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David Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social · 1d

I thought this John Berryman poem, exhumed from an archive by Shane Macrae and published in the TLS, was very fine.

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David Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social · 1d

Walked along the A96 to Bucksburn, an eccentric thing to do.

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David Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social · 1d

Stills from Andrei Rublev on the bus.

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David Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social · 1d

And yet all too easy to misread as ‘I know that my redeemer lieth’.

David Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social · 1d

Is typing Martinů’s name without his diacritic (a kroužek) not a little like removing the bubbles before handing someone a glass of champagne.

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David Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social · 1d

Though this review is behind a paywall, clicking the arrow triggers one of the strangest Irish accents I have ever heard, with its talk of 'ballaRd' (like the novelist), 'stanzaR', and 'Thomas KinsellaR'. Could audio AI have infiltrated the paper of record?

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David Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social · 2d

An annotation on the nearest Krasznahorkai novel here in my office.

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David Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social · 3d

Jessica and I reacquaint ourselves with Lady Gregory’s A Woman’s Sonnets,born of her love affair with Wilfrid Scawen Blunt.

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David Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social · 3d

An early review of The Poems of Seamus Heaney. I wonder if other reviews will say which phases/bits of Heaney they feel are his best, and where the real core of the achievement lies? We shall see.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

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David Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social · 10d

I find myself teaching Mangan from an edition I produced ‘twenty golden years ago’. I love this lesser-known poem of his on coffee-drinking -

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David Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social · 10d

Perhaps the single best academic study of nineteenth-century Irish poetry.

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David Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social · 10d

Dafydd ap Gwilym and the poetry of the penis (tr. Matthew Francis).

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David Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social · 12d

Is this Giotto painting as 'you-want-a-piece-of-this-then'-y as Jesus ever gets in Renaissance art, I wonder.

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David Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social · 13d

There was a war Peloponnesian
that bled the Greeks dry like a lesion,
whose triremes and hoplites
encountered no stop lights,
but warred on all through killing ‘seision’.

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David Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social · 13d

‘My first mention on legacy.com /automatically made Tony Anthony!’ Some grim humour here as afterlife imitates art for Tony Harrison.

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David Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social · 14d

An uncollected TLS poem of Paul Muldoon's from 1984 comparing his fellow Northern Irish poets to types of cheese.

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David Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social · 15d

A shaggy ink-cap at Bennachie.

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David Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social · 15d

RIP Tony Harrison, my doughty early guide to life in the North of England. Leeds United currently two one up against Bournemouth.

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David Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social · 18d

Larkin on bad reviews: ‘I read that I’m a miserable sort of fellow writing a kind of welfare-state sub-poetry, but it isn’t really what poetry is and it isn’t the sort of poetry we want... but I wonder if it ever occurs to the author of criticism like that that really, one agrees with them.’

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David Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social · 18d

This book had nothing whatever to say about lemurs, refund now please.

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David Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social · 19d

Stephen Spender called cannonballs the ‘genitals of death’.

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David Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social · 20d

Splendid portrait of Queen Mary outside a room I was teaching in today.

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David Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social · 22d

However lightly
downwards we pressed
from our weight too
the bench needs a rest

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David Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social · 23d

Four previously unpublished poems by John Berryman. www.the-tls.com/literature/p...

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David Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social · 26d

Living as I do with two actively-spraying cats (plus two non-sprayers) I feel actively haunted by this description by Ian Sansom of how old books can suddenly die.

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