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2006 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events

  • 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.
  • 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
  • Kazakh poet Aron Atabek is arrested after riot police and bulldozers arrive at the shanty town of Shanyrak, Kazakhstan for its demolition. Atabek is sentenced to 18 years in prison for alleged offences relating to the clash this day between protesters and police.
  • The Times Literary Supplement reports on the discovery of a missing copy of Shelley's Poetical Essay on the Existing State of Things, an 1811 pamphlet containing a 172-line poem which criticizes war, politics and religion; although published anonymously, the poem is thought to have contributed to the rebel poet's expulsion from the University of Oxford (which acquires the unique copy of the pamphlet in 2015).
  • 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.
  • 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."
  • 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.
  • 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."

Works published in English

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

See also 2006 in Australian literature

Canada

India, in English

  • Keki Daruwalla, Collected poems, 1970–2005 ( Poetry in English ), New Delhi and New York City : Penguin Books
  • Anjum Hasan, Street on the Hill ( Poetry in English ), New Delhi : Sahitya Akademi.
  • Meena Kandasamy, Touch ( Poetry in English ), Mumbai : Peacock Books
  • Suniti Namjoshi, Sycorax: New Fables and Poems ( Poetry in English ), Penguin India, New Delhi, 2006.
  • Robin Ngangom, The Desire of Roots( Poetry in English ), Cuttack : Chandrabhaga
  • E.V. Ramakrishnan, Terms of Seeing: New and Selected Poems, ( Poetry in English ), New Delhi: Konark Publishers, ,
  • Udaya Narayana Singh, Second Person Singular, translated from the original Maithili of the author's Madhyampurush Ekvachan by the author and Rizio Yohanan Raj; New Delhi : Katha

Ireland

New Zealand

Poets in Best New Zealand Poems

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

United Kingdom

Poets included in New Writing 14

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

United States

  • A. R. Ammons, Selected Poems, American Poets Project of the Library of America; distributed by Penguin Putnam, posthumous
  • Renée Ashley, The Museum of Lost Wings
  • Bruce Beasley, The Corpse Flower: New and Selected Poems, University of Washington Press,
  • Robin Becker, Domain of Perfect Affection, Pittsburgh University Press
  • 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, Copper Canyon Press, edited by Sam Hamill
  • Jared Carter, Cross this Bridge at a Walk, Wind Publications.
  • Carson Cistulli Some Common Weaknesses Illustrated, Casagrande Press.
  • Hart Crane, Hart Crane: Complete Poems and Selected Letters, edited by Langdon Hammer, Library of America (posthumous)
  • Robert Creeley, On Earth: Last Poems and an Essay (University of California Press)
  • Dick Davis, Trick of Sunlight, Swallow 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)
  • Eugene Gloria, Hoodlum Birds, Penguin
  • Louise Glück, Averno (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), one of the New York Times "100 Notable Books of the Year"
  • Linda Gregg, In the Middle Distance, Graywolf
  • 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)
  • Seamus Heaney, District and Circle, Farrar Straus & Giroux
  • Allison Hedge Coke – Blood Run, US edition
  • George Heym, Poems (Northwestern University Press, translated from German by Antony Hasler
  • Jeffrey Harrison, Incomplete Knowledge, Four Way Books
  • 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), winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry
  • Patricia Spears Jones, Femme du Monde: Poems, (Tia Chucha Press)
  • Mary Karr, Sinners Welcome: Poems (HarperCollins)
  • Ariana-Sophia M. Kartsonis, Intaglio, Kent State
  • 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"
  • Thomas Kinsella, Collected Poems: 1956–2001, Wake Forest
  • Kei Miller, Kingdom of Empty Bellies, Jamaican poet published in the United States:
  • 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)
  • Carl Phillips, Riding Westward, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • George Quasha, Axial Stones: An Art of Precarious Balance, foreword Carter Ratcliff (North Atlantic Books, Berkeley) [sculpture & poetry/preverbs]
  • 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)
  • Theodore Roethke, Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke, compiled by David Wagoner from "277 spiral notebooks of poetry fragments, aphorisms, jokes, memos, journal entries, random phrases, bits of dialog, commentary, and fugitive miscellany", Copper Canyon Press, (posthumous)
  • 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) by a Canadian native long living in and published in the United States
  • 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.)
  • Dara Wier, Remnants of Hannah, Wave Books
  • C.K. Williams, Collected Poems
  • George Witte, The Apparitioners, Three Rail Press
  • Charles Wright, Scar Tissue, (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
  • Franz Wright, God's Silence (Alfred A. Knopf)
  • Robert Wrigley, Earthly Meditations: New and Selected Poems, Penguin
  • Louis Zukofsky, Selected Poems, American Poets Project of the Library of America, distributed by Penguin Putnam; posthumous
  • Jesse Lee Kercheval, Film History As Train Wreck

Anthologies in the United States

  • 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

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

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

Other

Works published in other languages

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

French language

Canada

France

Germany

India

Listed in alphabetical order by first name:

Poland

Russia

  • Yelena Fanaylova, Russkaya versiya ("The Russian Version")
  • Lev Losev, , biography of Joseph Brodsky, a friend of the author, Russia
  • Alexander Mezhirov, Артиллерия бьёт по своим, Moscow: publisher: Zebra E
  • Aleksey Tsvetkov, Shekspir otdykhaet ("Shakespeare at Rest")
  • Dmitry Vodennikov, Chernovik ("Rough Draft")
  • Igor Vishnevetsky, На запад солнца ("West of the Sun")
  • Ivan Zhdanov, a book of selected works

Other languages

Awards and honors

International

Australia

Canada

New Zealand

United Kingdom

United States

From the Poetry Society of America

From the Poetry Society of Virginia Student Poetry Contest

Other awards and honors

Deaths

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

See also

References