# 1932 in poetry

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

## Events

* April 23 – Opening of Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C.
* April 26 – 32-year-old American poet Hart Crane throws himself overboard from the steamship Orizaba in the Gulf of Mexico en route from Mexico to New York in a state of alcoholic depression; his body is never recovered.
* July – W. B. Yeats leases Riversdale house in the Dublin suburb of Rathfarnham.
* 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 Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard University (published in 1933 as The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism).

## Works published in English
### Canada

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

### India, in English

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

### United Kingdom

* Æ, 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
* Lord Alfred Douglas and others, ed. by John Gawsworth, Known Signatures: new poems
* Lawrence Durrell, Ten Poems
* T. S. Eliot, Selected Essays 1917–1932, criticism
* Thomas Hardy, Collected Poems
* Julian 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
* Aeneas Francon Williams, Dream Drift, by a Young Lover
* S. Fowler Wright, The Life Of Sir Walter Scott, biography
* 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
* Mary Elizabeth Frye, "Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep"
* 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

## Works published in other languages
### 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 Anantha Krishna 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

### Spanish language
#### 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), English poet
* January 5 – Douglas Livingstone (died 1996), Malaysian-born South African poet
* January 19 – George MacBeth (died 1992) Scottish-born poet and novelist
* February 6 – Shankha Ghosh (died 2021), Bengali poet and critic
* February 12 – Hugh Fox, (died 2011), American novelist and poet, a founder of the Pushcart Prize
* March 18 – John Updike (died 2009), American novelist, short story writer, essayist, poet and writer
* April 10 – Adrian Henri (died 2000), English member of the Liverpool poets
* April 11 – Bienvenido Lumbera (died 2021), Filipino poet, critic and dramatist
* May 6 – Alauddin Al-Azad (died 2009), Bengali novelist, writer, poet, literary critic and academic
* May 7
** Jenny Joseph (died 2018), English poet
** Yadollah Royaee (died 2022), Iranian poet
* May 25 – Patrick Cullinan (died 2011), South African poet
* May 27 – Linda Pastan, American poet
* June 18 – Geoffrey Hill (died 2016), English poet and academic at Boston University
* June 29
** Philip Hobsbaum (died 2005), English teacher, poet and critic
** Ror Wolf (died 2020), German poet and writer
* July 10 – Martin Green (died 2015), English author, poet and publisher
* July 18 – Yevgeny Yevtushenko (died 2017), Soviet Russian poet and writer
* July 21 – Marie-Claire Bancquart (died 2019), French poet and critic
* August 16 – Christopher Okigbo (died in Biafran War 1967), Nigerian poet
* September 18 – Henri Meschonnic (died 2009), French poet, linguist, translator and theoretician
* September 13 – Eugene Perkins, African-American poet
* October 9 – Seda Vermisheva (died 2020), Soviet Armenian-Russian poet, economist and activist
* October 17 – Rosemary Tonks (died 2014), English poet
* October 20 – Michael McClure (died 2020), American poet and playwright
* October 24 – Adrian Mitchell (died 2008), English poet and playwright
* October 27 – Sylvia Plath (suicide 1963), American-born 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:
** Jergen Becker, German
** Linda M. Stitt, Canadian poet

## Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
* March 16 – Harold Monro, 53 (born 1879), English poet and proprietor of the Poetry Bookshop in London which helped many famous poets bring their work before the public
* April 8 – Hubert Church, 74 (born 1857), Australian poet
* April 27 – Hart Crane, 32 (born 1899), American poet, by suicide
* June 21 – حافظ إبراهيم Hafez Ibrahim, 60 (born 1871), Egyptian "poet of the Nile"
* August 29 – Raymond Knister, 33 (born 1899), Canadian novelist, short story writer and poet, drowned in a swimming accident
* October 5 – Christopher Brennan, 61 (born 1870), Australian poet
* October 14 – أحمد شوقي Ahmed Shawqi, 64 (born 1868), Egyptian poet
* November 19 – Clinton Scollard, 72 (born 1860), American poet
* December 18 – Edmund Vance Cooke, 66 (born 1866), Canadian American poet