Dead Poets Society

[Bentrovato 1,084]

1 hour ago, DevonDeathTrip said:

Hearing Benjamin Zephaniah has died of a brain tumour.  

 

 

Another QI panellist pegs it. Curse?

[The Old Crem 3,580]

2 hours ago, Ulitzer95 said:

Don’t be sad. Old Shitlocks has gone to his vegan, Republican, anarchist, pro-Hamas, oooooooh Jeremy Corbyn Zion in de sky. One love.

Hear hear. He was not someone I respected at all.

 

Still he didn't deserve that ending. Brain tumours scare me.

[gcreptile 10,963]

Christian Wiman, US poet has been fighting a rare cancer for 18 years:

https://www.tpr.org/2023-12-13/after-18-years-living-with-cancer-a-poet-offers-fifty-entries-against-despair

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Wiman

 

He's currently in remission, but in such a long battle, cancer usually eventually wins.

[alt obits guy 3,371]

Gylan Kain, a founder of the Last Poets, died February 7th. He was 81.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/18/arts/gylan-kain-dead.html

[YoungWillz 21,014]

On 12/12/2023 at 04:49, John "요한" Sulu said:

Jerome Rothenberg is 92.

 

Photo Credit: George Quasha per Creative Commons license

Jerome Rothenberg reportedly dead: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=2720756088089505&set=a.134996656665474

[alt obits guy 3,371]

Sir Vincent O'Sullivan, New Zealand's poet laureate from 2013 to 2015, has died. He was 86.

 

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/poet-sir-vincent-osullivan-dead-at-86/2BVKTW4YJRC7XBQVKNYF2OPF3Q/

[YoungWillz 21,014]

On 29/03/2022 at 15:49, DevonDeathTrip said:

A tweet from Kathryn Bevis, a leading light of the Hampshire poetry scene.

 

 

Kathryn Bevis reportedly dead: 

Another to add to the List of the Missed @Death Impends, picked last year but dropped this year from the Pelican In The Wilderness team: https://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/deadpool2023/celebs_B.html#bevisk023

[Sir Creep 7,070]

10 hours ago, YoungWillz said:

Kathryn Bevis reportedly dead: 

Another to add to the List of the Missed @Death Impends, picked last year but dropped this year from the Pelican In The Wilderness team: https://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/deadpool2023/celebs_B.html#bevisk023

She was on a LOT of watch lists around here.  Amazing she was left alone by 600+ DDP teams.

[gcreptile 10,963]

Kazuko Shiraishi, Japan's version of a beat poet, dies at 93:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/06/19/shiraishi-poetry-obituary-japan-literature-beat/d42a5680-2e06-11ef-bcdf-31cdebd3022f_story.html

[Gisooo 3,295]

American poet Stanley Moss (Wiki) dead at 99

[Lafaucheuse 4,041]

Jacques Reda (wiki), prolific french poet dead at 95 

[msc 18,421]

On 30/05/2023 at 11:43, Grim Up North said:

Nothing concrete but I booked tickets to take my mum to see Pam Ayres in October this year. Next day got a message back saying show had been cancelled due to ill health.

 

It's May now - that's a long time before October?

 

For those that are wondering who the fuck Pam Ayres is :-)

 

Pam Ayres is on Countdown this week. Looks pretty much like a pensioner version of Pam Ayres tbh, still her usual chatty self.

[Spade_Cooley 9,513]

William Radice, poet but probably more famed for his work as a translator/reviewer/general pointsman for Bengali-language literature in the anglosphere, dead at 73. 

[Ulitzer95 12,569]

5 minutes ago, Spade_Cooley said:

William Radice, poet but probably more famed for his work as a translator/reviewer/general pointsman for Bengali-language literature in the anglosphere, dead at 73. 

What a way to spend your life.

[Spade_Cooley 9,513]

20 minutes ago, Ulitzer95 said:

What a way to spend your life.

 

[Clorox Bleachman 2,400]

1 hour ago, Ulitzer95 said:

What a way to spend your life.

 

Translating works in a language spoken by 240 million people? You're right, bet it was a big waste of time. GREAT BRITAIN, ENGLISH ONLY. OI LUV, I WANT SOME FISH AND CHIPS, POR FAVOR.