Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance,Irish orFrance ).
Overview of the events of 2006 in poetry
Grolier Poetry Bookstore January – The Ogura Hyakunin Isshu Cultural Foundation, founded by the Kyoto,Japan , Chamber of Commerce and Industry, opens theOgura Hyakunin Isshu Hall of Fame, dedicated to the anthology of 100 poems by 100 poets compiled byFujiwara 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 – TheGrolier Poetry Bookshop inCambridge, Massachusetts , is sold. May – ThePoetry Out Loud recitation contest is created this year by theNational Endowment for the Arts andThe 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 byTed Hughes , written into a school exercise book, is announced; one an early version of "Song" which appeared in his first collection.[ 4] November 1 – ASylvia Plath sonnet from her college years is discovered and first published byBlackbird , an online literary journal run by the English Department atVirginia Commonwealth University inRichmond, Virginia . November 10 – A new series, "The Best of Irish Poetry" is launched by Southword Editions in Ireland with the 80-pageThe Best of Irish Poetry 2007 The project is under the direction of Patrick Cotter, withColm Breathnach as Irish-language editor andMaurice 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 areWalt Whitman ,T. S. Eliot ,William Carlos Williams ,Wallace Stevens andSylvia Plath , according toChristian Wiman , editor ofPoetry The Atlantic Monthly [ 6] French public notary Patrick Huet unveilsPieces of Hope to the Echo of the World Lyon . It is reportedly the longest modern hand-written poem in the world. BLATT Prague, Czech Republic .Pakistani poetAhmed Faraz , who writes inUrdu , returns one of his country's highest civilian honors, theHilal-e-Imtiaz , out of disgust with PresidentPervez 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 [ edit ] Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:
See also2006 in Australian literature
Robert Adamson The Goldfinches of Baghdad Ken Babstock ,Airstream Land Yacht [ 8] 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 PressStephen Edgar ,Other Summers , 108 pp; named a "Book of the Year" byThe Age 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 Margaret Avison ,Momentary Dark [ 8] Elizabeth Bachinsky ,Home of Sudden Service [ 8] Ven Begamudré ,The Lightness Which Is Our World, Seen from Afar [ 8] Earle Birney ,One Muddy Hand: Selected Poems , Sam Solecki ed. Posthumous.Dionne Brand ,Inventory [ 8] George Elliott Clarke ,Black , Vancouver: Polestar,ISBN 978-1-55192-903-3 Wayne Clifford ,The Book of Were [ 8] Leonard Cohen ,Book of Longing [ 8] Jon Paul Fiorentino ,The Theory of the Loser Class (Coach House Books)ISBN 978-1-55245-168-7 Maxine Gadd ,Backup to Babylon [ 8] Matthew Holmes,Hitch , a first volume[ 8] Anita Lahey ,Out to Dry in Cape Breton [ 8] Elizabeth Mayne ,A Passionate Continuity Don McKay :Garry Thomas Morse ,Transversals for Orpheus Michael Ondaatje ,The Story , Toronto: House of Anansi,ISBN 978-0-88784-194-1 [ 10] P. K. Page ,Hand Luggage: A Memoir in Verse [ 8] 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.[ 11] Wondrous Wobbly World: Poems for the New Millennium .[ 11] Uptown Downtown Battered Silicon Dispatch Box.[ 11] Nathalie Stephens ,Touch to Affliction (Coach House Books)ISBN 978-1-55245-175-5 Sharon Thesen ,The Good Bacteria [ 8] Keki Daruwalla ,Collected poems, 1970–2005 ( Poetry in English ), New Delhi and New York City : Penguin Books[ 12] Anjum Hasan ,Street on the Hill ( Poetry in English ), New Delhi : Sahitya Akademi.Meena Kandasamy ,Touch ( Poetry in English ),Mumbai : Peacock Books[ 13] Suniti Namjoshi ,Sycorax: New Fables and Poems ( Poetry in English ), Penguin India, New Delhi, 2006.ISBN 978-0-14-309948-2 [ 14] Robin Ngangom ,The Desire of Roots ( Poetry in English ),Cuttack : Chandrabhaga[ 15] E.V. Ramakrishnan ,Terms of Seeing: New and Selected Poems, ( Poetry in English ), New Delhi: Konark Publishers,ISBN 978-81-220-0711-4 ,[ 16] Udaya Narayana Singh ,Second Person Singular , translated from the originalMaithili of the author'sMadhyampurush Ekvachan by the author andRizio Yohanan Raj ; New Delhi : Katha[ 17] Vona Groarke ,Juniper Street , Oldcastle: The Gallery Press,Ireland Seamus Heaney ,District and Circle United Kingdom Maurice Riordan andColm Breathnach , editors,Best of Irish Poetry 2007 selections from 50 Irish poets, includingEavan 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 Ní Dhomhnaill (Southward Editions)ISBN 978-1-905002-23-8 (anthology)Ireland (published November 2006)Justin Quinn ,Waves and Trees , Oldcastle: The Gallery PressPoets inBest New Zealand Poems [ edit ] Poems from these 25 poets were selected byJohn Newton forBest New Zealand Poems 2015
Carol Ann Duffy andJane Ray ,The Lost Happy Endings , PenguinJames Fenton :Selected Poems (2006) Penguin[ 19] Editor,The New Faber Book of Love Poems (anthology)[ 19] 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 theCosta Book Award Seamus Heaney ,District and Circle Irish poet published in the United KingdomAllison Hedge Coke –Blood Run Salt Publications Geoffrey Hill :Without Title Derek Mahon ,Adaptations (A collection of versions, rather than translations proper, from poets such asPasolini ,Juvenal ,Bertolt Brecht ,Valery ,Baudelaire ,Rilke , andNuala Ní Dhomhnaill .) Gallery PressRoger Moulson ,Waiting for the Night-Rowers , Enitharmon Press, winner of the 2006 Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection PrizeSean O'Brien ,Inferno: a verse version ofDante 's Inferno (Picador)Robin Robertson ,Swithering , winner of the 2006Forward Poetry Prize for Best Collection, shortlisted for theT.S. Eliot Prize Claire Tomalin ,Thomas Hardy The New York Times Hugo Williams ,Dear Room , (Faber and Faber)Poets included inNew Writing 14 [ edit ] This book of British writing (Granta,ISBN 978-1-86207-850-5 ), edited byLavinia Greenlaw andHelon Habila , contains short stories, essays and excerpts of novels in addition to poems by these poets:
A. R. Ammons ,Selected Poems , American Poets Project of the Library of America; distributed by Penguin Putnam, posthumousRenée Ashley ,The Museum of Lost Wings 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 PressElizabeth Bishop ,Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragments ,Alice Quinn , editor (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), posthumous[ 8] Charles Bukowski ,Come On In!: New Poems (Ecco)Hayden Carruth ,Toward the Distant Islands: New and Selected Poems , Copper Canyon Press, edited bySam 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 byLangdon Hammer , Library of America (posthumous)Robert Creeley ,On Earth: Last Poems and an Essay (University of California Press)Dick Davis ,Trick of Sunlight , Swallow PressMichael Dumanis andCate 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 poetryJack Gilbert ,Tough Heaven: Poems of Pittsburgh ,Transgressions: Selected Poems Allen Ginsberg ,Collected Poems, 1947–1997 (posthumous),[ 8] New York Times "100 Notable Books of the Year", an expanded edition of the1984 Collected Poems, 1947–1980 Jesse Glass ,The Passion of Phineas Gage and Selected Poems (West House/Ahadada)Eugene Gloria ,Hoodlum Birds , PenguinLouise Glück ,Averno (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), one of theNew York Times "100 Notable Books of the Year"Linda Gregg ,In the Middle Distance , GraywolfDonald Hall ,White Apples and the Taste of Stone: Selected Poems 1946–2006 [ 8] Suheir Hammad ,ZataarDiva , book and CD (Cypher/Rattapallax)Jim Harrison ,Saving Daylight (Copper Canyon Press )ISBN 978-1-55659-235-5 Seamus Heaney ,District and Circle , Farrar Straus & GirouxAllison Hedge Coke –Blood Run George Heym ,Poems (Northwestern University Press, translated from German byAntony Hasler Jeffrey Harrison ,Incomplete Knowledge , Four Way BooksJane Hirshfield ,After: Poems , (HarperCollins), named as one of the best books of the year byThe 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 poetryPatricia Spears Jones ,Femme du Monde: Poems , (Tia Chucha Press)Mary Karr ,Sinners Welcome: Poems (HarperCollins)Ariana-Sophia M. Kartsonis ,Intaglio , Kent StateGalway Kinnell ,Strong Is Your Hold (Houghton Mifflin Books), the poet's first collection of new poems in more than a decade, one of theNew York Times "100 Notable Books of the Year"Thomas Kinsella ,Collected Poems: 1956–2001 , Wake ForestKei Miller ,Kingdom of Empty Bellies ,Jamaican poet published in the United States:Hannah Nijinsky andJohn 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 GirouxGeorge 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 theNew York Times "100 Notable Books of the Year"Lisa Robertson ,The Men: A Lyric Book (BookThug)ISBN 978-0-9739742-5-6 Theodore Roethke ,Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke , compiled byDavid 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 978-1-55659-248-5 (posthumous)[ 20] Miltos Sachtouris ,Poems (1945–1971) , bilingual edition, Greek with English translation byKaren Emmerich (Archipelago Books), finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetryFrederick Seidel ,Ooga-Booga , (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetryJulie Sheehan ,Orient Point: Poems , (W.W. Norton & Co.)Patricia Smith ,Teahouse of the Almighty: Poems , selected byEd 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 PoetryMark Strand ,Man and Camel (Alfred A. Knopf) by aCanadian native long living in and published in the United StatesRosmarie 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 BooksC.K. Williams ,Collected Poems [ 8] George Witte ,The Apparitioners , Three Rail PressCharles Wright ,Scar Tissue , (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)Franz Wright ,God's Silence (Alfred A. Knopf)Robert Wrigley ,Earthly Meditations: New and Selected Poems , PenguinLouis Zukofsky ,Selected Poems , American Poets Project of the Library of America, distributed by Penguin Putnam; posthumousJesse Lee Kercheval ,Film History As Train Wreck Anthologies in the United States [ edit ] Harold Bloom andJesse Zuba , editors,American Religious Poems: An Anthology , Library of AmericaMichael Hofmann , editor,Twentieth-Century German Poetry: An Anthology (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)Joy Katz andKevin 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 PressJeb Livingood , series editor;Eric Pankey , editor,Best New Poets 2006: 50 Poems from Emerging Writers , SamovarAnne Marie Hacht,Poetry for Students, Volume 23 Poets included inThe Best American Poetry 2006 [ edit ] Poets included inThe Best American Poetry 2006 David Lehman , co-edited this year byBilly Collins :
[ edit ] Jason Shinder , editor,“The Poem That Changed America: 'Howl' Fifty Years Later , essays onAllen Ginsberg 's poem, Farrar, Straus & GirouxWorks published in other languages [ edit ] Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:
Michal Ajvaz ,Padesát pět měst ("Fifty-five cities")Petr Král ,Hm čiliMíra omylu , 2006Michal Šanda ,Kecanice ("Chew The Rag"), Prague: Protis,ISBN 978-80-85940-75-6 Marie Šťastná ,Akty ("Nudes"),Czech Republic Ivan Wernisch ,Michal Šanda andMilan Ohnisko ,Býkárna , Druhé městoBrno ,ISBN 978-80-7227-252-5 Christoph Ransmayr (Foto: Johannes Cizek) Christoph Buchwald , general editor, andNorbert Hummelt , guest editor,Jahrbuch der Lyrik 2007 ("Poetry Yearbook 2007"), publisher: S. Fischer Verlag; anthology[ 22] Hendrik Jackson .Dunkelströme ("Dark Current") Kookbooks, 72 pages,ISBN 978-3-937445-18-2 Christoph Janacs ,Unverwandt den Schatten ("Intently the Shadow"); St. Georgs PresseChristoph Ransmayr ,Der fliegende Berg , a novel-poem[ 8] Austria Monika Rinck ,Ah, das Love-Ding ("Ah, the Love-Ding"), illustrated by Andreas Topfer, Kookbooks, 160 pages,ISBN 978-3-937445-20-5 Listed in alphabetical order by first name:
Amarjit Chandan ,Annjall , Lokgeet, Chandigarh;Punjabi [ 23] Bharat Majhi ;Oriya :Murtikar Bhubaneswar: Pen In, Bhubaneswar[ 24] Mahanagara Padya , Bhubaneswar: Pratchi Prakasani[ 24] Jayanta Mahapatra ,Samparka , Natuna Dilli: Sāhitya Akādemi;Bengali -language[ 25] K. Satchidanandan ,Malayalam :Satchidanandte Kavithakal , selected poems, 1965–2005[ 26] Anantam ("Infinite")[ 26] Onnaam Padham ("The First Lesson")[ 26] K. Siva Reddy ,Mithi Ka Pukar , translated intoHindi from the originalTelugu byNarasa Reddy ), Hyderabad: Milind Prakashan[ 27] Kanaka Ha Ma ,Arabi Kadalu , Sagara, Karnataka: Akshara Prakashana;Kannada [ 28] Namdeo Dhasal ,Tujhe Bot Dharoon Chalalo Ahe Mee ;Marathi [ 29] Nirendranath Chakravarti ,Jyotsnaye Ekela , Kolkata: Ananda Publishers;Bengali [ 30] Prem ke Roopak, New Delhi: Vani Prakashan ,ISBN 978-81-8143-543-9 , anthology,Hindi -language[ 31] Ewa Lipska (left) at the International Book Fair in Warsaw this yearMarcin Baran ,Sprzeczne fagmenty Stanisław Barańczak ,Wiersze zebrane , Krakow: a5[ 32] Wojciech Bonowicz ,Pełne morze Ewa Lipska ,Drzazga , Krakow: Wydawnictwo literackie[ 33] Czesław Miłosz ,Wiersze ostatnie ("The Last Poems"), Kraków: Znak[ 34] Marta Podgórnik ,Dwa do jeden Tomasz Różycki ,Kolonie ("Colonies"), 77 poems, 86 pp, Kraków: Znak,ISBN 978-83-240-0697-7 [ 35] Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz ,Do widzenia gawrony ("Good-bye, Rooks"), Warsaw: Sic![ 32] Marcin Świetlicki ,Muzyka środka Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki ,Poezja jako miejsce na ziemi. (1988–2003) [ 36] Jan Twardowski ,Kilka myśli o cierpieniu, przemijaniu i odejściu Poznan: Księgarnia Św. Wojciecha[ 37] Yelena Fanaylova ,Russkaya versiya ("The Russian Version")[ 8] Lev Losev ,Iosif Brodsky: opyt literaturnoy biografii Joseph Brodsky , a friend of the author,Russia [ 8] Alexander Mezhirov ,Артиллерия бьёт по своим , Moscow: publisher: Zebra EAleksey Tsvetkov ,Shekspir otdykhaet ("Shakespeare at Rest")[ 8] Dmitry Vodennikov ,Chernovik ("Rough Draft")[ 8] Igor Vishnevetsky ,На запад солнца ("West of the Sun")Ivan Zhdanov , a book of selected works[ 8] Archibald Lampman Award :Laura Farina ,This Woman Alphabetical Atlantic Poetry Prize :Anne Compton ,Processional Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate :John Steffler (until December 3, 2008)Governor General's Literary Awards :John Pass ,Stumbling in the Bloom (English);Hélène Dorion ,Ravir: les lieux (French)Gerald Lampert Award :Suzanne Buffam ,Past Imperfect 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 ,L'Inoubliable Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize :Meredith Quartermain ,Vancouver Walking Prix Émile-Nelligan :Maude Smith Gagnon ,Une tonne d'air Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize awarded to Nancy Krygowski forVelocity American Academy of Arts and Letters : poetsPaul Auster andFrank Bidart elected to theLiterature Department Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize awarded toGabriel Gomez forThe Outer Bands Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress :Donald Hall appointedPoet Laureate of Virginia :Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda , two year appointment 2006 to 2008[ 40] 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 ; and Poet Laureate of Virginia 2008 to 2010[ 40] Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award :John Hollander Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize :Richard Wilbur Whiting Awards :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 [ edit ] 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 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 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 [ 41] [ 42]
Other awards and honors [ edit ] Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
Jerzy Ficowski's grave, Warsawdate not known Binoy Majumdar born1934 Bengali January 4 Irving Layton , 93born1912 Canadian February 21 Gennadiy Aygi , 71born1934 Chuvash /Russian poetFebruary 25 Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin , 69born1936 Ethiopian poet laureate, in New York March 3 Ivor Cutler , 83born1923 Scots poet and comic performerMarch 15 Ken Brewer , 64born1941 American March 27 Ian Hamilton Finlay , 80born1925 Scots poet, writer, artist and gardenerApril 3 Muhammad al-Maghut , 72born1934 Syrian Ismaili poetApril 13 Muriel Spark , 88born1918 English novelist and poetMay 1 Kikuo Takano , 78born1927 Japanese poet and mathematicianMay 9 Jerzy Ficowski , 81born1924 Polish poet, writer and translatorMay 14 Stanley Kunitz , 100born1905 formerU.S. Poet Laureate May 18 Gilbert Sorrentino , 77born1929 American novelist and poetJune 9 Enzo Siciliano , 72born1934 Italian novelist, playwright, literary critic,[ 44] June 26 Jim Simmerman , 54born1952 American July 6 Lisa Bellear , 45born1961 Australian July 14 Patricia Goedicke born1931 American , of pneumoniaJuly 26 Louise Bennett-Coverley born1919 Jamaican folk poet known as "Miss Lou"July 30 Trinidad Sanchez, Jr. , 63born1943 American Chicano performer/poet (stroke complications)July 31 Lisa Bellear , 45born1961 Australian indigenous poet, photographer, activist, dramatist, comedian and broadcaster[ 45] August 11 Mazisi Kunene , 76born1930 South African poet and academicAugust 18 Shamsur Rahman born1921 Bengali poet, columnist and journalistAugust 25 Silva Kaputikyan , 87born1919 Armenian poetSeptember 4 Colin Thiele , 85born1920 Australian poetOctober 4 Omran Salahi Afghanistan poet[ 8] November 26 Mário Cesariny de Vasconcelos , 83born1923 Portuguese painter and surrealist poetNovember 27 Győző Határ , 92Hungarian poet and writer December 2 kari edwards , 52born1954 American poet, artist and gender activistDecember 28 John Heath-Stubbs , 88born1918 English date not known Ahmad Hardi born1922 Kurdish date not known Aristides Paradissis born1923 Australian
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