1918 in Poetry - Births

Births

Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:

• February 1 – Muriel Spark (dued 2006), Scottish novelist and poet
• February 17 – William Bronk (died 1999), American poet
• April 15 – Louis Coxe, American poet
• April 23 – James Kirkup, English poet, translator and travel writer
• May 10 – Jane Mayhall (died 2009), American poet and novelist.
• July 9 – John Heath-Stubbs (died 2006), English poet and translator
• August 23 – Vinda Karandikar, also known as C. V. Karandikar, Indian, Marathi-language poet, critic and translator
• November 16 – Nicholas Moore (died 1986), English poet, associated with the New Apocalyptics in the 1940s, who later dropped out of the literary world
• November 19 – W. S. Graham (died 1986), Scotts poet often associated with Dylan Thomas and the neo-romantic poets
• December 8 – Hans Børli (died 1989), Norwegian poet, novelist and writer
• December 30 – Al Purdy (died 2000), a popular Canadian poet

• Also:
  • M. Gopalakrishna Adiga (died 1992), Indian, Kannada-language poet often said to be the pioneer of the "navya" (modernist) literary movement in Karnataka
  • Indra Dev Bhojvani, also known as "Indur", Indian, Sindhi-language
  • Ram Narain Singh Dardi, Indian, Punjabi-language poet who wrote in the Lahndi dialect
  • Maheswar Neog, Indian, Assamese-language scholar and poet
  • Shimizu Motoyoshi 清水基吉, Japanese Showa and Heisei period novelist and poet (surname: Shimizu)
  • Siddayya Puranika, Indian, Kannada-language poet
  • Amritdhari Singha, Indian, Maithili-language writer, philosopher and poet