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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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Beyond ‘the nothing-could-be-simpler /line’: On Fluid Forms and the Longer Poem
Bloomsbury Companion to Contemporary Poetry in Ireland and the UK. Brigley, Z. (ed.). BloomsburyChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersVarieties of Irish Modernism: English-Language Poetry
The Cambridge History of Irish Poetry. Falci, E. (ed.). Cambridge University PressChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters‘Limits of part’s equality with whole’: Beckett’s poetry in and between the fiction and drama
The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Beckett. Nixon, M., Van Hulle, D. (eds.). Oxford Univerity Press; OxfordChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersOld Friends
Gallery Press, Loughcrew. 70 pagesBooks and Reports: BooksXIV Modern Literature: 8. Modern Irish Poetry
The Year's Work in English Studies, vol. 103Contributions to Journals: ArticlesDerek Mahon
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press (OUP), 6 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters'Echo is Dumb': Modes of Address and Generational Dialogue in Irish Poetry
The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First Century Irish Writing. O'Brien, E., Fogarty, A. (eds.). RoutledgeChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersChild Ballad
Carcanet Press, Manchester. 138 pagesBooks and Reports: BooksOn a Scottish Portrait: A Tale of Two Gordons
The Literary Review, no. 522, pp. 30-31Contributions to Journals: ArticlesXIV. Modern Literature: 8. Modern Irish Poetry
The Year's Work in English Studies, vol. 102, no. 1, pp. 95-102Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/ywes/maad014
'Mocked by a tissue that may not serve': Beckett and the poetics of embodiment
Samuel Beckett's Poetry. Brophy, J., Davies, W. (eds.). Cambridge University Press, pp. 235, 249 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009222563.017
Darkening all the strand
Second Voyages: Writers on poems by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin. Gallery Press, pp. 27-28, 2 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersCompanions of His Thoughts More Green: Poems for Andrew Marvell
Broken Sleep Books, Llandysul. 100 pagesBooks and Reports: BooksThe Battle of Inverlochy
Celebrating a Century: A Festschrift for Maurice Rutherford. Lucas, J., Rumens, C. (eds.). Shoestring Press, pp. 48-53Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters'River Don Office', 'To the River Don'
Four Rivers, Deep Maps: Collected Responses on the Don and Dee Rivers (North-East Scotland) and the Derbart Yerrigan and Dyarigarra Beeliar (Swan and Canning Rivers, Western Australia). Jones, J., Curtis, N. (eds.). UWA Publishing, pp. 47-50, 3 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersA Fuse Box with its Front Torn Off: On The Citizen and the Making of 'City'
Poetry Birmingham, no. 8, pp. 109-112Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] Link to Journal
Stretto
CB Editions, London. 214 pagesBooks and Reports: BooksA History of Irish Women's Poetry
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 500 pagesBooks and Reports: Books- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108778596
Experiment and Tradition in Contemporary Poetry
Wiley Blackwell Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Literature. Bradford, R. (ed.). WILEY-BLACKWELL, pp. 585-594, 10 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersSatire
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: Articles