Birth of a Shark

Wevill, David

Macmillan

Is edition, Review copy, with original slip. DJ has discolouration,

Firebreak; poems

St.Martin's Press

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Macmillan; St. Martin's Press

Poetry. This collection reprints work from David Wevill's four collections of poetry published in London during the 1960s and 1970s, and adds to them work from his subsequent Canadian collections. Wevill is the recipient of several prizes and was included in the renowned Penguin Modern Poets series before his first full collection appeared. His previous works include Figure of Eight, Child Eating Snow, and Solo With Grazing Deer.

Departures: Selected Poems

Shearsman Books

<div>Written by one of Canada&#8217;s most distinctive poets, this collection of lyric poems, elegiac in their exploration of memory, offers a way of transcending the present and informing the future.</div>

Child Eating Snow

Exile Editions

The first volume of David Wevill's Collected covers the work originally published in the UK - although the books also appeared in the US and Canada. Four full collections are represented: Birth of a Shark (1963), A Christ of the Ice-Floes (1966), Firebreak (1971) and Where the Arrow Falls (1973), although the author had already relocated from London to Austin, Texas by the time the last two were published. Added to the full collections are poems that appeared in the two anthologies, A Group Anthology (1963) and Penguin Modern Poets 4 (1963, in which the author shared space with David Holbrook and Christopher Middleton, the latter a fellow Texan exile). This volume demonstrates exactly why Wevill was held in such high regard in the 1960s and 1970s. This book may be regarded as an act of restitution, bringing significant work back before the public. Important for the development of his early work were Jungian theory and mid-century Spanish poetry, above all García Lorca, Neruda and Paz. As Martin Seymour-Smith observed, "The Jungian 'search', an admittedly circular one, is Wevill's main theme, and so his poetry needs to be read in its entirety to be fully appreciated." "Among the poets of Atlantis - those who belong to both the Old World and the New, I have always thought of David Wevill as one of the finest in our time." - Nathaniel Tarn

Collected Earlier Poems

David Wevill's work slowly fell from view in Britain, and indeed the USA, after the publication of 1973's Where the Arrow Falls, although a number of collections appeared in his native Canada: Other Names for the Heart (1985), Figure of Eight (1987), Child Eating Snow (1994), Solo With Grazing Deer (2001) and Asterisks (2007) were all published in Toronto. The newly-published work in those volumes is all gathered here, together with some uncollected poems. "Wevill has attempted to bring to his work the best of many different poetries: the terseness of Spanish language poets such as Lorca, Neruda, Machado and Paz; the meditative depth and strength of spirit found in Central and East European verse; the violent, often surreal perceptions of his British contemporaries; and the sharp, vibrant images that span the gap between life and death that link him to the essential canon of Canadian poetry." -from the cover of Other Names for the Heart "Among the poets of Atlantis - those who belong to both the Old World and the New, I have always thought of David Wevill as one of the finest in our time." - Nathaniel Tarn

Collected Later Poems

Casual Ties

Short Stories & Anthologies

This collection showcases the creative range and essential writing of David Wevill, an elusive and enigmatic poetic figure. His work shines among a generation of post-war poets known for their literary invention, dissemination of poetry in translation, political witness, and obsession with the image. Wevill is a careful observer of the details of life both as pilgrim and exile. A Canadian born in Japan, Wevill was educated in England, and lived in Burma and Spain before he moved to Austin, Texas, where he has spent over 40 years as a writer, translator, teacher, and editor. These selections were chosen from more than one thousand pages of published work largely unknown in the U.S. and invite further exploration and discovery of this gifted writer.

To Build My Shadow a Fire: The Poetry and Translations of David Wevill (New Odyssey)

History & Criticism

Truman State Univ Pr

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Books by Wevill, David

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Birth of a Shark

Firebreak; poems

Firebreak; poems

Departures: Selected Poems

Child Eating Snow

Departures: Selected Poems

Collected Earlier Poems

Collected Later Poems

Casual Ties

To Build My Shadow a Fire: The Poetry and Translations of David Wevill (New Odyssey)