David Wheatley (poet)

For the film and television director, see David Wheatley (director).

David Wheatley (born 1970 in Dublin) is an Irish poet and critic. He studied at Trinity College, Dublin where he edited Icarus. 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, 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 lives in the North of England and teaches at the University of Hull's Philip Larkin Centre.

He was shortlisted for the Poetry Now Award, in 2007, and was awarded The Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize, in 2008.

Books

Poetry

• Thirst (Gallery Press, 1997) (Rooney Prize for Irish Literature)
• Misery Hill (Gallery Press, 2000)
• Three-Legged Dog (with Caitriona O'Reilly; Wild Honey Press, 2002)
• Mocker (Gallery Press, 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 (Gallery Press, 2010)

Edited

• James Clarence Mangan, Poems (Gallery Press, 2003)
• Samuel Beckett, Selected Poems 1930-1989 (Faber and Faber, 2009)

References

• Ebook of Architexts (pdf)
• David Wheatley's blog

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