by Bonhams, is expected to sell for about $10,000 US at a May 8 auction in London, in part because of the Canadian's close association with 20th-century literature's most tragic marital meltdown: the split that consumed American poet Sylvia Plath and scarred her adulterous husband, Ted Hughes, later Britain's poet laureate.A Bonhams spokesman declined to comment to Postmedia News on Tuesday about Wevill's concerns, but invited the poet to contact the auction house directly.
from The Montreal Gazette: Canadian poet 'troubled' as manuscripts appear at U.K. auction
then The Windsor Star: Canadian poet to get back manuscripts
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