1981 in Poetry - Deaths

Deaths

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• March 15 – Horiguchi Daigaku 堀口 大学 (born 1892), Japanese, Taishō and Showa period poet and translator of French literature; a member of the Shinshisha ("The New Poetry Society"); accompanied his father on overseas diplomatic postings
• April 26 – Robert Garioch (born 1909)
• May 31 – Falguni Ray (born 1945), Bengali poet and youngest member of Hungryalism movement
• August 27 – James Larkin Pearson (born 1879), American poet, newspaper publisher; North Carolina Poet Laureate, 1953–1981
• September 12 – Eugenio Montale, 85, Italian poet, prose writer, editor and translator, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1975.
• October 26 – Marie Uguay, 26 (born 1955), French-Canadian), from bone cancer
• October 30 – George Brassens, French

• Also:
  • Adolf Beiss (born 1900), German
  • John Glassco (born 1909), Canadian poet, memoirist and novelist
  • Ada Verdun Howell (born 1902), Australian
  • Leonard Mann (born 1895), Australian
  • Takis Sinopoulos (born 1917), Greek