Deaths
- 1 February - Elizabeth Jolley, author (born 1923)
- 22 February - Joyce Lee, poet (born 1913)
- 2 March - David A. Myers, poet and publisher (born 1942)
- 23 May - John Croyston, poet (born 1933)
- 11 July - Glenda Adams, author (born 1939)
- 11 July - Noel Rowe, poet (born 1951)
- 1 August - Mona Brand, playwright (born 1915)
- 24 August - Philip Grundy, translator (born 1932)
- 16 October - Steven J. Spears, author and playwright (born 1951)
- 31 October - Eric Rolls, author (born 1923)
- 24 December - Jan McKemmish, author (born 1950)
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“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
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“I sang of death but had I known
The many deaths one must have died
Before he came to meet his own!”
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