Thirst

Sleepwalking, a skinned rabbit, litter, a Chinese play, and an Irish alchemist are just some of the subjects explored in David Wheatley's first book. Containing poems dealing with childhood, travel, rural, and urban experiences, Thirst submits the familiar and the strange alike to the workings of an enquiring, restless sensibility. A distinguished volume, unified as its title suggests, by a thirst for experience in all its richness and variety.