Professor David Wheatley

Professor David Wheatley
Professor David Wheatley
Professor David Wheatley

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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

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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  • 'Quite exceptionally anthropoid': species anxiety and metamorphosis in Beckett's humans and other animals

    Wheatley, D.
    Beckett and Animals. Bryden, M. (ed.). Cambridge University Press, pp. 59-70, 12 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • Dispatched Dark Regions Far Afield and Farther: Contemporary Poetry and Victorianism

    Wheatley, D.
    The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Poetry. Bevis, M. (ed.). Oxford University Press, pp. 291-306, 16 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • Dafter than we care to own: The Poetry of Place in Some Poets of the North of England

    Wheatley, D.
    The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry. Robinson, P. (ed.). Oxford University Press, pp. 407-423, 17 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • "Your papers!": Archiving Beckett and Beckett’s Archive of the Self

    Wheatley, D.
    Literary Imagination, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 149-162
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • 'Sweet thing theology': Beckett, E.M. Cioran and the Lives of the Saints

    Wheatley, D.
    Samuel Beckett: Debts and Legacies: New Critical Essays (Plays and Playwrights). Fifield, P., Addyman, D., Tajiri, Y. (eds.). Bloomsbury, pp. 39-62, 23 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • The Reed Bunting Unseen: A Camouflage Garden for Ian Hamilton Finlay

    Wheatley, D.
    Wild Honey Press, Bray. 32 pages
    Books and Reports: Books
  • Samuel Beckett: Exile and Experiment

    Wheatley, D.
    The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Poetry. Gillis, A., Brearton, F. (eds.). Oxford University Press, pp. 145-160, 16 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • Beckett's Mirlitonnades: A Manuscript Study

    Wheatley, D.
    The Beckett Critical Reader: Archives, Theories and Translations. Gontarski, S. (ed.). Edinburgh University Press, pp. 38-66, 28 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • Dark and True and Tender

    Wheatley, D.
    CB Editions, London. 20 pages
    Books and Reports: Books
  • Arcs of Movement: The Heroic Couplet

    Wheatley, D.
    A Companion to Poetic Genre. Martiny, E. (ed.). Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 263-277, 15 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
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