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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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A nest on the waves
Gallery Press. 88 pagesBooks and Reports: BooksNothing will come of nothing: zero-sum games in King Lear and Endgame
Shakespeare and the Irish writer. Clare, J., O'Neill, S. (eds.). UCD Press, pp. 166-178, 13 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersSamuel Beckett: Selected Poems 1930-1989
Faber and Faber, London. 224 pagesBooks and Reports: BooksDerek Mahon, “The Forger”
Irish University Review, vol. 39, no. 2, pp. 215-222Contributions to Journals: Articles'That they may be damned': Samuel Beckett & the Poetry of Misogyny
Irish Poetry After Feminism: A Collection of Critical Essays. Quinn, J. (ed.). Colin Smythe, pp. 89-99, 11 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters'Pushed Next to Nothing': Ciaran Carson’s Breaking News
Ciaran Carson: Critical Essays. Kennedy-Andrews, E. (ed.). Four Courts Press, pp. 45-65, 21 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersProfessing Poetry: Seamus Heaney as Critic
The Cambridge Companion to Seamus Heaney. O'Donoghue, B. (ed.). Cambridge University Press, pp. 122-135, 14 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters'All is emptiness/ and I must spin': Thomas Kinsella and the Romance of Decay
Irish Studies Review, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 329-333Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09670880802214739
Dichtung und Wahrheit: Contemporary War Poetry and the Non-Combatant Poet
The Oxford Handbook of British & Irish War Poetry. Kendall, T. (ed.). Oxford University Press, pp. 653-666, 14 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersMocker
Gallery Press, Oldcastle. 80 pagesBooks and Reports: BooksSlippery Sam and Tomtinker Tim: Beckett and MacGreevy’s Urban Poetics
Irish Studies Review, vol. 13 no. 2 , pp. 189-202Contributions to Journals: ArticlesChanging the Story: Eavan Boland and Literary History
Irish Review, no. 31, pp. 103-120Contributions to Journals: ArticlesAll Art is Collaboration: Muldoon as Librettist
Paul Muldoon: Critical Essays. Kendall, T., McDonald, P. (eds.). Liverpool University Press, pp. 150-169, 20 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersIrish Poetry into the Twenty-First Century
The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary Irish Poetry. Cambridge University Press, pp. 250-267, 18 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersJames Clarence Mangan: Poems
Vol. 2003, Gallery Press. 200 pagesBooks and Reports: BooksThe Mercyseat and “The Mansion of Forgetfulness”: Samuel Beckett’s Murphy, Austin Clarke’s “Mnemosyne Lay in Dust” and Irish Poetic Modernism
English Studies, vol. 83, no. 6, pp. 527-540Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1076/enst.83.6.527.13554
'That Blank Mouth': Secrecy, Shibboleths and Silence in Northern Irish Poetry
Journal of Modern Literature, pp. 1-16Contributions to Journals: ArticlesGreat Hatred, Little Room: The Writer, the University and the Small Magazine
Critical Ireland: New Essays in Literature and Culture. Four Courts Press, pp. 208, 215 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersMisery Hill
Gallery Press. 96 pagesBooks and Reports: BooksThirst
Gallery Press, Oldcastle. 80 pagesBooks and Reports: Books'Courage Means Running': William Empson as Poet
Recharting the Thirties. Quinn, P. (ed.). Associated University Press, pp. 278-290, 13 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersUndecidable Imperatives: Beckett in the Modern and Postmodern
Bucknell Review, vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 127-158Contributions to Journals: Articles