2006 in Poetry - Deaths

Deaths

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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

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