Recent events
- Donald Hall named new U.S. Poet Laureate
- Carol Ann Duffy wins the T. S. Eliot Prize
- W.S. Merwin wins the 2005 National Book Award for poetry.
- Christopher Logue wins the 2005 Whitbread Award for poetry
- Finnish poet Bo Carpelan wins the Finlandia Prize, thus becoming the first person to win the prize twice
- 4 January 2006: Romanian-born Canadian poet Irving Layton, close friend of Leonard Cohen dies in Montreal at the age of 92
- there is a campaign to save the London house where Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine lived, the actor Simon Callow is the spokesperson for the campaign
- Claudia Emerson wins the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for poetry
- May 14, 2006: Stanley Kunitz dies at the age of 100
In the news 
- June 10, 2006 New Owner at Grolier Poetry Bookstore to expand international selection
- June 13, 2005 Dannie Abse hurt, wife killed in car accident