1926 in poetry

• The remains of English war poet Isaac Rosenberg, killed in World War I (1918) at the age of 28 and originally buried in a mass grave, are re-interred at Bailleul Road East Cemetery, Plot V, St. Laurent-Blangy, Pas de Calais, France. • Poetry Bookshop in Bloomsbury, London, closes ==Works published==

===Canada=== • William Henry Drummond, Complete Poems, posthumously published. • Wilson MacDonald, Out Of The Wilderness. Ottawa: Graphic Publishers. • E. J. Pratt, Titans ("The Cachalot, The Great Feud"), Toronto: Macmillan. • Theodore Goodridge Roberts, The Lost Shipmate. Toronto: Ryerson Chapbook. • Duncan Campbell Scott, Collected Poems. ===India in English=== • Swami Anand Acharya, Arctic Swallows and Other Poems ( Poetry in English ), • The Spirit of Oriental Poetry, London: Kegal Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 232 pages; anthology; published in the United Kingdom • Krishnala M. Jhaveri, Further Milestones in Gujarati Literature written in English and translated into Gujarati; scholarship and criticism ===United Kingdom=== • Frank Ashton-Gwatkin (as John Paris), A Japanese Don Juan and other Poems • Edmund Blunden, English Poems • W. H. Davies, The Birth of Song • Countee Cullen, On These I Stand, Harper & Row • E. E. Cummings, is 5 • Vachel Lindsay: • Going to the Stars • Kenneth Slessor, Earth-Visitors, London: Fanfrolico Press, Australian poet published in the United Kingdom ==Works published in other languages==

===France=== • Louis Aragon, Le Mouvement Perpetuel, influenced by Surrealism • Paul Éluard, pen name of Paul-Eugène Grindel: • ''Dessous d'une vie'' ("Capital of Pain"); the poems influence Jean-Luc Godard's 1965 film Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution which has quotations from the book • Francis Jammes, Ma France poétique, Paris: Mercure de France; France • Pierre Jean Jouve: • Mystérieuses Noces • Mohanlal Dalicand Desai, Jain Gurjar Kavio, Volume 1, literary history written in Gujarati, delving into Jain poets and including a list of manuscripts; in 1995, Indian literary scholar Sisir Kumar Das calls it a "very useful and important work for students of Gujarati literature" (see also Volume 2 in 1931, Volume 3 1964) • Alejandro Peralta, Ande • Enrique Peña Barrenechea, El aroma en la sombra • Germán List Arzubide, El movimiento estridentista, Mexico (history) • Federico García Lorca, Oda a Salvador Dalí ("Ode to Salvador Dalí"), Spain • Xavier Villaurrutia, Reflejos, Mexico Other languages • Uri Zvi Greenberg, Ha-Gavrut Ha-Olah ("Manhood on the Rise"), Hebrew language, Mandatory Palestine • Tin Ujević, Kolajna ("Necklace"), Croatian ==Awards and honors==

• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Amy Lowell, ''What's O'Clock'' ==Births==

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: • January 5 – W. D. Snodgrass (died 2009), American poet, academic and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1960 • February 4 – Albert Saijo (died 2011), Japanese-American poet • February 18 – A. R. Ammons (died 2001), American author and poet • February 25 – Russell Atkins (died 2024), African-American concrete poet, musician and playwright • March 3 – James Merrill (died 1995), American poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1977 • March 22 – Alastair Reid (died 2014), Scottish poet and scholar of South American literature • April 18 – Niranjan Bhagat (died 2018), Indian poet and critic writing in Gujarati and English • May 4 – Allen Mandelbaum (died 2011), American poet and translator • May 21 – Robert Creeley (died 2005), American poet and author associated with the Black Mountain poets • May 26 – Phyllis Gotlieb (died 2009), Canadian science fiction novelist and poet • June 3 – Allen Ginsberg (died 1997), American Beat poet • June 5 – David Wagoner (died 2021), American poet and novelist • June 25 – Ingeborg Bachmann (died 1973), Austrian poet and author • June 27 – Frank O'Hara (died 1966), American poet and key member of the New York School of poetry • June 29 – James K. Baxter (died 1972), New Zealand poet • July 7 – Anand Mohan Zutshi Gulzar Dehlvi (died 2020), Indian Urdu poet • July 17 – Nikos Karouzos (died 1990), Greek poet • July 18 – Elizabeth Jennings (died 2001), English poet • August 15 – Sukanta Bhattacharya (died 1947), Bengali poet and playwright • September 1 – James Reaney (died 2008), Canadian poet, playwright and literary critic • November 5 – John Berger (died 2017), English novelist, painter, art critic and poet • November 11 – José Manuel Caballero (died 2021) Spanish poet and novelist • November 23 – Christopher Logue (died 2011), English poet, playwright, screen writer and actor associated with the British Poetry Revival • November 24 – Paul Blackburn (died 1971), American poet • December 23 – Robert Bly (died 2021), American poet, author and leader of the mythopoetic men's movement in the United States • December 26 – Nabakanta Barua, also known as Ekhud Kokaideu (died 2002), Assamese-language Indian novelist and poet ==Deaths==

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: • January 10 – Eino Leino, 47 (born 1878), Finnish poet and journalist • January 20 – Charles Montagu Doughty, 82 (born 1843), English poet, writer and traveller • April 7 – Ozaki Hōsai 尾崎 放哉 pen name of Ozaki Hideo, 41 (born 1885), Japanese late Meiji period and Taishō period poet (surname of this pen name: Ozaki) • May 30 – Perceval Gibbon, 46 (born 1879), Welsh-born journalist, short-story writer and poet • June 15 – Francis Joseph Sherman, 55 (born 1871), Canadian poet • July 19 – Ada Cambridge (married name was Cross, but she kept her maiden name as her pen name), 81 (born 1844), English writer and poet living in Australia after 1870 • August 1 – Israel Zangwill, 62 (born 1864), English writer and poet • October 9 – Helena Nyblom, 82 (born 1843), Danish-born poet and writer of fairy tales • November 17 – George Sterling, 56 (born 1869), American poet • December 29 – Rainer Maria Rilke, 51 (born 1875), German poet, from leukemia ==See also==