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David Wheatley

@nemoloris.bsky.social

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Cairngorm-regarder. Bairn-herder.

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David Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social · 7h

Eadar-theangachadh ùr, làn-lùthmor is mìorbhaileach de Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair. Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair rides again in Taylor Strickland’s flavoursome new translation.

David Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social · 9h

*Eriugena

David Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social · 12h

Frustrating not to see the single greatest author name ever given in full on this book cover: Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite (‘Pseu’ to his mates?). Sadly Scotus Eruigena’s Latin translation was out of my price range. The book itself ain’t bad either.

David Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social · 20h

Morven modified this leaf.

David Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Ruskin on lichens. Reposting if only to be able to use this in a class on Ruskin tomorrow!

David Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Congratulations from Sappho to Anne Carson on her Nobel Prize win.

David Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

One small effect of Anne Carson's Nobel Prize win is to double Iceland's already highest-in-the-world statistical proportion of Nobel Prize winners to general populace (given that Anne Carson is now an Icelandic citizen). www.theguardian.com/books/2026/o...

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Anne Carson wins Nobel prize in literature 2026

World’s most prestigious prize for literature goes to Canadian poet known for genre-crossing works including Autobiography of Red

David Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

What a great sentence: 'But man is a Noble Animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.'

David Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This evening young Morven insisted on a chapter from War and Peace so that she could accompany all the scenes featuring Princess Vassili with a prop she was calling ‘Prince Vaseline’.

David Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Workplace open day hits the spot.

David Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A last look at young Morven’s vision of David Copperfield before binning it for reasons of (outrage!) cat spray.

David Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Found this thing of mine about Irish WWI poet Francis Ledwidge in an old anthology.

David Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

But do you prefer Offenbach or Bach often?

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David Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Poets do not often announce their new books as their last, but Eamon Grennan’s That’s It is one such sign-off collection.

David Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

An unexpectedly quaint anecdote of someone sleeping with Jacques Derrida at an academic conference, from a book called Earthly, Transcendental and Spiritual Logic, by Scott Elliot Hicks.

David Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Friends, come and talk to me about Irish poetry in Aberdeen and we can catch up over a single malt or two. www.abdn.ac.uk/riiss/news-e...

Call for Papers: Alas Yes: Irish Poetry After Heaney, 20-21 February 2027

David Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Few enough English poets have engaged with the matter of Northern Ireland, over the last century, but here’s Donald Davie contemplating some Orangemen. Could he have been the first poet to use the bat comparison?

David Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Perhaps this makes me a Rossettiesque grave-robber?

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David Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Apple pie with miss-en-abyme ouroboros crust homage to The Neverending Story, which the children are currently reading.

David Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

How autumn’s caught on among the fly agarics of bosky Cottown.

David Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Soon to teach Dante Gabriel Rossetti, I thought I might give my students this to chew on too, by @pmcdthisandthat.bsky.social (opening page of four).

David Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Delightful cuprous hues at Crathes Castle today.

David Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Is the Riley by any chance flawful but earful?

David Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

When eccentric clergyman and religious commentator Canon Brian Brindley passed away during a seventieth-birthday meal, he did so (as per his Wikipedia entry) ‘between the dressed crab and the boeuf en daube’.

David Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Is Sixtus V the Forfar 5-East Fife 4 of popes.

David Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

'Everything that has been printed about me is lies. I'm not suggesting the writers were lying, I was' (Terry-Thomas).

David Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Messiaen’s national service in the French army got off to a good start with a complete failure to open and unpack his locked suitcase, a display of such ineptitude his officers decided he would be best deployed giving music lessons to his fellow soldiers.

David Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Julian Barnes is an ‘assiduous courtier of elderly lady novelists’, says Private Eye.

David Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

John Coltrane, born OTD a hundred years ago. I am lucky enough to have seen both McToy Tyner (piano) and Elvin Jones (drums) from his famous quartet live, which was and remains quite something, I must say. www.youtube.com/watch?v=saN1...

JOHN COLTRANE Alabama

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David Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Some interesting paste-ins in my my copy of Yeats’s Oxford Book of Modern Verse, including the thoughts of Mrs S Demstead of Coronation Road South, Wold Road, Hull, on the damnable modern ubiquity of the glottal stop.

David Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I would have you know that in the 30s alone Stuart published a dozen novels. I pity the poor saps who had to edit these things, which I am guessing no one reads now.

David Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Behold this comically inept sentence from Francis Stuart’s Blacklist Section H, or Prisoner Cell Block H as I once heard it called.

David Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The BBCs’ Words and Music marks the eight-hundredth anniversary of Francis of Assisi’s birth. Some Messiaen in the mix but strangely nothing from his opera about that saint. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 3 - Words and Music, St Francis

David Harewood and Sally Phillips with readings about and by Francis, saint of animals.

David Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Unfortunately this will be my Southampton namesake, not me!

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David Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Some vers de circonstance for our son (dear sweet boy) who turns ten today.

David Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

what’s all this clowning as term-time restarts this longwinded fart still spouting his Browning and saying read Ruskin on art that’s Etruscan thanks granddad elephant how is that relevant

David Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Beckett’s German diaries show him to be ‘an extraordinarily sensitive seismographer of the Nazification of everyday life’, writes Durs Grünbein in this week’s TLS. www.the-tls.com/lives/diarie...

Cultural catastrophe

Beckett’s ‘German Journey’ in the Nazi period

David Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

In April 1969 Theodor Adorno enduring the ignominy of a student 'Busenattentat'.

David Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The Earl of Glamis here in the ‘glittering north’ had a daughter and ‘cawdor’ (Macbeth joke) Lilian. Whose poetry has now been edited by @jntod.bsky.social.

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Katie Murphy @manymanyplies.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

My friend James Womack has a new, hot pink, book out! Or very nearly out. His house, as he told me this morning, is full of Ash.

Publisher's webpage (Carcanet, that is) for New Selected Poems by John Ash, ed. James Womack.

David Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Admirable. From Colin Bramwell’s Fower Pessoas.

David Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The twelfth-century St Clare of Assisi is the patron saint of television because:

David Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Happy birthday to Aidan Mathews, who turns seventy this month. brandnewcarnation.substack.com/p/aidan-math...

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Aidan Mathews and the Poetry of Unselfconscious Grace

Though I’m not sure as to the exact date, I know that Aidan Mathews’ seventieth birthday occurs sometime this month.

David Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

‘Horny portal’.

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David Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Ah, the indignity of the print-on-demand book, and the bland inferno of its clip-art cover. A teaching book though so needs must (I will not teach from an ebook). One notes the small knowing wink of the reduplicative author name.

David Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Colin Burrow on Helen Vendler's Inhabit the Poem. He mentions Vendler's disagreement with Rita Dove, but not her remarkable deathbed reconciliation with her. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

David Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

What’s water but the generated soul? At Haddo House.

David Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Virgil’s underworld had the gates of horn and ivory; my garden fence has the gates of feline fur. Few mice who pass through live to tell the tale.

David Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I learned something about physics today when my daughter told me she had found a hole she was going to jump down, and that went all the way to Australia. But how will you get back, I asked. I jump down the hole again, she told me, and it comes out in Scotland.

David Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Apparent two-legged cat called Bonne nuit.