Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- January 28 – George Woodcock (born 1912), Canadian poet, biographer, academic and prominent anarchist
- February 6 – James Merrill, 68, of a heart attack
- April 14 – Brian Coffey (born 1905), Irish poet and publisher
- April 22 – Jane Kenyon, 47, of leukemia
- May 11 – David Avidan, 61, Israeli poet.
- July 7 – Helene Johnson, after osteoporosis
- July 16:
- May Sarton, 83 (born 1912), American poet, novelist, and memoirist, of breast cancer
- Stephen Spender 86, (born 1909), English poet and essayist, of a heart ailment
- September 3 – Earle Birney, 91, Canadian poet
- September 18 – Donald Davie, 73, of cancer
- October 22 – Kingsley Amis, 73, after an accidental fall
- November 5 – Essex Hemphill, 38, American poet and gay activist, from complications relating to AIDS
- December 30 – Heiner Muller (born 1929), German
Read more about this topic: 1995 In Poetry
Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“I sang of death but had I known
The many deaths one must have died
Before he came to meet his own!”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
—Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)