1922 in Poetry - Births

Births

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

• January 22 – Vernon Scannell (died 2007), British poet, author and at one time a professional boxer who has written novels involving the sport
• March 12 – Jack Kerouac (died 1969), American novelist, writer, poet, artist, and part of the Beat Generation school of poetry
• April 16 – Kingsley Amis, English writer and poet
• May 21 – Dorothy Hewett (died 2002), Australian feminist poet, novelist, librettist, and playwright
• June 9 – John Gillespie Magee, Jr. (died 1941) Anglo–American aviator and poet
• June 30 – Amulya Barua (died 1946), first published posthumously in 1964; Indian, writing in Assamese
• July 17 – Donald Davie, English poet and critic who belonged to the Movement
• August 9 – Philip Larkin (died 1985), English poet, novelist and jazz critic
• August 26 – Elizabeth Brewster, Canadian poet and academic
• September 12 – Jackson Mac Low, (died 2004) American poet, performance artist, composer and playwright
• November 25 – Fumiko Nakajo 中城ふみ子, pen name of Noe Fumiko 野江富美子 (died 1954), Japanese tanka poet who died at age 32 after a turbulent life and struggle with breast cancer, as recorded in her poetry
• December 3 – Eli Mandel (died 1992) was a Canadian poet and literary academic

• Also:
  • Aris Alexandrou Άρης Αλεξάνδρου (died 1978), Greek) novelist, poet and translator
  • Peter Bladen, Australian
  • John Bruce
  • Alexander Craig (born 1923), Australian
  • Douglas Grant Lochhead
  • A. L. Hendricks (Jamaica)
  • Sidney Arthur
  • Kilworth Keyes
  • Tasos Livaditis (died 1988), Greek
  • Audrey Longbottom born about this year; ((died 1986), Australian
  • Demetris P. Papaditsas (died 1987), Greek