1986 in Poetry - Deaths

Deaths

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

• January 4 – Christopher Isherwood (born 1904), English-born American novelist and poet
• January 9 – W. S. Graham (born 1918), Scottish poet
• January 12 – Bob Kaufman, at 60 (born 1925), of emphysema
• March 4 – Elizabeth Smart, at 72 (born 1913), Canadian poet and novelist
• March 30 – John Ciardi, at 69 (born 1916), American poet, translator, and etymologist, of a heart attack
• April 21 – Salah Jahin, also spelled "Salah Jaheen" صلاح جاهين (born 1930), Egyptian, Arabic-language poet, lyricist, playwright and cartoonist
• June 24 – Rex Warner (born 1905), English classicist, author, poet and translator
• July 13 – Brion Gysin, at 70 (born 1916), English painter, writer, sound poet, and performance artist
• August 19 – Mehr Lal Soni Zia Fatehabadi, at 73 (born 1913), Urdu poet, essayist, critic, biographer
• August 20 – Milton Acorn, at 63 (born 1923), Canadian poet, writer, and playwright, of heart disease and diabetes
• August 31 – Elizabeth Coatsworth, at 93 (born 1893), American author of children's fiction and poetry
• December 8 – Henry Reed, at 72 (born 1914), English British poet, translator, radio playwright and journalist

• Also:
  • Laurence Collinson (born 1925), Australian playwright, actor, poet, journalist and secondary school teacher
  • Atul Chandra Hazarika (born 1903), Indian, writing in Assamese; poet, dramatist, children's story writer and translator; called "Sahitycharjya" by an Assamese literary society
  • Audrey Longbottom (born c. 1922), Australian