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- Email Address
- d.wheatley@abdn.ac.uk
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- +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: 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: ChaptersForeign news: poems in Irish
Gallery Press, Oldcastle. 72 pagesBooks and Reports: BooksThe President of Planet Earth
Carcanet Press, Manchester. 167 pagesBooks and Reports: BooksThe Wake Forest Series of Irish Poetry: Volume Four
Books and Reports: Anthologies'The bilingual race /And truth of that water': Seamus Heaney and the Irish Language
Journal of European Studies, vol. 46, no. 1, pp. 10-23Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0047244115617716
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/5737/1/Seamus_Heaney_Article.docx
Aspermatic Nights and Days: Samuel Beckett and An Anti-Genealogy of Contemporary Irish Poetry
PN Review, vol. 42, no. 4, pp. 68-71Contributions to Journals: ArticlesContemporary British Poetry
Palgrave Macmillan, London. 203 pagesBooks and Reports: Books‘Fully able/to write in any language - I’m a babel’: James Clarence Mangan and the task of the Translator
Essays on James Clarence Mangan: The Man in the Cloak. Sturgeon, S. (ed.). Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 33-52, 20 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137273383_3
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'But I Must Not Accounted Be /One Of That Mumming Company': Joyce, Mangan, and the treacheries of poetic succession
Dublin James Joyce Journal, no. 6/7, pp. 1-19Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/djj.2014.0008
Proceeding Without a Map: Kathleen Jamie and the Lie of the Land
Kathleen Jamie: Essays and Poems on Her Work. Falconer, R. (ed.). Edinburgh University PressChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersThe Commissar of Castle Street: On Dennis O'Driscoll
Edinburgh Review, pp. 54-63Contributions to Journals: Articles'Quite exceptionally anthropoid': species anxiety and metamorphosis in Beckett's humans and other animals
Beckett and Animals. Bryden, M. (ed.). Cambridge University Press, pp. 59-70, 12 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersDispatched Dark Regions Far Afield and Farther: Contemporary Poetry and Victorianism
The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Poetry. Bevis, M. (ed.). Oxford University Press, pp. 291-306, 16 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersDafter than we care to own: The Poetry of Place in Some Poets of the North of England
The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry. Robinson, P. (ed.). Oxford University Press, pp. 407-423, 17 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters"Your papers!": Archiving Beckett and Beckett’s Archive of the Self
Literary Imagination, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 149-162Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/litimag/imt044
'Sweet thing theology': Beckett, E.M. Cioran and the Lives of the Saints
Samuel Beckett: Debts and Legacies: New Critical Essays (Plays and Playwrights). Fifield, P., Addyman, D., Tajiri, Y. (eds.). Bloomsbury, pp. 39-62, 23 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersThe Reed Bunting Unseen: A Camouflage Garden for Ian Hamilton Finlay
Wild Honey Press, Bray. 32 pagesBooks and Reports: BooksSamuel Beckett: Exile and Experiment
The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Poetry. Gillis, A., Brearton, F. (eds.). Oxford University Press, pp. 145-160, 16 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersBeckett's Mirlitonnades: A Manuscript Study
The Beckett Critical Reader: Archives, Theories and Translations. Gontarski, S. (ed.). Edinburgh University Press, pp. 38-66, 28 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersDark and True and Tender
CB Editions, London. 20 pagesBooks and Reports: BooksArcs of Movement: The Heroic Couplet
A Companion to Poetic Genre. Martiny, E. (ed.). Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 263-277, 15 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersKeeping that wound green: the poetry of Paul Muldoon
A companion to Irish literature. Wright, J. (ed.). Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 374-389, 16 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersA 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