) Macedonian poet
- Also – Nanao Sakaki (died 2008), Japanese poet and leading personality of "The Tribe" (Buzoko), a counter-cultural group (surname: Sakaki)
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 9 – Katherine Mansfield, 34 (born 1888), New Zealand-born poet and prominent Modernist writer of short fiction
- May – J. Brynach Davies (Brynach), c.50 (born 1873), Welsh poet and journalist
- June 15 – Maurice Hewlett, 62 (born 1861), English historical novelist, poet and essayist
- August 10 – Laura Redden Searing, 84 (born 1839), deaf American poet and journalist
- September 10 – Sukumar Ray, 35 (born 1887), Bengali humorous poet, short-story writer and playwright
- October 12 – John Cadvan Davies (Cadfan), 77 (born 1846), Welsh poet and hymn-writer
- December 15 – Frank Morton, 53 (born 1869), English-born Australian poet and journalist
- December 18 – Edna Dean Proctor, 94 (born 1829), American poet; occasional author of short sketches and stories
