Deaths
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- January 2 – Roland Flint, United States, at 66, of cancer
- April 21 – Al Purdy, Canada, at 81, of lung cancer
- April 21 – Douglas Oliver, United Kingdom
- May 14 – Karl Shapiro, at 86
- September 25 – R.S. Thomas, 87, Anglo-Welsh poet
- June 9 – Ernst Jandl (born 1925), Austrian poet, author and translator
- June 26 – Judith Wright, United States, 85, of a heart attack
- July 13 – Alex Derwent Hope, 92, poet
- September 22 – Yehuda Amichai (born 1924), Israeli poet
- November 29 – William Scammell
- December 3 – Gwendolyn Brooks, 83, of cancer
- December 20 – Adrian Henry
- Date not known:
- Edgar Bowers, at 75, of non-Hodgkins' lymphoma
- John Bruce (poet), Canada
- Lauris Edmond (born 1924), New Zealand
- Libby Scheier, Canada
Read more about this topic: 2000 In Poetry
Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“I sang of death but had I known
The many deaths one must have died
Before he came to meet his own!”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)
“There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier’s sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.”
—Philip Caputo (b. 1941)