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2006 in poetry

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Events

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Grolier Poetry Bookstore
  • January – The Ogura Hyakunin Isshu Cultural Foundation, founded by the Kyoto, Japan, Chamber of Commerce and Industry, opens the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu Hall of Fame, dedicated to the anthology of 100 poems by 100 poets compiled by Fujiwara no Teika in c. 1235. The popularity of the anthology endures, and a Japanese card game, Uta-garuta, uses cards with the poems printed on it.[1]
  • March 29 – The Grolier Poetry Bookshop in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is sold.
  • May – The Poetry Out Loud recitation contest is created this year by the National Endowment for the Arts and The Poetry Foundation in the United States to increase awareness in the art of performing poetry, with a top prize a $20,000 scholarship. State finalists perform in Washington, D.C. during the second week of the month.
  • July 14
  • August 15 – The existence of two early poems by Ted Hughes, written into a school exercise book, is announced; one an early version of "Song" which appeared in his first collection.[4]
  • November 1 – A Sylvia Plath sonnet from her college years is discovered and first published by Blackbird, an online literary journal run by the English Department at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia.
  • November 10 – A new series, "The Best of Irish Poetry" is 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."[5]
  • 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 names the poets in a sidebar article to a December The Atlantic Monthly cover story about the "100 Most Influential Americans" — no poet makes it on that larger list.[6]
  • 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.
  • BLATT, an English-language literary magazine and publishing imprint is started in Prague, Czech Republic.
  • Pakistani poet Ahmed Faraz, who writes in Urdu, returns one of his country's highest civilian honors, the Hilal-e-Imtiaz, out of disgust with President Pervez Musharraf's government. The prize had been awarded to the poet in 2004 for his literary achievements. "My conscience will not forgive me if I remained a silent spectator of the sad happenings around us", he said. "The least I can do is to let the dictatorship know where it stands in the eyes of the concerned citizens, whose fundamental rights have been usurped."[7]

Works published in English

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Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:

Australia

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See also 2006 in Australian literature

  • Robert Adamson The Goldfinches of Baghdad
  • Ken Babstock, Airstream Land Yacht[8] (Black Inc.), ISBN 978-1-86395-214-9
  • Laurie Duggan, The Passenger, winner of the 2007 Arts Queensland Judith Wright Calanthe Award; St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press
  • Stephen Edgar, Other Summers, 108 pp; named a "Book of the Year" by The Age; Melbourne: Black Pepper, ISBN 978-1-876044-54-1
  • Robert Gray, Nameless Earth
  • Jennifer Harrison: Folly & Grief (Black Pepper) ISBN 978-1-876044-45-9
  • Dennis Haskell, All the Time in the World
  • Judy Johnson, Jack
  • S. K. Kelen, Earthly Delights
  • Chris Mansell, Love poems (Kardoorair, Armidale)
  • Graeme Miles, Phosphorescence
  • Les Murray, The Biplane Houses[8]
  • Dorothy Porter, The Best Australian Poems 2006 (Black, Inc.), ISBN 978-1-86395-262-0
  • Mark Reid, A Difficult Faith
  • Thomas Shapcott, The City of Empty Rooms
  • Craig Sherborne, Necessary Evil, Black Inc., ISBN 978-1-86395-206-4
  • John Tranter, Urban Myths: 210 Poems
  • rob walker, "micromacro" ISBN 978-1-74008-415-4
  • Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Then
  • Simon West, First Names
  • Fay Zwicky, Picnic

Canada

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India, in English

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Ireland

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New Zealand

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Poets in Best New Zealand Poems

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Poems from these 25 poets were selected by John Newton for Best New Zealand Poems 2015, published online this year:

United Kingdom

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Poets included in New Writing 14

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This book of British writing (Granta, ISBN 978-1-86207-850-5), edited by Lavinia Greenlaw and Helon Habila, contains short stories, essays and excerpts of novels in addition to poems by these poets:

United States

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Anthologies in the United States

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  • Harold Bloom and Jesse Zuba, editors, American Religious Poems: An Anthology, Library of America
  • Michael Hofmann, editor, Twentieth-Century German Poetry: An Anthology (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
  • Joy Katz and Kevin Prufer, editors, Dark Horses: Poets on Overlooked Poems, 76 poems, each selected by a poet who was asked to provide an "unknown or underappreciated poem written by anyone, in any language, from any era", along with a brief essay by the selecting poet about the poem each chose; Illinois University Press
  • Jeb Livingood, series editor; Eric Pankey, editor, Best New Poets 2006: 50 Poems from Emerging Writers, Samovar
  • Anne Marie Hacht, Poetry for Students, Volume 23

Poets included in The Best American Poetry 2006

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Poets included in The Best American Poetry 2006, edited by David Lehman, co-edited this year by Billy Collins:

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States

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  • Jason Shinder, editor, “The Poem That Changed America: 'Howl' Fifty Years Later, essays on Allen Ginsberg's poem, Farrar, Straus & Giroux

Other

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Works published in other languages

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Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:

Czech Republic

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French language

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Canada

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France

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Christoph Ransmayr (Foto: Johannes Cizek)

Germany

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India

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Listed in alphabetical order by first name:

Poland

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Ewa Lipska (left) at the International Book Fair in Warsaw this year

Russia

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Other languages

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Awards and honors

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International

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Australia

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Canada

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New Zealand

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United Kingdom

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United States

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From the Poetry Society of America

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From the Poetry Society of Virginia Student Poetry Contest

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Other awards and honors

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Deaths

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

 
Jerzy Ficowski's grave, Warsaw
date not known Binoy Majumdar born 1934 Bengali
January 4 Irving Layton, 93 born 1912 Canadian
February 21 Gennadiy Aygi, 71 born 1934 Chuvash/ Russian poet
February 25 Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin, 69 born 1936 Ethiopian poet laureate, in New York
March 3 Ivor Cutler, 83 born 1923 Scots poet and comic performer
March 15 Ken Brewer, 64 born 1941 American
March 27 Ian Hamilton Finlay, 80 born 1925 Scots poet, writer, artist and gardener
April 3 Muhammad al-Maghut, 72 born 1934 Syrian Ismaili poet
April 13 Muriel Spark, 88 born 1918 English novelist and poet
May 1 Kikuo Takano, 78 born 1927 Japanese poet and mathematician
May 9 Jerzy Ficowski, 81 born 1924 Polish poet, writer and translator
May 14 Stanley Kunitz, 100 born 1905 former U.S. Poet Laureate
May 18 Gilbert Sorrentino, 77 born 1929 American novelist and poet
June 9 Enzo Siciliano, 72 born 1934 Italian novelist, playwright, literary critic,
broadcasting official, teacher and poet[44]
June 26 Jim Simmerman, 54 born 1952 American
July 6 Lisa Bellear, 45 born 1961 Australian
July 14 Patricia Goedicke born 1931 American, of pneumonia
July 26 Louise Bennett-Coverley born 1919 Jamaican folk poet known as "Miss Lou"
July 30 Trinidad Sanchez, Jr., 63 born 1943 American Chicano performer/poet (stroke complications)
July 31 Lisa Bellear, 45 born 1961 Australian indigenous poet, photographer, activist, dramatist, comedian and broadcaster[45]
August 11 Mazisi Kunene, 76 born 1930 South African poet and academic
August 18 Shamsur Rahman
(also spelled "Shamsur Ruhman"), 76		 born 1921 Bengali poet, columnist and journalist
August 25 Silva Kaputikyan, 87 born 1919 Armenian poet
September 4 Colin Thiele, 85 born 1920 Australian poet
October 4 Omran Salahi Afghanistan poet[8]
November 26 Mário Cesariny de Vasconcelos, 83 born 1923 Portuguese painter and surrealist poet
November 27 Győző Határ, 92 Hungarian poet and writer
December 2 kari edwards, 52 born 1954 American poet, artist and gender activist
December 28 John Heath-Stubbs, 88 born 1918 English
date not known Ahmad Hardi born 1922 Kurdish
date not known Aristides Paradissis born 1923 Australian

See also

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References

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  2. ^ "Promoting freedom of expression and literature". 15 September 2021.
  3. ^ "A Prison within a Prison: The Solitary Confinement of Kazakh Poet Aron Atabek". 24 June 2013.
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  5. ^ Poetry International Web – New Irish Anthology Series Launched Archived August 6, 2007, at the Wayback Machine "New Irish Anthology Series Launched", post dated December 1, 2006 at the Poetry International Web site. Retrieved December 18, 2006.
  6. ^ Wiman, Christian, "An Expert's Opinion: Influential Poets", The Atlantic Monthly, December 2006, released in November, page 75
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