Child Ballad by David Wheatley
POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION WINTER 2023 comic verse Steep Tea dialogued with women

Steep Tea dialogued with women poets from across the world

The Long Take is one of the most remarkable – and unclassifiable – books of recent years

to the consoling possibilities for continuing in love and solidarity

and growing apart

Child Ballad by David Wheatley<br><b>POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION WINTER 2023</b> comic verse Steep Tea dialogued with womenIn 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,