1953 in poetry

Poets in the anthology Images of Tomorrow

John Heath-Stubbs edited this volume, published in the United Kingdom, which included poems from these writers: Dannie Abse – Drummond Allison – Eurasia Anderson - William Bell – Thomas Blackburn – Maurice Carpenter - Alex Comfort – Yorke Crompton – N. K. Cruikshank – Keith Douglas – George Every – John Fairfax – G. S. Fraser – John Gibbs – W. S. Graham - F. Pratt Green – J. C. Hall – Michael Hamburger – John Heath-Stubbs – Glyn Jones – Sidney Keyes – Francis King – James Kirkup – Norman Nicholson – I. R. Orton – Michael Paffard – Kathleen Raine – Anne Ridler – Walter Roberts – W. R. Rodgers – Joseph Rykwert – John Smith – Muriel Spark – Derek Stanford – J. Ormond Thomas – W. Price Turner – John Wain – John Waller – Vernon Watkins – Gordon Wharton - Margaret Willy – David Wright

Canada, in French

• Jean-Guy Pilon, La fiancée du matin: poèmes, Montréal: Éditions Amicitia^[17]

France

• Yves Bonnefoy, Du mouvement et de l'immobilité de douve^[18]
• Rene-Guy Cadou, Helene ou le regne vegetal, Volume 2 (see Volume 1 1952), published posthumously (died 1951)^[19]
• Maurice Chappaz, Testament du Haut-Rhône, Swiss, French-language
• Andrée Chedid, Textes pour le vivant^[19]
• Jean Follain, Territoires^[20]
• Philippe Jaccottet, L'Effraie et autres poèmes, the author's first book of poetry to appear in France; publisher: Gallimard^[21]
• Saint-John Perse, Vents^[20]

Kannada

• R. S. Mugali, Kannada Sahitya Caritre, a history of Kannada literature, written in that language, up to the 19th century^[11]
• Siddayya Puranika, Jalapata, lyrics^[11]
• Virasaiva Sahitya Mttu Itihasa, literary history of "Veerashaiva" literature in three volumes^[11]

Kashmiri

• Amir Shah Kreri, Zafar Nama, a masnavi commemorating an episode of Islamic conquest and based on a Persian original; the poem became very popular in some rural areas^[11]
• Mohammad Amin Kamil, Saqi Nama, a masnavi^[11]
• Rasul Bath ("most probably the same person known now as Rasul Pompur", according to Indian academic Sisir Kumar Das), Ab e Hayat^[11]
• Rahman Rahi, Sanavany Saz^[11]
• Rasa Javidani, Tuhfa-e bahar, the Urdu-language poet's first book of Kashmiri-language poems^[11]

Malayalam

• Elamkulam Kunjan Pillai, Unninilisandesam, commentary on a 14th-century Manipravala poem^[11]
• K. Kittunni Nayar, Mahakavi Vallattol, biography of the poet Vallathol^[11]
• Ulloor Paramesvara Ayyar, Kerala Sahitya Caritram, in 1995, Indian academic Sisir Kumar Das called this book the "most comprehensive history of the Malayalam and Sanskrit literatures of Kerala"; published posthumously, in five volumes, starting this year, with the last volume coming out in 1955^[11]

Other languages of the Indian subcontinent

• Ananta Pattanayak, Santisikhar, Oriya^[11]
• Felix Paul Noronha, writing in the Konkani dialect of the Marathi language:
  • Kaviyam Jhelo^[11]
  • Kristanu Puranatli Vinchovan^[11]
• Ghulan Rabbani Taban, editor, Shikast-i zindan, Urdu-language poems about the independence struggle in India and other Asian countries^[11]
• Kripal Singh Kasel and Parminder Singh, Punjabi Sahit Di Utpatti Te Vikas, history of Punjabi literature, written in that language^[11]
• Lekhnath Poudyal, Tarun-Tapasi, a poem on contemporary affairs written mostly in the Sikharini meter; considered the magnum opus of the author, who calls it a navya kavya; Nepali^[11]
• Nagarjun, Yug Dhara, poems on current affairs; Hindi^[11]
• Narayan, also known as "Shyam", Rupa maya, a sequence of 16 sonnets on the myth of Visvamitra and Menaka; Sindhi^[11]
• Nanuram Samskarta, Samay Vayaro, in blank verse; Rajasthani^[11]
• Nidudavolu Venkatarao, Telugu Kavula Caritra, biographical information about many Telugu poets (see also a larger work of the same nature, Daksina Desiyandhra Vangmayamu 1954)^[11]
• Nilmani Phookan, Surya Heno Nami Aahe Eyi Nadiadi, Rangiya, Assam: Prakashan Ghar, Assamese-language^[22]
• Priyakant Maniar, Pratik, the author's first book of verses; 65 poems Gujarati^[11]
• Shri Shrimat Kumar Vyas, editor, Alagojo, anthology of poems by Rajasthani authors^[11]
• Sudhindra Nath Datta, Sambarta, called "[o]ne of the major works in modern Bengali poetry", according to Sisir Kumar Das^[11]