Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
| date not known | Binoy Majumdar | born 1934 | Bengali |
| January 4 | Irving Layton, 93 | born 1912 | Canadian |
| February 21 | Gennadiy Aygi, 71 | born 1934 | Chuvash/ Russian poet |
| February 25 | Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin, 69 | born 1936 | Ethiopian poet laureate, in New York |
| March 3 | Ivor Cutler, 83 | born 1923 | Scots |
| March 15 | Ken Brewer, 64 | born 1941 | American |
| March 27 | Ian Hamilton Finlay, 80 | born 1925 | Scots poet, writer, artist, gardener |
| April 7 | Muriel Spark, 88 | born 1918 | English novelist and poet |
| May 1 | Kikuo Takano, 78 | born 1927 | Japanese poet and mathematician |
| May 9 | Jerzy Ficowski, 81 | born 1924 | Polish poet, writer and translator |
| May 14 | Stanley Kunitz, 100 | born 1905 | former U.S. Poet Laureate |
| May 18 | Gilbert Sorrentino, 77 | born 1929 | American novelist and poet |
| June 9 | Enzo Siciliano, 72 | born 1934 | Italian novelist, playwright, literary critic, broadcasting official, teacher and poet |
| June 26 | Jim Simmerman, 54 | born 1952 | American |
| July 6 | Lisa Bellear, 45 | born 1961 | Australian |
| July 14 | Patricia Goedicke | born 1931 | American, of pneumonia |
| July 26 | Louise Bennett-Coverley | born 1919 | Jamaican folk poet known as "Miss Lou" |
| July 30 | Trinidad Sanchez, Jr., 63 | American Chicano performer/poet (stroke complications) | |
| July 31 | Lisa Bellear, 45 | born 1961 | Australian indigenous poet, photographer, activist, dramatist, comedian and broadcaster |
| August 11 | Mazisi Kunene, 76 | born 1930 | South African poet and academic |
| August 18 | Shamsur Rahman (also spelled "Shamsur Ruhman"), 76 |
born 1921 | Bengali poet, columnist and journalist |
| September 4 | Colin Thiele, 85 | born 1920 | Australian |
| October 4 | Omran Salahi | Afghanistan poet | |
| November 26 | Mário Cesariny de Vasconcelos, 83 | born 1923 | Portuguese painter and surrealist poet |
| November 27 | Győző Határ, 92 | Hungarian poet and writer | |
| December 2 | kari edwards, 52 | born 1954 | poet, artist and gender activist |
| December 28 | John Heath-Stubbs, 88 | born 1918 | English |
| date not known | Aristides Paradissis | born 1923 | Australian |
Read more about this topic: 2006 In Poetry
Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)
“As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
—Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)