"[year] in poetry" article: January 20 – Edmund Blunden (born 1896), English poet, author and critic February 4 – Ozaki Kihachi 尾崎喜八 (born 1892), Japanese, Shōwa period poet February 20 – Matilde Hidalgo (born 1889), Ecuadorian physician, poet and women's rights activist March 19 – Austin Clarke, Irish poet, novelist and playwright April 18 – Eric Roach (born 1915), Tobagonian poet, suicide June 9 – Miguel Ángel Asturias, 74, Guatemalan poet, author, writer, journalist and diplomat July 5 – John Crowe Ransom, 86, American poet, editor and academic critic July 11 – Pär Lagerkvist, 83, Swedish poet, author, playwright, writer and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1951 July 24 – Parker Tyler, 70, American film critic and poet August 22 – Jacob Bronowski, 66, Polish-born English polymath and poet September 6 – Julian Davis, 72, American September 15 – Ikuma Arishima, 有島生馬 pen-name (together with Utosei and then Jugatsutei) of Arishima Mibuma (born 1882), Japanese novelist, poet and painter; member of the Shirakaba literary circle October 4 – Anne Sexton, 45, American poet, suicide; October 9 – Padraic Fallon, 69, Irish (see "Works published in English" section, above) October 16 – Edasseri Govindan Nair (born 1906), Indian, Malayalam-language poet October 21 – Kaoru Maruyama 丸山 薫 (born 1899) Japanese October 28 – David Jones, 78, English poet and artist December 16 – Kostas Varnalis (born 1884), Greek Also: Buddhadeb Bosu (born 1908), Bengali Paula Ludwig (born 1900), German See also Poetry List of poetry awards List of years in poetry Notes Britannica Book of the Year 1975 ("for events of 1974"), published by Encyclopædia Britannica'' 1975 (source of many items in "Works published" section and rarely in other sections) 20th-century poetry Poetry