David Wheatley (poet)

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 teaches at the University of Aberdeen, having previously taught at Hull. He was shortlisted for the Poetry Now Award, in 2007, and was awarded The Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize, in 2008.

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