Overview of the events of 1924 in poetry
Overview of the events of 1924 in poetry
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Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- February 8 – Lisel Mueller (died 2020), American poet
- March 2 – Edgar Bowers (died 2000) American poet
- March 5 – David Ferry (died 2023), American poet and translator
- March 22 – Michael Hamburger (died 2007), British translator, poet, critic, memoirist and academic
- April 2 – Lauris Edmond (died 2000), New Zealand poet
- April 21 – P. Bhaskaran (died 2007), Indian, Malayalam-language poet and film songwriter[16]
- May 3 – Yehuda Amichai יהודה עמיחי (died 2000), Israeli poet and one of the first to write in colloquial Hebrew
- May 7 – Marjorie Boulton (died 2017), English poet and literary critic writing also in Esperanto
- May 12 – Claribel Alegría (died 2018), Nicaraguan novelist, poet and writer in Nicaragua and El Salvador
- June 7 – Edward Field, American poet and author
- June 29
- July 19 – Vassar Miller (died 1998), American poet
- August 22 – Ada Jafri (died 2015), Urdu poet
- August 28 – Janet Frame (died 2004) New Zealand poet, writer and novelist
- September 28 – James Berry (died 2017), Jamaican-born poet
- October 9 – Jane Cooper (died 2007), American poet
- October 20 – Robert Peters (died 2014), American poet, critic, scholar, playwright and editor
- October 29 – Zbigniew Herbert (died 1998), Polish poet, essayist, moralist and member of the Polish resistance during World War II; perhaps the most famous and most translated of Polish writers
- November 25 – Takaaki Yoshimoto 吉本隆明, also known as "Ryūmei Yoshimoto" (died 2012), Japanese poet, literary critic and philosopher; father of the writer Banana Yoshimoto and cartoonist Haruno Yoiko (surname: Yoshimoto)
- November 28 – Dennis Brutus (died 2009), South African poet and anti-Apartheid activist,[17] imprisoned in the cell next to Nelson Mandela's on Robben Island from 1963 to 1965;[18] earns the Lifetime Honorary Award by the South African Department of Arts and Culture for lifelong dedication to African and world poetry and literary arts[19]
- December 20 – Friederike Mayröcker (died 2021), Austrian poet
- December 21 – Alphonse Allain (died 2022), French Norman language poet
- December 24 – Nissim Ezekiel (died 2004), Indian poet, playwright and art critic writing in English.
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Deaths
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 16 – Kumaran Asan, 50 (born 1873), Indian, Malayalam-language poet[16]
- May 4 – Edith Nesbit, 65 (born 1858), English author and poet whose children's works were published under the name "E. Nesbit"
- July 19 – Kingsley Fairbridge, 39 (born 1885), South African editor of a poetry anthology and humanitarian
- August 25 – Velma Caldwell Melville, 66 (born 1858), American editor and writer
- December 8 – Bochō Yamamura 山村 暮鳥, 40 (born 1884), Japanese vagabond Christian preacher who gained attention as a writer of tales and songs for children and as a poet (surname: Bochō)
- December 15 – William Herbert Carruth, 65 (born 1859), American poet
- December 23 – Thomas William Hodgson Crosland, 59? (born 1865?), English poet