1932 in Poetry - Births

Births

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

• January 2 – Peter Redgrove (died 2003) British poet
• January 19 – George Mann MacBeth (died 1992) Scottish poet and novelist
• February 6 – Shankha Ghosh, Bengali poet and critic
• February 12 – Hugh Fox, (died 2011), U.S. novelist and poet who was a founder of the Pushcart Prize.
• March 16 – Harold Monro (born 1879), English poet, proprietor of the Poetry Bookshop in London
• March 18 – John Updike (died 2009), American novelist, short story writer, essayist, poet and writer
• May 7 – Jenny Joseph, English
• June 18 – Geoffrey Hill, English poet and academic at Boston University
• June 29 – Philip Hobsbaum (died 2005) English teacher, poet and critic
• August 16 – Christopher Okigbo, Nigerian poet, who died in 1967 fighting for the independence of Biafra
• September 18 – Henri Meschonnic (died 2009), French poet, linguist, translator and theoretician
• October 20 – Michael McClure, American poet and playwright
• October 24 – Adrian Mitchell, English poet and playwright
• October 27 – Sylvia Plath, American poet and novelist (The Bell Jar)
• December 11 – Keith Waldrop, American poet, prose stylist, visual artist. With wife Rosmarie Waldrop, founding editor of the influential and innovative Burning Deck Press.

• Also:
  • Alauddin Al-Azad, 77 (died 2009), Bengali novelist, writer, poet, literary critic and academic
  • Jergen Becker, German
  • Patrick Cullinan, South African poet
  • Douglas Livingstone, (died 1996) South African poet born in Malaysia
  • Linda Pastan, American poet
  • Eugene Perkins, African American poet
  • Peter William Redgrove (died 2003), British poet, novelist, playwright, and author of books on women's health
  • Linda M. Stitt, Canadian poet
  • Rosemary Tonks, British poet