Events
- James Laughlin founds New Directions Publishers in New York, which published many modern poets for the first time;
- Martin Starkie founds Oxford University Poetry Society in Oxford, England.
- May — In Nazi Germany, the SS magazine Das Schwarze Korps attacked the expressionist and experimental poetry of German Gottfried Benn as degenerate, Jewish, and homosexual.
- William Butler Yeats begins delivering broadcast lectures on the BBC (the lectures continue into 1937), and makes recordings of his own verse.
- August 19 – Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca, age 37, is executed with others at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War
- Canadian Poetry Magazine founded by the Canadian Authors Association, with E. J. Pratt's active involvement. It becomes associated with more traditional poetry, very popular in Canada at this time.
Read more about this topic: 1936 In Poetry
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