title: 1937 in poetry
text: # 1937 in poetry
  
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
  
  ## Events
  
  * February 1 – First broadcast on Sveriges Radio (Sweden) of the continuing programme Dagens dikt ("Poem of the day").
  * Summer – In Nazi Germany, Wolfgang Willrich, a member of the SS, lampoons German expressionist poet Gottfried Benn in his book Säuberung des Kunsttempels; Heinrich Himmler, however, steps in to reprimand Willrich and defends Benn on the grounds of his pro-Nazi record since 1933 (his earlier artistic output being dismissed as irrelevant).
  * Iowa Writers' Workshop is founded by Paul Engle at the University of Iowa
  * George Hill Dillon becomes editor of Poetry Magazine, remaining in that post until 1949.
  * Poems of colonial American pastor Edward Taylor (d. 1729) are first discovered and published.
  * W. B. Yeats concludes his recordings of his own verse and his broadcast lectures on the BBC (begun in 1936).
  
  ## Works published in English
  
  ### Canada
  
  * Wilson MacDonald, Comber Cove. Toronto: S.J.R. Saunders.
  * E. J. Pratt, The Fable of the Goats and Other Poems, Toronto: Macmillan. Governor General's Award 1937.
  
  ### India, in English
  
  * Harindranath Chattopadhyaya, Strange Journey ( Poetry in English ), Madras: Shakti Karyalayam
  * P. R. Kaikini, This Civilization ( Poetry in English ), Bombay: New Book Co.
  * Iqbal Ali Shah, editor, The Coronation Book of Oriental Literature ( Poetry in English ), London: Sampson Low, Marston and Co., 404 pages; anthology; Indian poetry published in the United Kingdom
  
  ### United Kingdom
  
  * W. H. Auden, Spain
  * W. H. Auden and Louis MacNeice, Letters from Iceland, partly poetry
  * George Barker, Calamiterror
  * John Betjeman, Continual Dew: A little book of bourgeois verse, including "The Arrest of Oscar Wilde at the Cadogan Hotel"
  * Edmund Blunden, A Ballad of Titles, An elegy, and other poems and Uneasy Quiet
  * Walter de la Mare, This Year, Next Year, illustrations by Harold Jones, Faber
  * David Jones, In Parenthesis, frontispiece by author, Faber
  * Charles Madge, The Disappearing Castle
  * Edwin Muir, Journeys and Places
  * Enoch Powell, First Poems, Oxford: Blackwell
  * Isaac Rosenberg, Collected Works, foreword by Siegfried Sassoon; posthumously published
  * Iqbal Ali Shah, editor, The Coronation Book of Oriental Literature, London: Sampson Low, Marston and Co., 404 pages; anthology; Indian poetry in English, published in the United Kingdom
  * Stevie Smith, A Good Time Was Had By All
  
  ### United States
  
  * W. H. Auden, with Louis MacNeice, Letters from Iceland
  * R. P. Blackmur, From Jordan's Delight
  * Louise Bogan, the Sleeping Fury
  * Richard Eberhart, Reading the Spirit
  * Robert Hillyer, A Letter to Robert Frost and Others
  * Robinson Jeffers, Such Counsels You Gave to Me
  * Josephine Johnson, Year's End
  * Edna St. Vincent Millay, Conversation at Midnight
  * Ezra Pound, The Fifth Decad of Cantos
  * May Sarton, Encounter in April
  * Dr. Seuss, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, the author's first book; for children
  * Wallace Stevens, The Man with the Blue Guitar, and Other Poems, includes "The Man With the Blue Guitar," "A Thought Revolved," and "The Men That Are Falling", Knopf
  * Allen Tate, Selected Poems
  
  ### Other in English
  
  * Allen Curnow, Enemies: Poems 1934–36 (Caxton), New Zealand
  * Robin Hyde, Wednesday's Children, New Zealand
  * Seaforth Mackenzie, Our Earth, Sydney: Angus and Robertson; Australia
  
  ## Works published in French
  
  ### Canada
  
  * Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau, Regards et jeux dans l'espace
  
  ### France
  
  * Jacques Audiberti, Race des hommes
  * Rene-Guy Cadou, Les Brancardiers de l'aube, the author's first book of poems, published when he was 17 years old
  * Pierre Jean Jouve, Matière celeste
  * Max Jacob, Morceaux choisis
  * Oscar Vladislas de Lubicz-Milosz, also known as O. V. de L. Milosz, Dix-sept Poèmes de Milosz
  * Henri Michaux, Plume, précédé de Lointain intérieur
  * Pierre Reverdy, Ferraille
  * Philippe Soupault, Poésies Complètes 1917–1973
  
  ## 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:
  
  **Bengali**
  
  * Mallavarapu Visveswara Rao, Madukila, notable for its style, sentiments and various metrics
  * Rabindranath Tagore:
     * Khapchada, short, humorous and frivolous poems in the style of nursery rhymes
     * Chadar Chabi
  * Samar Sen, Kayekti Kabita, Indian, Bengali-language
  * Sudhindranath Dutta, Krandasi
  
  **Telugu**
  
  * Gangula Sayi Reddi, Kapu bidda, poems on the condition of farmers; Telugu
  * Gurram Jashuva, editor, Khanda Kavyamu or Jashuva Khandakavyalu, in seven volumes, published from this year to 1949; anthology of Telagu poetry
  * Peer Aziz Ullah Haqqani, Qissa-e-Mumtaz E Benazir, a large masnavi of Romantic mysticism; Telugu; posthumous
  * Srirangam arayanababu, Rudhirajyoti, Telugu
  * Vedula Satyanarayan Shastri, Dipavali, romantic lyrics, Telugu
  
  **Urdu**
  
  * Mehr Lal Soni Zia Fatehabadi Noor-e-Mashriq (The Light of the East) - Collection of nazms, geets and sonnets published by Jyoti Prasad Gupta, Jyoti Printing Works, Esplanade, Delhi in 1937.
  
  **Other Indian languages**
  
  * Anupa Sharma, Siddharth, a Hindi epic in 18 chapters on the story of Gautama Buddha
  * D. R. Bendre, also known as Ambikatanaya Datta, Sakhigita, the title poem is autobiographical; Kannada
  * Devandas Kishinani, 'Purab Sandes, Indian, Sindhi-language
  * Ghulam Mohammad Hanafi, Jang-e Amir Hamza, a Jangnama, based on an episode in the movement to spread Islam; Kashmiri
  * Hijam Anganhal Simha, Singel Indu, a long narrative Meitei poem
  * Manjewshwara Govinda Pai, Golgotha, long narrative poem on the final days of Jesus Christ, Kannada
  * Riddhinath Jha, Pravasi Mithiles, verses praising the Maharaja of Darbhanga; Maithili
  * Siyaramsharan Gupta, Bapu, on Gandhi and his ideology, Hindi
  
  ### Spanish language
  
  **Peru**
  
  * Xavier Abril, Descubrimiento del alba
  * José Santos Chocano, Poemas de amor doliente, Peru
  * Manuel Moreno Jimeno, Así bajaron los perros
  * Luis Fabio Xammar, Waino
  
  **Other in Spanish**
  
  * Miguel Hernández, Viento del pueblo; Spain
  
  ### Other
  
  * Amir Hamzah, Nyanyi Sunyi, Dutch East Indies
  
  ## Awards and honors
  
  * Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: W. H. Auden
  * Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (the post which was later called "Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress"): Joseph Auslander appointed this year (he would serve until 1941)
  * Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Edwin Markham
  * Governor General's Award, poetry or drama: The Fable of the Goats, E. J. Pratt
  
  ## Births
  
  Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
  
  * January 1:
     * John Fuller, English poet and author
     * Dilwar Khan (died 2013), Bengali poet
  * January 14 – J. Bernlef, born Hendrik Jan Marsman (died 2012), Dutch poet, novelist and translator
  * February 21 – Mervyn Morris, Jamaican poet
  * February 27 – Peter Hamm (died 2019), German poet, author, journalist, editor and literary critic
  * April 10 – Bella Akhmadulina (died 2010), Russian poet
  * April 23 – Coleman Barks, American poet who, although he neither speaks nor reads Persian, is nonetheless renowned as a translator of Rumi and other mystic poets of Persia
  * April 30 – Tony Harrison, English poet and playwright
  * May 11 – Michael Heller, American poet
  * May 21 – Glen Sorestad, Canadian poet
  * June 8 – Gillian Clarke, native Welsh, English-language poet, playwright, editor, broadcaster, lecturer and translator (from Welsh)
  * June 10 – Susan Howe, American poet and critic closely associated with the Language poets
  * July 3 – Milovan Danojlić, Serbian poet and essayist (died 2022)
  * July 10 – Kurt Bartsch, German poet
  * July 29 – Eleanor Wilner, American poet and editor
  * August 3
     * Marvin Bell (died 2020), American poet
     * Diane Wakoski, American poet associated with the "deep image" poets and the Beats
  * September 14 – Douglas Oliver (died 2000), British poet
  * October 11 – R. H. W. Dillard, American poet, author, critic and translator
  * November 4 – W. Dabney Stuart, American poet
  * November 9
     * Roger McGough, English poet
     * S. Abdul Rahman (died 2017), Tamil poet
  * November 11 – Alicia Ostriker, American poet and academic
  * November 19 – Meg Campbell (died 2007), New Zealand poet and wife of Alistair Campbell
  * December 1 – Eugene B. Redmond, African-American poet
  * December 31 – Nicolas Born (died 1979), German poet
  * Also:
     * Vénus Khoury-Ghata, Lebanese-born French poet, novelist and beauty queen
     * Parijat, पारिजात, Bishnu Kumari Waiba (died 1993), Nepalese novelist and poet
     * John Riley (died 1978), English poet associated with the British Poetry Revival
  
  ## Deaths
  
  Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
  
  * March 8 – Albert Verwey (born 1865), Dutch poet
  * June 22 – Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo (born 1901?), Malagasy poet writing in French; suicide
  * July 18 – Julian Bell (born 1908), English poet, and a member of a family whose notable members include his parents, Clive and Vanessa Bell; his aunt, Virginia Woolf; his younger brother, writer Quentin Bell; and his half-sister, writer and painter Angelica Garnett; killed in the Spanish Civil War
  * August 11 – Edith Wharton (born 1862), American novelist, short story writer, designer and poet
  * September 8 – Anna Hempstead Branch (born 1875), American poet
  * October 22 – Chūya Nakahara 中原 中也 (born 1907), early Shōwa period Japanese poet (surname: Nakahara)
  * December 26 – Ivor Gurney (born 1890), English composer and poet; tuberculosis while suffering delusional insanity
  * December 29 – Don Marquis (born 1878), American poet, artist, newspaper columnist, humorist, playwright and author best known for creating the characters "Archy" and "Mehitabel"
  * Also – Constance Woodrow (born 1899), English-born Canadian poet
  