1983 in Poetry - Deaths

Deaths

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  • February 18 – Robert Payne at 71
  • May 4 – Shūji Terayama 寺山 修司 (born 1935), Japanese, avant-garde poet, playwright, writer, film director and photographer
  • June 19 – Vilmundur Gylfason, Icelandic historian and poet
  • July 4 – Ted Berrigan, at 48 (born 1934), American
  • July 12 – Edwin Denby, at 80 (born 1903) by suicide
  • August 12 – Mikey Smith (born 1954), Jamaican dub poet, stoned to death
  • Also:
    • Frances Horovitz, English poet, broadcaster and performer of poetry
    • Alden Nolan

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