Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
| January 21: | Theun de Vries | born 1907 | Dutch writer and poet |
| February 25: | Phoebe Hesketh | born 1909 | British |
| March 6: | Sadako Kurihara 栗原貞子 |
born 1913 | Japanese poet who survived the Hiroshima nuclear holocaust there and became known for her poems about her city |
| March 7: | Philip Lamantia | born 1927 | American |
| March 29: | Miltos Sachtouris | born 1919 | Greek |
| March 30: | Robert Creeley, 78 | born 1926 | American |
| April 14 | Julia Darling, 48 | born 1956 | English poet, novelist and playwright, of breast cancer |
| June 9: | Hovis Presley | born 1960 | English |
| June 13: | Eugénio de Andrade | born 1923 | Portuguese lyric poet |
| June 23: | Manolis Anagnostakis | born 1925 | Greek poet |
| June 28: | Philip Hobsbaum, 72 | born 1932 | Scot poet and critic |
| July 4: | Lorenzo Thomas | born 1944 | American poet, critic, essayist; Umbra Workshop founding member |
| July 7: | Gustaf Sobin | born 1935 | American |
| August 6: | Vizma Belsevica | born 1931 | leading post-war Latvian poet |
| August 21: | Dahlia Ravikovitch | born 1936 | Israeli |
| August 31: | Amrita Pritam | born 1919 | leading Punjab poet in India who wrote in Hindi |
| September 16: | Stanley Burnshaw | born 1906 | American poet and novelist |
| October 20: | Dane Zajc | born 1929 | Slovenian poet |
| November 1: | Michael Thwaites | born 1915 | Australian |
| Date not known: | Charles Naylor (poet) | not known | American, partner of novelist Thomas Disch |
Read more about this topic: 2005 In Poetry
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