Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- January 17 – Gregory Corso, American Beat Generation poet, 70, of prostate cancer
- February 25 – A. R. Ammons, American author and poet
- February 14 – Alan Ross (born 1922), United Kingdom
- February 22 – Leo Connellan (born 1928), United States
- March 23 – Louis Dudek, Canada
- August 28 – Sansei Yamao (born 1938), Japanese poet and friend of the American poet Gary Snyder
- September 23 – Allen Curnow, New Zealand poet and journalist
- October 16 – Anne Ridler (born 1912), British poet and Faber and Faber editor
- October 20 – Andrew Waterhouse
- October 26:
- Elizabeth Jennings (born 1926), United Kingdom
- Pamela Gillilan
- November 25 – David Gascoyne (born 1915), British poet associated with the Surrealist movement
- December 20 – Léopold Senghor, first President of Senegal, poet and writer
- December 27 – Ian Hamilton (born 1938), British poet, critic, magazine publisher
- Date not known:
- Agha Shahid Ali, English-language poet born and raised in Kashmir
- Alan Brunton, New Zealand
- Bill Sewell, New Zealand
Read more about this topic: 2001 In Poetry
Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier’s sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.”
—Philip Caputo (b. 1941)
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)