David Wevill

David Anthony Wevill (born 1935) is a Japanese-born Canadian poet and translator.[1] He became a dual citizen (American and Canadian) in 1994. Wevill is a professor emeritus in the Department of English at The University of Texas at Austin.[1]

Wevill was born in Japan and went to Canada before the outbreak of World War II. He read History and English at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and became a noted member of an underground literary movement in London known as The Group.

Wevill first made a name for himself as a poet when he was included in Al Alvarez's anthology The New Poetry (Penguin, 1962), aimed at resisting the conservative milieu of mainstream British poetry. In 1963 Wevill was showcased in A Group Anthology (Oxford University Press). Wevill is also the former editor of Delos, a literary journal centered on poetry in translation and the poetics of translation.

He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for Poetry in 1981.[2]

Wevill was the third and final husband of Assia Wevill, from 1960 to her death in 1969.

Works
  • Penguin Modern Poets 4 (Penguin, 1963)
  • Birth of a Shark (Macmillan, 1964)
  • A Christ of the Ice-Floes (Macmillan, 1966)
  • Penguin Modern European Poets: Ferenc Juhász (Penguin, 1970)
  • Firebreak (Macmillan, 1971)
  • Where the Arrow Falls (St. Martin's, 1974)
  • Casual Ties (Curbstone, 1983; Tavern Books, 2010)
  • Other Names for the Heart (Exile Editions Ltd., 1985)
  • Figure of 8: New Poems and Selected Translations (Exile Editions Ltd., 1987)
  • Figure of 8 (Shearsman, 1988)
  • Child Eating Snow (Exile Editions Ltd., 1994)
  • Solo With Grazing Deer (Exile Editions Ltd., 2001)
  • Departures (Shearsman, 2003)
  • Asterisks (Exile Editions Ltd., 2007)
  • To Build My Shadow a Fire: The Poetry and Translations of David Wevill edited by Michael McGriff (Truman State University Press, 2010)

References
  1. "English Professor David Wevill publishes new book of poetry". Department of English: News. Austin, Texas: University of Texas at Austin, College of Liberal Arts. 2010-04-13. Retrieved 2010-06-28.
  2. "David Anthony Wevill". Guggenheim Foundation. Retrieved 4 January 2019.


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