Deaths
- 12 January - Rae Sexton (born 1936)
- 16 March - Michael Dugan (born 1947)
- 14 April - Geoffrey Bewley (born 1947)
- 6 July - Lisa Bellear (born 1961)
- 10 July - Vera Newsome (born 1912)
- 16 August - Alex Buzo (born 1944)
- 4 September - Colin Thiele (born 1920)
- 22 September - Joy Williams (born 1942)
- 3 October - Gwen Meredith (born 1907)
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
—Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)
“This is the 184th Demonstration.
...
What we do is not beautiful
hurts no one makes no one desperate
we do not break the panes of safety glass
stretching between people on the street
and the deaths they hire.”
—Marge Piercy (b. 1936)
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)