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  • 1916

    Robinson Jeffers – On the 9th of November 1916 Jeffers twins Donnan and Garth are born [Carmel, California, United States]

  • 1918

    Guillaume Apollinaire – Weakened by his wounds during the war, Apollinaire fell ill during the Spanish Flu epidemic in 1918 at the age of just 38. He was buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris. [Paris, France]

  • 1928

    Anne Sexton – Anne Sexton was born in Newton, Massachusetts and spent most of her childhood in Boston. [Newton, Massachusetts, United States]

  • 1953

    Dylan Thomas – Unwell when he arrived in New York, Thomas went to the White Horse Tavern in Greenwich Village where he drank heavily. A few days later, he celebrated his 39th birthday but was still unwell. On the 5th November he had trouble breathing and was admitted to hospital, and died a few days later. [New York, United States]

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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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