Dead Poets Society

[YoungWillz 21,031]

Bashar Nawaz, renowned Urdu poet, 79. http://www.hindustantimes.com/books/renowned-urdu-poet-bashar-nawaz-passes-away/article1-1367395.aspx

 

He wrote for film and TV. Here is his most popular composition from the film Bazaar: https://youtu.be/7X0Z6Qp6Re4. Enjoy!

[YoungWillz 21,031]

Not a good day for poetry. US Pulitzer Prize winner James Tate dead at 71. http://www.gazettenet.com/home/17684282-95/acclaimed-poet-umass-professor-james-tate-dies-at-71

 

The late

James Tate.

[Spade_Cooley 9,515]

Interview with DDP pick Jock Scot here. Nothing of particular interest: he's still refusing chemo and describes his condition as "stable". Should apparently have been dead by October last year according to doctors.

[gcreptile 10,964]

Interview with DDP pick Jock Scot here. Nothing of particular interest: he's still refusing chemo and describes his condition as "stable". Should apparently have been dead by October last year according to doctors.

Ah, no wonder I couldn't google him. His name is spelt wrong in the DDP list! Also, is it time for a "chemotherapy causes cancer" conspiracy theory yet? Martin Crowe could join.

[gcreptile 10,964]

Tessa Ransford, founder of the Scottish Poetry Library, has died at 77 of cancer:

 

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-34133145

[Sir Creep 7,070]

I was the Court Poet
For big Nicolae
I turned 65

It's my turn to die.

 

Corneliu Vadim Tudor, a nationalist politician and court poet to late Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, who attracted audiences by saying what mainstream politicians didn't dare, has died. He was 65.

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[Bibliogryphon 9,571]

C K Williams Pulitzer Prize winning poet dead at 78

 

I dare someone at the Times Literary suppliment to announce The Pultizer prize for poetry with the headline "Poets Win Prizes"

[YoungWillz 21,031]

Interview with DDP pick Jock Scot here. Nothing of particular interest: he's still refusing chemo and describes his condition as "stable". Should apparently have been dead by October last year according to doctors.

 

Billy Bragg reports that he has died: https://twitter.com/billybragg/status/720245580711141376

 

5 DDP teams await a QO.

 

Edit: Died last night according to reports.

[Sir Creep 7,070]

 

Interview with DDP pick Jock Scot here. Nothing of particular interest: he's still refusing chemo and describes his condition as "stable". Should apparently have been dead by October last year according to doctors.

 

Billy Bragg reports that he has died: https://twitter.com/billybragg/status/720245580711141376

 

5 DDP teams await a QO.

 

Edit: Died last night according to reports.

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[Scraggy Taters 290]

 

 

Billy Bragg reports that he has died

 

 

 

Billy Bragg dies.. then comes back to life to say he's died ?

[YoungWillz 21,031]

Sadly not a qualifying obit for Jock Scot, but thought I'd post it. National: http://www.thenational.scot/news/wild-man-of-poetry-jock-scot-loses-fight-with-cancer.16379

 

Now he has a press notice, who knows? Still awaiting a qualifying one though.

[YoungWillz 21,031]

And the Telegraph comes in for Jock Scot: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2016/04/15/jock-scot-performance-poet--obituary/

[YoungWillz 21,031]

Alice Goodman announces the death of her husband and DDP pick Sir Geoffrey Hill aged 84: https://twitter.com/AliceGoodman17/status/748815868201545728

 

Awaiting qo.

[time 8,595]

Alice Goodman announces the death of her husband and DDP pick Sir Geoffrey Hill aged 84: https://twitter.com/AliceGoodman17/status/748815868201545728

 

Awaiting qo.

Telegraph duly obliges.

[drol 11,923]

Yves Bonnefoy, one of the greatest French poets of 20th century, died on July the 1st aged 93.

http://www.adnkronos.com/cultura/2016/07/02/francia-addio-poeta-yves-bonnefoy_sBRXncT0rTqpSnd8qSn7kN.html

[YoungWillz 21,031]

Yves Bonnefoy, one of the greatest French poets of 20th century, died on July the 1st aged 93.

http://www.adnkronos.com/cultura/2016/07/02/francia-addio-poeta-yves-bonnefoy_sBRXncT0rTqpSnd8qSn7kN.html

 

BBC Obit for the DDP: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-36692358

[Sir Creep 7,070]

John Calvin Rezmerski, one of Minnesota’s best-known poets and storytellers and a longtime professor at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minn., died Saturday of complications from a stroke. Lorna Rafness, his wife, said Rezmerski, 74, had been in poor health for a year and had struggled with diabetes and congestive heart failure.

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http://m.startribune.com/john-rezmerski-gustavus-adolphus-poet-and-professor-in-minnesota-dies/400149621/

[The Mad Hatter 1,092]

Irish poet John Montague has passed away. http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/irish-poet-john-montague-dies-in-france-aged-87-1.2901271

I was studying his work in school a couple of months ago. Excellent poet.

[The Dead Cow 620]

Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko has died following a cardiac arrest at the age of 84.

 

https://www.rt.com/news/383088-legendary-poet-yevtushenko-dies/

[Sir Creep 7,070]

Chana Bloch, a noted poet, peace activist and professor, has died at 77.

Bloch, who lived in the Bay Area of California, was the author of five books of poems, six books of translation from Hebrew poetry, ancient and contemporary, and a critical study of George Herbert, according to her web site.

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[YoungWillz 21,031]

Rumours on Twittersphere that John Ashbery has died. http://blog.bestamericanpoetry.com/the_best_american_poetry/2017/09/a-very-sad-day-for-american-letters-john-ashbery-1927-2017.html

 

If Don Share and Aaron Belz confirm it, it is probably true.

 

Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ashbery

[YoungWillz 21,031]

3 hours ago, YoungWillz said:

Rumours on Twittersphere that John Ashbery has died. http://blog.bestamericanpoetry.com/the_best_american_poetry/2017/09/a-very-sad-day-for-american-letters-john-ashbery-1927-2017.html

 

If Don Share and Aaron Belz confirm it, it is probably true.

 

Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ashbery

Looks like it is confirmed: http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/john-ashbery-regarded-worlds-greatest-poets-dies-age-49599605

 

Edit: Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/sep/03/poet-john-ashbery-dies-age-90

[YoungWillz 21,031]

Reports coming in of Richard Wilbur's death at 96: https://twitter.com/tedgioia/status/919643186003263489

 

Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Wilbur

 

Edit: Confirmed: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/15/obituaries/richard-wilbur-poet-laureate-and-pulitzer-winner-dies-at-96.html

 

Awaiting the usual...

[Joey Russ 7,220]

2 hours ago, YoungWillz said:

Reports coming in of Richard Wilbur's death at 96: https://twitter.com/tedgioia/status/919643186003263489

 

Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Wilbur

 

Edit: Confirmed: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/15/obituaries/richard-wilbur-poet-laureate-and-pulitzer-winner-dies-at-96.html

 

Awaiting the usual...

Mail obit.

[CoffinLodger 1,248]

Didn't he get the Nobel   prize for literature? Massive death anyway !