2016 in poetry
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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events[edit]
- January 14 – Egyptian poet Omar Hazek, 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 Fatima Naoot 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
Australia[edit]
Canada[edit]
- 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[edit]
India[edit]
- Sudeep Sen, Erotext, Penguin Books, ISBN 978-93-858905-8-1
New Zealand[edit]
- Tusiata Avia, Fale Aiutu – Spirit House, Victoria University Press, ISBN 9781776560646
Poets in Best New Zealand Poems[edit]
These poets wrote the 25 poems selected for Best New Zealand Poems 2015 (guest editor was John Newton, published this year:
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United Kingdom[edit]
England[edit]
- 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[8]
- 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
- Kae Tempest, Let Them Eat Chaos
- Rebecca Watts, The Met Office Advises Caution
Northern Ireland[edit]
Scotland[edit]
- Michel Faber, Undying: a love story (Dutch-born writer)
Anthologies in the United Kingdom[edit]
- 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[edit]
United States[edit]
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[edit]
Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States[edit]
- 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[edit]
Works published in other languages[edit]
French[edit]
German[edit]
- Antony Theodore, Du bist die Seele meins Seins (Ventura Verlag), ISBN 978-39-408533-9-4
Awards and honors by country[edit]
Awards announced this year:
International[edit]
Australia awards and honors[edit]
Canada awards and honors[edit]
- Archibald Lampman Award: Pearl Pirie, the pet radish, shrunken
- Atlantic Poetry Prize: Susan Goyette, The Brief Reincarnation of a Girl
- 2016 Governor General's Awards: Steven Heighton, The Waking Comes Late (English); Normand de Bellefeuille, Le poème est une maison de bord de mer (French)
- Griffin Poetry Prize:
- Canada: Liz Howard, Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent[9]
- International: Norman Dubie, The Quotations of Bone[10]
- Lifetime Recognition Award (presented by the Griffin trustees): Adam Zagajewski.[11]
- Latner Writers' Trust Poetry Prize: Gregory Scofield[12]
- Gerald Lampert Award: Ben Ladouceur, Otter
- Pat Lowther Award: Lorna Crozier, The Wrong Cat
- Prix Alain-Grandbois: Rosalie Lessard, L'observatoire
- Raymond Souster Award: Lorna Crozier, The Wrong Cat
- Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize: Raoul Fernandes, Transmitter and Receiver
- Prix Émile-Nelligan: Jonathan Lamy, La vie sauve
France awards and honors[edit]
India awards and honors[edit]
- Sahitya Akademi Award : Papineni Sivasankar for Rajanigandha (Telugu)
- Jnanpith Award : Shankha Ghosh
New Zealand awards and honors[edit]
- Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement:
- Montana New Zealand Book Awards (poetry category):
United Kingdom awards and honors[edit]
- 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; Kae 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:
- Best Collection:
- 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[edit]
- Arab American Book Award (The George Ellenbogen Poetry Award):
- Honorable Mentions:
- Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Erin Adair-Hodges for Let's All Die Happy[13]
- Anisfield-Wolf Book Award:
- Best Translated Book Award (BTBA):
- Beatrice Hawley Award from Alice James Books:
- Jackson Poetry Prize: Will Alexander (poet)[14]
- Judges: Elizabeth Alexander, Rae Armantrout, and Terrance Hayes [15]
- Lambda Literary Award:
- Gay Poetry:
- Lesbian Poetry:
- Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize:
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize:
- Finalists:
- National Book Award for Poetry (NBA):
- NBA Finalists:
- NBA Longlist:
- NBA Judges:
- National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry:
- The New Criterion Poetry Prize:
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (United States): to Ozone Journal by Peter Balakian
- Finalists: to Four-Legged Girl by Diane Seuss ; and to Alive: New and Selected Poems by Elizabeth Willis
- Wallace Stevens Award:
- Whiting Awards:
- PEN Award for Poetry in Translation:
- PEN Center USA 2016 Poetry Award:
- PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry: (Judges: )
- Raiziss/de Palchi Translation Award:
- Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize:
- Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award:
- Walt Whitman Prize – – Judge:
- Yale Younger Series:
From the Poetry Society of America[edit]
- Frost Medal:
- Shelley Memorial Award:
- Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award:
- Lyric Poetry Award:
- Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award:
- Louise Louis/Emily F. Bourne Student Poetry Award:
- George Bogin Memorial Award:
- Robert H. Winner Memorial Award:
- Cecil Hemley Memorial Award:
- Norma Farber First Book Award:
- Lucille Medwick Memorial Award:
- William Carlos Williams Award: (Judge: )
- Finalists for WCW Award:
Conferences and workshops by country[edit]
Australia[edit]
Canada[edit]
Mexico[edit]
New Zealand[edit]
United Kingdom[edit]
United States[edit]
Deaths[edit]
January – June[edit]
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[16]
- January 15 – Francisco X. Alarcón, 61 (born 1954), Chicano-American poet who was born in California and grew up in Guadalajara, Mexico[17][18]
- 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[19]
- February 21 – Akbar Ali, 90 (born 1925), Indian Kannada poet[20]
- 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 – Alexander Glezer, 82, Russian poet.[21]
- June 16 – Bill Berkson, 76, American poet and art critic, heart attack.[22]
- June 25 – Adam Small, 79, South African writer and poet, winner of the Hertzog Prize. (born 1936).[23]
- June 30 – Sir Geoffrey Hill, 84, English poet
July – December[edit]
- July 1 – Yves Bonnefoy, 93, French poet, essayist, translator, and critic (born 1923)[24]
- 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[25]
- December 27 – Anthony Cronin, 92, Irish poet (born 1928)
- December 30 – Judith Ortiz Cofer, 64, Puerto Rican American poet and educator[26]
- December 31 – David Meltzer, 79, American poet and musician[27]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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
- ^ "Egyptian writer Fatima Naoot sentenced to 3 years in jail for 'contempt of religion' - Politics - Egypt".
- ^ "Egyptian poet goes on trial accused of contempt of Islam". Reuters. January 28, 2015.
- ^ "'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.
- ^ Thoughts on Osip Mandelstam's Birthday
- ^ "Astrology and natal chart of Frank O'Hara, born on 1926/03/27".
- ^ "You Took the Last Bus Home update". September 7, 2016.
- ^ Medley, Mark (June 3, 2016). "'This is a debut book – holy crap': Liz Howard takes the $65,000 Griffin Poetry Prize". The Globe and Mail.
- ^ Medley, Mark (June 3, 2016). "'This is a debut book – holy crap': Liz Howard takes the $65,000 Griffin Poetry Prize". The Globe and Mail.
- ^ Medley, Mark (June 3, 2016). "'This is a debut book – holy crap': Liz Howard takes the $65,000 Griffin Poetry Prize". The Globe and Mail.
- ^ "Eden Robinson, Gregory Scofield, Yasuko Thanh among 2016 Writers' Trust Prize winners". CBC Books, November 2. 2016.
- ^ "Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize". University of Pittsburgh Press. 2017. Archived from the original on September 25, 2017. Retrieved November 7, 2017.
- ^ "Jackson Poetry Prize". February 12, 2008.
- ^ "Jackson Poetry Prize". February 12, 2008.
- ^ C.D. Wright, ex-R.I. state poet and MacArthur 'genius grant' winner, dies at 67
- ^ Francisco X. Alarcón : The Poetry Foundation
- ^ Adiós, Francisco X. Alarcón 1954–2016
- ^ Acclaimed Poet-Lyricist Nida Fazli Dies In Mumbai Archived February 15, 2016, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Poet Akbar Ali, Known for Limericks, Dies at 91
- ^ "In Paris died, the Russian poet Alexander Glezer". Archived from the original on August 10, 2016. Retrieved June 20, 2016.
- ^ Bill Berkson, San Francisco poet, art critic and teacher, dies at 76
- ^ Another tree has fallen – RIP Adam Small
- ^ "French poet Yves Bonnefoy dies". BBC News. Archived from the original on May 11, 2023.
- ^ E' morta la poetessa messinese Jolanda Insana (in Italian) (born 1937)
- ^ "Judith Ortiz Cofer". November 26, 2021.
- ^ "David Meltzer". poetryfoundation.org. January 13, 2017. Retrieved January 14, 2017.