1587 in poetry

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

Events

 * Jean-Antoine de Baif awarded the Golden Apollo by the Jeux Floraux de Toulouse, in France
 * French King Henri of Navarre sends Guillaume Du Bartas on a diplomatic mission to Scotland and England.

Great Britain

 * Thomas Churchyard, The Worthiness of Wales, mostly verse
 * Angel Day, Daphnis and Chloe, prose and poetry; a translation from the French of Jacques Amyot
 * George Gascoigne, The Whole Woorkes of George Gascoigne Esquyre [sic], posthumously published (see also A Hundreth Sundrie Flowres [sic] 1573, The Posies of George Gascoigne [sic] 1575)
 * George Turberville, Tragicall Tales [sic], translations from Mambrino Roseo and Boccaccio's Decameron
 * George Whetstone, Sir Philip Sidney, his Honourable Life, his Valiant Death, and his True Vertues [sic], in verse (see "Deaths" section)

Other

 * François de Malherbe, Les Larmes de Saint Pierre, presented to Henry III of France, a florid, mannered poem which the author later disowned, France
 * Cristóbal de Virués, El Monserrate, Spain
 * Jean Papire Masson, a book on the lives of Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio, published in Paris, France

Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * September 18 – Francesca Caccini (died 1641), Italian early Baroque composer, singer, lutenist, poet and music teacher
 * October 18 – Lady Mary Wroth (died c. 1651), English poet
 * November 17 – Joost van den Vondel (died 1679), Dutch writer considered the most prominent Dutch poet and playwright of the 17th century
 * Also:
 * Francis Kynaston (died 1642), English courtier, poet and translator
 * Yun Seon-do (died 1671), Korean poet and government official

Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * February 8 – Mary, Queen of Scots (born 1542), deposed queen regnant and occasional French-language poet, executed
 * November – Madeleine Des Roches (born c. 1520) and her daughter, Catherine Des Roches (born 1542), both died of an epidemic on the same day; together they collectively published French prose and poetry; the two hosted a literary circle which included Scévole de Sainte-Marthe, Barnabé Brisson, René Chopin, Antoine Loisel, Claude Binet, Nicolas Rapin and Odet de Turnèbe
 * date not known – George Whetstone died about this year (born c. 1544), English playwright, poet and author (see "Works published" section)