Child Ballad by David Wheatley
POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION WINTER 2023 #Polishpoetry He writes after Brecht

He writes after Brecht

‘the couplet’ a troubadourian coupling of lovers and the knife fight rhythms of iambic pentameter

Gareth Farmer is an autistic poet and lecturer in English literature

delight and re-birth

Child Ballad by David Wheatley<br><b>POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION WINTER 2023</b> #Polishpoetry He writes after BrechtIn Child Ballad, David Wheatley's sixth collection, he explores a world transformed by the experience of parenthood. Conducting his children through landscapes of Northern Scotland, he follows pathways laid down by departed Irish missionaries and by wolves. He maps a rich territory of rivers, trees and mountains. Also present are histories, some evidenced, some no longer visible and yet to be inferred. Stylistically, Child Ballad is multifaceted,