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David Wheatley
David Wheatley was born in 1970 and grew up in County Wicklow. He studied English and French at Trinity College, Dublin, and piano at the Royal Irish Academy of Music. He completed his Ph.D. at Trinity College on the poetry of Samuel Beckett. He is one of the founding editors of the journal Metre.
His volumes of poetry include Thirst (Gallery Press, 1997) which won the Rooney Prize for Literature and which was shortlisted for the Forward Prize; Misery Hill (Gallery, 2000); and a poetry pamphlet entitled Three-Legged Dog, co-written with Caitríona O'Reilly (Wild Honey Press, 2003). His latest book, Terrestrial Variations, is forthcoming from Gallery. He has also written Stream and Gliding Sun: A Wicklow Anthology and I Am The Crocus, a volume of children's poetry, both when he was Writer-in-Residence in County Wicklow.
He is a lecturer at the University of Hull.
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from Spleen
after Baudelaire
There's nothing that can match these limping days for length,
when our boredom, ground down by the silent strength
of snowy years, dismal and incurious fruit,
learns to live in immortality's salute.
Henceforth, living matter, you are nothing more
than a granite rock encircled by vague terror
snoozing at the bottom of a Saharan mist;
an old sphinx world-forgotten and oblivion-kissed,
on no map, and whose foul humours sing for no one
now except the last rays of the dying sun.
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