Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- March 16 – Susan McGowan, poet (born 1907), Australian
- June 28 – C. B. Christesen, poet and founding editor of Meanjin (born 1911), Australian
- July 6 – Kathleen Jessie Raine (born 1908), an English poet, critic and scholar
- July 8 – Subhash Mukhopadhyay (born 1919), Bengali poet
- July 9 – Josephine Jacobsen (born 1908), American poet, short story writer, and critic
- July 15 – Roberto Bolaño, at 50 (born 1953), from liver disease, Chile
- August 7 – F. T. Prince (born 1912), South African-English poet and academic
- September 3 – Alan Dugan (born 1923), American poet
- November 3 – Rasul Gamzatov, Avarian/Soviet/Russian poet, called the "People's poet of Dagestan" (aged 80)
- November 27 – Talal al-Rasheed, Saudi poet (aged 41?)
- December 12 – Fadwa Toukan, 86, Palestinian poet
- December 23 – John Newlove (born 1923), Canadian poet
- date not known – Heinz Piontek (born 1925), German
Read more about this topic: 2003 In Poetry
Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)
“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)
“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)