1.   Abdul Wahab al-Bayati, an Iraqi poet who was a major innovator in his art form, died on Tuesday in Damascus, Syria.

2.   He has hawked the paperbacks of Iraqi poet Mohammed Mehdi Jowahari, his beautifully bound volumes of Shakespeare, and his Hemingway novels.

3.   In recent decades, Iraqi poets have broken out of the forms of classical verse into experimental constructions and more contemporary imagery and language.

4.   Abdul-Amir Malla, an Iraqi poet, novelist and official of the ruling party who wrote a biography of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, has died.

5.   Abdul-Amir Malla, an Iraqi poet, novelist and official of the ruling party who wrote a biography of Saddam Hussein, has died.

6.   Abdel Wahab al-Bayati, the renowned Iraqi poet who spent half his life in exile, died Tuesday of a heart attack in Damascus.

7.   Exiled Iraqi poets express a mixture of homesickness and humiliation.

8.   Iraqi poet Buland al-Haidari, a longtime opponent of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, has died in exile in London.

9.   Iraqi poet Buland al-Haidari, a long-time opponent of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, died Tuesday in exile in London of complications following open heart surgery.

10.   Mohammed Mahdi Al-Jawahri, a renowned Iraqi poet who struggled against repressive regimes and went into exile, died Sunday.