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1948 in poetry

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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:

=[[Canadian poetry|Canada]]=

  • Earle Birney, The Strait of Anian. Toronto: Ryerson Press."[http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/birney/pub.htm Earle Birney: Published Works]", Canadian Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 3, 2011.
  • Roy Daniels, Deeper into the ForestGustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books
  • Robert Finch, The Strength of the Hills
  • A. M. Klein, The Rocking Chair and Other Poems. Governor General's Award 1948.
  • Irving Layton, Now Is The Place: Stories and Poems. Montreal: First Statement Press."[http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/layton/pub.htm Irving Layton: Publications] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110714042105/http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/layton/pub.htm |date=2011-07-14 }}", Canadian Poetry Online, Web, May 7, 2011.
  • Douglas Le Pan, The Wounded Prince
  • L. A. MacKay, The Ill-Tempered Lover
  • A. J. M. Smith, editor, The Book of Canadian Poetry, anthology (see also editions of 1943, 1957)
  • Arthur Stringer, New York Nocturnes. Toronto: Ryerson.

=[[Indian poetry|India]], [[Indian poetry in English|in English]]=

  • Bimal Chandra Bose, Gandhi-Gita ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co.Vinayak Krishna Gokak, [https://books.google.com/books?id=WLE8GVsAfEMC The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828–1965), p 319], New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), {{ISBN|81-260-1196-3}}, retrieved August 6, 2010
  • Gurdial Mallik, Hound of the Heart ( Poetry in English ), Bombay: Naranda Publications
  • Dilip Kumar Roy, Eyes of Light ( Poetry in English ), Bombay: Nalanda PublicationsAmrita Paresh Patel, [https://books.google.com/books?id=7fsLY0b5aJAC "24. Selected Poems of Dilip Kumar Roy: A Study"], p 267, in Indian English Poetry: Critical Perspectives, edited by Jaydipsinh Dodiya, 2000, Delhi: Prabhat Kumar Sharma for Sarup & Sons, {{ISBN|81-7625-111-9}}, retrieved via Google Books on July 17, 2010; and Vinayak Krishna Gokak, [ The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828–1965), p 319, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), {{ISBN|81-260-1196-3}}, retrieved August 6, 2010
  • Nanikram Vasanmal Thadani, He Walked Alone ( Poetry in English ), Delhi: Bharat Publishing HouseVinayak Krishna Gokak, [https://books.google.com/books?id=WLE8GVsAfEMC The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828–1965), p 316], New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), {{ISBN|81-260-1196-3}}, retrieved August 6, 2010

=[[English poetry|United Kingdom]]=

=[[American poetry|United States]]=

  • W. H. Auden, "In Praise of Limestone", a poem published in Horizon in July (written in May), later published in a collection in 1951 (native English poet living in the United States)
  • John Berryman, The DispossessedLudwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press ("If the title page is one year later than the copyright date, we used the latter since publishers frequently postdate books published near the end of the calendar year." — from the Preface, p vi)
  • Richard Ellmann, Yeats, The Man And The Mask, United States, biography
  • William Everson, The Residual Years, New DirectionsRichard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, editors, The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, W. W. Norton & Company, 1973, {{ISBN|0-393-09357-3}}
  • Langston Hughes, One-Way Ticket, Alfred A. Knopf
  • Randall Jarrell, Losses
  • Robinson Jeffers, The Double Axe and Other Poems, largely critical of U.S. policy, the book came with an extremely unconventional note from Random House that the views expressed by Jeffers were not those of the publisher; several influential literary critics disapproved of the book, with particularly scathing pieces penned by Yvor Winters and Kenneth Rexroth, who had previously commented favorably on Jeffers' work
  • Archibald MacLeish, Actfive and Other Poems
  • William Meredith, Ships and Other Figures
  • Ezra Pound:
  • The Pisan Cantos
  • The Cantos of Ezra Pound
  • Theodore Roethke, The Lost Son and Other Poems
  • Muriel Rukeyser, The Green Wave
  • May Sarton, The Lion and the Rose
  • Wallace Stevens, A Primitive Like an Orb, Publisher: Gotham Book MartWeb page titled [http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=6576 "Wallace Stevens (1879 - 1955)"] at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved April 9, 2009. 2009-05-04.
  • Winfield Townley Scott, Mr. Whittier
  • Mark Van Doren, New Poems
  • Peter Viereck, Terror and Decorum
  • William Carlos Williams:
  • Paterson, Book II
  • Clouds, Aigeltinger, Russia

=Other in English=

  • James K. Baxter, Blow, Wind of Fruitfulness, New Zealand
  • V. N. Bhusan, The Far Ascent, Bombay: Padma Pub.; India, Indian poetry in EnglishNaik, M. K., [https://books.google.com/books?id=FcH2MUnlQjQC Perspectives on Indian poetry in English], p. 230, (published by Abhinav Publications, 1984, {{ISBN|0-391-03286-0}}, {{ISBN|978-0-391-03286-6}}), retrieved via Google Books, June 12, 2009
  • Charles Brasch: Disputed Ground: Poems 1939-45, Christchurch: Caxton Press, New Zealand[http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/subjects/nzp/nzlit2/brasch.htm Web page titled "Charles Brasch: New Zealand Literature File"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060928202053/http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/subjects/nzp/nzlit2/brasch.htm |date=September 28, 2006 }} at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, 2008
  • Robert Farren, The Course of Irish Verse in English, Irish criticism published in the United Kingdom
  • Derek Walcott, 25 Poems

Works published in other languages

Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:

=[[French poetry|France]]=

  • Louis Aragon, Le Nouveau Creve-CoeurAuster, Paul, editor, The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets, New York: Random House, 1982 {{ISBN|0-394-52197-8}}
  • André Breton, Poemes
  • Aimé Césaire, Soleil cou coupé;Rees, William, The Penguin book of French poetry: 1820–1950, p 810, Penguin, 1992, {{ISBN|978-0-14-042385-3}} Paris: K
  • René Char, Fureur et mystere
  • Paul Éluard, Corps mémorable
  • Henri Michaux, La Vie dans les plis ("Life in the Folds")
  • Saint-John Perse, Anabase, revised edition (first edition 1924)Web page titled [http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1960/perse-bibl.html "Saint-John Perse: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1960: Bibliography"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090221144323/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1960/perse-bibl.html |date=2009-02-21 }} at the Nobel Prize Website, retrieved July 20, 2009
  • Jacques Prévert, Histoires
  • Francis Ponge, Proêmes
  • Raymond Queneau:
  • L'Instant fatal
  • Saint-GlinglinBrée, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983
  • Georges Schéhadé, Hosties noires

=India=

In each section, listed in alphabetical order by first name:

==[[Bengali poetry|Bengali]]==

==[[Kannada poetry|Kannada]]==

==Other languages on the Indian subcontinent==

=Other languages=

  • García Baena, Mientras cantan los pájaros ("While Birds Sing"), SpainDebicki, Andrew P., [https://archive.org/details/spanishpoetryoft0000debi Spanish Poetry of the Twentieth Century: Modernity and Beyond], University Press of Kentucky, 1995, {{ISBN|978-0-8131-0835-3}}, retrieved via Google Books, November 21, 2009
  • Aimé Césaire, Soleil cou coupé, Martinique author published in France
  • Peter Huchel, Gedichte (Poems), East Germany
  • Bohumil Hrabal, Ztracená ulička ("A Lost Alley"), Czechoslovakia
  • Henryk Jasiczek, Rozmowy z ciszą ("Conversations with Silence"), Poland
  • Olga Kirsch, Mure van die Hart, Afrikaans, South Africa
  • Paul la Cour, Fragmenter af en Dagbog ("Fragments of a Diary"), Denmark"Danish Poetry" article, p 272, in Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
  • Alexander Mezhirov, Kommunisty, vpered!, "Communists, Ahead!" poem reprinted in his second collection, New Encounters, and in many volumes, anthologies and samplers; Russia, Soviet UnionShrayer, Maxim, [https://books.google.com/books?id=8a392rarhCsC&pg=PA879 "Aleksandr Mezhirov"], p 879, An Anthology of Jewish-Russian Literature: Two Centuries of Dual Identity in Prose and Poetry, publisher: M.E. Sharpe, 2007, {{ISBN|0-7656-0521-X}}, {{ISBN|978-0-7656-0521-4}}, retrieved via Google Books on May 27, 2009
  • Eugenio Montale, La fiera letteraria poetry criticism; Italy
  • Nizar Qabbani, Childhood of a Breast, Syrian poet writing in Arabic
  • Ole Wivel, I Fiskens Tegn ("In the Sign of the Fish"), Denmark"Danish Poetry" article, p 273, in Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications

Awards and honors

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Births

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Deaths

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  • January 2 – Vicente Huidobro (born 1893), Chilean poet
  • February 1 – Jatindramohan Bagchi (born 1878), Bengali poet
  • May 22 – Claude McKay (born 1889), Jamaican-born American writer, humanist, Communist and part of the Harlem Renaissance
  • March 14 – Senge Motomaro 千家元麿 (born 1888), Taishō and Shōwa period Japanese poet (surname: Senge)
  • June 17 – Changampuzha Krishna Pillai (born 1911), Indian, Malayalam-language poet and translatorPaniker, Ayyappa, [https://books.google.com/books?id=m1R2Pa3f7r0C&dq=%22Balijepalli+Lakshmikantham%22&pg=PA411 "Modern Malayalam Literature"] chapter in George, K. M., editor, ' 'Modern Indian Literature, an Anthology' ', pp 231–255, published by Sahitya Akademi, 1992, retrieved January 10, 2009
  • August 25 – Gordon Bottomley (born 1874), English poet, known for his verse dramas
  • August 31 – Andrei Zhdanov, 52 (born 1896), Soviet government official and persecutor of poets, writers and artists; until the late 1950s, Zhdanovism, defined cultural production in the Soviet Union; reducing permissible culture to a straightforward, scientific chart, where a given symbol corresponded to a simple moral value; Zhdanov and his associates further sought to eliminate foreign influence from Soviet art, proclaiming that "incorrect art" was an ideological diversionStites, Richard. Soviet Popular Culture. Cambridge University Press: 1992. 117.
  • December 13 – Michael Roberts, 46 (born 1902), English poet, writer, critic and broadcaster and teacher

See also

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