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David Whyte (poet)

English poet (born )

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Born () 2 November (age&#;69)
Mirfield, Yorkshire
OccupationPoet
NationalityIrish, British, American
SpouseGayle Karen Young

David Whyte (born 2 November ) is an Anglo-Irish poet.[1][2][3] He has said that all of his poetry and philosophy are based on "the conversational nature of reality".[4] His book The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America () topped the best-seller charts in the United States.

Life and work

Whyte's mother was from Waterford, Ireland, and his father was a Yorkshireman.[5][6] He attributes his poetic interest to both the songs and the poetry[7] of his mother's Irish heritage and to the landscape of West Yorkshire.

He grew up in West Yorkshire and has commented that he had "a Wordsworthian childhood", in the fields and woods and on the moors.[8][9] Whyte has a degree in marine zoology from Bangor University.[5][10]

During his twenties, Whyte worked as a naturalist and lived in the Galápagos Islands, where he experienced a near drowning on the southern shore of Hood Island.[9][11][12][13][14] He led anthropological and natural history expeditions in the Andes, the Amazon and the Himalayas.[15]

Revelation must be
&#;&#;&#;terrible with no time left
to say goodbye.

Imagine that moment
&#;&#;&#;staring at the still waters
with only the brief tremor

of your body to say
&#;&#;&#;you are leaving everything
and everyone you know behind.

From "Revelation Must Be Terrible"[16]

Whyte moved to the United States in and began a career as a poet and speaker in [17] From , he began taking his poetry and philosophy to larger audiences, including consulting and lecturing on organisational leadership models in the US and UK exploring the role of creativity in business.[13][17][18][19] He has worked with companies such as Boeing, AT&T, NASA, Toyota, The Royal Air Force and the Arthur Andersen accountancy group.[20][21]

Work and vocation, and "Conversational Leadership" are the subjects of several of Whyte's prose books, including Crossing the Unknown Sea: Work as Pilgrimage of Identity, The Three Marriages: Reimagining Work, Self and Relationship[9] and The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of The Soul in Corporate America, which topped the business best seller lists, selling , copies.[20][21][22][23][24]

Whyte has written ten volumes of poetry and four books of prose.[25]Pilgrim is based on the human need to travel, "From here to there".[26]The House of Belonging looks at the same human need for home.[27] He describes his collection Everything Is Waiting For You () as arising from the grief at the loss of his mother.[28]Pilgrim was published in May [5] His latest book is Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words,[29] an attempt to "rehabilitate" many everyday words we often use only in pejorative or unimaginative ways.[30] He has also written for newspapers, including The Huffington Post[31][32] and The Observer.[33] He leads group poetry and walking journeys regularly in Ireland, England and Italy.[9]

Whyte has an honorary degree from Neumann College, Pennsylvania, and from Royal Roads University, British Columbia, and is Associate Fellow of both Templeton College, Oxford, and Saïd Business School, Oxford.[5][10]

Whyte has spent a portion of every year for the last twenty-five years in County Clare, Ireland.

Over the years and over a number of volumes of poetry he has built a cycle of poems that evoke many of the ancient pilgrimage sites of The Burren mountains of North Clare and of Connemara.[34][35]

Whyte runs the "Many Rivers" organisation and "Invitas: The Institute for Conversational Leadership", which he founded in [15][36][37] He has lived in Seattle and on Whidbey Island and currently lives in the US Pacific North West; he holds US, British and Irish citizenship.[38][6][23] He is married to Gayle Karen Young, former Chief Talent and Culture Officer[39] of the Wikimedia Foundation.

He has a son, Brendan, from his first marriage to Autumn Preble and a daughter, Charlotte, from his second marriage to Leslie Cotter.[40] Whyte has practised Zen and was a regular rock climber.[9] He was a close friend of the Irish poet John O'Donohue.[41]

Works

Poetry collections

  • Songs for Coming Home, Many Rivers Press,
  • Where Many Rivers Meet, Many Rivers Press,
  • Fire in the Earth, Many Rivers Press,
  • The House of Belonging, Many Rivers Press,
  • Everything is Waiting for You, Many Rivers Press,
  • River Flow: New & Selected Poems, Langley, Washington: Many Rivers Press, ISBN&#;, OCLC&#;
  • River Flow: New & Selected Poems.

    Revised Edition, Langley, Washington: Many Rivers Press, ISBN&#;, OCLC&#;

  • Pilgrim, Langley, WA: Many Rivers Press, ISBN&#;, OCLC&#;
  • The Sea in You, Langley, Washington: Many Rivers Press, ISBN&#;, OCLC&#;
  • The Bell and the Blackbird, Langley, Washington&#;: Many Rivers Press, ISBN&#;, OCLC&#;
  • David Whyte&#;: Essentials, Langley, Washington: Many Rivers Press, ISBN&#;,
  • David Whyte: Still Possible, Langley, Washington: Many Rivers Press, , ISBN&#;

Prose

  • The Heart Aroused: Poetry & the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America, London: Industrial Society, ISBN&#;, OCLC&#;
  • Crossing the Unknown Sea: Work as A Pilgrimage of Identity, London: Penguin, ISBN&#;, OCLC&#;
  • The Three Marriages: Reimagining Work, Self & Relationship, New York: Riverhead Books, ISBN&#;, OCLC&#;
  • Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words, Langley, Washington: Many Rivers Press, ISBN&#;, ISBN&#;

Audiobooks

  • Pilgrim
  • Sometimes
  • Return
  • What to remember when waking
  • Echoes in the well
  • Sweet darkness
  • Clear mind wild heart
  • Midlife and the great unknown
  • Thresholds
  • The poetry of self compassion
  • Life at the frontier
  • A change for the better
  • The teacher's vocation
  • Make a friend of the unknown
  • The opening of eyes
  • Faithful to all things
  • The power and place of poetry
  • Footsteps: A writing life
  • Solace: The Art of Asking the Beautiful Question"

As editor

  • See All This Art Magazine #36 "To be a Pilgrim" ()[42]

References

  1. ^Whyte, David (October ).

    River Flow.

    Poet david whyte biography of william David Whyte (born 2 November ) is an Anglo-Irish poet. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] He has said that all of his poetry and philosophy are based on "the conversational nature of reality". [ 4 ] His book The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America () topped the best-seller charts in the United States.

    Langley: Many Rivers. Back Cover. ISBN&#;.

  2. ^Whyte, David (). River Flow (2nd&#;ed.). Many Rivers. pp.&#;– ISBN&#;.
  3. ^Whyte ().

    David Whyte (poet) | Penny's poetry pages Wiki | Fandom: Whyte’s poetry is known for its eclectic and spiritual bent. His collections of poetry include Songs for Coming Home (), Where Many Rivers Meet (), The House of Belonging (), River Flow: New & Selected Poems – (), and Pilgrim ().

    River Flow (2nd&#;ed.). p.&#;

  4. ^Whyte, David. "Life at the Frontier: The Conversational Naure of Reality". Ted Talk. Retrieved 1 February
  5. ^ abcdDavid Whyte | Overview, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.

    — David Whyte “Poetry is the secret code to staying alive, to staying present, to staying visionary.” — David Whyte “All of us spend so much time trying to find a path where we won’t have our heart broken. And really, the only way you can find a path where your heart won’t break is by not caring.” — David Whyte.

    Archived 23 December at

  6. ^ ab"Exposing business to the power of poetry"The Irish Times 24 May
  7. ^Whyte, David (). River Flow (1st&#;ed.). Langley: Many Rivers. ISBN&#;.
  8. ^Whyte, David, Asilomar Talk
  9. ^ abcde"David Whyte's nonprosaic world".

    David Whyte (born 2 November ) is an Anglo-Irish poet. [1][2][3] He has said that all of his poetry and philosophy are based on "the conversational nature of reality". [4]. His book The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America () topped the best-seller charts in the United States.

    The Denver Post. 26 May

  10. ^ abAmerican Library of Congress profile and audio fileArchived 30 August at the Wayback Machine
  11. ^Whyte, David (). Crossing the Unknown Sea (1st&#;ed.). Riverhead. ISBN&#;.
  12. ^"Stanford University profile".

    Archived from the original on 12 July Retrieved 5 August

  13. ^ abA Blessing in Disguise: 39 Life Lessons from Today's Greatest Teachers (), Penguin, p. , ISBN&#;
  14. ^Whyte, David (March ). "The Uncanny Dream That Saved Me from Disaster". O Magazine.
  15. ^ abDavid Whyte official website, Many Rivers.
  16. ^"Revelation must be terrible"Archived 30 September at the Wayback Machine by David Whyte
  17. ^ abHarvard Business Review May
  18. ^Andrea Joy Cohen and Thich Nhat Hanh, PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) profile
  19. ^Bunting, Madeleine (21 January ).

    "O for a muse of office fire". The Observer.

  20. ^ abThe Weasel (1 July ). "Business types everywhere would benefit by listening to a chap with a Ted Hughes accent and a David Lodge haircut declaiming poetry". The Independent.
  21. ^ ab"Companies Hit The Road Less Traveled".

    Business Week. 4 June Archived from the original on 19 January Retrieved 3 April : CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)

  22. ^Many Rivers Interview
  23. ^ ab"Penguin publishing profile". Archived from the original on 20 December Retrieved 5 August
  24. ^Schuessler, Heidi A.

    (20 June ). "A Poet Taps Into the Disillusionment of Managers". The New York Times.

  25. ^Whyte, David (6 December ).

  28. David Whyte: Essentials (1st&#;ed.). Langley. pp.&#;Frontispiece. ISBN&#;.: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

  29. ^Whyte, David (). Pilgrim: Poems by David Whyte (1st&#;ed.). Langley: Many Rivers Press.
  30. ^Whyte, David (). The House of Belonging. Langley: Many Rivers.

    ISBN&#;.

  31. ^Sounds True Interview April Archived 10 November at the Wayback Machine. Sounds True interview transcriptArchived 8 May at the Wayback Machine
  32. ^Whyte, David (January ). Consolations: The Solace, nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words (1st&#;ed.).

    Langley: Many Rivers Press.

  33. ^Whyte, David.

  34. David whyte meditation
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  36. The arrogance of belonging david whyte
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  38. David whyte christmas poem

    39. "Web bio and Irish Tours". .

  39. ^Whyte, David (3 December ). "The Poetic Narrative Of Our Times". HuffPost.
  40. ^Whyte, David (18 June ). "The Questions that Have No Right to Go Away". HuffPost.
  41. ^Whyte, David (25 July ). "Ideas for modern living: regret".

    The Observer.

  42. ^Whyte, David. "Mythopoetic Tour of the West of Ireland". .
  43. ^Whyte, David (). River Flow (2nd&#;ed.). Many Rivers Press. pp.&#;– ISBN&#;.
  44. ^"Invitas". .
  45. ^Institute of Conversational Leadership
  46. ^"Who is an Irish citizen by birth?".

    Citizen's Information.

  47. ^"Gayle Karen Young: Supporting Wikimedia's dynamic culture – Wikimedia Blog". .

    David whyte David Whyte was born and raised in Yorkshire; his mother was Irish and his father English. Whyte earned a degree in marine biology in Wales and for a time led naturalist tours and expeditions in the Galapagos Islands, the Andes, the Amazon region, and the Himalayas. Whyte’s poetry is known for its eclectic and spiritual bent.

    13 February Retrieved 31 December

  48. ^Thompson, Sylvia (18 May ). "Time to make your life work". The Irish Times.
  49. ^Crawley, John, BBC obituary of John O'Donohue, 5 January
  50. ^"To be a Pilgrim" ()

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