2016 in poetry

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List of years in poetry (table)
In literature
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019

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

Events[]

  • January 14 – Egyptian poet , who was released from prison in September 2015, is prevented from leaving Egypt to receive the 2016 Oxfam Novib/PEN Award for Freedom of Expression.[1][2]
  • January 26 – Egyptian poet is sentenced to three years in prison, found guilty of "contempt of religion." Naoot goes to prison immediately and must appeal from there.[3][4]
  • American poets Hawona Sullivan Janzen and Clarence White participate in public art project Rondo Family Reunion in Saint Paul, Minnesota.[5]

Anniversaries[]

  • January 25 – the 125th birthday of Osip Mandelstam.[6]
  • March 5 – semicentenary of the death of Anna Akhmatova, Russian poet (Requiem)
  • March 27 – 90th birthday of Frank O'Hara.[7] (See July 25)
  • April 24 – centenary of the start of the Easter Rising in Dublin, which inspired W. B. Yeats’s poem "Easter, 1916".
  • May 21 – 90th birthday of Robert Creeley (d. 2005).
  • June 7 – semicentenary of the death of Jean Arp, French sculptor, painter and poet, leader in Dadaism
  • July 11 – semicentenary of the death of Delmore Schwartz, American poet, Bollingen Prize winner and short story writer ("In Dreams Begin Responsibilities")
  • July 25 – semicentenary of the death of Frank O'Hara, American poet and key member of the New York School of poetry. (See March 27)
  • August 29 – semicentenary of the death of Melvin Tolson, American poet Modernist poet, educator, columnist, and politician
  • September 25 – semicentenary of the death of Mina Loy, British-born American artist, poet, Futurist and actor
  • September 28 – semicentenary of the death of André Breton, French poet, essayist and theorist; the leading exponent of Surrealism in literature

Selection of works published in English[]

Australia[]

Canada[]

  • Gwen Benaway, Passage
  • Joe Denham, Regeneration Machine
  • Steven Heighton, The Waking Comes Late
  • Susan Holbrook, Throaty Wipes
  • Garry Thomas Morse, Prairie Harbour
  • Rachel Rose, Marry & Burn
  • Gregory Scofield, Witness, I Am

Anthologies in Canada[]

India[]

  • Sudeep Sen, Erotext, Penguin Books, ISBN 978-93-858905-8-1

New Zealand[]

  • Tusiata Avia, Fale Aiutu – Spirit House, Victoria University Press, ISBN 9781776560646

Poets in Best New Zealand Poems[]

These poets wrote the 25 poems selected for Best New Zealand Poems 2015 (guest editor was John Newton, published this year:

United Kingdom[]

England[]

  • Jay Bernard, The Red and Yellow Nothing
  • Emily Berry, Anne Carson and Sophie Collins, If I'm Scared We Can't Win (Penguin Modern Poets)
  • Brian Bilston, You Took the Last Bus Home
  • Rachael Boast, Void Studies
  • Vahni Capildeo, Measures of Expatriation (Trinidad-born poet)
  • Melissa Lee-Houghton, Sunshine
  • Hollie McNish, Nobody Told Me
  • Alice Oswald, Falling Awake
  • Ruth Padel, Tidings – A Christmas Journey
  • Denise Riley, Say Something Back
  • Kate Tempest, Let Them Eat Chaos
  • Rebecca Watts, The Met Office Advises Caution

Northern Ireland[]

Scotland[]

  • Michel Faber, Undying: a love story (Dutch-born writer)

Anthologies in the United Kingdom[]

  • Carol Ann Duffy and Gillian Clarke, The Map and the Clock: A Laureates' Choice of the Poetry of Britain and Ireland

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom[]

United States[]

Alphabetical listing by author name

  • Jos Charles, Safe Space (Ahsahta Press)
  • Matthew and Michael Dickman, Brother (Faber)
  • Tyehimba Jess, Olio
  • Ben Lerner, No Art (collection incorporating three previous volumes)
  • Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in This One
  • Michael Palmer, The Laughter of the Sphinx (New Directions)
  • Ocean Vuong, Night Sky With Exit Wounds (Copper Canyon Press)
  • C. D. Wright. ShallCross (Copper Canyon Press)

Anthologies in the United States[]

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States[]

  • J.D. McClatchy. Sweet Theft: A Poet's Commonplace Book
  • C. D. Wright. The Poet, The Lion, Talking Pictures, El Farolito, A Wedding in St. Roch, The Big Box Store, The Warp in the Mirror, Spring, Midnights, Fire & All (Copper Canyon Press)

Poets in The Best American Poetry 2016[]

Works published in other languages[]

French[]

German[]

  • Antony Theodore, Du bist die Seele meins Seins (Ventura Verlag), ISBN 978-39-408533-9-4

Awards and honors by country[]

See also: List of poetry awards

Awards announced this year:

International[]

  • Struga Poetry Evenings Golden Wreath Laureate : Margaret Atwood

Australia awards and honors[]

Canada awards and honors[]

France awards and honors[]

India awards and honors[]

  • Sahitya Akademi Award : Papineni Sivasankar for Rajanigandha (Telugu)
  • Jnanpith Award : Shankha Ghosh

New Zealand awards and honors[]

  • Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement:
  • Montana New Zealand Book Awards (poetry category):

United Kingdom awards and honors[]

  • Cholmondeley Award: Maura Dooley, David Morley, Peter Sansom, Iain Sinclair
  • Costa Award (formerly "Whitbread Awards") for poetry:
    • Shortlist: Melissa Lee-Houghton, Sunshine; Alice Oswald, Falling Awake; Denise Riley, Say Something Back; Kate Tempest, Let Them Eat Chaos
  • English Association's Fellows' Poetry Prizes:
  • Eric Gregory Award (for a collection of poems by a poet under the age of 30):
  • Forward Poetry Prize:
    • Best Collection:
      • Shortlist: Vahni Capildeo, Measures of Expatriation
    • Best First Collection:
      • Shortlist: Tiphanie Yanique, Wife
    • Best Poem:
      • Shortlist:
  • Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize for poetry:
    • Shortlist:
  • Manchester Poetry Prize:
  • National Poet of Wales:
  • National Poetry Competition : Stephen Sexton for The Curfew
  • T. S. Eliot Prize (United Kingdom and Ireland): Jacob Polley, Jackself
    • Shortlist (announced in November 2016): 2016 Short List
  • The Times / Stephen Spender Prize for Poetry Translation:
  • Wilfred Owen Poetry Award: Carol Ann Duffy

United States awards and honors[]

From the Poetry Society of America[]

Conferences and workshops by country[]

Australia[]

Canada[]

Mexico[]

New Zealand[]

United Kingdom[]

United States[]

Deaths[]

January – June[]

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

  • January 1 – Fazu Aliyeva, 83 (born 1932), Russian Avar poet and journalist
  • January 6 – Nivaria Tejera, 86 (born 1929), Cuban poet and novelist
  • January 9 – Zelimkhan Yaqub, 66 (born 1950), Azerbaijani poet
  • January 12 – C. D. Wright, 67 (born 1949), American poet who was the former poet laureate of Rhode Island and winner of the 2009 International Griffin Poetry Prize[15]
  • January 15 – Francisco X. Alarcón, 61 (born 1954), Chicano-American poet who was born in California and grew up in Guadalajara, Mexico[16][17]
  • January 19 – Laurence Lerner, 90 (born 1925), South African-born English-language poet and academic
  • February 7 – Andrew Glaze, 90 (born 1920), American poet appointed 11th Poet Laureate of Alabama in 2013
  • February 8 – Nida Fazli, 77 (born 1938), Indian poet and lyricist[18]
  • February 21 – Akbar Ali, 90 (born 1925), Indian Kannada poet[19]
    • Miroslav Nemirov, 54 (born 1961), Russian poet
  • March 5 – Rafael Squirru, 90 (born 1925), Argentine author, art critic and poet
  • April 13 – Jock Scot, 63 (born 1952), Scottish performance poet
  • April 30 – Daniel Berrigan, 94 (born 1921), American Jesuit priest, poet, peace activist and recidivist (one of Catonsville Nine); winner of Lamont Prize for his book of poems Time Without Number
  • June 4 –  [ru], 82, Russian poet.[20]
  • June 16 – Bill Berkson, 76, American poet and art critic, heart attack.[21]
  • June 25 – Adam Small, 79, South African writer and poet, winner of the Hertzog Prize. (born 1936).[22]
  • June 30 – Sir Geoffrey Hill, 84, English poet

July – December[]

  • July 1 – Yves Bonnefoy, 93, French poet, essayist, translator, and critic (born 1923)[23]
  • September 3 – Peter Oresick, 60, American poet (born 1955)
  • September 4 – Novella Matveyeva, 81, Russian poet and singer-songwriter (born 1934)
  • October 14 – Brigit Pegeen Kelly, American poet (born 1951)
  • October 28 – Jolanda Insana, 79, Italian poet and translator, Viareggio Prize recipient[24]
  • December 27 – Anthony Cronin, 92, Irish poet (born 1928)
  • December 30 – Judith Ortiz Cofer, 64, Puerto Rican American poet and educator[25]
  • December 31 – David Meltzer, 79, American poet and musician[26]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Egyptian Writer Omar Hazek Prevented from Traveling to Receive Freedom of Expression Award – see also 2014 in poetry article Events section for information on Hazek's time in an Egyptian prison.
  2. ^ http://www.pen-international.org/01/2016/speech-by-omar-hazek-recipient-of-2016-oxfam-novibpen-award/ Speech by Omar Hazek, recipient of 2016 Oxfam Novib/PEN Award PEN International
  3. ^ http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/185963/Egypt/Politics-/Egyptian-writer-Fatima-Naoot-sentenced-to--years-i.aspx
  4. ^ https://www.reuters.com/article/us-egypt-courts-poet-idUSKBN0L121M20150128
  5. ^ "'I'm a poet, not a politician': Hawona Sullivan Janzen on the inspiration for 'Rondo Family Reunion'". MinnPost. November 15, 2018. Retrieved July 11, 2020.
  6. ^ Thoughts on Osip Mandelstam's Birthday
  7. ^ http://www.astrotheme.com/astrology/Frank_O'Hara
  8. ^ https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/this-is-a-debut-book-holy-crap-liz-howard-takes-the-65000-griffin-poetry-prize/article30257468/
  9. ^ https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/this-is-a-debut-book-holy-crap-liz-howard-takes-the-65000-griffin-poetry-prize/article30257468/
  10. ^ https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/this-is-a-debut-book-holy-crap-liz-howard-takes-the-65000-griffin-poetry-prize/article30257468/
  11. ^ "Eden Robinson, Gregory Scofield, Yasuko Thanh among 2016 Writers' Trust Prize winners". CBC Books, November 2. 2016.
  12. ^ "Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize". University of Pittsburgh Press. 2017. Archived from the original on September 25, 2017. Retrieved November 7, 2017.
  13. ^ https://www.pw.org/about-us/jackson_poetry_prize
  14. ^ https://www.pw.org/about-us/jackson_poetry_prize
  15. ^ C.D. Wright, ex-R.I. state poet and MacArthur 'genius grant' winner, dies at 67
  16. ^ Francisco X. Alarcón : The Poetry Foundation
  17. ^ Adiós, Francisco X. Alarcón 1954–2016
  18. ^ Acclaimed Poet-Lyricist Nida Fazli Dies In Mumbai Archived February 15, 2016, at the Wayback Machine
  19. ^ Poet Akbar Ali, Known for Limericks, Dies at 91
  20. ^ In Paris died, the Russian poet Alexander Glezer
  21. ^ Bill Berkson, San Francisco poet, art critic and teacher, dies at 76
  22. ^ Another tree has fallen – RIP Adam Small
  23. ^ French poet Yves Bonnefoy dies
  24. ^ E' morta la poetessa messinese Jolanda Insana (in Italian) (born 1937)
  25. ^ https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/judith-ortiz-cofer
  26. ^ "David Meltzer". poetryfoundation.org. January 13, 2017. Retrieved January 14, 2017.

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