Spade_Cooley 9,536 Posted August 30, 2013 A 74-foot box, a box for every year 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Magere Hein 1,400 Posted August 30, 2013 Seamus Heaney at 74. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-23898891 Sad time for the family with Margaret going last week. That's a shame. I saw Heaney a few times at Poetry International. Good poet; a good man too. regards, Hein Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Toast 16,144 Posted August 30, 2013 Looked a bit like Frankie Howerd when younger, didn't he. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Guest Posted September 22, 2013 Ghanian poet and diplomat Kofi Awonoor has been shot dead during the kenyan mall terrorist attack http://www.rawstory....ya-mall-attack/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DevonDeathTrip 2,358 Posted December 24, 2013 American poet Amiri Baraka, critically ill. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spade_Cooley 9,536 Posted January 8, 2014 Word around the Twitter campfire is that, tonight, Baraka is spinning around dazed as the words "FINISH HIM" flash above his head. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
adrian0719 224 Posted January 9, 2014 American poet Amiri Baraka, critically ill. Dead. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Octopus of Odstock 2,200 Posted January 9, 2014 Sigh.... I knew I shouldn't have picked Sen over Baraka. That's two hits I could've easily had already. Ah well. David Quantick's march to the title starts again. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
angryGreatness 96 Posted January 9, 2014 UK Obit, courtesy of Reuters. I knew he was a goner, but I didn't go for him because I A) didn't want to drop any of my current picks and he's only worth 7 points. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
themaninblack 2,112 Posted January 9, 2014 Spade's on fire, that's his fourth hit in little over a month, albeit split over 2 years! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spade_Cooley 9,536 Posted January 10, 2014 People talk about his radical poetry of the 1960s that fused the Beat Generation with black militancy, but I'll always remember Ameri best for his R&B smash hit "1 Thing". 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spade_Cooley 9,536 Posted January 10, 2014 Little joke for the young'uns there. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Guest Posted February 7, 2014 Maxine Kumin no more http://abcnews.go.co...ies-88-22408728 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
time 8,618 Posted April 3, 2014 Leading British poet Hugo Williams in need of a kidney transplant. He's also Simon 'Upstairs Downstairs' Williams' brother. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bibliogryphon 9,586 Posted October 30, 2014 Pulitzer prize winning poet Galway Kinnell dies aged 87 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dr. Zorders 1,271 Posted October 30, 2014 (edited) Pulitzer prize winning poet Galway Kinnell dies aged 87 Fuck Kinnell! Edited October 30, 2014 by Magere Hein Two posts moved from topic 'The Dead Of 2014' 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Toast 16,144 Posted November 21, 2014 Jon Stallworthy The College will be profoundly sad to learn of the death of Professor Jon Stallworthy on 19 November, at his home. Jon Stallworthy was one of this country's most admired poets, for many years a central and leading figure in the English Faculty at Oxford, and at the heart of Wolfson College's life and community. https://www.wolfson....jon-stallworthy This could go in the Academics thread, but he is probably familiar to more people for his poetry. A DDP miss, although I had pencilled him in after seeing him on a doco about WWI soldier poets the other night Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,978 Posted November 30, 2014 Mark Strand, former US poet laureate, dead at 80: http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/nov/30/mark-strand-poet-laureate-us-dies-aged-80 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Grande Pablo 109 Posted January 2, 2015 Miller Williams https://uk.news.yahoo.com/poet-miller-williams-dies-arkansas-211323576.html#T7xy6wW Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
time 8,618 Posted January 29, 2015 Poet & Songwriter Rod McKuen dies aged 81. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Toast 16,144 Posted January 30, 2015 Poet & Songwriter Rod McKuen dies aged 81. Perpetrator of this heinous musical crime: Among McKuen’s commercial successes in the 1960s and '70s were his reworking of Jacques Brel’s song "Le Moribond" for the English-language version of 'Seasons In The Sun', later covered by the Kingston Trio and Terry Jacks. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted January 30, 2015 Poet & Songwriter Rod McKuen dies aged 81. Perpetrator of this heinous musical crime: Among McKuen’s commercial successes in the 1960s and '70s were his reworking of Jacques Brel’s song "Le Moribond" for the English-language version of 'Seasons In The Sun', later covered by the Kingston Trio and Terry Jacks. Yes, if ever a classic was untouchable and if ever a song was done wrong, it was Le Moribund. SC 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Magere Hein 1,400 Posted March 11, 2015 Dutch poet H.H ter Balkt died 8 March, aged 76. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,058 Posted May 15, 2015 Franz Wright, US Pulitzer prize winning poet, dies at 62 after a long struggle with lung cancer. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-3083492/Franz-Wright-prize-winning-poet-dead-62.html 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
