Child Ballad by David Wheatley
POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION WINTER 2023 comic verse coming in and going out

coming in and going out

to the consoling possibilities for continuing in love and solidarity

At once virtuosic and vulnerable

Here is the body in nature

Lanier Distinguished Professor at the University of Georgia

Child Ballad by David Wheatley<br><b>POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION WINTER 2023</b> comic verse coming in and going outIn 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,