David Wevill

David Wevill (born 1935, Japan) is a 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.



He 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 A. 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.

Publications

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

Nonfiction

 * Penguin Modern European Poets: Ferenc Juhász. Penguin, 1970.