2007 in Poetry - Deaths

Deaths

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• January 13 – Diké Omeje, English, cancer
• January 19 – Fiama Hasse Pais Brandão (born 1938), Portugal
• February 13 – Elizabeth Jolley, English-born, Australian author, poet and scriptwriter
• February 14 – Emmett Williams, 81, American poet, known for among other reasons, his collaborations with Daniel Spoerri and Claus Bremer in the Darmstadt circle of concrete poetry, dynamic theater, etc., from 1957 to 1959.
• February 24 – Julia Casterton, English
• March 19:
  • Shimon Tzabar, 80, Israeli artist, author, poet and former Haaretz columnist, pneumonia
  • Robert Dickson, 62, Canadian professor, award-winning Franco-Ontarian writer and poet, cancer
• March 20 – Rita Joe, 75, Canadian Mi'kmaq poet, of Parkinson's disease.
• May 25 – Len Roberts, 60, American poet, professor
• May 30 – William M. Meredith, 88, American, poet, professor
• May 31 – Sarah Hannah, 40, American poet, professor
• June 2 – John Moriarty, 69, Irish poet and philosopher
• June 7 –; Michael Hamburger, 83, German poet, translator
• June 20 – Nazik al-Mala'ika, 85, Iraqi poet
• June 21 – Mary Ellen Solt, 86, American poet, critic
• June 11 – Mercer Simpson, 81, Welsh poet, critic and academic writing in English
• June 25 – Rahim al-Maliki, 39, Iraqi poet
• June 27 – Dragutin Tadijanovic, 102, Croatian poet
• July 1 – Mong Tuyet, 93, Vietnamese poet
• July 2:
  • Philip Booth, 81, American poet, professor,
  • Sandy Crimmins, 55, American poet, performance artist,
• July 11 – Noel Rowe (born 1951), Australian, poet, writer, academic and Roman Catholic priest in the Marist order
• July 16 – Dmitri Prigov, 66, Russian poet, artist,
• July 18 – Sekou Sundiata, 58, American poet, performance artist,
• July 31 – Margaret Avison, 89, Canadian poet
• August 15:
  • Liam Rector, 57, American poet, professor, critic,
  • Khalid Alig, 82, Indian poet, journalist,
• August 22 – Grace Paley, 84, American poet, short story writer, activist
• August 24 – Robbie Benoit, Canadian cowboy poet and writer
• August 25 – Tarapada Roy (born 1936) Bengali poet, essayist and short-story writer known for his satirical sense of humour
• September 13 – Bill Griffiths, 59, English poet and writer
• October 21 – R. B. Kitaj, 74, American-born artist, a friend of poets, via his portraits of poets Robert Duncan, Robert Creeley, Charles Olson & others
• October 30:
  • James Michie (poet), 80 (born 1927), English poet, translator and publisher
  • Paul Roche, 91 (born 1916), English poet, translator and academic once associated with the Bloomsbury Group
• November 16 – Vernon Scannell, 85 (born 1922), English poet, novelist and biographer
• November 17? – Landis Everson, 81, American poet, had a loose affiliation with the Berkeley Renaissance via his association with Jack Spicer's circle of poets. Everson's work was "rediscovered" only a few years before his death.
• November 17:
  • Siv Cedering, 68, Swedish-American poet, painter, sculptor, illustrator, and author, of pancreatic cancer
  • Meg Campbell (born 1937), New Zealand poet and wife of Alistair Campbell
• November 29 – Jaleh Esfahani, 86 (born 1921), in London, Iranian, a woman
• December 16 – Diane Wood Middlebrook, nee Helen Diane Wood, 68, (born 1939), American poet, academic and biographer
• December 30 – Rosemary C. Wilkinson, American poet and Honorary President of the World Academy of Arts and Culture (WAAC)

• Also:
  • Edith Hannah Campion, New Zealand poet and actress
  • Alberto da Cunha Melo, Brazil