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Events

Works published

• G. S. Fraser - The Fatal Landscape and Other Poems

George Sutherland Fraser (8 November 1915 - 3 January 1980) was a Scottish poet and literary critic, and academic. ...

Awards

United States

• Frost Medal: Robert Frost
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Leonard Bacon: Sunderland Capture

The Frost Medal is an award of the Poetry Society of America for lifetime achievement. ... Robert Frost (1941) Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963) was an American poet. ... The Pulitzer Prize for Poetry has been presented since 1922 for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author. ... This article incorporates text from the public domain 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica. ...

Births

• October 2 - John Sinclair, poet
• October 13 - John Snow, cricketer and poet
• Billy Collins

October 2 is the 275th day (276th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 90 days remaining. ... John Sinclair (born October 2, 1941 in Flint, Michigan) was a Detroit poet, one time manager of the MC5 and leader of the White Panther Party, from November 1968-July 1969. ... October 13 is the 286th day of the year (287th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... John Augustine Snow (born 13 October 1941), usually known as plain John Snow was a prominent cricketer who played for Sussex and England during the 1960s and 1970s. ... Billy Collins (born March 22, 1941) is an American poet who served two terms as the fourty-fourth Poet Laureate of the United States, from 2001 to 2003. ...

Deaths

• January 6 - F. R. Higgins, poet
• January 23 - John Oxenham, novelist and poet
• February 7 - Banjo Paterson, poet
• June 15 - Evelyn Underhill, poet
• November 18 – Émile Nelligan, poet

January 6 is the 6th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Frederick Robert Higgins (April 24, 1896 - January 6, 1941) was an Irish poet and theatre director. ... January 23 is the 23rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... William Arthur Dunkerley (November 12, 1852 - January 23, 1941) was a prolific British journalist, novelist and poet. ... February 7 is the 38th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Andrew Barton Banjo Paterson (February 17, 1864 - February 5, 1941) was a famous Australian bush poet, journalist and author. ... June 15 is the 166th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (167th in leap years), with 199 days remaining. ... Evelyn Underhill (1875-1941) was an Anglican writer on mysticism, a novelist, and a metaphysical poet. ... November 18 is the 322nd day of the year (323rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... // Biography Émile Nelligan (December 24, 1879 - November 18, 1941) was a French language poet from Quebec, Canada. ...

See also

Poetry Portal

• Poetry
• List of poetry awards