1935 in poetry

• June 3 – Canadian poet Charles G. D. Roberts is knighted. • June 15 • Gay English poet W. H. Auden enters a marriage of convenience with Erika Mann. • Premiere of T. S. Eliot's verse drama Murder in the Cathedral at Canterbury Cathedral in England. • American poet George Oppen joins the Communist Party, where his organizing work will increasingly take precedence over his poetry; he writes no more verse until 1958. • Picasso's poetry begins to be written. • Tomb of Hafez in Shiraz, Persia, is rebuilt. ==Works published in English==

===Canada=== • Arthur Bourinot, Selected Poems (1915–1935). • E. J. Pratt, The Titanic, Toronto: Macmillan. • Kenneth Leslie, Lowlands Low: Poems. Halifax: McCurdy • Wilson MacDonald, The Song Of The Undertow and Other Poems. Toronto, Buffalo: S.J.R. Saunders, Broadway. • Wilson MacDonald, Quintrains Of "Callender" and Other Poems. Toronto: S.J.R. Saunders. • Duncan Campbell Scott, The Green Cloister, Canada ===India, in English=== • Sundhindra Dutt, Orchestra ( Poetry in English ), • Govind Krishna Chettur, The Shadow of God: A Sonnet Sequence ( Poetry in English ), London: Longmans, published in the United Kingdom • Nizamat Jung, Islamic Poems ( Poetry in English ), Hyderabad: Government Central Press ===United Kingdom=== • George Barker, Poems • Samuel Beckett, ''Echo's Bones and Other Precipitates'' • Robert P. Tristram Coffin, Strange Holiness • Robert Penn Warren, Thirty-Six Poems ==Works published in other languages==

===France=== • René Char, Le Marteau sans maitre • René Daumal, Le Contre-ciel • Paul Éluard, Facile • De tout temps à jamais, Paris: Gallimard • Henri Michaux, La Nuit remue • Kishorlal Mashruvala, translator, Vidayuelae — Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet from English into Gujarati • Mansukhlal Jhaveri, Phooldal ====Urdu==== • Akbar Allahabadi, Kulliyat-i Akbar Allahabadi, in four volumes, published (fourteen years after his death in 1921) from this year through 1939; Indian, Urdu-language • Manuel Moreno Jimeno, Los malditos • Emilio Vasquez, Tawantinsuyo • Emilio Adolfo von Westphalen, Abolición de la muerte ====Spain==== • Vicente Aleixandre: • La destrucción o el amor ("Destruction or/as Love") • Pasión de la tierra ("Passion of the Earth"), written 1928–1929 • Germán Bleiberg, El cantar de la noche ("The Song of the Night") • Gabriel Celaya, Marea del silencio ("Tide of Silence") • Federico García Lorca: • Llanto por Ignacio Sánchez Mejías ("Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejías") • Seis poemas galegos ("Six Galician poems") • Luis Rosales, Abril ("April") Other languages • Constantine Cavafy, Ποιήματα (Piimata, or "Poems of C.P. Cavafy"), Greece • Parvin E'tesami, Dirwan, Persia • Bernard Kangro, Sonetid, Estonia • Kersti Merilaas, Loomingus, Estonia • Giorgos Seferis, Μυθιστόρημα ("Tale of Legends"), Greece ==Awards and honors==

• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry - Audrey Wurdemann, Bright Ambush ==Births==

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: • January 14 – Labhshankar Thakar (died 2016), Indian Gujarati poet, playwright and story writer • January 16 – Inger Christensen (died 2009), Danish poet, writer, novelist, essayist and children's book author • January 18 – Jon Stallworthy (died 2014), English poet, literary critic and academic • January 30 – Richard Brautigan (died 1984), American writer and poet • January 27 – D. M. Thomas (died 2023), English novelist, poet, and translator from Cornwall • February 14 – Grigore Vieru (died 2009), Moldovan poet writing in Romanian, strong promoter of the Romanian language in Moldova • March 13 – Kofi Awoonor (killed 2013), Ghanaian poet and author whose work combines the poetic traditions of his native Ewe people and contemporary and religious symbolism to depict Africa during decolonization • April 4 – Michael Horovitz (died 2021), German-born English poet, translator, editor and performer • April 6 – J. P. Clark (died 2020), Nigerian English-language poet and playwright • April 16 – Sarah Kirsch (died 2013), German • May 5 – Eddie Linden (died 2023), British poet • May 13 – Taku Miki 三木卓 pen name of Tomita Miki, Japanese Shōwa period poet and novelist in the Han ("Inundation") poetry circle (Surname: Miki) • May 14 – Roque Dalton (died 1975), leftist Salvadoran poet and journalist writing about death, love and politics • May 25 – Jay Wright, African-American poet, playwright and essayist • May 26 – Michael Benedikt (died 2007), American poet • June 1 – Clayton Eshleman (die 2021), American poet, translator and editor • June 6 – Joy Kogawa, Canadian poet and novelist • June 10 – Rukhl Fishman (died 1984), Israeli poet • June 12 – Christoph Meckel (died 2020), German poet • June 24 – Taufiq Ismail, Indonesian poet and activist • July 2 – Nanni Balestrini (died 2019), Italian experimental poet, author and visual artist of the Neoavanguardia • July 29 – Pat Lowther (murdered by her husband in 1975), Canadian poet • August 12 – A. B. Spellman, African-American poet, music critic, music historian, arts administrator and author • August 24 – Rosmarie Waldrop, German-born American poet and translator (primary English translator of Edmond Jabès) • August 25 – Charles Wright, American poet • September 10 – Mary Oliver (died 2018), American poet • September 20 – Wong Phui Nam (died 2022), Malaysian economist and English-language poet • September 24 – Robert Kelly, American poet associated with the deep image group • September 30 – Arturo Corcuera (died 2017), Peruvian poet • November 7 – Wahyu Sulaiman Rendra (died 2009), Indonesian poet, born Willibrordus Surendra Broto Rendra, popularly known as W. S. Rendra and also as "Si Burung Merak" and "The Peacock" • November 15 – Gustaf Sobin (died 2005), American expatriate poet and novelist • December 1 – George Bowering, Canadian novelist, poet, historian and biographer • December 10 – Shūji Terayama 寺山 修司 (died 1983), Japanese avant-garde poet, playwright, writer, film director and photographer (surname: Terayama) • December 13 – Adélia Prado, Brazilian poet • December 25 – Bhupi Sherchan (died 1989), Nepali poet • December 27 – Syed Shamsul Haque (died 2016), Bengali poet, lyricist, playwright and essayist • December 29 – Yevgeny Rein (Евгений Рейн), Russian poet • Also • Johari M. Amini (aka Jewel Christine McLawler Latimore and Johari M. Kunjufu), African American • James Applewhite, American • Sam Cornish, African American • Russell Edson (died 2014), American • Andrew Hoyem, American typographer, letterpress printer, publisher, poet and preservationist; founder and director of Arion Press in San Francisco • Desmond O'Grady, Irish poet and translator; former editor of The Transatlantic Review and organizer of the Spoleto International Poetry Festival • David R. Slavitt, American writer and translator • Ahmos Zu-Bolton II, African American ==Deaths==

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: • March 26 – Tekkan Yosano 与謝野 鉄幹 (born 1873), pen-name of Yosano Hiroshi, late Meiji period, Taishō and early Shōwa period Japanese author and poet; husband of author Yosano Akiko; grandfather of cabinet minister and politician Kaoru Yosano • April 6 – Edwin Arlington Robinson (born 1869), American poet, three-time Pulitzer Prize winner • July 17 – George William Russell (born 1867), Anglo-Irish supporter of Irish nationalism, critic, poet, and painter who wrote under the pseudonym Æ, mystical writer, and centre of a group of followers of theosophy • August 11 – Sir William Watson (born 1858), English traditionalist poet noted for the political content of his verse • September 18 – Alice Dunbar Nelson (born 1875), African American poet, journalist and political activist during the Harlem Renaissance; married to poet Paul Laurence Dunbar • November 23 – Louise Mack (born 1870) Australian poet, journalist and novelist • November 30 – Fernando Pessoa (born 1888), Portuguese poet and writer; cause of death listed as cirrhosis • December 17 – Lizette Woodworth Reese (born 1856), American poet ==See also==