The President of Planet Earth by David Wheatley Rebecca Perry seating famous and beloved birds

seating famous and beloved birds like the puffin next to less well known species like the knot

Arthur Schnitzler and the physicist Dennis Gabor lay claim to their own visions of it

between the present moment and what might have been happening several hours ago in the Middle East

The written word winds through their varying accents and rhythms

The President of Planet Earth by David Wheatley Rebecca Perry seating famous and beloved birdsIn 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