David Wheatley
Poem of the Week: “Sleepwalking” by David Wheatley
I want to feel it again: what I felt
when I woke once standing in the kitchen
after walking downstairs in my sleep.
The school bags had all been lined up
and the lunches packed in clingfilm…
“Revisiting the Revolution”: Review of David Wheatley’s The President of Planet Earth
In the Summer 2018 issue of Poetry London, Claire Crowther writes: Irish poet, academic and critic, [David] Wheatley is firstly a satirist. A previous collection was titled Mocker and there, as well as here, the narrating persona debunks himself along with the world. … Learned but never dry, always witty and surprising, Wheatley scampers through the arts,…
Continue Reading“Violent as upturned books”: Review of David Wheatley’s The President of Planet Earth
“Wheatley has spent his life on geographic margins,” writes Cal Revely-Calder in his review of The President of Planet Earth in the Times Literary Supplement. “To use a pun I imagine he would like, his poetry is accordingly littoral: built around the hard specifics of several shores. … His poetry is about not only how these settings…
Continue ReadingPoem 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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