Links to nations or nationalities point to articles with information on that nation's poetry or literature. For example, "United Kingdom" links to English poetry and "India" links to Indian poetry.
Events
June 3 – Canadian poet Charles G. D. Roberts is knighted. June 15 Gay English poet W. H. Auden enters a marriage of convenience with Erika Mann. Premiere of T. S. Eliot's verse drama Murder in the Cathedral at Canterbury Cathedral in England. American poet George Oppen joins the Communist Party, where his organizing work will increasingly take precedence over his poetry; he writes no more verse until 1958. Picasso's poetry begins to be written. Tomb of Hafez in Shiraz, Persia, is rebuilt.
Works published in English
Canada
Arthur Bourinot, Selected Poems (1915–1935). E. J. Pratt, The Titanic, Toronto: Macmillan. Kenneth Leslie, Lowlands Low: Poems. Halifax: McCurdy Wilson MacDonald, The Song Of The Undertow and Other Poems. Toronto, Buffalo: S.J.R. Saunders, Broadway. Wilson MacDonald, Quintrains Of "Callender" and Other Poems. Toronto: S.J.R. Saunders. Tom MacInnes, Rhymes of a Rounder, Canada Duncan Campbell Scott, The Green Cloister, Canada Francis Sherman, The Complete Poems of Francis Sherman. Lorne Pierce ed. Toronto: Ryerson.
India, in English
Sundhindra Dutt, Orchestra ( Poetry in English ), Govind Krishna Chettur, The Shadow of God: A Sonnet Sequence ( Poetry in English ), London: Longmans, published in the United Kingdom Nizamat Jung, Islamic Poems ( Poetry in English ), Hyderabad: Government Central Press
United Kingdom
George Barker, Poems
Samuel Beckett, Echo's Bones and Other Precipitates
Norman Cameron, The Winter House
Cecil Day-Lewis: Collected Poems 1929–1933 A Time to Dance, and Other Poems Walter de la Mare, Poems 1919 to 1934 T. S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral Christopher Hassall, Poems of Two Years Eiluned Lewis, December Apples (Welsh poet published in the United Kingdom) Louis MacNeice, Poems Herbert Read, Poems 1914–34 James Reeves, The Natural Need (with preface, in verse, by Laura Riding) Siegfried Sassoon, Vigils Humbert Wolfe: The Fourth of August, sonnets Stings and Wings X at Oberammergau W. B. Yeats, A Full Moon in March, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
United States
John Peale Bishop, Minute Particulars
Robert P. Tristram Coffin, Strange Holiness
Countee Cullen, The Medea and Some Poems
E. E. Cummings, No Thanks
Kenneth Fearing, Poems
John Gould Fletcher, XXIV Elegies
Hamlin Garland, Iowa, O Iowa
Horace Gregory, Chorus for Survival
Robinson Jeffers, Solstice and Other Poems
James Weldon Johnson, Selected Poems
Edgar Lee Masters, Invisible Landscapes
Marianne Moore, Selected Poems
John G. Neihardt, The Song of the Messiah
Edwin Arlington Robinson, King Jasper
Muriel Rukeyser, Theory of Flight
Karl Shapiro, Poems
Wallace Stevens, Ideas of Order, includes "Farewell to Florida", "The Idea of Order at Key West", "Academic Discourse at Havana", "Like Decorations in a Nigger Cemetery", and "A Postcard from the Volcano"), Alcestis Press (enlarged edition, 1936) Robert Penn Warren, Thirty-Six Poems William Carlos Williams, An Early Martyr and Other Poems
Other in English
Allen Curnow (New Zealand): Three Poems (Caxton) Poetry and Language, a brief poetry manifesto (Caxton) C. J. Dennis, The Singing Garden, Australia W. B. Yeats, A Full Moon in March, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom Rex Ingamells, Gumtops, Australia
Works published in other languages
France
René Char, Le Marteau sans maitre
René Daumal, Le Contre-ciel
Paul Éluard, Facile
Francis Jammes: Alouette De tout temps à jamais, Paris: Gallimard Henri Michaux, La Nuit remue Catherine Pozzi (died 1934), "Ave", "Vale", "Scopolamine", "Nova", "Maya" and "Nyx", published in Mesures
Indian subcontinent
Including all of the British colonies which later became India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Listed alphabetically by first name, regardless of surname: