David Wheatley (poet)
David Wheatley is an Irish poet and critic. He was born in Dublin and 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, and the Wake Forest Irish Poetry Series Vol. 1.
He teaches at the University of Aberdeen, having previously taught at Hull. He has been shortlisted twice for the Poetry Now Award, and was awarded The Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize, in 2008.
Poetry
;Collections- Misery Hill
- Three-Legged Dog
- Mocker
- Architexts
- Lament for Ali Farka Touré
- Drift
- Hide
- A Nest on the Waves
- Flowering Skullcap
- The Reed Bunting Unseen: A Camouflage Garden for Ian Hamilton Finlay
- The President of Planet Earth
- Aifric Mac Aodha, Foreign News
- Sarajevo Street
- Our Lady of the Snows
- James Clarence Mangan, Poems
- Samuel Beckett, Selected Poems 1930-1989
- The Wake Forest Irish Poetry Series, Vol. 4
| Title | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected |
| One door may conceal another | 2019 |
Prose
- Dark and True and Tender
- Contemporary British Poetry
- The Wandering Mountains
Plays
- Zero at the Bone