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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 Garcia 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","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51057250599185,"sku":"NIN9781848618152","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52406707978513,"sku":"NLS9781848618152","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1848618158.jpg?v=1751091639"},{"product_id":"collected-later-poems-book-david-wevill-9781848618169","title":"Collected Later Poems","description":"The second volume of David Wevill's Collected Poems covers work originally published in the author's native Canada - Other Names for the Heart (1985), Figure of Eight (1987), Child Eating Snow (1994), Solo With Grazing Deer (2001) and Asterisks (2007) together with some uncollected work. While some of these poems have appeared in the author's British and American Selected editions, the entire corpus has not been made available outside Canada before. This volume brings the full extent of a major poet's later work before the British and American public for the first time.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51057255350545,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51057258463505,"sku":"NIN9781848618169","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52407508467985,"sku":"NLS9781848618169","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1848618166.jpg?v=1751313685"},{"product_id":"translations-book-david-wevill-9781848618336","title":"Translations","description":"This collection brings together all of David Wevill's translations, other than those of Ferenc Juhasz, which we hope to publish in a separate volume. Poets covered in the volume are Baudelaire and San Juan de la Cruz (one poem each), Pessoa, Alberto de Lacerda and - at some length - Pindar.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51057298768145,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51057301061905,"sku":"NIN9781848618336","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52407507616017,"sku":"NLS9781848618336","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1848618336.jpg?v=1751281302"},{"product_id":"departures-selected-poems-book-david-wevill-9781848612976","title":"Departures  -  Selected Poems","description":"This 150-page collection covers the entire poetic career of David Wevill, who has faded from view as a poet in the UK since his departure for the United States in the early 1970s. His first four collections won many prizes and gained him a reputation as one of the finest poets of his generation, as well as a place in all the major anthologies of the period and in the seminal Penguin Modern Poets series. His subsequent collections, with the exception of a 2010 retrospective volume in the USA, were all published in the author's native Canada and have been difficult to obtain either in the UK. David Wevill lives in Austin, Texas. This second edition of Departures is in a larger format, and with larger type than the first edition.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51224337252625,"sku":"NIN9781848612976","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52597799977233,"sku":"NLS9781848612976","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1848612974.jpg?v=1751248998"},{"product_id":"casual-ties-book-david-wevill-9781848618329","title":"Casual Ties","description":"Casual Ties first appeared in the USA in 1983, and a second edition was published in 2010. This was in fact Wevill's first publication since 1973's Where the Arrow Falls, a major poetry collection, but this volume contains indefinable short prose: short stories, flash fiction, metafiction, prose poems - all of these descriptions might apply, and it is high time that they appear outside the USA for the first time. The volume appears as part of a thorough-going series of republications of Wevill's work here at Shearsman, covering all of his original poetry and translations, as well as this short prose collection.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52406181101841,"sku":"NLS9781848618329","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52756122730769,"sku":"NIN9781848618329","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781848618329.jpg?v=1758768801"},{"product_id":"where-the-arrow-falls-book-david-wevill-9781935635598","title":"Where the Arrow Falls","description":"Poetry. WHERE THE AROW FALS, first published in Canada in 1973, still stands as a triumph of personal mythmaking. We read the songs, elegies, and haunting modern pastorals of an individual negotiating realms of infinite renewal and possibility. Compassionate and empathetic in its inquiry, the story emerges, shattered and radiant and like the teller, one begins to worry about life.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53242912276753,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53242912932113,"sku":"CIN193563559XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781935635598.jpg?v=1773325055"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-david-wevill.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}