2005 in Poetry - Deaths

Deaths

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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

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