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1995 in poetry
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1995 poetry literature
Events
February 16 – It is announced that 300 poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge have been discovered.
February 17 – Sotheby's announce discovery of four Walt Whitman notebooks.
March 1 – The Dylan Thomas Centre in Swansea (Wales) is opened by Jimmy Carter.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-west-wales-17140387 Dylan Thomas Centre: University of Wales leases Swansea building BBC 23 February 2012 21 July 2012
May 26 – Cannes Film Festival première of movie Dead Man, written and directed by Jim Jarmusch, about a man named William Blake on a trek through the American West who is taken as the resurrected Romantic poet by a character named Nobody.
Works published
Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:
Australia
Jennifer Harrison: Mosaics & Mirrors: Composite poems (Black Pepper)
Chris Mansell, Day Easy Sunlight Fine in Hot Collation (Penguin, Melbourne) 978-0-14-024540-0
Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Selected Poems 1956-1994, Oxford: Oxford University Press, Australia
Canada
Margaret Atwood, Morning in the Burned House, McClelland & Stewart
Anne Carson, Plainwater: Essays and Poetry, Knopf
Roy Miki, Random Access File, Canada
John Reibetanz, Morning WatchRoberts, Neil, editor, A Companion to Twentieth-century Poetry, Part III, Chapter 3, "Canadian Poetry", by Cynthia Messenger, Blackwell Publishing, 2003, 978-1-4051-1361-8, retrieved via Google Books, January 3, 2009
Joe Rosenblatt, A Tentacled Mother. (in the original plus new sonnets) Exile."Joe Rosenblatt: Publications https://web.archive.org/web/20110814050155/http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/rosenblatt/pub.htm 2011-08-14 ," Canadian Poetry Online. Web, Mar. 22, 2011.
Joe Rosenblatt,The Rosenblatt Reader. (selected poems and prose, 1962–1995) Exile.
Raymond Souster, No Sad Songs Wanted Here. Ottawa: Oberon Press."Notes on Life and Works https://web.archive.org/web/20110817195614/http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/513.html 2011-08-17 ," Selected Poetry of Raymond Souster, Representative Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 7, 2011.
India, in English
Meena Alexander, River and Bridge ( Poetry in English ), Toronto: TSAR Press and New Delhi: Rupa, by an Indian writing living in and published in the United States and IndiaWeb page titled "Meena Alexander" https://web.archive.org/web/20110919141926/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=10598 2011-09-19 , Poetry International website, retrieved July 15, 2010
Sujata Bhatt, The Stinking Rose ( Poetry in English ), Carcanet Press and New Delhi: PenguinWeb page titled "Sujata Bhatt" https://web.archive.org/web/20050224034500/http://sawnet.org/books/authors.php?Bhatt+Sujata 2005-02-24 , Sawnet website, retrieved July 27, 2010
Keki Daruwalla, A Summer of Tigers ( Poetry in English ), New Delhi: IndusWeb page titled "Keki Daruwalla" https://web.archive.org/web/20100131210510/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=2725 2010-01-31 , Poetry International website, retrieved July 12, 2010
A. K. Ramanujan, The Collected Poems of A.K. Ramanujan ( Poetry in English ), Delhi: Oxford University Press; posthumously publishedAkshaya Kumar, "The Great Masquerade: Theory as Poetry in A.K. Ramanunan's Poetic Discourse", in Indian English Poetry: Critical Perspectives, edited by Jaydipsinh Dodiya, 2000, Delhi: Prabhat Kumar Sharma for Sarup & Sons, 81-7625-111-9, retrieved via Google Books on July 17, 2010
Sudeep Sen, Dali’s Twisted Hands ( Poetry in English), New York City: White Swan Books; Leeds: Peepal Tree, 0-948833-84-XWeb page titled "Sudeep Sen" https://web.archive.org/web/20120325040921/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=14009 2012-03-25 , Poetry International website, retrieved July 28, 2010
Tejdeep, Caught in a Stampede ( Poetry in English ), New Delhi: Sterling Publishers Private LimitedP. Hannah Padma, "25. The Making of the Self: A Study of Tejdeep's Poetry", p 277, in Indian English Poetry: Critical Perspectives, edited by Jaydipsinh Dodiya, 2000, Delhi: Prabhat Kumar Sharma for Sarup & Sons, 81-7625-111-9, retrieved via Google Books on July 17, 2010
K. Satchidanandan, Summer Rain: Three Decades of Poetry, edited by R. D. Yuyutsu; New Delhi: Nirala PublishersWeb page titled "K. Satchidanandan" https://web.archive.org/web/20110721051722/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=2723 2011-07-21 , Poetry International website, retrieved July 11, 2010
Ireland
Patrick Crotty (editor), editor, Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology, Belfast, The Blackstaff Press Ltd., 0-85640-561-2Information from the book itself
Gerald Dawe, Heart of Hearts, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, 978-1-85235-154-0
John Montague, Collected Poems, including "Small Secrets", Oldcastle: The Gallery PressCrotty, Patrick, Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology, Belfast, The Blackstaff Press Ltd., 1995, 0-85640-561-2
Maurice Riordan, A Word from the Loki, including "Milk", "A Word from the Loki" and "Time Out"", Faber and Faber, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
New Zealand
Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963) and Jacqueline Simms, editors, The Oxford Book of Creatures, verse and prose anthology, Oxford: Oxford University PressWeb page titled "Fleur Adcock: New Zealand Literature File" https://web.archive.org/web/20061221161150/http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/subjects/nzp/nzlit2/adcock.htm 2006-12-21 at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, 2008
Jenny Bornholdt, How We Met, New Zealand
Janet Charman, end of the dry, Auckland: Auckland University PressRobinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, "Janet Charman" article
Robin Hyde, The Victory Hymn, 1935-1995, with an essay by Michele Leggott; Auckland: Holloway Press, New Zealand
Mark Williams and Michele Leggott, editors, Opening the Book : New Essays on New Zealand Writing Auckland: Auckland University Press, criticism
United Kingdom
Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963) and Jacqueline Simms, editors, The Oxford Book of Creatures, verse and prose anthology, Oxford University Press
James Berry, Hot Earth, Cold EarthCox, Michael The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature Oxford University Press 2004 0-19-860634-6
Alison Brackenbury, 1829, Carcanet Press, 978-1-85754-122-9
Gerry Cambridge, The Shell House, Scottish Cultural Press, 1-898218-34-X"Publications" page https://web.archive.org/web/20081119155651/http://www.gerrycambridge.com./publications.html 2008-11-19 , Gerry Cambridge website, retrieved December 1, 2008
Flora Garry, Collected Poems
George Gissing (died 1903), The Poetry of George Gissing, edited by Bouwe Postmus, Edwin Mellen PressPierre Coustillas 2004 33416 Gissing, George Robert (1857–1903)
Tony Harrison, The Shadow of Hiroshima
Ted Hughes, New Selected Poems 1957–1994
Jan Kochanowski, Laments, a cycle of Polish Renaissance elegies, translated by Seamus Heaney and Stanisław Barańczak, Faber & Faber
Michael Longley, The Ghost Orchid
Derek Mahon, The Hudson Letter, Gallery Press
Sean O'Brien, Ghost Train, Oxford University Press
Peter Reading, Collected Poems 1970–1984
Maurice Riordan, A Word from the Loki, Faber & Faber, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
Carol Rumens, Best China Sky
Labi Siffre, Blood on the Page
R. S. Thomas, No Truce with the Furies
Charles Tomlinson, Jubilation
Anthologies in the United Kingdom
Simon Armitage, Tony Harrison and Sean O'Brien, Penguin Modern Poets 5, Penguin
Eavan Boland, Carol Ann Duffy and Vicki Feaver, Penguin Modern Poets 2, PenguinO’Reilly, Elizabeth (either author of the "Critical Perspective" section or of the entire contents of the web page, titled "Carol Ann Duffy" https://web.archive.org/web/20030925141031/http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth104 2003-09-25 at Contemporary Poets website, retrieved May 4, 2009
Roderick Watson, editor, The Poetry of Scotland: Gaelic, Scots and English, 1380–1980, Edinburgh University Press (anthology)"Select General Bibliography for Representative Poetry On-Line" https://web.archive.org/web/20081228024118/http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/display_rpo/bibliography_2001.html 2008-12-28 web page for Representative Poetry On-Line website of the University of Toronto, retrieved January 1, 2009
Stella Chipasula and Frank Chipasula, editors, The Heinemann book of African women's poetry, London: Heinemann (anthology)
Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom
Robert F. Garratt, editor, Critical essays on Seamus Heaney, 0-7838-0004-5
United States
Meena Alexander, River and Bridge, Toronto: TSAR Press and New Delhi: Rupa, by an Indian writing living in and published in the United States and India
Ralph Angel, Neither World
John Ashbery, Can You Hear, Bird?
Matthew Rohrer, ‘’A Hummock in the Malookas’’
Joseph Brodsky: On Grief and Reason: Essays, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Web page titled "Joseph Brodsky / Nobel Prize in Literature 1987 / Bibliography" at the "Official Web Site of the Nobel Foundation", accessed October 18, 2007 Russian-American
Henri Cole, The Look of Things
Nicholas Coles & Peter Oresick, For a Living (University of Illinois Press)
Alice Fulton, Sensual Math
Michael S. Harper, Honorable AmendmentsWeb page titled "Michael S. Harper" at the Academy of American poets website, accessed April 23, 2008
Fanny Howe, O'Clock
Walter K. Lew, editor, Premonitions: The Kaya Anthology of New Asian North American poetry, New York: Kaya Productions
James Merrill, A Scattering of Salts (his last book)
Carl Rakosi, Poems, 1923-1941
Mary Oliver, Blue Pastures
Michael Palmer, At Passages
Molly Peacock, Original Love
Carl Phillips, CortégeMcClatchy, J. D., editor, The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry, second edition, Vintage Books (Random House), 2003
Giorgos Seferis, Complete Poems (in English), translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard
Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States
John Hollander, The Gazer's Spirit: Poems Speaking to Silent Works of Art, criticism
Helen Vendler, The Breaking of Style: Hopkins, Heaney, Graham, Harvard University Press
The Best American Poetry 1995
Richard Howard is the guest editor for The Best American Poetry 1995 (David Lehman, series editor). Howard changes the rules of inclusion for this year: "[P]oets whose work has appeared three or more times in this series are here and now ineligible, as are all seven former editors of the series." A total of 75 poems are included.Howard, Richard, "Introduction", page 16
Poems from these 75 poets were in this year's anthology:
Margaret Atwood
Sally Ball
Catherine Bowman
Stephanie Brown
Lewis Buzbee
Cathleen Calbert
Rafael Campo
William Carpenter
Nicholas Christopher
Jane Cooper
James Cummins
Olena Kalytiak Davis
Lynn Emanuel
Elaine Equi
Irving Feldman
Donald Finkel
Aaron Fogel
Richard Frost
Allen Ginsberg
Peter Gizzi
Jody Gladding
Elton Glaser
Albert Goldbarth
Beckian Fritz Goldberg
Laurence Goldstein
Barbara Guest
Marilyn Hacker
Judith Hall
Anthony Hecht
Edward Hirsch
Janet Holmes
Andrew Hudgins
T. R. Hummer
Brigit Pegeen Kelly
Karl Kirchwey
Carolyn Kizer
Wayne Koestenbaum
John Koethe
Yusef Komunyakaa
Maxine Kumin
Lisa Lewis
Rachel Loden
James Longenbach
Robert Hill Long
Gail Mazur
J. D. McClatchy
Heather McHugh
Susan Musgrave
Charles North
Geoffrey O'Brien
Jacqueline Osherow
Molly Peacock
Carl Phillips
Marie Ponsot
Bin Ramke
Katrina Roberts
Michael J. Rosen
Kay Ryan
Mary Jo Salter
Tony Sanders
Stephen Sandy
Grace Schulman
Robyn Selman
Alan Shapiro
Reginald Shepherd
Angela Sorby
Laurel Trivelpiece
Paul Violi
Arthur Vogelsang
David Wagoner
Charles H. Webb
Ed Webster
David Wojahn
Jay Wright
Stephen Yenser
Other in English
Aharon Shabtai, Ha-lev ("The Heart"), Hebrew
The Labourers of Herakles
Works published in other languages
Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:
Denmark
Katrine Marie Guldager, Styrt, publisher: GyldendalLundtofte, Anne Mette, translated by Anne Mette Lundtofte, "Author Profile: Katrine Marie Guldager", website of the Danish Arts Agency / Literature Centre, dated "2005", retrieved January 1, 2010
Klaus Høeck:
1001 Digt, publisher: GyldendalWeb page titled "Bibliography of Klaus Høeck" https://web.archive.org/web/20250826151839/http://www.danishliterature.info/index.php?tx_lfforfatter_pi2%5Bstage%5D=5&tx_lfforfatter_pi2%5Buid%5D=115&tx_lfforfatter_pi2%5Blang%5D=_eng&id=2092&no_cache=1 2025-08-26 , website of the Danish Arts Agency / Literature Centre, retrieved January 1, 2010
Hommage, publisher: Basilisk
French language
Andree Chedid, Par dela les mots (Lebanese resident of France, writing in French)
Michel Deguy, A ce qui n'en finite pas; France
Denise Desautels, Cimetières: La rage muette, autour de photographies de Monique Bertrand, Montréal: Éditions Dazibao; CanadaWeb page titled "Denise Desautels" https://web.archive.org/web/20110706164219/http://www.academiedeslettresduquebec.ca/denise_desautels.html 2011-07-06 at L’Académie des lettres du Québec website (in French), retrieved October 20, 2010
Claude Esteban, Quelqu'un commence à parler dans une chambre, Flammarion; France
India
Listed in alphabetical order by first name:
Amarjit Chandan, Jarhan, Aesthetic Publications, Ludhiana; Punjabi-languageWeb page titled "Amarjit Chandan" https://web.archive.org/web/20110721050623/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=10489 2011-07-21 at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 6, 2010
Basudev Sunani, Aneka Kichhi Ghatibaara Achhi, Nuapada: Eeshan-Ankit Prakashani; Oraya-languageWeb page titled "Basudev Sunani" https://web.archive.org/web/20120420011159/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=8635 2012-04-20 at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 6, 2010
Chandrakanta Murasingh, Holong Kok Sao Bolong Bisingo, Agartala: Shyamlal Debbarma, Kokborok Sahitya Sanskriti Samsad; India, Kokborok-languageWeb page titled "Chandrakant Shah" https://web.archive.org/web/20120325040435/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=2716 2012-03-25 at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 8, 2010
Debarati Mitra, Kavitasamagra, Kolkata: Ananda Publishers; Bengali-languageWeb page title "Debarati Mitra" https://web.archive.org/web/20120325040406/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=2717 2012-03-25 , at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 8, 2010
Dilip Chitre, Ekoon Kavita – 2, Mumbai: Popular Prakashan; Marathi-languageWeb page titled "Dilip Chitre" https://web.archive.org/web/20120214213612/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=13518 2012-02-14 , Poetry International website, retrieved July 6, 2010
Kedarnath Singh, Uttar Kabir aur Anya Kavitayen, Delhi: Rajkamal Prakashan; HindiWeb page titled "Kedarnath Singh" at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 11, 2010
Namdeo Dhasal, Ya Sattet Jeev Ramat Nahi; Marathi-languageWeb page titled "Namdeo Dhasal" https://web.archive.org/web/20120214213641/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=10525 2012-02-14 , Poetry International website, retrieved July 15, 2010
Nirupama Dutt, Ik Nadi Sanwali Jahi ("A Stream Somewhat Dark"); Panchkula: Aadhar Prakashan; Punjabi-languageWeb page titled "Nirupama Dutt" https://web.archive.org/web/20100728044639/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=7451 2010-07-28 at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 6, 2010
Nirendranath Chakravarti, Shotyo Shelukash, Kolkata: Ananda Publishers; Bengali-languageWeb page title "Nirendranath Chakravarti" https://web.archive.org/web/20120214214239/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=11144 2012-02-14 , at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 15, 2010
Saroop Dhruv, Salagti Havao, Ahmedabad: Samvedan Sanskritic Manch, Ahmedabad; Gujarati-languageWeb page titled "Saroop Dhruv" https://web.archive.org/web/20120325040112/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=9982 2012-03-25 at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 27, 2010
Udayan Vajpeyi; Hindi-language:
Kuchh Vakya, New Delhi: Vani PrakashanWeb page titled "Udayan Vajpeyi" https://web.archive.org/web/20120310081013/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=10559 2012-03-10 at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved August 2, 2010
Pagal Ganitagya Ki Kavitayen, New Delhi: Vani Prakashan
Spain
Matilde Camus, Vuelo de la mente ("Mind flight")
Other languages
Stanisław Barańczak, Slon, traba i ojczyzna ("The Elephant, the Trunk, and the Polish Question"), light verse; Kraków: Znak; PolandWeb page titled "Rymkiewicz Jaroslaw Marek" https://web.archive.org/web/20110916194011/http://www.bookinstitute.pl/en,ik,site,40,78,139.php 2011-09-16 , at the Institute Ksiazki website (in Polish), "Bibliography: Poetry" section, retrieved February 24, 2010
Mario Benedetti, El olvido está lleno de memoria ("Oblivion Is Full of Memory"), published in Spain, UruguayWeb page titled "Biblioteca de autores contemporaneos / Mario Benedetti - El autor"(in Spanish), retrieved May 27, 2009. 2009-05-30.
Christoph Buchwald, general editor, and Joachim Sartorius, guest editor, Jahrbuch der Lyrik 1995/96 ("Poetry Yearbook 1995/96"), publisher: Beck; anthology; GermanyWeb page titled "Übersicht erschienener Jahrbücher" https://web.archive.org/web/20110717152959/http://www.fischerverlage.de/sixcms/media.php/690/Lyrik_2008%20mit%20Uebersicht.pdf 2011-07-17 at Fischerverlage website, retrieved February 21, 2010
Chen Kehua, Qiankantou shi ("Head-hunting Poems") Chinese (Taiwan)Poetry International website Web page on Chen Kehua, retrieved November 22, 2008
Limaza tarakt al-hissan wahidan (Why did you leave the horse alone?), 1995. English translation 2006 by Jeffrey Sacks (0976395010)
Awards and honors
Nobel prize: Seamus Heaney
Australia
C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Bruce Beaver - Anima and Other Poems
Dinny O'Hearn Poetry Prize: Selected poems 1956-1994 by Chris Wallace-Crabbe
Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Peter Boyle, Coming Home From the World
Mary Gilmore Prize: Jordie Albiston - Nervous Arcs
Canada
Gerald Lampert Award: Keith Maillard, Dementia Americana
Archibald Lampman Award: John Barton, Designs from the Interior
1995 Governor General's Awards: Anne Szumigalski, Voice (English); Émile Martel, Pour orchestre et poète seul (French)
Pat Lowther Award: Beth Goobie, Scars of Light
Prix Alain-Grandbois: Rachel Leclerc, Rabatteurs d'étoiles
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize: Linda Rogers, Hard Candy
Prix Émile-Nelligan: Marlène Belley, Les jours sont trop longs pour se mentir
India
Sahitya Akademi Award : Kunwar Narayan for Koi Doosra Nahin
Poetry Society India National Poetry Competition : Tabish Khair for Birds of North Europe & Gopi Kottoor for The Coffin Maker
New Zealand
Montana Book Award for Poetry: Michael Jackson, Pieces of Music
New Zealand Book Award for Poetry: Michele Leggott, Dia
United Kingdom
Cholmondeley Award: U. A. Fanthorpe, Christopher Reid, C. H. Sisson, Kit Wright
Eric Gregory Award: Colette Bryce, Sophie Hannah, Tobias Hill, Mark Wormald
Forward Poetry Prize Best Collection: Sean O'Brien, Ghost Train (Oxford University Press)
Forward Poetry Prize Best First Collection: Jane Duran, Breathe Now, Breathe (Enitharmon Press)
T. S. Eliot Prize (United Kingdom and Ireland): Mark Doty, My Alexandria
Whitbread Award for poetry: Bernard O'Donoghue, Gunpowder
National Poetry Competition : James Harpur for The Frame of Furnace Light
United States
Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Sandy Solomon, Pears, Lake, Sun
Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: Maxine Kumin
AML Award for poetry to Marden J. Clark for "Snows"
Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry: Vijay Seshadri, "Lifeline"
Bollingen Prize: Kenneth Koch
National Book Award for poetry: Stanley Kunitz, Passing Through: The Later Poems
Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress: Robert Hass appointed
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Philip Levine, The Simple Truth
Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize: A.R. Ammons
Wallace Stevens Award: James Tate
Whiting Awards: Lucy Grealy, James L. McMichael, Mary Ruefle
Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Denise Levertov
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 28 – George Woodcock, 82 (born 1912), Canadian poet, biographer, academic and prominent anarchist
February 6 – James Merrill, 68 (born 1926), American poet, of a heart attack
April 14 – Brian Coffey, 89 (born 1905), Irish poet and publisher
April 22 – Jane Kenyon, 47 (born 1947), American poet, of leukemia
May 11 – David Avidan, 61 (born 1934), Israeli Hebrew-language poet
July 7 – Helene Johnson, 89 (born 1906), African American poet, after osteoporosis
July 16:
May Sarton, 83 (born 1912), American poet, novelist and memoirist, of breast cancer
Stephen Spender, 86, (born 1909), English poet and essayist, of a heart ailment
September 3 – Earle Birney, 91 (born 1904), Canadian poet
September 13 – Maheswar Neog, 80 (born 1915), Indian, Assamese-language scholar and poet
September 18 – Donald Davie, 73 (born 1922), English poet, of cancer
September 26 – Lynette Roberts, 86 (born 1909), Welsh poethttps://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-lynette-roberts-1603243.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-lynette-roberts-1603243.html 2022-05-01 subscription live Obituary: Lynette Roberts 1995-09-28 Meic Stephens Meic Stephens The Independent London 2019-08-11
October 22 – Kingsley Amis, 73 (born 1922), English novelist and poet, after a fall
November 5 – Essex Hemphill, 38 (born 1957), African American poet and gay activist, from complications relating to AIDS
December 30 – Heiner Müller, 66 (born 1929), German dramatist and poet
See also
Poetry
Poetry
List of years in poetry
List of poetry awards
Notes
Category:20th-century poetry
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