david wheatley

Teaching-themed tweets. Yes I know we're not meant to bring coffee in here.

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Dhá dhán le Máirtín Ó Direáin.

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Muireadhach Albanach Ó Dálaigh’s lament for his wife.

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Poems attributed to Gormlaith.

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Alan Gillis taks a dander on the Ulster Way.

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Homer on St Lucia (Derek Walcott).

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Odysseus reunited with Penelope (George Chapman).

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Modernist Homer (Ezra Pound) and Scots Homer (William Neill).

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Odysseus’ return and its violent aftermath, with Alexander Pope and Michael Longley.

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Alice Oswald gets Homeric (from Memorial).

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A Friday night Tony Harrison sonnet.

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Today students we will be discussing political allusions in modern poems.

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Attention students on my contemporary poetry course, does cracking jokes about this get Anthony Thwaite off the hook of being one of the ‘too many’? Or not?

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Some Jen Hadfield poems.

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Spot of JH Prynne.

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Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill aistrithe ag John Montague.

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A verse letter of Michael Longley’s.

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Spot of Terrance Hayes.

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Spot of Denise Riley.

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A poem in translation by Bríd Inían Chille Dara.

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‘Dawning on me’ I might decide to spend large amounts of my class on bardic poetry discussing this excellent poem of Kit Fryatt’s.