David Wevill

David Anthony Wevill (born 1935) is a Japanese-born Canadian poet and translator.

Wevill is a professor emeritus in the Department of English at The University of Texas at Austin.

[1] 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.

In 1963 Wevill was showcased in A Group Anthology (Oxford University Press).

Photo by Mark Christal. Pictured poets from Austin Poets Audio Anthology Project, Vol. II, Naked Children include left to right: Michael Vecchio, Hedwig Gorski , Phillip T. Stephens, Isabella Russell-Ides , David Wevill, and Cecilia Bustamante. Stephens is holding a photo of Joy Cole, who had died, and was included on the tape.