2000 in Poetry - Deaths

Deaths

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  • January 2 – Roland Flint, United States, at 66, of cancer
  • April 21 – Al Purdy, Canada, at 81, of lung cancer
  • April 21 – Douglas Oliver, United Kingdom
  • May 14 – Karl Shapiro, at 86
  • September 25 – R.S. Thomas, 87, Anglo-Welsh poet
  • June 9 – Ernst Jandl (born 1925), Austrian poet, author and translator
  • June 26 – Judith Wright, United States, 85, of a heart attack
  • July 13 – Alex Derwent Hope, 92, poet
  • September 22 – Yehuda Amichai (born 1924), Israeli poet
  • November 29 – William Scammell
  • December 3 – Gwendolyn Brooks, 83, of cancer
  • December 20 – Adrian Henry
  • Date not known:
    • Edgar Bowers, at 75, of non-Hodgkins' lymphoma
    • John Bruce (poet), Canada
    • Lauris Edmond (born 1924), New Zealand
    • Libby Scheier, Canada

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    “As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
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