1930 in poetry

Events

• Samuel Minturn Peck becomes first Poet Laureate of Alabama, a title created for him.

  Works published

Canada">Canadian poetry">Canada

• Alfred Bailey, Tao: A Ryerson Poetry Chap Book,.
• Wilson MacDonald, Caw-Caw Ballads Montclair, NJ: Pine Tree Publishing.
• E. J. Pratt:
• * The Roosevelt and the Antinoe, Toronto: Macmillan.
• *Verses of the Sea, Toronto: Macmillan. intr. by Charles G.D. Roberts.
• W. W. E. Ross, Laconics.

  United Kingdom">English poetry">United Kingdom

• Richard Aldington, editor, Imagist Anthology
• An Anthology of War Poems, compiled by Frederick Brereton
• W. H. Auden, Poems, his first published book ; English poet living and publishing in the United States
• Samuel Beckett, Whoroscope, his first separately published work; Irish poet published in France
• Julian Bell, Winter Movement
• Hilaire Belloc, New Canterbury Tales, illustrated by Nicholas Bentley
• Edmund Blunden, The Poems of Edmund Blunden
• Roy Campbell, a South African native published in the United Kingdom:
• * Adamastor
• * Poems
• Basil Bunting, Redimiculum Matellarum, his first book of poems, published in Milan.
• Catherine Carswell, The Life of Robert Burns, biography
• Elizabeth Daryush, Verses
• T. S. Eliot:
• * Ash Wednesday
• * Marina
• * Translator, Anabasis, translation from the original French of Saint-John Perse's Anabase 1924; London: Faber
• William Empson, Seven Types of Ambiguity, a book of criticism
• Stella Gibbons, The Mountain Beast, and Other Poems
• Gerard Manley Hopkins, Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins, edited by Charles Williams
• D. H. Lawrence :
• * Nettles
• * The Triumph of the Machine
• Hugh MacDiarmid, pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve, To Circumjack Cencrastus; or, The Curly Snake, written and published in English and Scots
• 'Æ', pen name of George William Russell, Enchantment, and Other Poems
• Edith Sitwell, Collected Poems
• Stephen Spender, Twenty Poems
• Katharine Tynan, Collected Poems
• Humbert Wolfe, The Uncelestial City
• D. B. Wyndham-Lewis and Charles Lee, compilers, The Stuffed Owl: an anthology of bad verse

  United States">American poetry">United States

• W. H. Auden, Poems
• Hart Crane, The Bridge
• Babette Deutsch, Fire for the Night
• Richard Eberhart, A Bravery of Earth
• Robert Frost, Collected Poems
• Horace Gregory, Chelsea Rooming House
• Stanley J. Kunitz, Intellectual Things
• William Ellery Leonard, This Midland City
• Archibald MacLeish, New Found Land
• Edgar Lee Masters, Leechee Nuts
• Ezra Pound, A Draft of XXX Cantos, American poet writing in Europe
• Lizette Woodworth Reese, White April
• Edward Arlington Robinson, The Glory of the Nightingales
• Allen Tate, Three Poems
• Sara Teasdale, Stars To-night
• Yvor Winters, The Proof

  Other in English

• Samuel Beckett, Whoroscope, Irish writer published in the United Kingdom
• Una Marson, Tropic Reveries, the first "noted" collection of poems by a West Indian woman
• Brian O'Nolan, "Ad Astra", in Blackrock College Annual, Irish writer
• Quentin Pope, editor, Kowhai Gold, anthology of New Zealand poetry

  Works published in other languages

France">French poetry">France

• René Char, Ralentir travaux
• Paul Claudel, Le Soulier de satin, France
• Michel Deguy, French academic, essayist, translator and poet
• Robert Desnos, Corps et biens: poemes 1919-1929
• Léon-Paul Fargue, Sous la lampe
• Henri Michaux, Un Certain Plume, in which the character Plume, a symbolic, alienated underdog, first appears
• Pierre Reverdy, Pierres blanches
• Jules Supervielle, Le Forçat innocent

  Indian">Indian poetry">Indian subcontinent

• Ananta Pattanayak, Raktasikha, Oriya-language
• Dimbeshwar Neog, Indradhanu, Assamese-language
• Kazi Nazrul Islam, translator, Rubaiyat-i-Haphij, translated from the Persian quartrians of the poet Shiraji Hafiz into Bengali
• Laxmi Prasad Devkota, Muna Madan, मुनामदन, Nepali
• Maraimalai Atikal, Manikkavacakar Varalarum Kalamum, a two-volume study of Manikkavacakar, a saint-poet of the Saivaite sect, in Tamil; criticism
• Mathuranatha Shastri, adaptor, Sahitya-Vaibhava, various Hindi poems translated into Sanskrit and adapted
• T. P. Meenakshisundaram, Valluvarum Makalirum, on the concept of womanhood in the works of ancient Tamil poets; scholarship
• Yatindranath Sengupta, Marumaya, Bengali

  Spanish language

• Enrique Bustamante y Ballivián, Junin, Peru
• León de Greiff, Libro de signos, precedido de Los pingüinos peripatéticos; seguido de Fantasías de nubes al viento , Columbia
• Federico García Lorca, Poeta en Nueva York written this year, published posthumously in 1940, first translation into English as "A Poet in New York", 1988)
• León Felipe, Veersos y oraciones del caminante, second volume ; Spain
• Luis Fabio Xammar, Pensativamente, Peru

  Other

• Gonzalve Desaulniers, Les bois qui chantent; French language;, Canada
• Jens August Schade, Hjertebogen, Denmark
• J. Slauerhoff, Serenade, Dutch

  Awards and honors

• John Masefield becomes Poet Laureate of the UK.
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Conrad Aiken: Selected Poems
• Frost Medal: Jessie Rittenhouse and to Bliss Carman, and George Edward Woodberry

  Births

• January 1
• * Adunis or "Adonis", Syrian-born Arabic poet and essayist who makes his career largely in Lebanon and France
• * Jean-Pierre Duprey, French poet and sculptor
• January 5 - Jesús Rosas Marcano, Venezuelan poet
• January 23 - Derek Walcott, Caribbean St. Lucian-born English-language poet, playwright, writer and visual artist
• February 15 - Bruce Dawe, Australian poet
• March - Alvin Aubert, African American poet and scholar
• March 21 - Roger-Arnould Rivière, French poet
• March 26 - Gregory Corso, American poet
• April 8 - Miller Williams, American poet, translator and editor
• May 3 - Juan Gelman, Argentine poet
• May 8 - Gary Snyder, American poet, essayist, lecturer and environmental activist
• May 11 - Kamau Brathwaite, Caribbean native of Barbados, writer, poet, dramatist and academic
• May 12 - Mazisi Kunene, South African poet
• May 23 - Friedrich Achleitner, Austrian architect and poet
• June 9 - Roberto Fernández Retamar, Cuban poet and literary critic
• June 11 - Roy Fisher, English poet and jazz pianist
• June 23 - Anthony Thwaite, English poet and writer married to the writer Ann Thwaite
• August 17 - Ted Hughes, English poet and children's writer, Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1984
• September 25 - Shel Silverstein, American writer of children's verse
• October 10 - Harold Pinter, English playwright, poet, actor, theatre director, screenwriter, human rights activist, winner of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature
• October 24 - Elaine Feinstein, English poet, novelist, short-story writer, playwright, biographer and translator
• November 16 - Chinua Achebe, Nigerian writer and poet
• November 20 - Bai Hua, Chinese poet, dramatist and novelist
• December 2 - Jon Silkin, English poet
• December 27 - Attoor Ravi Varma, Indian Malayalam poet and translator
• Also:
• * Tony Connor, English poet and playwright
• * Adolph Endler, German

  Deaths

• March 2 - D. H. Lawrence, English author, poet, playwright, essayist and literary critic, from tuberculosis
• April 10 - Alfred Williams, English "hammerman poet"
• April 14 - Vladimir Mayakovsky, Russian poet, committed suicide
• April 21 - Robert Bridges, English Poet Laureate
• April 29 - Maria Polydouri, Greek poet, from tuberculosis