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- About
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- Email Address
- d.wheatley@abdn.ac.uk
- Telephone Number
- +44 (0)1224 272461
- Office Address
Taylor Building, B02
- School/Department
- School of Language, Literature, Music and Visual Culture
Biography
I am a poet and critic with particular research interests in the field of twentieth-century and contemporary poetry, Irish literature and Samuel Beckett, and welcome applications from prospective PhD students in these areas.
My most recent poetry collections are The President of Planet Earth (Carcanet/Wake Forest UP, 2017) and Child Ballad (Carcanet/Wake Forest UP 2023; Poetry Book Society Recommendation, Sunday Times Poetry Book of the Year). I have published four previous collections with Gallery Press: Thirst (1997; Rooney Prize for Irish Literature), Misery Hill (2000), Mocker (2006), and A Nest on the Waves (2010). I have also edited the Poems of James Clarence Mangan for Gallery Press (2003) and Samuel Beckett’s Selected Poems 1930-1989 for Faber and Faber (2009). My Reader’s Guide to Essential Criticism of Contemporary British Poetry was published by Palgrave in 2014. I have also coedited The Cambridge History of Irish Women's Poetry (Cambridge UP, 2021) with Dr Ailbhe Darcy. My novel Stretto is published by CB Editions (2022).
My work features in various anthologies, e.g. After Ovid: New Metamorphoses (Faber/FSG, 1994), The New Irish Poets (Bloodaxe, 2004), Identity Parade: New British & Irish Poets (Bloodaxe, 2010), An Anthology of Modern Irish Poetry (Harvard UP, 2010), and The Penguin Book of Irish Poetry (2010).
My critical work has appeared in numerous edited collections, including The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Poetry (2012), The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Poetry (2013), The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry (2013), The Oxford Handbook of British and Irish War Poetry (2007), and The Cambridge Companion to Seamus Heaney (2009).
I was a founding editor of the poetry journal Metre, and have written on poetry for a variety of other journals including London Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, The Guardian, Poetry, New Statesman, Essays in Criticism, Times Higher Education Supplement, The Irish Times and Poetry Review.
- Research
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Current Research
My current research projects include an anthology of Irish poetry, The Wake Forest Irish Poetry Series, vol. 4, for publication in 2017; a volume of poetry, The President of Planet Earth (Carcanet/Wake Forest, 2017); an essay collection, On the Trail of the Night Parrot (Eyewear Publishing, 2017/8); a translation of Myles na gCopaleen's war-time Irish-language journalism, an anthology of Irish poetry; and continuing work on Samuel Beckett.
- Publications
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Satire
A Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Poetry, 1960-2015. Gortschacher, W., Malcolm, D. (eds.). WILEY-BLACKWELL, pp. 159-168, 10 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersStravaig
Broken Sleep Books, Talgarreg. 40 pagesBooks and Reports: BooksThe Wandering Mountains
Hercules Editions, London. 24 pagesBooks and Reports: Books- [ONLINE] link to book
Samuel Beckett, Flann O’Brien and the Literature of Absurdity
Irish Literature in Transition 1940–1980. Patten, E. (ed.). Cambridge University Press, pp. 150, 166 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters'Umbrellas', 'On Mweelrea', 'The Antarctic Poetry School', 'Colmcille's Farewell'
Grand Tour: Reisen durch die Junge Lyrik Europas. Italiano, F., Wagner, J. (eds.). Carl Hanser Verlag, pp. 96-99, 4 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersOne Door May Conceal Another
New york review of books, vol. 66, no. 4Contributions to Journals: ArticlesNorthborough Sonnets; A Pine Wood In North Africa
Axon, vol. Capsule 3, no. Special Issue, pp. 79-85Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
'Atrocities against his Sacred Poet': The Orpheus Myth and the Poetry of the Northern Irish Troubles
Sacrifice and Modern War Literature: The Battle of Waterloo to the War on Terror. Houen, A., Schramm, J. (eds.). Oxford University Press, pp. 222-236, 15 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198806516.003.0015
Our Lady of the Snows
Vol. 24, Clutag Press, Thame. 8 pagesBooks and Reports: BooksSamuel Beckett, Flann O'Brien, and the Literature of Absurdity
Irish Literature in Transition: Vol V: 1940-1980. Patten, E. (ed.). Cambridge University PressChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters