Name David Wevill Role Poet | Spouse Assia Wevill (m. 1960) | |
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Education University of Cambridge (1957) Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada Books To Build My Shadow, Other names for the heart, Child eating snow, Departures, Casual Ties: Prose Sketches Similar People Assia Wevill, Michael McGriff, Richard Lipsey, Ted Hughes | ||
David Anthony Wevill (born 1935) 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.
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 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.
Wevill was the third and final husband of Assia Wevill, from 1960 to her death in 1969.