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David Wheatley
David Wheatley
(Ierland, 1970)
© David Wheatley
Biografie
David Wheatley was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1970. He grew up outside the city in the seaside town of Bray, and later attended Trinity College Dublin, where he wrote a PhD on the poetry of Samuel Beckett. He is now a lecturer at the University of Hull, England. These facts, bare as they are, encode many of the main vectors of his poetry. His date of birth positions him after the great generation of Northern Irish poets, and indeed beyond many of their concerns with nationalism. The littoral zone has played an important role in his poetry from the last poem in his first book, Thirst (1997), giving access to a place beyond human communication. Also, his second book, Misery Hill (2000) ended with a long phantasmagorical poem that imagines a rum bunch of immigrants approaching Dublin over water. Mocker (2006) trawls through the post-industrial beach- and river-scapes of the Humber estuary. And Wheatley, like Beckett, is an escapee from the isle of Erin.
© Justin Quinn
BibliographyThirst, The Gallery Press, Oldcastle, 1997
Misery Hill, The Gallery Press, Oldcastle, 2000
Mocker, The Gallery Press, Oldcastle, 2006
A Nest on the Waves, The Gallery Press, 2010
Links
Wheatley’s publisher, The Gallery Press
Wheatley’s blog
The journal Thumbscrew with Wheatley as featured poet
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Gedichten van David Wheatley
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