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family,the tender and the violentside of love,separation,exile andtravel,reunion,and the arrival at anidentity not yet final.Through allthese themes the natural world —plants and animals,landscapes,thesea,people—recurs in unruly com-binations,related merely by beingalive.The poems move with a willand pace of their own.The sensesare intensely awake,watchful,ex-ploring.The cold and emptiness ofCanada,the sweat and monsoons ofthe tropics,the flat heat of Spain,and the sea,serve as backgroundswhich involve themselves with thepoet's feelings and temper.DavidWevill sees all things,living anddead,bound in a mesh of relation-ships from which they can not breakfree.Above all,he can convey thewill of living things to survive with-out despair in the face of violence anddeath.  \nJacket design by Peter Monkcom  \n1964  \n5+  urC  \n# BIRTH OF A SHARK\n\nBirthofaShark  \nPOEMS  \nBY  \nDAVID WEVILL  \nLONDON  \nMACMILLAN &CO LTD  \nNEW YORK·ST MARTIN's PRESS  \n1964  \nCopyright ◎ David Wevill 1964  \nMACMILLAN AND COMPANY LIMITEDSt Martin's Street London WC 2also Bombay Calctta Madras Melbourne Sydney  \nTHE MACMILLAN COMPANY OF CANADA LIMITED70 Bond Street Toronto 2  \nST MARTIN'sS PRESS INC175 Fifth Avenu New York 10 NY  \nFor Assia  \nTHE author is grateful to Penguin Books Ltd.and to theOxford University Press for permission to reprint poemswhich first appeared in Penguin Modern Poets 4 and A GroupAntbology.Acknowledgments are also due to the B.B.C.quarterlyprogramme,'The Poet's Voice’,and to the Editors of Ambit,The Cbelsea,The Critical Quarterly,Developmental Medicine andChild Neurology,The Listener,The Massacbusetts Review,The NewYorker,The New York Times,The Observer,and The Sewanee Review.","cbCaii9EqUTyH0pg","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaii9EqUTyH0pg","pdf",2628244,72,"English","# Introduction to David Wevill's Poetry\n## Themes and Stylistic Approach\n# Publication Details\n## Publisher Information\n## Acknowledgments","[{\"question\":\"Who is the author of Birth of a 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