1932 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events

 * W.B. Yeats rents a house in Dublin.
 * In Vietnam, the New Poetry (Thơ mới) period begins, marked by an article and a poem of Phan Khôi, inaugurating modern literature in that country
 * T.S. Eliot begins his 1932-33 Norton lectures at Harvard (published in 1933 as The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism).

Canada

 * Dorothy Livesay, Signpost. Toronto: Macmillan.
 * E.J. Pratt, Many Moods'', Toronto: Macmillan.
 * W.W.E. Ross, Sonnets.

Indian poetry in English

 * Govind Krishna Chettur:
 * Gumataraya and other Sonnets for all Moods ( Poetry in English ), Mangalore: Basel Mission Bookshop
 * The Temple tank and Other Poems ( Poetry in English ), Mangalore: Basel Mission Bookshop
 * The Triumph of Love: A Sonnet Sequence ( Poetry in English ), Mangalore: Basel Mission Bookshop
 * Baldoon Dhingra, Beauty's Sanctuary ( Poetry in English ), Lahore: Civil and Military Gazette Press
 * Theodore W. La Touche, The Lion Kings of Lanka ( Poetry in English ), Secunderabad: self-published
 * Manjeri Sundaraman Manjeri, Saffron and Gold and Other Poems ( Poetry in English ), Madras: Shakti Karyalayam
 * Nanikram Vasanmal Thadani, The Garden of the East ( Poetry in English ), Karachi: Bharat Publishing House

United Kingdom

 * AE, pen name of George William Russell, Song and its Fountains
 * Edmund Blunden, Halfway House
 * W.H. Auden, The Orators: An English study
 * Roy Campbell, Pomegranates
 * W.H. Davies, Poems, 1930–31
 * Lawrence Durrell, Ten Poems
 * T.S. Eliot, Selected Essays 1917–1932, criticism
 * Thomas Hardy, Collected Poems
 * Sir Julian Sorell Huxley, The Captive Shrew and other Poems of a Biologist
 * F.R. Leavis,  New Bearings in English Poetry attacks late Victorian and Georgian poetry and praises Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, and other modernists
 * Hugh MacDiarmid, pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve, Second Hymn to Lenin, and Other Poems
 * William Plomer, The Fivefold Screen
 * W.B. Yeats, Words for Music Perhaps, and Other Poems, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom

United States

 * W H. Auden, The Orators
 * Sterling Brown, Southern Road
 * Langston Hughes, Scotsboro Limited, verse drama
 * Robinson Jeffers, Thurso's Landing and Other Poems
 * Archibald MacLeish, Conquistador
 * Edward Arlington Robinson, Nicodemus
 * Allen Tate, Poems: 1928–1931
 * Sara Teasdale, A Country House
 * William Carlos Williams, The Cod Head

Other in English

 * Kenneth Slessor, Cuckooz Contrey, Sydney: Frank Johnson, Australia
 * W.B. Yeats, Words for Music Perhaps, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom

France

 * André Breton, Le Revolver a chevaux blancs
 * Paul Éluard, La Vie immédiate
 * Tristan Tzara, pen name of Sami Rosenstock, Où hoivent les loups

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:

Hindi

 * Sumitranandan Pant, Gunjana, including many popular Hindi poems such as "Nauka Vihar", "Ek Tara", "Candni", "Madhuvan"
 * Rama Nath Jyotisi, Mahabharat Mahakavya, epic Hindi poem based on the Mahabharata, with new interpretations of the episodes
 * Mahadevi Varma, Rasmi, 35 Hindi poems of the Chayavadi romantic poetry movement in Indian literature

Other Indian languages

 * Adibhatta Narayandas, translator, Rubaiyat, from Edward Fitzgerald's English translation into Sanskrit and Telugu, with the text in Persian and Roman lettering
 * Anil, also known as "Atmaram Raoji Deshpande", Phulavat, the author's first book of poetry; mostly love poems; Marathi
 * D.R. Bendre, also known as "Ambikatanayadatta", Gari, 55 poems, marked by an unusual level of abstraction, metrical experiments and metaphorical language; Kannada
 * Mahjoor, Bagh e Nisata Kae Gulo, poem on the charms of the Dal Lake; Kashmiri
 * Mathura Prasad Dikshit, editor, Govinda Gitavali, collection of Govindadasa's 17th-century devotional songs and others in the Maithili-language oral tradition
 * Maulvi Abdul Haq, editor, Jangnamah-yi Alam Ali Khan, an 18th-century Urdu narrative poem (masnavi) published for the first time; includes introductory material
 * Premendra Mitra, Prathama, the author's first book of poetry; Bengali
 * Rabindranath Thakur, Punasca, in this and in some of the author's other books in the mid-1930s, he introduced a new rhythm in poetry that "had a tremendous impact on the modern poets", according to Indian anthologist and academic Sisir Kumar Das; Bengali
 * Rallapalli Anantakrishna Sharma, translator, Salivahana gatha saptasati saramu, translated from the Prakrit of Hāla's Gaha Sattasai into Telugu, in "ataveladi" meter; according to academic and anthologist Sisir Kumar Das, writing in 1995, the work "is still considered a model for poetical translation"
 * K. Shankara Bhat, Nalme, three long narrative poems in Kannada on tragic subjects: Honniya maduve ("Marriage of Honni"), depicting village life in coastal Karnataka; Madriya Cite ("Pyre of Madri"), on the tragic end of Madri, wife of Pandu
 * Shyamananda Jha, editor, Maithili Sandes, anthology of patriotic Maithili poetry
 * T.N. Shreekantayya, Olume, Kannada work including translations from Greek and Pakrit

Spain

 * Vicente Aleixandre, Espadas como Labios ("Swords or/as Lips")
 * Miguel Hernández, Perito en lunas ("Expert in Moon Matters")
 * María Pemán, Elegía de la tradición de Españia ("Elegy of Spain's Tradition")

Latin America

 * Luis Fabio Xammar, Las voces armoniosas, Peru

Other languages

 * Boris Pasternak, The Second Birth, Russia
 * Sir Muhammad Iqbal, The Javed Nama (Book of Eternity) in Persian, inspired by Dante's Divine Comedy
 * Eugenio Montale, La casa dei doganieri e altre poesie, a chapbook of five poems published in association with the award of the Premio del Antico Fattore to Montale; Florence: Vallecchi; Italy
 * Giorgos Seferis, Στέρνα (The Cistern), Greece

Awards and honors

 * Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: George Dillon: The Flowering Stone

Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * January 2 – Peter Redgrove (died 2003) British poet
 * January 19 – George Mann MacBeth (died 1992) Scottish poet and novelist
 * February 6 – Shankha Ghosh, Bengali poet and critic
 * February 12 – Hugh Fox, (died 2011), U.S. novelist and poet who was a founder of the Pushcart Prize.
 * March 16 – Harold Monro (born 1879), English poet, proprietor of the Poetry Bookshop in London
 * March 18 – John Updike (died 2009), American novelist, short story writer, essayist, poet and writer
 * May 7 – Jenny Joseph, English
 * June 18 – Geoffrey Hill, English poet and academic at Boston University
 * June 29 – Philip Hobsbaum (died 2005) English teacher, poet and critic
 * August 16 – Christopher Okigbo, Nigerian poet, who died in 1967 fighting for the independence of Biafra
 * September 18 – Henri Meschonnic (died 2009), French poet, linguist, translator and theoretician
 * October 20 – Michael McClure, American poet and playwright
 * October 24 – Adrian Mitchell, English poet and playwright
 * October 27 – Sylvia Plath, American poet and novelist (The Bell Jar)
 * December 11 – Keith Waldrop, American poet, prose stylist, visual artist. With wife Rosmarie Waldrop, founding editor of the influential and innovative Burning Deck Press.
 * Also:
 * Alauddin Al-Azad, 77 (died 2009), Bengali novelist, writer, poet, literary critic and academic
 * Jergen Becker, German
 * Patrick Cullinan, South African poet
 * Douglas Livingstone, (died 1996) South African poet born in Malaysia
 * Linda Pastan, American poet
 * Eugene Perkins, African American poet
 * Peter William Redgrove (died 2003), British poet, novelist, playwright, and author of books on women's health
 * Linda M. Stitt, Canadian poet
 * Rosemary Tonks, British poet

Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * March 16 – Harold Monro, 53 (born 1879), British poet and the proprietor of the Poetry Bookshop in London which helped many famous poets bring their work before the public
 * April 27 – Hart Crane, 32, American poet, by suicide
 * October 5 – Christopher Brennan, 61, Australian poet.
 * December 18 – Edmund Vance Cooke, 66, Canadian poet.
 * Also:
 * Ahmed Shawqi أحمد شوقي (born 1868), Egyptian
 * Hubert Church
 * Raymond Knister, Canadian novelist, short story writer, and poet who drowned in a swimming accident
 * Clinton Scollard