1887 in poetry

===British Australia=== • Henry Lawson, "A Song for the Republic", English, the author's first published poem, in The Bulletin, October 1 issue; Australia ===British India=== • Narsinhrao Divetia, Kusumamala, Gujarati, his first collection of poems, "considered a definite advance in modern Gujarati poetry because of its novel use of poetic diction", according to A handbook of Indian Literature ===Canada=== • George Frederick Cameron, Lyrics on Freedom, Love and Death, English, posthumously published (by his brother). • Louis-Honoré Fréchette, ''La légende d'un peuple'', French, the author's best-known work, about episodes of Canadian history; French Canadian author published in Paris • Sarah Anne Curzon, Laura Secord, the Heroine of 1812: A Drama, and Other Poems, English. • Susie Frances ed. The Canadian Birthday Book, English, poetry anthology. (Toronto: Robinson). • William Douw Lighthall, Thoughts, Moods and Ideals: Crimes of Leisure, English. ("Witness" Printing House). • Thomas O'Hagan, A Gate of birginas, English. • Stéphane Mallarmé; all in French: • Poésies ("Poetical Works"), in a deluxe, limited edition published in October • Album de vers et de prose ("Selected Verse and Prose"), published in December ===United Kingdom=== • William Allingham, Rhymes for Young Folk, English. • Robert Browning, Parleyings with Certain People of Importance in their Day, English. • Robert Louis Stevenson, Underwoods, English. • Arlo Bates, Sonnets in Shadow, English • Lizette Woodworth Reese, A Branch of May, English • James Whitcomb Riley, Afterwhiles, English ==Births==

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: • January 10 – Robinson Jeffers (died 1962), American poet and playwright • February 3 – Georg Trakl (suicide 1914), German • February 11 – Shinobu Orikuchi 折口 信夫, also known as Chōkū Shaku 釋 迢空 (died 1953), Japanese ethnologist, linguist, folklorist, novelist and poet; a disciple of Kunio Yanagita, he establishes an academic field named , a mix of Japanese folklore, Japanese classics and Shintō religion (surname: Orikuchi) • March 9 – Ion Buzdugan, born Ivan Alexandrovici Buzdâga (died 1967), Bessarabian-Romanian poet, folklorist and politician • May 10 – J. C. Bloem (died 1966), Dutch • May 13 – Nagata Mikihiko 長田幹彦 (died 1964), Shōwa period poet, playwright and screenwriter (surname: Nagata) • May 15 – Edwin Muir (died 1959), Scottish poet, novelist and translator • May 16 – Jakob van Hoddis (died 1942), German • May 31 - Saint-John Perse (died 1975), French diplomat, poet and winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1960 • June 20 – Kurt Schwitters (died 1947), German • June 22 – Sir Julian Sorell Huxley (died 1975), English evolutionary biologist, humanist and internationalist • June 28 – Orrick Glenday Johns (died 1946), American poet • August 3 – Rupert Brooke (died on active service off Skyros, 1915), English poet • August 19 – Francis Ledwidge (killed in action near Ypres in Belgium, 1917), Irish poet, "poet of the blackbirds" • September 1 – Blaise Cendrars, pen name of Frédéric Louis Sauser (died 1961), Swiss novelist and poet naturalized as a French citizen in 1916 • September 7 – Edith Sitwell (died 1964), English poet and critic • September 21 – Sir Thomas Herbert Parry-Williams (died 1975), Welsh poet, translator and academic • September 16 – Hans Arp (died 1966), German • September 27 – Frederick Macartney (died 1980), Australian • October 11 – Pierre Jean Jouve (died 1976), French poet and novelist • October 30 – Georg Heym (drowned 1912), German poet • November 15 – Marianne Moore (died 1972), American Modernist poet and writer • December 6 – Minakami Takitarō 水上滝太郎 pen name of Abe Shōzō (died 1940), Japanese, Shōwa period poet, novelist, literary critic and essayist (surname: Minakami) • December 8 – Elizabeth Daryush (died 1977), English poet, daughter of Robert Bridges • December 27 – Edward Andrade (died 1971), English physicist and poet. • December 30 – K.M. Munshi (died 1971), Indian Gujarati-language novelist, playwright, writer, politician and lawyer • Also: • Skipwith Cannell (died 1957), American poet associated with the Imagist group (pronounce his last name with the stress on the second syllable) • Margaret Curran (died 1962), Australian poet, editor and journalist • Alphonse Métérié (died 1967), French newspaper editor, teacher and poet • Ramnarayan V. Pathak (died 1955), Indian, Gujarati-language poet and husband of Heera Pathak • Sukumar Ray (সুকুমার রায়) (died 1923), Indian, Gujarati-language humorous poet, short-story writer and playwright • Jatindranath Sengupta (died 1954), Indian, Gujarati-language poet and writer ==Deaths==

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: • February 27 – Edward Rowland Sill, American • July 15 – Adrien Rouquette (born 1813), American poet and missionary • October 12 – Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, born Dinah Maria Mulock, also referred to as Miss Mulock or Mrs. Craik (born 1826), English novelist and poet • November 19 – Emma Lazarus (born 1849), American poet who wrote the sonnet "The New Colossus", associated with the Statue of Liberty, where it is engraved on a plaque • date not known – Isabella Valancy Crawford (born 1850), Canadian, from heart failure ==See also==