David Wheatley
Poem of the Week: “Roger Hilton, November ’64” by David Wheatley
‘We either touch or do not touch’
across the tides that circulate
from Cornish sound to silver north;
“What Voice? Whose Voice?” An Interview with David Wheatley on The President of Planet Earth
The President of Planet Earth is Wheatley’s fifth collection, and his talent for a wide range of poetic styles and voices is on full display. Here we have prose poems, concrete poems, sestinas and sonnets, alongside more experimental forms. Wheatley draws inspiration from Russian Futurist poet Velimir Khlebnikov, Samuel Beckett, and Ian Hamilton Finlay, among others. The result is a fascinating and subversively comedic trek across land and time. In this interview, Wheatley tells us more about his daring new collection and the voices therein.
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