1965 in Poetry - Deaths

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:

• January 4 — T. S. Eliot, 76, American/British poet
• January 28 – Motokichi Takahashi 高橋元吉 (born 1893), Japanese, Taishō and Showa period poet
• February 2 — Richard Blackmur, 61, American literary critic and poet
• March 17 – Nancy Cunard, 69, English writer, editor and publisher
• June 5 – Eleanor Farjeon, 84, poet poet and author
• July 10 – Jacques Audiberti 66, French playwright, poet and novelist and exponent of the Theatre of the Absurd
• August 17:
  • Jack Spicer, American poet often identified with the San Francisco Renaissance
  • Jun Takami 高見順 pen-name of Takama Yoshioa (born 1907), Japanese, Showa period novelist and poet
• August 24 – Fuyue Anzai 安西 冬衛 (born 1898) Japanese poet and co-founder of the magazine Shi To Shiron ("Poetry and Poetics")
• October 15 or October 14 – Randall Jarrell, 51, American author, writer and poet, in a highway accident;
• June 22 – Joseph Auslander, 67, of a heart attack
• September 2 – Johannes Bobrowski (born 1917), German poet, narrative writer, adaptor and essayist
• November 28 – Aslaug Vaa, of Norway

• Also:
  • Kirsten Hammann, Denmark