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[edit] Events

Grolier Poetry Bookstore
  • 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.
  • August – The existence of two early poems by Ted Hughes, written into a school exercise book, were announced; one an early version of 'Song' which appeared in his first collection.[1]
  • Pakistani poet Ahmed Faraz, who wrote 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."[2]
  • 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.[3]
  • November 14 – Times Literary Supplement, reports on the discovery of a missing manuscript of Shelley's "Poetical Essay", a 172-line poem originally published in a 1811 pamphlet 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.[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."[4]

[edit] 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:

[edit] Australia

[edit] Canada

Canadian poet Robert Majzels, photographed this year

[edit] Ireland

[edit] New Zealand

[edit] 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:

[edit] United Kingdom

[edit] 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:

[edit] United States

[edit] 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

[edit] 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:

[edit] 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

[edit] Other

[edit] 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:

[edit] Awards and honors

[edit] Australia

[edit] Canada

[edit] New Zealand

[edit] United Kingdom

[edit] United States

[edit] From the Poetry Society of America

[edit] Other awards and honors

[edit] Deaths

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
March 15 Ken Brewer, 64 born 1941 American
March 27 Ian Hamilton Finlay, 80 born 1925 Scots poet, writer, artist, gardener
April 7 Muriel Spark, 88 born 1918 English novelist and poet
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[11]
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 Sánchez Jr., 63 American Chicano performer/poet (stroke complications)
July 31 Lisa Bellear, 45 born 1961 Australian[12]indigenous poet, photographer,
activist, dramatist, comedian
and broadcaster
August 18 Shamsur Rahman
(also spelled "Shamsur Ruhman"), 76		 born 1921 Bengali poet, columnist and journalist
September 4 Colin Thiele, 85 born 1920 Australian
November 27 Győző Határ, 92 Hungarian poet and writer
November 29 Mario Cesariny, 83 born 1923 Portuguese painter and surrealist poet
December 2 kari edwards, 52 born 1954 poet, artist and gender activist
December 28 John Heath-Stubbs, 88 born 1918 English
date not known Aristides Paradissis born 1923 Australian

[edit] Notes and references

  1. ^ a b "Poetry in the News: 2006" webpage at Poetry Society webpage
  2. ^ Pandya, Haresh, "Ahmed Faraz, Outspoken Urdu Poet, Dies at 77", obituary, The New York Times, September 1, 2008, retrieved December 10, 2008
  3. ^ Wiman, Christian, "An Expert's Opinion: Influential Poets", The Atlantic Monthly, December 2006, released in November, page 75
  4. ^ [1] "New Irish Anthology Series Launched", post dated December 1, 2006 at the Poetry International Web site, accessed December 18, 2006
  5. ^ [2]"Celebrated Canadian poet Don McKay wins $50,000 Griffin Prize" Canadian Press article, at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Web site, June 7, 2007 accessed October 8, 2007
  6. ^ Web page titled "Archive: Michael Ondaatje (1943- )" at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed May 7, 2008
  7. ^ Cilla McQueen - NZ Literature File - LEARN - The University Of Auckland Library
  8. ^ a b [3]Web page titled "Books by Fenton" at the James Fenton Web site, accessed October 11, 2007
  9. ^ Web page titled "Theodore Roethke / Straf for the Fire" at Copper Canyon Press website, accessed April 20, 2008
  10. ^ "Poetry Newslog June 2006", "Poetry International Web" website, retrieved December 21, 2008
  11. ^ "Enzo Siciliano: Writer and progressive cultural force in Italy", obituary, The Guardian, June 28, 2006; identified as a poet at "Poet and Writer Enzo Siciliano dies", "Poetry International Web" website, both retrieved December 21, 2008
  12. ^ "Lisa Bellear". Poetry International Web. Retrieved on 2007-05-14.
  • [4] "A Timeline of English Poetry" Web page of the Representative Poetry Online Web site, University of Toronto

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