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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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  • Beyond ‘the nothing-could-be-simpler /line’: On Fluid Forms and the Longer Poem

    Wheatley, D.
    Bloomsbury Companion to Contemporary Poetry in Ireland and the UK. Brigley, Z. (ed.). Bloomsbury
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • Varieties of Irish Modernism: English-Language Poetry

    Wheatley, D.
    The Cambridge History of Irish Poetry. Falci, E. (ed.). Cambridge University Press
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • ‘Limits of part’s equality with whole’: Beckett’s poetry in and between the fiction and drama

    Wheatley, D.
    The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Beckett. Nixon, M., Van Hulle, D. (eds.). Oxford Univerity Press; Oxford
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • In Search of Sarmatia:: On the Trail of Johannes Bobrowski

    Wheatley, D.
    Irish Pages: a Journal of Contemporary Writing
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Old Friends

    Mac Aodha, A., Wheatley, D.
    Gallery Press, Loughcrew. 70 pages
    Books and Reports: Books

  • XIV Modern Literature: 8. Modern Irish Poetry

    Wheatley, D.
    The Year's Work in English Studies, vol. 103
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Derek Mahon

    Wheatley, D.
    Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press (OUP), 6 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • 'Echo is Dumb': Modes of Address and Generational Dialogue in Irish Poetry

    Wheatley, D.
    The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First Century Irish Writing. O'Brien, E., Fogarty, A. (eds.). Routledge
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • Child Ballad

    Wheatley, D.
    Carcanet Press, Manchester. 138 pages
    Books and Reports: Books

  • On a Scottish Portrait: A Tale of Two Gordons

    Wheatley, D.
    The Literary Review, no. 522, pp. 30-31
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • XIV. Modern Literature: 8. Modern Irish Poetry

    Wheatley, D.
    The Year's Work in English Studies, vol. 102, no. 1, pp. 95-102
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • 'Mocked by a tissue that may not serve': Beckett and the poetics of embodiment

    Wheatley, D.
    Samuel Beckett's Poetry. Brophy, J., Davies, W. (eds.). Cambridge University Press, pp. 235, 249 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • Darkening all the strand

    Wheatley, D.
    Second Voyages: Writers on poems by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin. Gallery Press, pp. 27-28, 2 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • Companions of His Thoughts More Green: Poems for Andrew Marvell

    Wheatley, D. (ed.)
    Broken Sleep Books, Llandysul. 100 pages
    Books and Reports: Books

  • The Battle of Inverlochy

    Wheatley, D.
    Celebrating a Century: A Festschrift for Maurice Rutherford. Lucas, J., Rumens, C. (eds.). Shoestring Press, pp. 48-53
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • 'River Don Office', 'To the River Don'

    Wheatley, D.
    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 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • A Fuse Box with its Front Torn Off: On The Citizen and the Making of 'City'

    Wheatley, D.
    Poetry Birmingham, no. 8, pp. 109-112
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Stretto

    Wheatley, D.
    CB Editions, London. 214 pages
    Books and Reports: Books

  • A History of Irish Women's Poetry

    Wheatley, D. (ed.), Darcy, A. (ed.)
    Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 500 pages
    Books and Reports: Books

  • Experiment and Tradition in Contemporary Poetry

    Wheatley, D.
    Wiley Blackwell Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Literature. Bradford, R. (ed.). WILEY-BLACKWELL, pp. 585-594, 10 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • Satire

    Wheatley, D.
    A Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Poetry, 1960-2015. Gortschacher, W., Malcolm, D. (eds.). WILEY-BLACKWELL, pp. 159-168, 10 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • Stravaig

    Wheatley, D.
    Broken Sleep Books, Talgarreg. 40 pages
    Books and Reports: Books

  • The Wandering Mountains

    Wheatley, D.
    Hercules Editions, London. 24 pages
    Books and Reports: Books

  • Samuel Beckett, Flann O’Brien and the Literature of Absurdity

    Wheatley, D.
    Irish Literature in Transition 1940–1980. Patten, E. (ed.). Cambridge University Press, pp. 150, 166 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • 'Umbrellas', 'On Mweelrea', 'The Antarctic Poetry School', 'Colmcille's Farewell'

    Wheatley, D.
    Grand Tour: Reisen durch die Junge Lyrik Europas. Italiano, F., Wagner, J. (eds.). Carl Hanser Verlag, pp. 96-99, 4 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • One Door May Conceal Another

    Wheatley, D.
    New york review of books, vol. 66, no. 4
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Northborough Sonnets; A Pine Wood In North Africa

    Wheatley, D.
    Axon, vol. Capsule 3, no. Special Issue, pp. 79-85
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • 'Atrocities against his Sacred Poet': The Orpheus Myth and the Poetry of the Northern Irish Troubles

    Wheatley, D.
    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 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • Our Lady of the Snows

    Wheatley, D.
    Vol. 24, Clutag Press, Thame. 8 pages
    Books and Reports: Books

  • Samuel Beckett, Flann O'Brien, and the Literature of Absurdity

    Wheatley, D.
    Irish Literature in Transition: Vol V: 1940-1980. Patten, E. (ed.). Cambridge University Press
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • Foreign news: poems in Irish

    Wheatley, D.
    Gallery Press, Oldcastle. 72 pages
    Books and Reports: Books

  • The President of Planet Earth

    Wheatley, D.
    Carcanet Press, Manchester. 167 pages
    Books and Reports: Books

  • The Wake Forest Series of Irish Poetry: Volume Four

    Wheatley, D. (ed.), Joyce, T., Matthews, A., McDonald, P., Darcy, A., Ní Ghearbhuigh, A.
    Books and Reports: Anthologies

  • 'The bilingual race /And truth of that water': Seamus Heaney and the Irish Language

    Wheatley, D.
    Journal of European Studies, vol. 46, no. 1, pp. 10-23
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Aspermatic Nights and Days: Samuel Beckett and An Anti-Genealogy of Contemporary Irish Poetry

    Wheatley, D.
    PN Review, vol. 42, no. 4, pp. 68-71
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Contemporary British Poetry

    Wheatley, D.
    Palgrave Macmillan, London. 203 pages
    Books and Reports: Books

  • ‘Fully able/to write in any language - I’m a babel’: James Clarence Mangan and the task of the Translator

    Wheatley, D.
    Essays on James Clarence Mangan: The Man in the Cloak. Sturgeon, S. (ed.). Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 33-52, 20 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • 'But I Must Not Accounted Be /One Of That Mumming Company': Joyce, Mangan, and the treacheries of poetic succession

    Wheatley, D.
    Dublin James Joyce Journal, no. 6/7, pp. 1-19
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Proceeding Without a Map: Kathleen Jamie and the Lie of the Land

    Wheatley, D.
    Kathleen Jamie: Essays and Poems on Her Work. Falconer, R. (ed.). Edinburgh University Press
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • The Commissar of Castle Street: On Dennis O'Driscoll

    Wheatley, D.
    Edinburgh Review, pp. 54-63
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • '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

  • Keeping that wound green: the poetry of Paul Muldoon

    Wheatley, D.
    A companion to Irish literature. Wright, J. (ed.). Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 374-389, 16 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • A nest on the waves

    Wheatley, D.
    Gallery Press. 88 pages
    Books and Reports: Books

  • Nothing will come of nothing: zero-sum games in King Lear and Endgame

    Wheatley, D.
    Shakespeare and the Irish writer. Clare, J., O'Neill, S. (eds.). UCD Press, pp. 166-178, 13 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • Samuel Beckett: Selected Poems 1930-1989

    Wheatley, D. (ed.)
    Faber and Faber, London. 224 pages
    Books and Reports: Books

  • Derek Mahon, “The Forger”

    Wheatley, D.
    Irish University Review, vol. 39, no. 2, pp. 215-222
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • 'That they may be damned': Samuel Beckett & the Poetry of Misogyny

    Wheatley, D.
    Irish Poetry After Feminism: A Collection of Critical Essays. Quinn, J. (ed.). Colin Smythe, pp. 89-99, 11 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • 'Pushed Next to Nothing': Ciaran Carson’s Breaking News

    Wheatley, D.
    Ciaran Carson: Critical Essays. Kennedy-Andrews, E. (ed.). Four Courts Press, pp. 45-65, 21 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • Professing Poetry: Seamus Heaney as Critic

    Wheatley, D.
    The Cambridge Companion to Seamus Heaney. O'Donoghue, B. (ed.). Cambridge University Press, pp. 122-135, 14 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • 'All is emptiness/ and I must spin': Thomas Kinsella and the Romance of Decay

    Wheatley, D.
    Irish Studies Review, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 329-333
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Dichtung und Wahrheit: Contemporary War Poetry and the Non-Combatant Poet

    Wheatley, D.
    The Oxford Handbook of British & Irish War Poetry. Kendall, T. (ed.). Oxford University Press, pp. 653-666, 14 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • Mocker

    Wheatley, D.
    Gallery Press, Oldcastle. 80 pages
    Books and Reports: Books

  • Slippery Sam and Tomtinker Tim: Beckett and MacGreevy’s Urban Poetics

    Wheatley, D.
    Irish Studies Review, vol. 13 no. 2 , pp. 189-202
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Changing the Story: Eavan Boland and Literary History

    Wheatley, D.
    Irish Review, no. 31, pp. 103-120
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • All Art is Collaboration: Muldoon as Librettist

    Wheatley, D.
    Paul Muldoon: Critical Essays. Kendall, T., McDonald, P. (eds.). Liverpool University Press, pp. 150-169, 20 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • Irish Poetry into the Twenty-First Century

    Wheatley, D.
    The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary Irish Poetry. Cambridge University Press, pp. 250-267, 18 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • James Clarence Mangan: Poems

    Wheatley, D.
    Vol. 2003, Gallery Press. 200 pages
    Books and Reports: Books

  • The Mercyseat and “The Mansion of Forgetfulness”: Samuel Beckett’s Murphy, Austin Clarke’s “Mnemosyne Lay in Dust” and Irish Poetic Modernism

    Wheatley, D.
    English Studies, vol. 83, no. 6, pp. 527-540
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • 'That Blank Mouth': Secrecy, Shibboleths and Silence in Northern Irish Poetry

    Wheatley, D.
    Journal of Modern Literature, pp. 1-16
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Great Hatred, Little Room: The Writer, the University and the Small Magazine

    Wheatley, D.
    Critical Ireland: New Essays in Literature and Culture. Four Courts Press, pp. 208, 215 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • Misery Hill

    Wheatley, D.
    Gallery Press. 96 pages
    Books and Reports: Books

  • Thirst

    Wheatley, D.
    Gallery Press, Oldcastle. 80 pages
    Books and Reports: Books

  • 'Courage Means Running': William Empson as Poet

    Wheatley, D.
    Recharting the Thirties. Quinn, P. (ed.). Associated University Press, pp. 278-290, 13 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • Undecidable Imperatives: Beckett in the Modern and Postmodern

    Wheatley, D.
    Bucknell Review, vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 127-158
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

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