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Interview with DDP pick Jock Scot here. Nothing of particular interest: he's still refusing chemo and describes his condition as "stable". Should apparently have been dead by October last year according to doctors.

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Interview with DDP pick Jock Scot here. Nothing of particular interest: he's still refusing chemo and describes his condition as "stable". Should apparently have been dead by October last year according to doctors.

Ah, no wonder I couldn't google him. His name is spelt wrong in the DDP list! Also, is it time for a "chemotherapy causes cancer" conspiracy theory yet? Martin Crowe could join.

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I was the Court Poet
For big Nicolae
I turned 65

It's my turn to die.

 

Corneliu Vadim Tudor, a nationalist politician and court poet to late Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, who attracted audiences by saying what mainstream politicians didn't dare, has died. He was 65.

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Interview with DDP pick Jock Scot here. Nothing of particular interest: he's still refusing chemo and describes his condition as "stable". Should apparently have been dead by October last year according to doctors.

 

Billy Bragg reports that he has died: https://twitter.com/billybragg/status/720245580711141376

 

5 DDP teams await a QO.

 

Edit: Died last night according to reports.

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Interview with DDP pick Jock Scot here. Nothing of particular interest: he's still refusing chemo and describes his condition as "stable". Should apparently have been dead by October last year according to doctors.

 

Billy Bragg reports that he has died: https://twitter.com/billybragg/status/720245580711141376

 

5 DDP teams await a QO.

 

Edit: Died last night according to reports.

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Billy Bragg reports that he has died

 

 

 

Billy Bragg dies.. then comes back to life to say he's died ? :scratchhead:

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Yves Bonnefoy, one of the greatest French poets of 20th century, died on July the 1st aged 93.

http://www.adnkronos.com/cultura/2016/07/02/francia-addio-poeta-yves-bonnefoy_sBRXncT0rTqpSnd8qSn7kN.html

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John Calvin Rezmerski, one of Minnesota’s best-known poets and storytellers and a longtime professor at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minn., died Saturday of complications from a stroke. Lorna Rafness, his wife, said Rezmerski, 74, had been in poor health for a year and had struggled with diabetes and congestive heart failure.

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http://m.startribune.com/john-rezmerski-gustavus-adolphus-poet-and-professor-in-minnesota-dies/400149621/

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Chana Bloch, a noted poet, peace activist and professor, has died at 77.

Bloch, who lived in the Bay Area of California, was the author of five books of poems, six books of translation from Hebrew poetry, ancient and contemporary, and a critical study of George Herbert, according to her web site.

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Didn't he get the Nobel   prize for literature? Massive death anyway !

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