David's Fans (1)

David Wevill

Author profile

born

Japan

gender

male

About this author

edit data

David Wevill was born a Canadian in Japan in 1935, and was educated in both Canada and England. He has lived in Burma and in Spain but has made his home in Austin, Texas for the past thirty years. While resident in England in the 1960s and 1970s, he established a substantial reputation as a poet, publishing four volumes between 1964 and 1974. He won prizes, was represented in all the major anthologies, and was included in the renowned Penguin Modern Poets series before his first full collection appeared. With his move across the Atlantic, he fell from view in Britain, although his work continued to be published in his native Canada. His main publications are: Birth of a Shark (1964), A Christ of the Ice-floes (1966), Firebreak (1971), Where...more

combine editions
Books by David Wevill

Average rating: 4.50 · 28 ratings · 6 reviews · 10 distinct works

	Child Eating Snow 4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1994	My rating:
	Firebreak; poems 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1971	My rating:
	Other Names For The Heart: New And Selected Poems, 1964 1984 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings	My rating:
	Departures: Selected Poems 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2003	My rating:
	Figure Of Eight 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	My rating:
	Asterisks 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	Solo with Grazing Deer 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2001	My rating:
	To Build My Shadow a Fire: The Poetry and Translations of David Wevill by David Wevill, Michael McGriff (Editor) 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2010	My rating:
	Where The Arrow Falls 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating	My rating:
	Penguin Modern Poets 4 by David Holbrook, Christopher Middleton, David Wevill 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1970	My rating: