Not exactly "murdered" / eaten by an alligator in Florida. That young poet's death generated a long thread on Buff Poetics.
Barry Alpert
On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 10:19:21 +0100, David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Claire Wilks, April 16 1974, apparently.
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>http://blog.koldcast.tv/2011/show-news/murdered-poet-resurrected-by-internet-series-verse/
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>and Lorrie Tennant, August 2004
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>http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2004-10-07/news/requiem-for-a-murdered-poet/
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>and Ayman Udas, Peshawar, 2009:
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>http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/04/pakistani-artist-poet-murdered-in-shariah-honor-killing.html
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>and I think I've had quite enough - this is grisly. Note the unexpected
>fact.
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>On 18 September 2012 14:29, <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Back in Japan with a load of books. I picked up a great selected of John
>> Riley from Carcanet--and found to my horror that this talent was
>> murdered by two thugs.
>>
>> One of my students was divested of her money at Victoria station by
>> suri--as we call pick pockets--this was literally like shaking down a
>> child.
>>
>> All of which leads up to the question of how many poets do you know of
>> who were murdered? Not talking about war, but lost their lives due to
>> criminal activity, intrigues, street crime, etc...
>> Chaucer
>> Surrey
>> Marlowe
>>
>> moderns?
>>
>> Jess
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