In "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 b...

Inspired by the Russian futurist Khlebnikov, Wheatley provides a riveting poetic vision of world culture. This collection imagines futuristic social states from the South American nation of "Oblivia" to post-independence referendum present-day Scotla...