Overview of the events of 1954 in poetry
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Overview of the events of 1954 in poetry
Works published in English
Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:
- Daryl Hine, Five Poems[3]
- Irving Layton, In the Midst of My Fever. Palma de Mallorca, Spain: Divers Press.[4]
- Irving Layton, The Long Pea-Shooter. Montreal: Laocoon Press.[4][5]
- Jay Macpherson, O Earth Return[3]
- P. K. Page, The Metal and the Flower, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, Canada[6]
- Raymond Souster, A Dream That Is Dying. Toronto: Contact Press[7]
- Raymond Souster, Walking Death. Toronto: Contact Press.[7]
- F. R. Scott, Events and Signals. Toronto: Ryerson Press.[8]
- A. J. M. Smith, A Sort of Ecstasy; Michigan State College Press / Ryerson Press.
- Sri Aurobindo:
- R. de L. Furtado, The Centre, Hamilton, Ontario: Cromlech Press; Indian author published in Canada[11]
- Nizamat Jung, Poems (Poetry in English), edited and published by Zahir Ahmed in Hyderabad[12]
- Prithwi Singh Nahar, The Wind of Silence (Poetry in English), songs, sonnets and other poems; Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram[13]
- C. Raju, This Modern Age, foreword by Amarnath Jha[11]
- K. S. R. Sastry, A Vision of India, Madras: Raja Power Press[14]
- W. H. Auden, The Shield of Achilles, English poet living in the United States at this time
- Sir John Betjeman, A Few Late Chrysanthemums
- George Mackay Brown, The Storm, Scotland
- Thom Gunn, Fighting Terms, Fantasy Press
- John Heath-Stubbs, A Charm Against the Toothace
- Philip Larkin, The Less Deceived
- David Raikes (posthumous), The Poems of David Raikes
Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom
- P. Cruttwell, The Shakespearean Moment, criticism, United Kingdom[15]
- G. Hartmann, The Unmediated Vision, criticism, United Kingdom[15]
- W. K. Wimsatt Jr., The Verbal Icon, criticism, United Kingdom[15]
- Jon Silkin, The Peaceable Kingdom, including "Death of a Son (who died in a mental hospital aged one)"
- Dylan Thomas, Quite Early One Morning, New Directions Publishers
- Léonie Adams, Poems[16]
- W. H. Auden, The Shield of Achilles, English poet living in the United States at this time
- Louise Bogan, Collected Poems, 1923–1953[16]
- E. E. Cummings, Poems, 1923–1954[16]
- Babette Deutsch, Animal, Vegetable, Mineral[16]
- Anthony Hecht, A Summoning of Stones[16]
- Daniel G. Hoffman, An Armada of Thirty Wales[16]
- Robinson Jeffers, Hungerfield and Other Poems[16]
- Weldon Kees, Poems 1947–1954[16]
- Archibald MacLeish, Songs for Eve[16]
- W. S. Merwin, The Dancing Bears, New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press (reprinted as part of The First Four Books of Poems, 1975)[17]
- Edna St. Vincent Millay, Mine the Harvest[16]
- Marianne Moore, The Fables of La Fontaine[16]
- Howard Moss, The Toy Fair[16]
- Kenneth Patchen, The Famous Boating Party[16]
- May Swenson, Another Animal[16]
- Wallace Stevens, The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens, includes "The Rock," previously unpublished section including "The Poem That Took the Place of a Mountain," "A Quiet Normal Life," "Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour," "The Rock," "The Planet on the Table," and "Not Ideas about the Thing but the Thing Itself"), Knopf[18]
- E. B. White, The Second Tree from the Corner[16]
- William Carlos Williams, The Desert Music and Other Poems
Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States
Other
Works published in other languages
French language
In each section, listed in alphabetical order by first name:
- Girija Kumar Mathur, Dhup ke dhan[24]
- Namvar Singh, Chayavad, literary criticism that offers a radically new interpretation of the romantic movement in Hindi poetry; shows the social foundations of Hindi romanticism and its ties to the progressive movement that followed it[24]
- Premchand, Sahitya Ka Uddesya, literary essays; published posthumously[24]
- P. K. Paramesvaran Nair, Adhunika Sahitya Caritram, history of Malayalam literature (later translated into English and published by Sahitya Akademi in 1967 under the title History of Malayalam Literature)[24]
- P. Kunjiraman Nair, Kaliyacchan, poems reflecting traditional ways of life in Kerala[24]
- Sreedhara Menon, Kunnimenikal[24]
- Sukumar Azhikode, Asante Sitakavyam, critical assessment of Kumaran Asan's Cintavishtayaya[24]
- Gian Chand Jain, Urdu ki nasri dastanen, literary criticism on classical Urdu fiction ("dastan"), written in that language[24]
- Jigar Brelvi, Payam-i Savitri, a narrative poem on Savitri, a figure from Hindu mythology; Urdu[24]
- Masood Husain Khan, Urdu zaban aur adab, critical study on the Urdu language and literature[24]
Other languages of the Indian subcontinent
- Baldev Gajra, also known as "Gumnam", Gumnam Sada, nationalist poems; Sindhi[24]
- Buddhadeb Basu, Sahitya Carca, essays on various literary topics; Bengali[24]
- Jayant Pathak, Marmar, the author's first poetry collection; Gujarati[24]
- M. Gopalakrishna Adiga, Cendemaddale, Kannada[24]
- Mohan Singh, Awazan, lyrics with a "romantic progressive ideology", according to Indian academic Sisir Kumar Das; Punjabi[24]
- Nand Lal Ambardar, Loel Ta Husun, including "Roopavat", Kashmiri[24]
- Nirendranath Chakraborty (also transliterated into English as Nirendranath Chakravarti, ), Nilnirjan (also transliterated into English as Nirendranath Chakravarti), mostly love poems, although one or two have political elements,[24] Kolkata: Signet Press; Bengali-language[25]
- Raghunath Singh Samyal, Dogra Desa Te Dogari Boli, Dogri poetry praising Dograland, Dogra people and the Dogri language[24]
- Tulasibahadur Chetri, nicknamed "Apatan", Samkalpa ("Resolve"), Nepali[24]
- Madhunapantula Satyanarayanashastri, also spelled "Madhunapantula Satyanarayana Sastri", Andhra Puranamu, Telugu, (surname: Madhunapantula)[24]
- Manoj Das, Padadvani, Oriya[24]
- Satramdas, also known as "Sail", Rama Katha, 32 cantos in a Persian meter, written in the wake of the partition of India in 1947; Sindhi[24]
- Visvanatha Satyanarayana, Nannayagari prasanna Katha Kalitartha Yukti, critical appraisal of Nannaya; Telugu[24]
Other languages
- Simin Behbahani, Ja-ye Pa ("Footprint"), Persia
- José Santos Chocano, Obras completas, pról. de Luis Alberto Sánchez Madrid, Aguilar, Peruvian poetry published in Spain[26]
- Haim Gouri, Shirei Hotam ("Poems of the Seal"), Israeli writing in Hebrew[27]
- Sorley MacLean, Hallaig, Scottish Gaelic (in Gairm 8)[28]
- Pier Paolo Pasolini, La meglio gioventù, Friulian language published in Italy
- Maria Luisa Spaziani, Le acque del sabato, Italy
- Wisława Szymborska, Pytania zadawane sobie ("Questioning Yourself"), Poland
- Tin Ujević, Žedan kamen na studencu ("Thirsty stone at the wellspring"), Croatian
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- February 9 – Ian Duhig, English poet
- February 13 – Vijay Seshadri, Indian poet, essayist and literary critic who emigrates to the United States c. 1959
- February 21 – Francisco X. Alarcón (died 2016), Mexican-American poet
- February 27 – Thylias Moss, African-American poet, writer and playwright
- March 4 – Irina Ratushinskaya, Russian samizdat poet
- March 26 – Dorothy Porter (died 2008), Australian
- April 17 – Erín Moure, Canadian
- May 5 – Hamid Ismailov, Uzbek writer
- May 25 – Alexei Parshchikov (died 2009), Russian poet, critic and translator who emigrates to the United States in 1991
- July 5 – Kevin Hart, Australian
- July 19 – Jane Eaton Hamilton, Canadian short story writer, poet and photographer
- July 31 – Kim Addonizio, American poet and novelist
- August 6 – Lorna Dee Cervantes, American poet
- August 8 – Yu Jian, China[30]
- August 15 – Mary Jo Salter, American
- October 15 – Peter Bakowski, Australian
- November 10 – Joy Goswami, Indian Bengali poet (a man)
- December 5 – Lynda Hull, American
- December 20 – Sandra Cisneros, American poet and author
- December 27 – David Baker, American
- Also:
- Catherine Anderson (poet), American
- Robert Boates, Canadian
- Brother Resistance, Trinidadian (died 2021)
- Janet Charman, New Zealand
- Imtiaz Dharker, Pakistan-born British
- Cornelius Eady, African American
- David Hallett, Australian
- Sotiris Kakisis, Greek
- Jan Heller Levi, American
- Ahmed Matar, Iraqi poet
- Ibrahim Nasrallah, Jordanian-Palestinian poet and novelist
- Luis J. Rodriguez, American poet, novelist, journalist, critic and columnist
- Stephen Sartarelli, poet and translator
- Deb Westbury (died 2018),[31] Australian
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 1 – Leonard Bacon, 66 (born 1887), American poet
- February 6 – Maxwell Bodenheim, 62 (born 1892), American poet and novelist known as the "King of Greenwich Village Bohemians", murdered
- March 28 – Francis Brett Young, 73 (born 1884), English novelist and poet
- August 3 – Fumiko Nakajo 中城ふみ子, pen name of Noe Fumiko 野江富美子, 32 (born 1922), Japanese tanka poet who dies young after a turbulent life and struggle with breast cancer, as recorded in her poetry (surname: Nakajo)
- August 18 – Samukawa Sokotsu 寒川鼠骨 (born 1875), Japanese, Meiji period haiku poet; Masaoka Shiki's pupil.
- October 22
