Events
- December 19 - Philip Larkin turns down the British Poet Laureateship, and Ted Hughes becomes Poet Laureate.
- After Ghazi al-Gosaibi, the Saudi Arabian minister of health, publishes a poem, "A Pen Bought and Sold", that criticized the corruption and privilege of the country's elite, he was fired from his post.
Read more about this topic: 1984 In Poetry
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