1943 in Poetry - Events

Events

  • September 12 – Abraham Sutzkever, a Polish Jew writing poetry in Yiddish, escapes the Vilna Ghetto with his wife and hides in the forests. Sutzkever and fellow Yiddish poet Shmerke Kaczerginsky, fight against the Nazis as partisans. During the Nazi era, Sutzkever wrote more than eighty poems, whose manuscripts he manages to save for postwar publication.
  • Ottawa native Elizabeth Smart moves permanently to England.
  • Philip Larkin graduates from Oxford and obtains his first post as a librarian.
  • Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels closes theaters and publishers in Germany.
  • Ezra Pound, still in Italy, is indicted for treason by the United States Attorney General.
  • Focus magazine founded in Jamaica.
  • Poetry Scotland magazine founded in Glasgow.

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