1926 in poetry

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

Events

 * The remains of English war poet Isaac Rosenberg, killed in World War I (1918) at the age of 28 and originally buried in a mass grave, are re-interred at Bailleul Road East Cemetery, Plot V, St. Laurent-Blangy, Pas de Calais, France.
 * Poetry Bookshop in Bloomsbury, London, closes

Canada

 * William Henry Drummond, Complete Poems, posthumously published.
 * Wilson MacDonald, Out Of The Wilderness. Ottawa: Graphic Publishers.
 * E. J. Pratt, Titans ("The Cachalot, The Great Feud"), Toronto: Macmillan.
 * Theodore Goodridge Roberts, The Lost Shipmate. Toronto: Ryerson Chapbook.
 * Duncan Campbell Scott, Collected Poems.
 * Frederick George Scott, In Sun and Shade: A Book of Verse] (Québec: Dussault & Proulx).

India in English

 * Swami Anand Acharya, Arctic Swallows and Other Poems ( Poetry in English ),
 * The Spirit of Oriental Poetry, London: Kegal Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 232 pages; anthology; published in the United Kingdom
 * Krishnala M. Jhaveri, Further Milestones in Gujarati Literature written in English and translated into Gujarati; scholarship and criticism

United Kingdom

 * Frank Ashton-Gwatkin (as John Paris), A Japanese Don Juan and other Poems
 * Edmund Blunden, English Poems
 * W. H. Davies, The Birth of Song
 * Loyd Haberly, Cymberina, American poet self-published in the United Kingdom
 * Hugh MacDiarmid, pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve:
 * A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle
 * Penny Wheep
 * Edwin Muir, Chorus of the Newly Dead
 * Laura Riding, The Close Chaplet
 * Vita Sackville-West, The Land
 * Siegfried Sassoon, Satirical Poems
 * Kenneth Slessor, Earth-Visitors, London: Fanfrolico Press, Australian poet published in the United Kingdom
 * The Spirit of Oriental Poetry, London: Kegal Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 232 pages; anthology; Indian poetry in English, published in the United Kingdom
 * Humbert Wolfe:
 * Humoresque
 * News of the Devil
 * W. B. Yeats, Autobiographies (autobiography), volume 6 of the Collected Edition published by Macmillan

United States

 * Willa Cather, My Mortal Enemy
 * Hart Crane, White Buildings
 * Countee Cullen, On These I Stand, Harper & Row
 * E. E. Cummings, is 5
 * John Gould Fletcher, Branches of Adam
 * Langston Hughes, The Weary Blues
 * Vachel Lindsay:
 * Going to the Stars
 * The Candle in the Cabin
 * Amy Lowell, East Wind
 * Archibald MacLeish, Streets in the Moon, including "The End of the World"
 * Edgar Lee Masters, Lee: A Dramatic Poem
 * John G. Neihardt, Collected Poems
 * Dorothy Parker, Enough Rope
 * Ezra Pound, Personae: The Collected Poems
 * Sara Teasdale, Dark of the Moon
 * Edith Wharton, Twelve Poems
 * Louis Zukofsky completes "Poem beginning 'The'," incorporating fragments of the writings of Dante, Virginia Woolf, and Benito Mussolini, among others

Other in English

 * W. F. Alexander and A. E. Currie, editors, A Treasury of New Zealand Verse, revised version (without preface) of New Zealand Verse, published in 1906, anthology
 * Kenneth Slessor, Earth-Visitors, London: Fanfrolico Press, Australian poet published in the United Kingdom

France

 * Louis Aragon, Le Mouvement Perpetuel, influenced by Surrealism
 * Paul Éluard, pen name of Paul-Eugène Grindel:
 * Dessous d'une vie
 * Capitale de la douleur ("Capital of Pain"); the poems influence Jean-Luc Godard's 1965 film Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution which has quotations from the book
 * Francis Jammes, Ma France poétique, Paris: Mercure de France; France
 * Pierre Jean Jouve:
 * Mystérieuses Noces
 * Nouvelles Noces

Indian subcontinent
Including all of the British colonies that later become India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Listed alphabetically by first name, regardless of surname:
 * Ahmad Din, Iqbal, a critical work on the poetry of Sir Mohammad Iqbal, Indian, Urdu-language
 * Mohanlal Dalicand Desai, Jain Gurjar Kavio, Volume 1, literary history written in Gujarati, delving into Jain poets and including a list of manuscripts; in 1995, Indian literary scholar Sisir Kumar Das calls it a "very useful and important work for students of Gujarati literature" (see also Volume 2 in 1931, Volume 3 1964)
 * Ramanbhai Nilkanth, Kavita Ane Sahitya, four volumes of Gujarati poetry and prose; Volume 1, articles on prosody and rhetoric; Volume 2, articles on practical criticism; Volume 3, occasional lectures and essays; Volume 4 (published in 1929), some poems, short stories and essays on humor
 * S. Sonusundara Bharati, Tacaratan Kuraiyum Kaikeyi Niraiyum, literary criticism in Tamil

Peru

 * Enrique Bustamante y Ballivián, Antipoemas
 * Alejandro Peralta, Ande
 * Enrique Peña Barrenechea, El aroma en la sombra

Other in Spanish

 * Rafael Alberti, La amante ("The Beloved"); Spain
 * Germán List Arzubide, El movimiento estridentista, Mexico (history)
 * Federico García Lorca, Oda a Salvador Dalí ("Ode to Salvador Dalí"), Spain
 * Xavier Villaurrutia, Reflejos, Mexico

Other languages

 * Uri Zvi Greenberg, Ha-Gavrut Ha-Olah ("Manhood on the Rise"), Hebrew language, Mandatory Palestine
 * Tin Ujević, Kolajna ("Necklace"), Croatian

Awards and honors

 * Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Amy Lowell, What's O'Clock

Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * January 5 – W. D. Snodgrass (died 2009), American poet, academic and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1960
 * February 4 – Albert Saijo (died 2011), Japanese-American poet
 * February 18 – A. R. Ammons (died 2001), American author and poet
 * February 25 – Russell Atkins, African-American concrete poet, musician and playwright
 * March 3 – James Merrill (died 1995), American poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1977
 * March 22 – Alastair Reid (died 2014), Scottish poet and scholar of South American literature
 * April 18 – Niranjan Bhagat (died 2018), Indian poet and critic writing in Gujarati and English
 * May 4 – Allen Mandelbaum (died 2011), American poet and translator
 * May 21 – Robert Creeley (died 2005), American poet and author associated with the Black Mountain poets
 * May 26 – Phyllis Gotlieb (died 2009), Canadian science fiction novelist and poet
 * June 3 – Allen Ginsberg (died 1997), American Beat poet
 * June 5 – David Wagoner, American poet and novelist
 * June 25 – Ingeborg Bachmann (died 1973), Austrian poet and author
 * June 27 – Frank O'Hara (died 1966), American poet and key member of the New York School of poetry
 * June 29 – James K. Baxter (died 1972), New Zealand poet
 * July 7 – Anand Mohan Zutshi Gulzar Dehlvi (died 2020), Indian Urdu poet
 * July 17 – Nikos Karouzos (died 1990), Greek poet
 * July 18 – Elizabeth Jennings (died 2001), English poet
 * August 15 – Sukanta Bhattacharya (died 1947), Bengali poet and playwright
 * September 1 – James Reaney (died 2008), Canadian poet, playwright and literary critic
 * November 5 – John Berger (died 2017), English novelist, painter, art critic and poet
 * November 11 – José Manuel Caballero (died 2021) Spanish poet and novelist
 * November 23 – Christopher Logue (died 2011), English poet, playwright, screen writer and actor associated with the British Poetry Revival
 * November 24 – Paul Blackburn (died 1971), American poet
 * December 23 – Robert Bly, American poet, author and leader of the mythopoetic men's movement in the United States
 * December 26 – Nabakanta Barua, also known as Ekhud Kokaideu (died 2002), Assamese-language Indian novelist and poet

Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * January 10 – Eino Leino, 47 (born 1878), Finnish poet and journalist
 * January 20 – Charles Montagu Doughty, 82 (born 1843), English poet, writer and traveller
 * April 7 – Ozaki Hōsai 尾崎 放哉 pen name of Ozaki Hideo, 41 (born 1885), Japanese late Meiji period and Taishō period poet (surname of this pen name: Ozaki)
 * May 30 – Perceval Gibbon, 46 (born 1879), Welsh-born journalist, short-story writer and poet
 * June 15 – Francis Joseph Sherman, 55 (born 1871), Canadian poet
 * July 19 – Ada Cambridge (married name was Cross, but she kept her maiden name as her pen name), 81 (born 1844), English writer and poet living in Australia after 1870
 * August 1 – Israel Zangwill, 62 (born 1864), English writer and poet
 * October 9 – Helena Nyblom, 82 (born 1843), Danish-born poet and writer of fairy tales
 * November 17 – George Sterling, 56 (born 1869), American poet
 * December 29 – Rainer Maria Rilke, 51 (born 1875), German poet, from leukemia