1988 in Poetry - Deaths

Deaths

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

  • January 3 – Rose Ausländer, at 86 (born 1901)
  • February 3 – Robert Duncan, at 69 (born 1919), of a heart attack
  • March 30 – John Clellon Holmes, 62 (born 1926), of cancer
  • June 16 – Miguel Pinero, 41, of cirrhosis of the liver
  • October 1 – Sir Sacheverell Sitwell, 90
  • Also:
    • Léonie Fuller Adams
    • Henry Coulette
    • M. Govindan (born 1919), Indian, Malayalam-language poet
    • Premendra Mitra (born 1904) Bengali poet, novelist, short-story writer, including thrillers and science fiction
    • Mairtin O Direain (born 1910), Irish

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