2006 in poetry
Events
- Somebody, somewhere, wrote a poem.
- French public notary Patrick Huet unveils Pieces of Hope to the Echo of the World in Lyon. It is reportedly the longest modern hand-written poem in the world.
- March 29 — Grolier Poetry Bookstore is sold.
- BLATT, an English-language literary magazine and publishing imprint is started in Prague, Czech Republic.
- May — The Poetry Out Loud recitation contest is created this year by the National Endowment for the Arts and The Poetry Foundation to increase awareness in the art of performing poetry, with a top prize a $20,000 scholarship. State finalists performed in Washington D.C. during the second week of May.
- November 1 — A Sylvia Plath sonnet from her college years was discovered and first published by Blackbird, an online literary journal run by the English Department at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia.
- November — The most influential American poets of all time are Walt Whitman, T.S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, and Sylvia Plath, according to Christian Wiman, editor of Poetry Magazine. Wiman named the poets in a sidebar article to a December The Atlantic Monthly cover story about the "100 Most Influential Americans" — no poet made it on that larger list.[1]
- November 10 — A new series, "The Best of Irish Poetry" was launched by Southword Editions in Ireland with the 80-page The Best of Irish Poetry 2007 The project is under the direction of Patrick Cotter, with Colm Breathnach as Irish-language editor and Maurice Riordan as English-language (or Hiberno-English) editor. "Quite often readers abroad are presented with a selection of Irish poets restricted to those who are first published in the USA or the UK," Cotter wrote. "This annual series will present a more general selection generated by more informed pundits."[2]
Works published in English
- Chandrashekhar Bhattacharya, Tomake Ebong Tomake: Poems (Manaswini Publication), Bangladesh
- Robert Adamson The Goldfinches of Baghdad
- Robert Gray, Nameless Earth
- Margaret Avison, Momentary Dark
- George Elliott Clarke, Black. Vancouver: Polestar, ISBN 1551929031
- Don McKay:
- Strike/Slip winner of the 2007 Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize and the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize)[3]
- Field Marks: The Poetry of Don McKay edited by Méira Cook
- Seamus Heaney, District and Circle (Faber & Faber)
- Geoffrey Hill: Without Title
- Hugo Williams, Dear Room, (Faber and Faber)
- Elizabeth Bishop, Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragments, Alice Quinn, editor (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) posthumous
- Charles Bukowski, Come On In!: New Poems (Ecco)
- Hayden Carruth, Toward the Distant Islands: New and Selected Poems
- Robert Creeley, On Earth: Last Poems and an Essay (University of California Press)
- Michael Dumanis and Cate Marvin, Editors, Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century (Sarabande Books)
- Daisy Fried, My Brother Is Getting Arrested Again (University of Pittsburgh Press), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry
- Jack Gilbert:
- Tough Heaven: Poems of Pittsburgh
- Transgressions: Selected Poems
- Allen Ginsberg, Collected Poems, 1947-1997 (posthumous), one of the New York Times "100 Notable Books of the Year", an expanded edition of the 1984 Collected Poems, 1947-1980
- Jesse Glass, The Passion of Phineas Gage and Selected Poems (West House/Ahadada)
- Louise Glück, Averno (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), one of the New York Times "100 Notable Books of the Year"
- Donald Hall, White Apples and the Taste of Stone: Selected Poems 1946-2006 (Houghton Mifflin)
- Suheir Hammad, ZataarDiva, book and CD (Cypher/Rattapallax)
- Jim Harrison, Saving Daylight (Copper Canyon Press) ISBN 1-55659-235-3
- Jane Hirshfield, After: Poems, (HarperCollins), named as one of the best books of the year by The Washington Post
- Paul Hoover, Edge and Fold (Apogee Press)
- Frieda Hughes, Forty-Five (HarperCollins)
- Troy Jollimore, Tom Thomson in Purgatory (MARGIE/Intuit House), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry
- Patricia Spears Jones, Femme du Monde: Poems, (Tia Chucha Press)
- Mary Karr, Sinners Welcome: Poems (HarperCollins)
- Galway Kinnell, Strong Is Your Hold (Houghton Mifflin Books), the poet's first collection of new poems in more than a decade, one of the New York Times "100 Notable Books of the Year"
- Hannah Nijinsky and John Most, Persephone (AQP Collective)
- Alice Notley, Grave of Light: New and Selected Poems 1970-2005 (Wesleyan University Press)
- Mary Oliver, Thirst (Beacon Press)
- Ishmael Reed, New and Collected Poems, 1964-2006, one of the New York Times "100 Notable Books of the Year"
- Lisa Robertson, The Men: A Lyric Book (BookThug) ISBN 0973974257
- Miltos Sachtouris, Poems (1945 - 1971), bilingual edition, Greek with English translation by Karen Emmerich (Archipelago Books), finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry
- Frederick Seidel, Ooga-Booga, (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry
- Julie Sheehan, Orient Point: Poems, (W.W. Norton & Co.)
- Patricia Smith, Teahouse of the Almighty: Poems, selected by Ed Sanders (Coffee House Press, 2006)
- W.D. Snodgrass, Not For Specialists, New and Selected Poems, (BOA Editions, Ltd.), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry
- Mark Strand, Man and Camel (Alfred A. Knopf)
- Rosmarie Waldrop:
- Splitting Image (Zasterle)
- Curves to the Apple (New Directions)
- Alicia E. Vasquez, 1719 Union St. (Wasteland Press)
- Eliot Weinberger, Muhammed, (Verso, W.W. Norton & Co.)
- Jack Wiler, Fun Being Me: Poems (CavanKerry Press, Ltd.)
- Charles Wright, Scar Tissue, (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
- Franz Wright, God's Silence (Alfred A. Knopf)
- Louis Zukofsky, Selected Poems, [American Poets Project], (Library of America; distributed by Penguin Putnam, Inc. , New York), posthumous
Poets included in New Writing 14
This book of British writing (Granta, ISBN 1-86207-850-5), edited by Lavinia Greenlaw and Helon Habila, contains short stories, essays and excerpts of novels in addition to poems by these poets:
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Poets included in The Best American Poetry 2006
Poets included in The Best American Poetry 2006, edited by David Lehman, co-edited this year by Billy Collins:
Poets in Best New Zealand Poems
Poems from these 25 poets were selected by Andrew Johnston for Best New Zealand Poems 2005, published online this year:
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Awards and honors
- Griffin Poetry Prize (Canada): Sylvia Legris, Nerve Squall
- Griffin Poetry Prize (International, in the English Language): Kamau Brathwaite, Born to Slow Horses
- Pat Lowther Award
- Prix Alain-Grandbois
- Shaunt Basmajian Chapbook Award
- Forward Poetry Prize Best Collection: Robin Robertson for Swithering.
- Forward Poetry Prize Best First Collection: Tishani Doshi, for Countries of the Body.
- Forward Poetry Prize Best Single Poem: Sean O'Brien, for "Fantasia on a Theme of James Wright".
- T. S. Eliot Prize (United Kingdom and Ireland): Seamus Heaney, for District and Circle
- Costa Book Awards (formerly Whitbread Award) for poetry: John Haynes for Letter to Patience
- Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Fleur Adcock
- American Academy of Arts and Letters: poets Paul Auster and Frank Bidart elected to the Literature Department
- Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress: Donald Hall appointed
- Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition Awards: Moira Linehan, If No Moon
- James Laughlin Award for poetry: Tracy K. Smith
- National Book Award for poetry: Nathaniel Mackey, Splay Anthem, New Directions
- Finalists: Louise Glück, Averno, Farrar, Straus & Giroux; H.L. Hix, Chromatic, Etruscan Press; Ben Lerner, Angle of Yaw, Copper Canyon Press; James McMichael, Capacity, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
- National Poetry Review Book Prize: Bryan Penberthy, Lucktown.
- Poets' Prize: Catherine Tufariello, Keeping My Name
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (United States): Claudia Emerson, Late Wife
- Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award: John Hollander
- Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize: Richard Wilbur
- Whiting Writers' Award (poetry winners): Sherwin Bitsui, Tyehimba Jess, Suji Kwock Kim
- Wallace Stevens Award: Michael Palmer
- Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition: Jessica Fisher, Frail-Craft; Judge: Louise Glück
- Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Carl Phillips
From the Poetry Society of America
- Frost Medal: Maxine Kumin
- Shelley Memorial Award: George Stanley (poet), Judges: Sonia Sanchez, Joshua Clover
- Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award: Nicole Cooley, "The Anatomical Museum", Judge: Gerald Stern
- Cecil Hemley Memorial Award: Rusty Morrison, "Sky Clutches Any Strong Beat", Judge: Cal Bedient
- Lanan Literary Award for Poetry: Bruce Weigl
- Lyric Poetry Award: Alice Jones, "Valle D'Aosta", Judge: Toi Derricotte
- Lucille Medwick Memorial Award: Lynne Knight, "Recovery", Judge: Grace Schulman
- Finalists: Amy Dryansky, Somewhere Honey from Those Bees; J.C. Todd, What's Left;
- Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award (for a manuscript in progress): G.C. Waldrep, Archicembalo,
- Finalists: John Isles, The Arcadia Negotiations; Wayne Miller, The Book of Props; Emily Rosko, Weather Inventions; Judge: Forrest Gander
- Louise Louis/Emily F. Bourne Student Poetry Award: Katherine Browning, "to discover the cartography of blankness", Judge: Prageeta Sharma
- George Bogin Memorial Award: Kevin Prufer
- Finalists: Susan Briante, Jill McDonough, Judge: Marie Howe
- Robert H. Winner Memorial Award: Daneen Wardrop, Archicembalo, Judge: Jean Valentine
- Norma Farber First Book Award: Cammy Thomas, Cathedral of Wish, Judge: Medbh McGuckian
- William Carlos Williams Award: Brenda Hillman, Pieces of Air in the Epic, Judge: Marjorie Welish
- Finalists: Ethan Paquin, The Violence (Ahsahta Press); Aaron Shurin, Involuntary Lyrics (Omnidawn Press)
Deaths
| January 4 | Irving Layton, 93 | Canadian poet |
| February 21 | Gennadiy Aygi, 71 | Chuvash/Russian poet |
| February 25 | Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin, 69 | Ethiopian poet laureate, in New York |
| March 3 | Ivor Cutler | Scots poet |
| March 15 | Ken Brewer, 64 | American poet |
| March 27 | Ian Hamilton Finlay, 80 | Scots poet, writer, artist, gardener |
| May 9 | Jerzy Ficowski, 81 | Polish poet, writer and translator |
| May 14 | Stanley Kunitz, 100 | former U.S. Poet Laureate |
| May 18 | Gilbert Sorrentino, 77 | American novelist and poet |
| June 26 | Jim Simmerman, 54 | American poet |
| July 6 | Lisa Bellear, 45 | Australian poet |
| July 14 | Patricia Goedicke | American poet, of pneumonia |
| July 26 | Louise Bennett-Coverley | Jamaican folk poet known as "Miss Lou" |
| July 30 | Trinidad Sánchez Jr., 63 | American Chicano performer/poet (stroke complications) |
| November 27 | Győző Határ, 92 | Hungarian poet and writer |
| November 29 | Mario Cesariny, 83 | Portuguese painter and surrealist poet |
| December 2 | kari edwards, 52 | poet, artist and gender activist |
Notes and references
- ^ Wiman, Christian, "An Expert's Opinion: Influential Poets", The Atlantic Monthly, December 2006, released in November, page 75
- ^ [1] "New Irish Anthology Series Launched", post dated December 1, 2006 at the Poetry International Web site, accessed December 18, 2006
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
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- [2] "A Timeline of English Poetry" Web page of the Representative Poetry Online Web site, University of Toronto
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