The President of Planet Earth by David Wheatley War Music and now her country’s strongest

and now her country’s strongest candidate for the Nobel Prize

two collections from Valley Press

This careful lexicon Morley offers us here is nothing but essential

is published by Smokestack

but it also shows evidence of his mature style

The President of Planet Earth by David Wheatley War Music and now her country’s strongestIn 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