Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance Irish or France).             List of years in poetry       (table)  1996 .  1997 .  1998 .  1999  . 2000  . 2001  . 2002  2003 2004 2005 -2006- 2007 2008 2009  2010 .  2011 .  2012 .  2013  . 2014  . 2015  . 2016     In literature: 2003 2004 2005 -2006- 2007 2008 2009      Related time period  or  subjects  2003 . 2004 . 2005 - 2006 - 2007 . 2008 . 2009  1970s . 1980s . 1990s -2000s- 2010s . 2020s . 2030s

 20th century . 21st century . 22nd century  Art . Archaeology . Architecture . Literature . Music . Science +... Contents 1 Events 2 Works published in English 2.1 Australia 2.2 Canada 2.3 India in English 2.4 Ireland 2.5 New Zealand 2.5.1 Poets in Best New Zealand Poems 2.6 United Kingdom 2.6.1 Poets included in New Writing 14 2.7 United States 2.7.1 Anthologies in the United States 2.7.2 Poets included in The Best American Poetry 2006 2.7.3 Criticism scholarship and biography in the United States 2.8 Other 3 Works published in other languages 3.1 Czech Republic 3.2 French language 3.2.1 Canada 3.2.2 France 3.3 Germany 3.4 India 3.5 Poland 3.6 Russia 3.7 Other languages 4 Awards and honors 4.1 International 4.2 Australia 4.3 Canada 4.4 New Zealand 4.5 United Kingdom 4.6 United States 4.6.1 From the Poetry Society of America 4.6.2 From the Poetry Society of Virginia40 Student Poetry Contest41 4.7 Other awards and honors 5 Deaths 6 See also 7 Notes 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. In January the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu Cultural Foundation founded by the Kyoto Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry opened 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 has endured and a Japanese card game Uta-garuta uses cards with the poems printed on it.1 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 $20000 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.2 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."3 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.4 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.2 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."5 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 Robert Adamson The Goldfinches of Baghdad Ken Babstock Airstream Land Yacht6 (Black Inc.) ISBN 1-86395-214-4 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 1-876044-45-4 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 Houses6 Dorothy Porter The Best Australian Poems 2006 (Black Inc.) ISBN 1-86395-262-4 Mark Reid A Difficult Faith Thomas Shapcott The City of Empty Rooms Craig Sherborne Necessary Evil Black Inc. ISBN 9781863952064 John Tranter Urban Myths: 210 Poems Chris Wallace-Crabbe Then Simon West First Names Fay Zwicky Picnic Canada Canadian poet Robert Majzels photographed this year Margaret Avison Momentary Dark6 Elizabeth Bachinsky Home of Sudden Service6 Ven Begamudr The Lightness Which Is Our World Seen from Afar6 Earle Birney One Muddy Hand: Selected Poems Sam Solecki ed. Posthumous. Dionne Brand Inventory6 George Elliott Clarke Black Vancouver: Polestar ISBN 1-55192-903-1 Wayne Clifford The Book of Were6 Leonard Cohen Book of Longing6 John Paul Fiorentino The Theory of the Loser Class (Coach House Books) ISBN 978-1-55245-168-7 Maxine Gadd's Backup to Babylon6 Matthew Holmes Hitch a first volume6 Anita Lahey Out to Dry in Cape Breton6 Elizabeth Mayne A Passionate Continuity Don McKay: Strike/Slip winner of the 2007 Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize7 and the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize Field Marks: The Poetry of Don McKay edited by Mira Cook Michael Ondaatje The Story Toronto: House of Anansi ISBN 0-88784-194-58 P. K. Page Hand Luggage: A Memoir in Verse6 Sina Queyras Lemon Hound (Coach House Books) ISBN 978-1-55245-167-0 Angela Rawlings Wide Slumber for Lepidopterists (Coach House Books) ISBN 978-1-55245-169-4 Raymond Souster: Down to Earth Battered Silicon Dispatch Box.9 Wondrous Wobbly World: Poems for the New Millennium.9 Uptown Downtown Battered Silicon Dispatch Box.9 Nathalie Stephens Touch to Affliction (Coach House Books) ISBN 978-1-55245-175-5 Sharon Thesen The Good Bacteria6 India in English Keki Daruwalla Collected poems 1970-2005 ( Poetry in English ) New Delhi and New York : Penguin Books10 Anjum Hasan Street on the Hill ( Poetry in English ) New Delhi : Sahitya Akademi. Meena Kandasamy Touch ( Poetry in English ) Mumbai : Peacock Books11 Suniti Namjoshi Sycorax: New Fables and Poems ( Poetry in English ) Penguin India New Delhi 2006. ISBN 978-0-14309-948-012 Robin Ngangom The Desire of Roots( Poetry in English ) Cuttack : Chandrabhaga13 E.V. Ramakrishnan Terms of Seeing: New and Selected Poems ( Poetry in English ) New Delhi: Konark Publishers ISBN 81-220-0711-214 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 : Katha15 Ireland Vona Groarke Juniper Street Oldcastle: The Gallery Press Ireland Seamus Heaney District and Circle Faber & Faber; Irish poet published in the United Kingdom Maurice Riordan and Colm Breathnach editors Best of Irish Poetry 2007 selections from 50 Irish poets including Eavan Boland Seamus Heaney Thomas McCarthy Paul Muldoon Paul Durcan Eamon Grennan Vona Groarke Thomas Kinsella Michael Longley Dorothy Molloy Gerry Murphy Katie Donovan Matthew Sweeney Derek Mahon Gabriel Rosenstock Louis De Paor Nuala N Dhomhnaill (Southward Editions) ISBN 978-1-905002-23-8 (anthology) Ireland (published November 2006) Justin Quinn Waves and Trees Oldcastle: The Gallery Press New Zealand Glenn Colquhoun Playing God Janet Frame The Goose Bath posthumous6 Bill Manhire Lifted6 Cilla McQueen A Wind Harp (compact disc)16 Alison Wong Cup Publisher: Steele Roberts 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: Michele Amas Angela Andrews Stu Bagby Jenny Bornholdt James Brown Janet Charman Geoff Cochrane Mary Cresswell Wystan Curnow Stephanie de Montalk Fiona Farrell Bernadette Hall Anne Kennedy Michele Leggott Anna Livesey Karlo Mila James Norcliffe Gregory O'Brien Vivienne Plumb Anna Smaill Elizabeth Smither Robert Sullivan Brian Turner Ian Wedde Sonja Yelich United Kingdom Carol Ann Duffy and Jane Ray The Lost Happy Endings Penguin James Fenton: Selected Poems (2006) Penguin17 Editor The New Faber Book of Love Poems (anthology)17 John Haynes (poet) Letter to Patience a book-length poem in iambic pentameter in the form of a letter from a Nigerian father in Britain to his friend back in Nigeria; winner of the Costa Book Award Seamus Heaney District and Circle Faber & Faber; Irish poet published in the United Kingdom Allison Hedge Coke - Blood Run Salt Publications Geoffrey Hill: Without Title Derek Mahon Adaptations (A collection of versions rather than translations proper from poets such as Pasolini Juvenal Bertolt Brecht Valery Baudelaire Rilke and Nuala N Dhomhnaill.) Gallery Press Sean O'Brien Inferno: a verse version of Dante's Inferno (Picador) Robin Robertson Swithering winner of the 2006 Forward Poetry Prize for Best Collection shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize Claire Tomalin Thomas Hardy Penguin Press one of the New York Times "100 Notable Books of the Year" for 2007 (biography) Hugo Williams Dear Room (Faber and Faber) 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: Carrie Etter Iain Galbraith Chenjerai Hove Stephen Knight Frances Leviston Carola Luther Jamie McKendrick David Morley Paul Muldoon Blessing Musariri Sean O'Brien Don Paterson Paul Perry Greta Stoddart Eoghan Walls United States A. R. Ammons Selected Poems American Poets Project of the Library of America; distributed by Penguin Putnam posthumous Bruce Beasley The Corpse Flower: New and Selected Poems University of Washington Press ISBN 978-0-295-98638-8 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) posthumous6 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)6 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 Glck 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 1946-20066 (Houghton Mifflin) Suheir Hammad ZataarDiva book and CD (Cypher/Rattapallax) Jim Harrison Saving Daylight (Copper Canyon Press) ISBN 1-55659-235-3 Seamus Heaney District and Circle Farrar Straus & Giroux Allison Hedge Coke - Blood RunUS 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: 19562001 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 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 0-9739742-5-7 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 ISBN 1-55659-248-5 (posthumous)18 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 Poems6 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 Flim 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 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: Kim Addonizio Dick Allen Craig Arnold John Ashbery Jesse Ball Krista Benjamin Ilya Bernstein Gaylord Brewer Tom Christopher Laura Cronk Carl Dennis Stephen Dobyns Denise Duhamel Stephen Dunn Beth Ann Fennelly Megan Gannon Amy Gerstler Sarah Gorham George Green Debora Greger Eamon Grennan Daniel Gutstein R. S. Gwynn Rachel Hadas Mark Halliday Jim Harrison Robert Hass Christian Hawkey Terrance Hayes Bob Hicok Katia Kapovich Laura Kasischke Joy Katz David Kirby Jennifer L. Knox Ron Koertge John Koethe Mark Kraushaar Julie Larios Dorianne Laux Reb Livingston Thomas Lux Paul Muldoon Marilyn Nelson Richard Newman Mary Oliver Danielle Pafunda Mark Pawlak Bao Phi Donald Platt Lawrence Raab Betsy Retallack Liz Rosenberg J. Allyn Rosser Kay Ryan Mary Jo Salter Vejay Sheshadri Alan Shapiro Charles Simic Gerald Stern James Tate Sue Ellen Thompson Tony Towle Alison Townsend Paul Violi Ellen Bryant Voigt David Wagoner Charles Harper Webb C. K. Williams Terence Winch Susan Wood Franz Wright Robert Wrigley David Yezzi Dean Young 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 Chandrashekhar Bhattacharya Tomake Ebong Tomake: Poems (Manaswini Publication) Bangladesh Claude Esteban Le Jour peine crit (1967-1992) Gallimard France Mohit Kailashnath Misra "Ponder Awhile" (Booksurge Publishers) 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 Michal Ajvaz Padest pt mst ("Fifty-five cities") Petr Krl Hm ili Mra omylu 2006 Michal anda Kecanice ("Chew The Rag") Prague: Protis ISBN 80-85940-75-2 Marie astn Akty ("Nudes") Czech Republic Ivan Wernisch Michal anda and Milan Ohnisko Bkrna Druh msto Brno ISBN 80-7227-252-7 French language Canada Claude Beausoliel Regarde tu vois Le Castor Astral19 France Lopold Sdar Senghor uvre potique d. Le Seuil - Points. Jacques Roubaud Curs La Bibliothque Oulipienne n155 Jean Max Tixier Les silences du passeur publisher: Le Taillis pr Linda Maria Baros La Maison en lames de rasoir (The House Made of Razor Blades) Cheyne diteur Christoph Ransmayr in 2007 Germany Christoph Buchwald general editor and Norbert Hummelt guest editor Jahrbuch der Lyrik 2007 ("Poetry Yearbook 2007") publisher: S. Fischer Verlag; anthology20 Hendrik Jackson. Dunkelstrme ("Dark Current") Kookbooks 72 pages ISBN 978-3-937445-18-2 Christoph Janacs Unverwandt den Schatten ("Intently the Shadow"); St. Georgs Presse Christoph Ransmayr Der fliegende Berg a novel-poem6 Austria Monika Rinck Ah das Love-Ding ("Ah the Love-Ding") illustrated by Andreas Topfer Kookbooks 160 pages ISBN 978-3-937445-20-5 India

Listed in alphabetical order by first name: Amarjit Chandan Annjall Lokgeet Chandigarh; Punjabi21 Bharat Majhi; Oriya: Murtikar Bhubaneswar: Pen In Bhubaneswar22 Mahanagara Padya Bhubaneswar: Pratchi Prakasani22 Jayanta Mahapatra Samparka Natuna Dilli: Shitya Akdemi; Bengali-language23 K. Satchidanandan Malayalam: Satchidanandte Kavithakal selected poems 1965-200524 Anantam ("Infinite")24 Onnaam Padham ("The First Lesson")24 K. Siva Reddy Mithi Ka Pukar translated into Hindi from the original Telugu by Narasa Reddy) Hyderabad: Milind Prakashan25 Kanaka Ha. Ma. Arabi Kadalu Sagara Karnataka: Akshara Prakashana; Kannada26 Namdeo Dhasal Tujhe Bot Dharoon Chalalo Ahe Mee; Marathi27 Nirendranath Chakravarti Jyotsnaye Ekela Kolkata: Ananda Publishers; Bengali28 Prem ke Roopak New Delhi: Vani Prakashan ISBN 81-8143-543-5 anthology Hindi-language29 Poland Ewa Lipska (left) at the International Book Fair in Warsaw this year Marcin Baran Sprzeczne fagmenty Stanisaw Baraczak Wiersze zebrane Krakow: a530 Wojciech Bonowicz Pene morze Ewa Lipska Drzazga Krakow: Wydawnictwo literackie31 Czesaw Miosz Wiersze ostatnie ("The Last Poems") Krakw: Znak32 Marta Podgrnik Dwa do jeden Tomasz Rycki Kolonie ("Colonies") 77 poems 86 pp Krakw: Znak ISBN 83-240-0697-433 Jarosaw Marek Rymkiewicz Do widzenia gawrony ("Good-bye Rooks") Warsaw: Sic!30 Marcin wietlicki Muzyka rodka Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki Poezja jako miejsce na ziemi. (1988-2003)34 Jan Twardowski Kilka myli o cierpieniu przemijaniu i odejciu Poznan: Ksigarnia w. Wojciecha35 Russia Yelena Fanaylova Russkaya versiya ("The Russian Version")6 Lev Losev Iosif Brodsky: opyt literaturnoy biografii biography of Joseph Brodsky a friend of the author's Russia6 Alexander Mezhirov Moscow: publisher: Zebra E Aleksey Tsvetkov Shekspir otdykhaet ("Shakespeare at Rest")6 Dmitry Vodennikov Chernovik ("Rough Draft")6 Igor Vishnevetsky ("West of the Sun") Ivan Zhdanov a book of selected works6 Other languages Klaus Heck Heartland publisher: Gyldendal; Denmark36 Denmark Duo Yo Duo Yu shixuan ("Poems by Duo Yu") China Awards and honors International Nobel Prize in Literature: Orhan Pamuk Turkey Golden Wreath of Poetry: Nancy Morejn (Cuba)37 Australia C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Dinny O'Hearn Poetry Prize: Friendly Fire by Jennifer Maiden Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Canada Atlantic Poetry Prize: Jenny MacDougall Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate: John Steffler (until December 3 2008) 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: Sylvia Legris Nerve Squall Prix Alain-Grandbois: Fernand Ouellette Shaunt Basmajian Chapbook Award: Kate Marshall Flaherty Unfathom ISBN 978-1-55253-065-8 New Zealand Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement: Montana New Zealand Book Awards (poetry category): Bill Manhire Lifted Victoria University Press United Kingdom 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 United States Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize awarded to Nancy Krygowski for Velocity 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 Poet Laureate of Virginia: Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda two year appointment 2006 to 2008 38 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 Glck 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; and Poet Laureate of Virginia 2008 to 201039 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 Glck 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) From the Poetry Society of Virginia40 Student Poetry Contest41 2006 Student Poetry Contest Winners :: Other awards and honors Deutsche Akademie fr Sprache und Dichtung (German Academy for Language and Literature) Georg Bchner Prize: Oskar Pastior42 Cervantes Prize (Spanish-language): Antonio Gamoneda (Spain) 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 poet43 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 American Chicano performer/poet (stroke complications) July 31 Lisa Bellear 45 born 1961 Australian44 indigenous poet photographer activist dramatist comedian and broadcaster 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 September 4 Colin Thiele 85 born 1920 Australian October 4 Omran Salahi Afghanistan poet6 November 26 Mrio Cesariny de Vasconcelos 83 born 1923 Portuguese painter and surrealist poet November 27 Gyz Hatr 92 Hungarian poet and writer 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 See also Poetry portal Poetry List of poetry awards Notes Kyoto Chamber of Commerce and Industry: Ogura Hyakunin Isshu Arashiyama. 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