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Today in history

  • 1674

    John Milton – Milton died in 1674 of kidney failure at the age of 65. He was buried at St Giles Cripplegate in London. [Bunhill, London, United Kingdom]

  • 1827

    Edgar Allan Poe – On November 8, 1827. Poe was promoted to "artificer", an enlisted tradesman who prepared shells for artillery, and had his monthly pay doubled [Charleston, South Carolina United States]

  • 1894

    Robert Frost – Robert sells his first poem, "My Butterfly. An Elegy" which is published in the November 8, 1894, edition of the New York Independent [New York, United States]

  • 2013

    Pablo Neruda – Test results are released on 8 November 2013 of the seven-month investigation by a 15 member forensic team. Patricio Bustos, the head of Chile's medical legal service, stated "No relevant chemical substances have been found that could be linked to Mr. Neruda's death" [Santiago, Chile]

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Jack Mapanje Dies / ACU Prize for Poetry Winner – Poetry News Roundup November 6th

This week in our poetry news roundup we look at the death of the Malawian poet Jack Mapanje and the winner of this year's ACU Prize for Poetry. Malawian Poet Jack Mapanje Passes Away Aged 82 Jack Mapanje, the poet, linguist and human rights campaigner who was imprisoned without trial because of his poetry, has died at the age of 82. Widely seen as Malawi's foremost poet, Mapanje died in the ...


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