January – The Ogura Hyakunin Isshu Cultural Foundation, founded by the Kyoto,
Japan, Chamber of Commerce and Industry, opens 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 endures, and a Japanese card game,
Uta-garuta, uses cards with the poems printed on it.[1]
May – The
Poetry Out Loud recitation contest is created this year by the
National Endowment for the Arts and
The 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
Kazakh poet
Aron Atabek is arrested after riot police and bulldozers arrive at the
shanty town of Shanyrak,
Kazakhstan for its demolition. Atabek is sentenced to 18 years in prison for alleged offences relating to the clash this day between protesters and police.[2][3]
August 15 – The existence of two early poems by
Ted Hughes, written into a school exercise book, is announced; one an early version of "Song" which appeared in his first collection.[4]
November 10 – A new series, "The Best of Irish Poetry" is 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]
Pakistani poet
Ahmed Faraz, who writes 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."[7]
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:
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 the
Costa Book Award
This book of British writing (Granta,
ISBN978-1-86207-850-5), edited by
Lavinia Greenlaw and
Helon Habila, contains short stories, essays and excerpts of novels in addition to poems by these poets:
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), posthumous[8]
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),[8] one of the New York Times "100 Notable Books of the Year", an expanded edition of the
1984Collected Poems, 1947–1980
Jesse Glass, The Passion of Phineas Gage and Selected Poems (West House/Ahadada)
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"
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,
ISBN978-1-55659-248-5 (posthumous)[20]
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
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
Jean Max Tixier, Les silences du passeur, publisher: Le Taillis pré
Linda Maria Baros, La Maison en lames de rasoir (The House Made of Razor Blades), Cheyne éditeur
Christoph Ransmayr (Foto: Johannes Cizek)
Germany
Christoph Buchwald, general editor, and
Norbert Hummelt, guest editor, Jahrbuch der Lyrik 2007 ("Poetry Yearbook 2007"), publisher: S. Fischer Verlag; anthology[22]
^
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"Literature" article, with numerous pages by different authors on literature in various nations and languages, Britannica Book of the Year 2006, published by Encyclopædia Britannica, 2007, online version retrieved January 15, 2009
^Web pages titled "Lipska Ewa" (in
EnglishArchived 2011-09-16 at the
Wayback Machine and
PolishArchived 2011-07-18 at the
Wayback Machine), at the Instytut Książki ("Books Institute") website , "Bibliography" sections. Retrieved March 1, 2010.
^Web pages titled "Miłosz Czesław" (both
English versionArchived 2011-09-16 at the
Wayback Machine [for translated titles] and
Polish versionArchived 2011-07-18 at the
Wayback Machine [for diacritical marks]), at the Institute Ksiazki ("Book Institute") website, "Bibliography: Poetry" section. Retrieved February 26, 2010.
^Web page titled
"Jan Twardowski"Archived 2011-07-18 at the
Wayback Machine, at the Institute Ksiazki website (in Polish), "Bibliography: Poetry" section. Retrieved February 24, 2010.
January – The Ogura Hyakunin Isshu Cultural Foundation, founded by the Kyoto,
Japan, Chamber of Commerce and Industry, opens 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 endures, and a Japanese card game,
Uta-garuta, uses cards with the poems printed on it.[1]
May – The
Poetry Out Loud recitation contest is created this year by the
National Endowment for the Arts and
The 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
Kazakh poet
Aron Atabek is arrested after riot police and bulldozers arrive at the
shanty town of Shanyrak,
Kazakhstan for its demolition. Atabek is sentenced to 18 years in prison for alleged offences relating to the clash this day between protesters and police.[2][3]
August 15 – The existence of two early poems by
Ted Hughes, written into a school exercise book, is announced; one an early version of "Song" which appeared in his first collection.[4]
November 10 – A new series, "The Best of Irish Poetry" is 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]
Pakistani poet
Ahmed Faraz, who writes 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."[7]
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:
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 the
Costa Book Award
This book of British writing (Granta,
ISBN978-1-86207-850-5), edited by
Lavinia Greenlaw and
Helon Habila, contains short stories, essays and excerpts of novels in addition to poems by these poets:
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), posthumous[8]
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),[8] one of the New York Times "100 Notable Books of the Year", an expanded edition of the
1984Collected Poems, 1947–1980
Jesse Glass, The Passion of Phineas Gage and Selected Poems (West House/Ahadada)
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"
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,
ISBN978-1-55659-248-5 (posthumous)[20]
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
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
Jean Max Tixier, Les silences du passeur, publisher: Le Taillis pré
Linda Maria Baros, La Maison en lames de rasoir (The House Made of Razor Blades), Cheyne éditeur
Christoph Ransmayr (Foto: Johannes Cizek)
Germany
Christoph Buchwald, general editor, and
Norbert Hummelt, guest editor, Jahrbuch der Lyrik 2007 ("Poetry Yearbook 2007"), publisher: S. Fischer Verlag; anthology[22]
^
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"Literature" article, with numerous pages by different authors on literature in various nations and languages, Britannica Book of the Year 2006, published by Encyclopædia Britannica, 2007, online version retrieved January 15, 2009
^Web pages titled "Lipska Ewa" (in
EnglishArchived 2011-09-16 at the
Wayback Machine and
PolishArchived 2011-07-18 at the
Wayback Machine), at the Instytut Książki ("Books Institute") website , "Bibliography" sections. Retrieved March 1, 2010.
^Web pages titled "Miłosz Czesław" (both
English versionArchived 2011-09-16 at the
Wayback Machine [for translated titles] and
Polish versionArchived 2011-07-18 at the
Wayback Machine [for diacritical marks]), at the Institute Ksiazki ("Book Institute") website, "Bibliography: Poetry" section. Retrieved February 26, 2010.
^Web page titled
"Jan Twardowski"Archived 2011-07-18 at the
Wayback Machine, at the Institute Ksiazki website (in Polish), "Bibliography: Poetry" section. Retrieved February 24, 2010.