2001 in Poetry - Deaths

Deaths

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  • January 17 – Gregory Corso, American Beat Generation poet, 70, of prostate cancer
  • February 25 – A. R. Ammons, American author and poet
  • February 14 – Alan Ross (born 1922), United Kingdom
  • February 22 – Leo Connellan (born 1928), United States
  • March 23 – Louis Dudek, Canada
  • August 28 – Sansei Yamao (born 1938), Japanese poet and friend of the American poet Gary Snyder
  • September 23 – Allen Curnow, New Zealand poet and journalist
  • October 16 – Anne Ridler (born 1912), British poet and Faber and Faber editor
  • October 20 – Andrew Waterhouse
  • October 26:
    • Elizabeth Jennings (born 1926), United Kingdom
    • Pamela Gillilan
  • November 25 – David Gascoyne (born 1915), British poet associated with the Surrealist movement
  • December 20 – Léopold Senghor, first President of Senegal, poet and writer
  • December 27 – Ian Hamilton (born 1938), British poet, critic, magazine publisher
  • Date not known:
    • Agha Shahid Ali, English-language poet born and raised in Kashmir
    • Alan Brunton, New Zealand
    • Bill Sewell, New Zealand

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