Deaths
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- January 7 – John Berryman, 57, American poet, from suicide (jumping off a bridge into the Mississippi River)
- January 8 – Kenneth Patchen, 60 (born 1911), American poet and painter, of a heart attack
- January 11 – Padraic Colum, 90, Irish–American poet
- February 5 – Marianne Moore, 84 (born 1887), American Modernist poet and writer
- March 4 – Richard Church (poet), 78, English poet, critic and novelist
- May 22 – Cecil Day-Lewis, 68 English poet
- August 2 – Paul Goodman (born 1911), American poet, of a heart attack
- August 21 – A.M. Klein, 61, Ukrainian-Canadian poet and writer
- October 3 – Gladys Schmitt, 63
- October 22 – James K. Baxter, 46, New Zealand poet
- November 1 – Ezra Pound, 87, an American poet, critic and the driving force behind several Modernist movements, notably Imagism and Vorticism, from an intestinal blockage
- November 20 – Robert Fletcher (poet), 87, poet of "Don't Fence Me In"
- December 10 – Mark Van Doren, 78, American poet, academic and critic
- December 20 – Günter Eich (born 1907) German poet, dramatist, and author
- Also:
- Eileen Duggan
- Andrew John Young
Read more about this topic: 1972 In Poetry
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