2000 in Poetry - Deaths

Deaths

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  • January 2 – Roland Flint, United States, at 66, of cancer
  • April 21 – Al Purdy, Canada, at 81, of lung cancer
  • April 21 – Douglas Oliver, United Kingdom
  • May 14 – Karl Shapiro, at 86
  • September 25 – R.S. Thomas, 87, Anglo-Welsh poet
  • June 9 – Ernst Jandl (born 1925), Austrian poet, author and translator
  • June 26 – Judith Wright, United States, 85, of a heart attack
  • July 13 – Alex Derwent Hope, 92, poet
  • September 22 – Yehuda Amichai (born 1924), Israeli poet
  • November 29 – William Scammell
  • December 3 – Gwendolyn Brooks, 83, of cancer
  • December 20 – Adrian Henry
  • Date not known:
    • Edgar Bowers, at 75, of non-Hodgkins' lymphoma
    • John Bruce (poet), Canada
    • Lauris Edmond (born 1924), New Zealand
    • Libby Scheier, Canada

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