David Wheatley (born 1970) is an Irish poet and critic. He was born in

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and studied at

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, where he edited ''

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''. Wheatley is the author of four volumes of poetry with Gallery Press, as well as several chapbooks. He has also edited the work of

James Clarence Mangan James Clarence Mangan, born James Mangan ( ga, Séamus Ó Mangáin; 1 May 1803, Dublin – 20 June 1849), was an Irish poet. He freely translated works from German, Turkish, Persian, Arabic, and Irish, with his translations of Goethe gaining sp ...

, and features in the Bloodaxe anthology ''The New Irish Poets'' (Bloodaxe, 2005), and the ''Wake Forest Irish Poetry Series Vol. 1'' (Wake Forest UP, 2005). He teaches at the University of Aberdeen, having previously taught at Hull. He has been shortlisted twice for the Poetry Now Award (2007, 2018), and was awarded

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, in 2008.

Bibliography

Poetry

;Collections * ''Thirst'' (

Gallery Press Gallery Press is an independent Irish publishing company, publishing Irish poetry, drama, and prose by contemporary Irish writers. Founded by poet Peter Fallon as the Gallery Books imprint of Tara Telephone Publications, itself an offshoot of a ...

, 1997) Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. *''Misery Hill'' (

, 2000) *''Three-Legged Dog'' (with Caitriona O'Reilly; Wild Honey Press, 2002) *''Mocker'' (

, 2006) *''Architexts'' (with Cliff Forshaw, David Kennedy and Christopher Reid; Hull City Council, 2007) *''Lament for Ali Farka Touré'' (Rack Press, 2008) *''Drift'' (with Cliff Forshaw, David Kennedy, Simon Kerr and Christopher Reid; Hull City Council, 2008) *'' Hide'' (collaborative; Hull City Council, 2010) *''A Nest on the Waves'' (

, 2010) *''Flowering Skullcap'' (Wurm Press, 2012) *''The Reed Bunting Unseen: A Camouflage Garden for Ian Hamilton Finlay'' (Wild Honey Press, 2013) *''The President of Planet Earth'' (Carcanet/Wake Forest UP, 2017) * Aifric Mac Aodha, ''Foreign News'' (as translator, Gallery Press, 2017) *''Sarajevo Street'' (Bennachie Press, 2018) *''Our Lady of the Snows'' (Clutag Press, 2018) *''Child Ballad'' (Carcanet, 2023) ;Edited anthologies and collections *James Clarence Mangan, ''Poems'' (

, 2003) *Samuel Beckett, ''Selected Poems 1930-1989'' (

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, 2009) *''The Wake Forest Irish Poetry Series, Vol. 4'' (Wake Forest University Press, 2017) *''Companions of His Thoughts More Green: Poems for Andrew Marvell'' (Broken Sleep Books, 2022) ;List of poems

Novel

*''Stretto'' (CB Editions, 2022)

Other Prose

*''Dark and True and Tender'' (CB Editions, 2012) *''Contemporary British Poetry (Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism)'' ( Palgrave, 2014) *''The Wandering Mountains'' (Hercules Editions), 2020) *''Stravaig'' (Broken Sleep Books, 2021) *''The Cambridge History of Irish Women's Poetry'' (co-edited with Ailbhe Darcy, Cambridge University Press, 2021)

Plays

*''Zero at the Bone'' (Smithereens Press, 2013) *''Stravaig'' (Broken Sleep Books, 2021)

References

External links

Ebook of Architexts (pdf)David Wheatley's blog
Living people 1970 births Irish poets The New York Review of Books people People from Bray, County Wicklow Writers from Dublin (city) People educated at Presentation College, Bray {{Ireland-poet-stub