Collected Later Poems by David Wevill Russell Jones hurt and disease are confronted

hurt and disease are confronted and dissected in all their messy

a sibling who has suddenly died

Here the theme is his arrival in England as a child in 1956

‘She is an extremely fine poet

 Almost Yesterday (2012) and Homo Antarcticus (2015)

Collected Later Poems by David Wevill Russell Jones hurt and disease are confrontedDavid Wevill was born a Canadian in Japan in 1935, and was educated in both Canada and England. He has lived in Burma and in Spain but has made his home in Austin, Texas for the past fifty years. While resident in England in the 1950s and 60s, he established a substantial reputation as a poet, publishing four volumes between 1964 and 1974. He won prizes, was represented in major anthologies such as The New Poetry and A Group Anthology, and was