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David Anthony Wevill (born 1935) is a Japanese-born Canadian poet and translator. 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. Photo by Mark Christal.
A biography and poems by David Wevill, a Canadian-born poet who lived in Japan, England, Burma, and Texas. His poetry explores personal and cultural myths, legends, and landscapes.
Her marriage to her second husband, Richard Lipsey, who later became a noted economist, fell apart when she met David Wevill, a poet seven years her junior, on a ship to England. For a while, Lipsey tolerated the affair, not without torment. In an
Assia Esther Wevill (née Gutmann; 15 May 1927 – 23 March 1969) was a German-Jewish woman who escaped the Nazis at the beginning of World War II and emigrated to Mandatory Palestine, via Italy, then later England, where she had an affair with the English poet Ted Hughes.
His main publications are: Birth of a Shark (1964), A Christ of the Ice-floes (1966), Firebreak (1971), Where the Arrow Falls (1973), Other Names for the Heart (1985), Figure of Eight (1987), Child Eating Snow (1994), Solo With Grazing Deer (2001).
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David Wevill. Canadian poet and translator, Wevill first made a name for himself as a poet when he was included in A. Alvarez's anthology The New Poetry (Penguin, 1962). In 1963 Wevill was showcased in A Group Anthology (Oxford University Press).
22. Sept. 2022 · Meditation on a Pine-Cone : David Wevill, Works (Shearsman, 2022. In 5 volumes: as Collected Earlier Poems; Collected Later Poems; CasualTies; Translations; Translations from Ferenc Juhasz) First, an inventory. The set consists of five parts including two of translations, and a set of his 1983 prose poems (or just pieces?), Casual ...
