1952 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
August 12 — Night of the Murdered Poets, the execution of thirteen Soviet Jews in the Lubyanka Prison in Moscow, Soviet Union, including several poets.
November — The Group British poetry movement of the 1950s and 1960s began at Downing College, Cambridge University, Philip Hobsbaum along with two friends — Tony Davis and Neil Morris — dissatisfied with the way poetry was read aloud in the university, decided to place a notice in the undergraduate newspaper Varsity for people interested in forming a poetry discussion group. Five others, including Peter Redgrove came along to the first meeting. This poetry discussion group met once a week during term. The group was later moved to London.
E. E. Cummings is appointed to a Charles Eliot Norton Professorship at Harvard.
Contact, a mimeographed poetry magazine, founded by Ramond Souster (ceases publication in 1954; Contact Press, an important publisher of Canadian poetry, also founded (closes in 1967).
