1893 in poetry

• June 14 – Opening of Shelley Memorial at University College, Oxford (from which the poet was expelled in 1811), designed by Basil Champneys with a reclining nude marble statue of Percy Bysshe Shelley by Edward Onslow Ford
• Founding of Vangiya Sahitya Parishad in Bengal

Canada

• William Wilfred Campbell, The Dread Voyage Poems. Toronto: William Briggs.^[1]
• Bliss Carman, Low Tide at Grand Pré^[2]
• Mary Jane Katzmann, Frankincense and Myrrh: Selections from the poems of the late Mrs. William Lawson (M.J.K.L.). Harry Piers and Constance Fairbanks ed. Halifax.^[3]
• Thomas O'Hagan, In Dreamland and Other Poems^[4]
• Charles G. D. Roberts, Songs of the Common Day^[2]
• Duncan Campbell Scott, The Magic House and Other Poems^[4]
• James Elgin Wetherell, ed. Later Canadian Poems^[5]

Ireland

• Douglas Hyde, editor and translator from the Gaelic, The Love Songs of Connacht, Ireland^[6]
• W. B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom, The Celtic Twilight, poetry and nonfiction^[7]
• W. B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom and Edwin John Ellis, The Works of William Blake, Poetic, Symbolic, and Critical, Quaritch^[8]

United Kingdom

• Wilfred Scawen Blunt, published anonymously, Griselda^[7]
• Katherine Harris Bradley and Edith Emma Cooper, writing under the pen name "Michael Field", Underneath the Bough^[7]
• Robert Bridges, The Humours of the Court: a Comedy; and Other Poems^[7]
• Thomas Edward Brown, Old John, and Other Poems
• John Davidson, Fleet Street Eclogues, first series (see also Fleet Street Eclogues 1896)^[7]
• W. E. Henley, London Voluntaries; The Song of the Sword; and Other Verses^[7]
• George MacDonald, Poetical Works^[7]
• Alice Meynell, Poems^[7]
• Francis Thompson, Poems,^[7] including "The Hound of Heaven"
• W. B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom, The Celtic Twilight, poetry and nonfiction^[7]
• W. B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom, and Edwin John Ellis, editors, The Works of William Blake, Poetic, Symbolic, and Critical, Quaritch^[8]

United States

• Bliss Carman, Low Tide on Grand Pre, Canadian author published in the United States^[9]
• Paul Laurence Dunbar, Oak and Ivy^[9]
• Hamlin Garland, Prairie Songs^[9]
• Louise Imogen Guiney, A Roadside Harp^[9]
• Harriet Monroe, The Columbian Ode^[9]
• James Whitcomb Riley, Poems Here at Home^[9]

Other in English

• Henry Lawson, "Saint Peter", Australia
• Banjo Paterson, "The Geebung Polo Club", first published in The Antipodean, Australia

• Carlo Favetti (died 1892), Rime e prose in vernacolo goriziano (Rhimes and Prose in the Vernacular of Gorizia), Friuli
• Francis Jammes, Vers, (also 1892 and 1894); France^[10]
• Guido Mazzoni, Voci della vita, Italy
• Saint-Pol-Roux, pen name of Paul Roux, Les Reposoirs de la procession, published starting this year and ending in 1907; France^[11]

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• January 3 – W. N. Hodgson (Edward Melbourne) (killed in action 1916), English war poet
• January 10 – Vicente Huidobro (died 1948), Chilean Creacionismo poet and editor
• January 17 – Evelyn Scott (died 1963), American writer and poet
• January 18 – Jorge Guillén (died 1984), Spanish
• February 11 – Nan Shepherd (died 1981), Scottish novelist and poet
• February 26 – Ivor Richards (died 1979), English literary critic
• March 4 – Ewart Alan Mackintosh (killed in action 1917), English war poet of Scottish ancestry
• March 6 – Motokichi Takahashi 高橋元吉 (died 1965), Japanese, Taishō and Shōwa period poet (surname: Takahashi)
• March 18 – Wilfred Owen (killed in action 1918), English war poet
• March 26 – Richard Church (died 1972), English poet
• July 13 – Evan Morgan, 2nd Viscount Tredegar (died 1949), Welsh poet and occultist
• July 19 – Vladimir Mayakovsky (suicide 1930), Russian poet and playwright
• July 26 – George Grosz (died 1959), German artist and poet
• August 22 – Dorothy Parker (died 1967), American writer, poet and wit
• September 6 or 16 – Robert Nichols (died 1944), English war poet
• September 28 – Giannis Skarimpas (died 1984), Greek
• October 9 – Mário de Andrade (died 1945), Brazilian poet and academic
• October 14 – May Wedderburn Cannan (died 1973), English war poet
• October 26
  • Miloš Crnjanski, (died 1977) Serbian poet and novelist
  • Thomas MacGreevy (died 1967), Irish poet and director of the National Gallery of Ireland
• November 3 – Arthur Bourinot (died 1969), Canadian poet and lawyer
• December 4 – Herbert Read (born 1968), English anarchist poet and critic of literature and art
• December 6 – Sylvia Townsend Warner (died 1978), English novelist and poet
• December 30 – Gerald Bullett (died 1958), English writer and poet
• Also – Dharanidhar Sharma Koirala (died 1980), Indian, Nepali-language poet^[12]

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• January 23 – Phillips Brooks (born 1835), American Episcopal clergyman and hymnwriter
• January 15 – Fanny Kemble (born 1809), English author, poet, playwright and actress
• April 19 – John Addington Symonds (born 1840), English poet and literary critic
• August 5 – Sarah T. Bolton, née Barrett (born 1814), American poet
• December 5 – Matsudaira Katamori 松平容保 (born 1836), Japanese samurai and poet in the last days of the Edo period and the early to mid Meiji period (surname: Matsudaira)
• December 9 – Charles Sangster (born 1822), Canadian poet
• Also – Venmani Mahan Namboodiri (born 1844), Indian, Malayalam-language poet associated with the Venmani School of poetry^[13]

• 19th century in poetry
• 19th century in literature
• List of years in poetry
• List of years in literature
• Victorian literature
• French literature of the 19th century
• Symbolist poetry
• Young Poland (Młoda Polska) a modernist period in Polish arts and literature, roughly from 1890 to 1918
• Poetry