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 modernism into subversive comedy. We
move between Pictish pre-history, the imaginary South American
nation ofaA A aA A `Oblivia', aA A 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.
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