Child Ballad by David Wheatley
POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION WINTER 2023 #Polishpoetry ' Stephen Spender

' Stephen Spender

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

He writes after Brecht

Despite that this collection is a story of love and a labour of love

And there isn’t a single mention of You Know What

Child Ballad by David Wheatley<br><b>POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION WINTER 2023</b> #Polishpoetry ' Stephen SpenderIn 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,