1906 in poetry

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

Events

 * Picasso's portrait of Gertrude Stein

Canada

 * Jean Blewett, The Cornflower and Other Poems
 * Helena Coleman, Songs and Sonnets
 * Sophia Almon Hensley, The Heart of a Woman.
 * J.D. Logan, Preludes, Sonnets and Other Verses
 * Duncan Campbell Scott, Via Borealis, Toronto: William Tyrrell & Co.
 * Frederick George Scott, The Hymn of Empire, and Other Poems

United Kingdom

 * AE (George William Russell), By Still Waters
 * Joseph Campbell, The Rushlight
 * John Davidson, Holiday, and Other Poems
 * Walter de la Mare, Poems
 * C.M. Doughty, The Dawn in Britain
 * Thomas Hardy. The Dynasts, II
 * D. Hyde, editor and translator into English from Gaelic, The Religious Songs of Connacht, Ireland
 * Alfred Noyes:
 * Drake
 * "The Highwayman", a ballad
 * Marguerite Antonia Radclyffe-Hall,  'Twixt Earth and Stars
 * Arthur Symons, The Fool of the World, and Other Poems
 * W.B. Yeats, Poems, 1899-1905, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom

United States

 * Gelett Burgess, Are You a Bromide?
 * William Ellery Leonard, Sonnets and Poems
 * Horace L. Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden, five volumes, published from this year to 1964

Other in English

 * W.F. Alexander and A E. Currie, editors, New Zealand Verse, anthology
 * W.B. Yeats, Poems, 1899-1905, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom

France

 * Francis Jammes:
 * Clairières dans le Ciel
 * L'Eglise habillée de feuilles
 * Oscar Vladislas de Lubicz-Milosz, also known as O. V. de L. Milosz, Les Sept Solitudes

Other

 * José Santos Chocano, Alma América, pról. de Miguel se Unamuno, Peru
 * Alfred Garneau, Poésies, posthumously published; French language; Canada
 * Johannes V. Jensen, Digte, Denmark
 * Govardhanram N. Tripathi, Kavi Dayramno Aksharadeh, an appraisal of the works of poet Kavi Dayramno Aksharadeh (Indian, writing in Gujarati) (criticism)

Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * January 5 – Takashi Matsumoto 松本たかし(died 1956), Japanese Showa period professional haiku poet in the Shippo-kai haiku circle, then, starting in 1929, in the Hototogisu group that also included Kawabata Bosha; founded a literary magazine, Fue ("Flute") in 1946
 * January 19 – Robin Hyde (died 1939), New Zealand
 * April 13 – Samuel Beckett (died 1989), poet, playwright and novelist who won the Nobel Prize in 1969
 * May 17 – Frederic Prokosch, American (died 1989), American novelist, poet, memoirist and critic
 * June 22 – Anne Morrow Lindbergh (died 2001), American poet and wife of Charles Lindbergh
 * June 27 – Vernon Watkins (died 1967), Welsh poet writing in English
 * August 8 – Jesse Stuart (died 1984), American short story writer, poet, and novelist
 * August 28 – John Betjeman (died 1984), English poet, writer and broadcaster
 * September 2 – Ronald Bottrall (died 1989), English
 * September 16 – Stanley Burnshaw, American (died 2005), American poet, critic, novelist, playwright, publisher, editor, translator and scholar
 * September 20 – Ishizuka Tomoji 石塚友二 the kanji (Japanese writing) is a pen name of Ishizuka Tomoji, which is written with the different kanji 石塚友次, but in English there is no difference (died 1984), Japanese Showa period haiku poet and novelist
 * September 27 – Sir William Empson (died 1984), English literary critic and poet
 * October 16 – Cleanth Brooks (died 1994) influential American literary critic and professor; author of Understanding Poetry
 * November 12 – George Hill Dillon (died 1968), American poet and winner of the 1932 Pulitzer Prize in poetry
 * December 23 – Edasseri Govindan Nair (died 1974), Indian, Malayalam-language poet
 * Also:
 * Ken Barratt, Australian poet and magazine editor
 * Bruce Charles, Canadian
 * Mary Finnin, Australian
 * Humayun Kabir (died 1969) Bengali poet, educationist, politician, writer, philosopher
 * James Picot (died 1944), Australian
 * A.J. Wood, Australian

Deaths

 * February 9 – Paul Laurence Dunbar (born 1872), American
 * March 31 – James McIntyre (born 1826), Canadian called "the Cheese Poet"
 * date not known – Martha Browne