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The President of Planet Earth
David Wheatley
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Shortlisted for the 2018 Irish Times Poetry Now Award. In his fifth collection of poems, David Wheatley twins his birthplace and his current home, Ireland and Scotland, to engage issues of globalism, identity, and language. He takes inspiration from the Russian Futurist poet Velimir Khlebnikov, self-nominated President of Planet Earth, who in a state of apocalyptic rapture envisioned a new world culture, its rise and its dramatic undoing. In The President of Planet Earth Wheatley brings an experimental sensibility to bear on questions of land and territory, channelling the messianic aspirations of ... Read more
Shortlisted for the 2018 Irish Times Poetry Now Award. In his fifth collection of poems, David Wheatley twins his birthplace and his current home, Ireland and Scotland, to engage issues of globalism, identity, and language. He takes inspiration from the Russian Futurist poet Velimir Khlebnikov, self-nominated President of Planet Earth, who in a state of apocalyptic rapture envisioned a new world culture, its rise and its dramatic undoing. In The President of Planet Earth Wheatley brings an experimental sensibility to bear on questions of land and territory, channelling the messianic aspirations of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
168
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784104207
SKU
S9781784104207
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About David Wheatley
David Wheatley was born in Dublin in 1970. His previous collections are 'Thirst' (1997; Rooney Prize for Irish Literature), 'Misery Hill' (2000), 'Mocker' (2006) and 'A Nest on the Waves' (2010). His work has appeared in numerous anthologies, including 'The Penguin Book of Irish Poetry', and has been awarded a variety of prizes, including the Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize and ... Read more
Reviews for The President of Planet Earth
'Wheatley's is a poetry of displacement, uncertainty and sheer possibility'. - Guardian; 'This is a book I've been looking forward to for a long time, and it does not disappoint. Wheatley is one of our most original poet-critics, and the serious range of his enthusiasms is evident in the many forms, voices, histories and horizons here, from Lucretian couplets and ... Read more