Edgar Bowers, 75 (born 1924), American, of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma April 16 – John Bruce, 78 (born 1922) Canadian April 21 Douglas Oliver, 62 (born 1937), English, of prostate cancer Al Purdy, 81 (born 1918), Canadian, of lung cancer May 14 – Karl Shapiro, 86 (born 1913), American September 25 – R. S. Thomas, 87 (born 1913), Anglo-Welsh poet and clergyman June 9 – Ernst Jandl, 74 (born 1925), Austrian poet, author and translator June 26 – Judith Wright, 85 (born 1915) Australian poet and environmental campaigner, of a heart attack July 13 – A. D. Hope, 92 (born 1907), Australian poet and satirist September 22 – Yehuda Amichai, 76 (born 1924), Israeli, Hebrew language November 14 – Libby Scheier, 54 (born 1946), Canadian, of breast cancer November 29 – William Scammell, 59 (born 1939), English December 3 – Gwendolyn Brooks, 83 (born 1917), American, of cancer December 20 – Adrian Henri, 68 (born 1932), English member of the Liverpool poets References Notes "A Timeline of English Poetry" at the Representative Poetry Online website, University of Toronto See also Poetry List of years in poetry List of poetry awards 2000s in poetry Poetry