1908 in poetry

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

Events

 * Ezra Pound leaves America for Europe. After spending several months in Venice he settles in London, where he will remain until 1920.

The Poets' Club

 * Founding in London of the Poets' Club, a group comprised mainly amateurs which met monthly for most of the year.
 * Late in the year &mdash; T.E. Hulme reads to the Poets' Club his paper, A Lecture on Modern Poetry, a concise statement of his influential advocacy of free verse

Canada

 * William Wilfred Campbell, Poetical Tragedies including "Mordred", "Daulac", "Morning" and "Hildebrand''
 * William Henry Drummond, The Great Fight: Poems and Sketches. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons.

United Kingdom

 * Lascelles Abercrombie, Interludes and Poems
 * Hilaire Belloc, Cautionary Tales for Children
 * William Henry Davies, Nature Poems and Others
 * Edmund Gosse, The Autumn Garden
 * Thomas Hardy, The Dynasts: Part 3
 * Minnie Louise Haskins, The Desert, including the poem The Gate of the Year
 * Edith Nesbit, Ballads and Lyrics of Socialism
 * Stephen Phillips, New Poems
 * Ezra Pound, American poet published in the United Kingdom:
 * A Quinzaine for this Yule, London
 * Katharine Tynan, Experiences, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
 * William Butler Yeats, The Collected Works in Verse and Prose, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom

United States

 * William Stanley Braithwaite, The House of Falling Leaves with Other Poems
 * Ezra Pound, American poet published in the United Kingdom and Italy:
 * A Lume Spento, Pound's first poetry collection (the title translates as "a dim light") published at his own expense in Venice
 * A Quinzaine for this Yule, London

Other in English

 * John Le Gay Brereton, Sea and Sky, Australia
 * Katharine Tynan, Experiences, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
 * Albert D. Watson, The Wing of the Wild-Bird
 * William Butler Yeats, The Collected Works in Verse and Prose, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom

France

 * Francis Jammes:
 * Poèmes mesurés
 * Rayons de miel, Paris: Bibliothèque de l'Occident
 * Valery Larbaud, Les Poésies de A. O. Barnabooth

Canadian poetry in French

 * Louis-Joseph Doucet, Chanson du passant; French language;, Canada
 * Albert Ferland, Le Canada chanté, in four volumes, published from this year to 1910; French language;, Canada

Other

 * C. Subrahamania Bharati, Cutecakitankal, Indian, Tamil-language
 * José Santos Chocano, Fiat Lux, Peru

Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * February 4 – Julian Bell (died 1937), English poet, and a member of a family whose notable members included his parents, Clive and Vanessa Bell; his aunt, Virginia Woolf; his younger brother, the writer Quentin Bell; and the writer and painter Angelica Garnett, his half-sister
 * April 2 – Ronald McCuaig (died 1993), Australian
 * April 15 – Denis Devlin (died 1959) Irish modernist poet and a career diplomat
 * April 24 – George Oppen (died 1984), American poet; winner of the 1969 Pulitzer Prize in poetry
 * May 25 – Theodore Roethke (died 1963), American poet
 * June 14 – Kathleen Jessie Raine (died 2003), an English poet, critic and scholar
 * August 19 – Josephine Jacobsen (died 2003), American poet, short story writer, and critic
 * September 1 – Eve Langley (died 1974), Australian novelist and poet
 * September 9 – Cesare Pavese (died 1950) Italian poet, novelist, literary critic and translator
 * October 9 – Harry Hooton (died 1961), Australian poet and anarchist
 * October 12 – Paul Engle (died 1991) American poet, writer, editor, and novelist
 * date not known – Eric Irvin (died 1992), Australian

Deaths

 * June 23 – Kunikida Doppo 國木田 獨歩 (born 1871), Japanese Meiji period romantic poet and one of the novelists who pioneered naturalism in Japan
 * October 21 – Charles Eliot Norton, 80, scholar and man of letters
 * Also:
 * Ernest Fenollosa
 * Alexander L. Posey
 * James Ryder Randall
 * Edmund Clarence Steadman