1927 in poetry

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

Events

 * T.S. Eliot enters the Church of England and assumes British citizenship

Canada

 * Alfred Bailey, 'Songs of the Saguenay and other poems''.
 * Wilson MacDonald, An Ode On The Diamond Jubilee Of Confederation. Toronto: W. MacDonald.
 * E.J. Pratt, The Iron Door: An Ode, Toronto: Macmillan.
 * Charles G.D. Roberts, The Vagrant of Time. (Toronto: Ryerson).

India in English

 * Swami Ananda Acharya:
 * Sara and other poems ( Poetry in English ), Roros, Norway: Odegards Trykkeri 106 pages
 * ''Arctic Swallows ( Poetry in English )
 * Harindranath Chattopadhyaya, Collected Plays and Poems, 44 sonnets, Madras: printed at Hogarth Press;
 * Joseph Furtado, A Goan Fiddler ( Poetry in English ) ,
 * Peroze P. Meherjee, Poems in Prose ( Poetry in English ), London: Luzac and Co., posthumously published (died 1925)
 * Gwendoline Goodwin, editor, An Anthology of Modern Indian Poetry, London: John Murray; anthology ( Poetry in English ), published in the United Kingdom.

Ireland

 * James Joyce, Pomes Penyeach, published in Paris
 * W.B. Yeats:
 * October Blast, including "Among School Children", published in the United Kingdom
 * Stories of Red Hanrahan and the Secret Rose, poetry and fiction

United Kingdom

 * G.K. Chesterton, Collected Poems
 * W.H. Davies, A Poet's Calendar
 * T.S. Eliot:
 * "The Journey of the Magi"
 * "Salutation" (later to become part II of Ash-Wednesday, published in 1930) was published in December in Saturday Review of Literature. It was also published in January, 1928 in Eliot's own Criterion magazine.
 * Gwendoline Goodwin, editor, An Anthology of Modern Indian Poetry, London: John Murray; anthology; Indian poetry in English, published in the United Kingdom
 * Robert Graves, Poems 1914–26
 * A.A. Milne, Now We are Six
 * Edith Sitwell, Rustic Elegies
 * Osbert Sitwell, England Reclaimed
 * Humbert Wolfe:
 * Cursory Rhymes
 * Requiem
 * W.B. Yeats:
 * October Blast, including "Among School Children", Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
 * Stories of Red Hanrahan and the Secret Rose, poetry and fiction

United States

 * Sherwood Anderson, A New Testament
 * Countee Cullen, Copper Sun
 * Donald Davidson, The Tall Men
 * Langston Hughes, Fine Clothes to the Jew
 * Robinson Jeffers, The Women at Point Sur
 * James Weldon Johnson:
 * God's Trombones
 * God's Promises
 * Amy Lowell, Ballads for Sale
 * John Livingston Lowes, The Road to Xanadu, a book on the composition of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Kubla Khan" (scholarship)
 * Don Marquis, archy and mehitabel, presented fictionally as a collection of vers libre poems typed by a former-poet-turned-cockroach who jumps on the keys of a typewriter
 * Charles Reznikoff, Five Groups of Verse self-published in 375 copies and containing material from his earlier "Uriel Accosta: A Play" and A Fourth Group of Verse (1921)

Other in English

 * Shaw Neilson, New Poems, Sydney, Bookfellow, Australia

France

 * Guillaume Apollinaire, pen name of Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky, Julie; ou, La Rose, posthumously published (died 1918)
 * Jean Cocteau, Opéra, Oeuvres poétiques
 * Robert Desnos, La liberté ou l'amour! ("Liberty or Love!")
 * Henri Michaux,Qui je fus("Who I Was"), Paris: N.R.D.
 * Charles Vildrac, Prolongements, France

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:

Bengali

 * Jibanananda Das, Jhara Palak, the author's first book of poems; Bengali
 * Mohitlal Majumdar, Bismarani, Bengali
 * Yatindranath Sengupta, Marusikha, Bengali

Other Indian languages

 * Bhai Vir Singh, Bijalian De Har, short poems, mostly lyrical and didactic, Punjabi
 * Muhammad Iqbal, Zabur-i-Ajam ("Persian Psalms") including the poems "Gulshan-i Raz-i Jadid" ("New Garden of Secrets") and "Bandagi Nama" ("Book of Slavery"), India
 * Yaganab Changezi and Mirza Yas (writing under the pen name "Husain"), Ayat-i Vijdani, Urdu

Spain

 * Rafael Alberti, El alba del alheli (1925–1926) ("The Dawn of the Wallflower")
 * Luis Cernuda, Perfil del aire ("Profile of Air", which later appeared as Primeras poesías ["First Poems"] in the author's complete works, La realidad y el deseo ["Reality and Desire"])
 * Federico García Lorca, Canciones ("Songs")
 * Miguel de Unamuno, Romancero del destierro ("Ballads of Exile")

Other languages

 * Jacob Anker-Paulsen, Klemtende hjærte. Udvalgte digte fra ti aar og nye, Denmark

Awards and honors

 * Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Leonora Speyer, Fiddler's Farewell

Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * January 8 – Charles Tomlinson, British poet, translator, academic, and artist
 * February 1 – Galway Kinnell, American poet
 * April 8 – Phyllis Webb, Canadian poet and radio broadcaster
 * June 7 – Martin Carter (died 1997), Guyanese poet
 * June 26 – Robert Kroetsch (died 2011), Canadian poet and novelist
 * July 28 – John Ashbery, American poet, former chancellor of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
 * August 7 – Larry Eigner (died 1996), American poet early in his career was associated with the Black Mountain poets; later was recognized as precursor to other poetic movements, ie., Language poetry
 * September 30 – W. S. Merwin, American poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
 * October 16 – Günter Grass, German author and poet
 * October 19 – Edwin Brock (died 1997), English poet
 * October 20 – Oskar Pastior (died 2006), Romanian-born German poet and translator
 * December 3 – James Wright, (died 1980), American poet
 * Also:
 * Henry Coulette
 * David Diop
 * Molly Holden (died 1981)
 * Judson Jerome, American
 * Richard Moore, American poet and academic
 * Richard Murphy, Irish poet
 * John Tripp (died 1986), Anglo-Welsh poet in whose memory the annual John Tripp Spoken Poetry Award is presented.

Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * April 6 – Florence Earle Coates, American poet, dies in Hahnemann Hospital, Philadelphia.
 * July 5 – Lesbia Harford, Australian poet
 * September 14 – Hugo Ball, 41, German author and poet.
 * October 8 – Ricardo Güiraldes, Argentine novelist and poet
 * October 26 – Yagi Jūkichi, 八木重吉 (born 1898), Japanese (surname: Yagi)
 * Also:
 * Adolfo León Gómez, Colombian poet
 * Emma Marie Caillard
 * Charles Mair, Canadian poet