Shearsman Books

Paperback, 144pp, 8x5ins, £9.95 / $17
ISBN 9780907562344

This 144-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 slim chapbook from Shearsman Books in the 1980s, were all published in the author's native Canada and have been difficult to obtain either in the UK or the USA. David Wevill now lives in Austin, Texas.

Click here to read David Wevill's Foreword to Departures and here to see the contents list for the book. Details of the author's Canadian volumes, that are still in print can be found here.

"Departures is a timely restoring to our attention of a very fine poet and a clear indication of what we have been missing. It is a must-read; almost a matter of conscience." (Matt Simpson, Stride magzine, 2003)

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