1932 in Poetry - Deaths

Deaths

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  • March 16 – Harold Monro, 53 (born 1879), British poet and the proprietor of the Poetry Bookshop in London which helped many famous poets bring their work before the public
  • April 27 – Hart Crane, 32, American poet, by suicide
  • October 5 – Christopher Brennan, 61, Australian poet.
  • December 18 – Edmund Vance Cooke, 66, Canadian poet.
  • Also:
    • Ahmed Shawqi أحمد شوقي (born 1868), Egyptian
    • Hubert Church
    • Raymond Knister, Canadian novelist, short story writer, and poet who drowned in a swimming accident
    • Clinton Scollard

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