Poetry. 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. "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.

Author City: AUSTIN, TX USA

David Wevill is a poet, translator, and editor whose work has been awarded with an Arts Council Book Prize, the Richard Hillary Prize, two Arts Council Poetry Bursaries, an E.C. Gregory Trust Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. His Poetry has appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Times, The New Yorker, Poetry, Harper's, The Listener, The Observer, The Spectator, and on the BBC. His recent books include DEPARTURES: SELECTED POEMS (2003), Asterisks (2007), The Boy Changed into a Stag Clamors at the Gate of Secrets (2010), To Build My Shadow a Fire: The Poetry and Translations of David Wevill (2010), and CASUAL TIES (2010). He currently lives in Austin, Texas.