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The president of planet earth

Wheatley, David, 1970- author

2017

Overview

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 modernism into subversive comedy. We move between pictish pre-history, the imaginary South American nation of Oblivia', and post-independence referendum Scotland. Wheatley marries classical, Gaelic, Scots and continental traditions. He deploys several styles prose poetry; concrete poetry; translations from Middle Irish, Latin and French; sestinas and sonnets in Scots to heady effect. The President of planet earth refashions language and the world it shapes, devising a transformative poetics. Publisher's website viewed 08 Dec, 2017.

• Publisher: Carcanet Press
• Subject: English poetry 21st century. / English poetry Irish authors.
• ISBN: 1784104205, 9781784104207

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PR6073.H36 A6 2017	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE