David Whyte (poet) explained

David Whyte
Birth Date:1955 11, df=yes
Birth Place:Mirfield, Yorkshire
Spouse:Gayle Karen Young
Occupation:Poet
Nationality:Irish, British, American

David Whyte (born 2 November 1955) 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 (1994) 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] Whyte has a degree in marine zoology from Bangor University.[5] [9]

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.[10] [11] [12] He led anthropological and natural history expeditions in the Andes, the Amazon and the Himalayas.[13]

Whyte moved to the United States in 1981 and began a career as a poet and speaker in 1986.[14] From 1987, 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.[15] [14] [16] [17] He has worked with companies such as Boeing, AT&T, NASA, Toyota, The Royal Air Force and the Arthur Andersen accountancy group.[18]

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[19] and The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of The Soul in Corporate America, which topped the business best seller lists, selling 155,000 copies.[20] [18] [21] [22] [23]

Whyte has written ten volumes of poetry and four books of prose.[24] Pilgrim is based on the human need to travel, "From here to there".[25] The House of Belonging looks at the same human need for home.[26] He describes his collection Everything Is Waiting For You (2003) as arising from the grief at the loss of his mother.[27] Pilgrim was published in May 2012.[5] His latest book is Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words,[28] an attempt to "rehabilitate" many everyday words we often use only in pejorative or unimaginative ways.[29] He has also written for newspapers, including The Huffington Post[30] [31] and The Observer.[32] He leads group poetry and walking journeys regularly in Ireland, England and Italy.[19]

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] [9]

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.[33] [34]

Whyte runs the "Many Rivers" organisation and "Invitas: The Institute for Conversational Leadership", which he founded in 2014.[13] [35] [36] 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.[37] [6] [22] He is married to Gayle Karen Young, former Chief Talent and Culture Officer[38] 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.[39] Whyte has practised Zen and was a regular rock climber.[19] He was a close friend of the Irish poet John O'Donohue.[40]

Works

Poetry collections

Prose

Audiobooks

Further reading

External links

Notes and References

  1. Book: Whyte . David . River Flow . October 2012 . Many Rivers . Langley . 978-193288727-3. Back Cover.
  2. Book: Whyte . David . River Flow . 2012 . Many Rivers . 978-1-932887-28-0 . 265–266 . 2nd.
  3. Book: Whyte . River Flow . 2012 . 267 . 2nd.
  4. Web site: Whyte. David. Life at the Frontier: The Conversational Naure of Reality. Ted Talk. 1 February 2011.
  5. http://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/research/fellows/Pages/DavidWhyte.aspx David Whyte | Overview
  6. http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/health/2005/0524/1116025818825.html "Exposing business to the power of poetry"
  7. Book: Whyte. David. River Flow. 2007. Many Rivers. Langley. 1st. 978-193288727-3.
  8. Whyte, David, Asilomar Talk 2012.
  9. https://www.loc.gov/poetry/poetpoem2.html American Library of Congress profile and audio file
  10. Book: Whyte. David. Crossing the Unknown Sea. registration. 2001. Riverhead. 9781573221788 . 1st.
  11. Web site: Stanford University profile . 5 August 2012 . 12 July 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120712014921/http://events.stanford.edu/events/310/31053/ . dead .
  12. Web site: David. Whyte. The Uncanny Dream That Saved Me from Disaster. O Magazine. March 2001.
  13. http://www.davidwhyte.com/ David Whyte official website
  14. http://hbr.org/2007/05/a-larger-language-for-business/ar/1 Harvard Business Review May 2007
  15. https://books.google.com/books?id=Gh2NR7irCEUC&pg=PA285&lpg=PA285&dq=%22david+whyte%22+poet+yorkshire+zoology A Blessing in Disguise: 39 Life Lessons from Today's Greatest Teachers
  16. Andrea Joy Cohen and Thich Nhat Hanh, PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) profile
  17. News: O for a muse of office fire. Madeleine . Bunting. The Observer. 21 January 2001.
  18. Web site: Companies Hit The Road Less Traveled. Business Week. 4 June 1995. 3 April 2023. 19 January 2013. https://archive.today/20130119003317/http://www.businessweek.com/stories/1995-06-04/companies-hit-the-road-less-traveled. bot: unknown.
  19. News: David Whyte's nonprosaic world. The Denver Post. 26 May 2009.
  20. News: Business types everywhere would benefit by listening to a chap with a Ted Hughes accent and a David Lodge haircut declaiming poetry. The Independent. The Weasel. 1 July 1995.
  21. Many Rivers Interview
  22. Web site: Penguin publishing profile . 5 August 2012 . 20 December 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20091220200956/http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,1000031388,00.html . dead .
  23. News: A Poet Taps Into the Disillusionment of Managers. Heidi A. . Schuessler. The New York Times. 20 June 2001.
  24. Book: Whyte . David . David Whyte: Essentials . 6 December 2019 . Langley . 978-1-932887-50-1 . Frontispiece . 1st.
  25. Book: Whyte. David. Pilgrim: Poems by David Whyte. 2012. Many Rivers Press. Langley. 1st.
  26. Book: Whyte. David. The House of Belonging. registration. 1997. Many Rivers. Langley. 9780962152436 .
  27. http://www.soundstrue.com/weeklywisdom/?source=podcast&p=1641&category=IATE&version=full Sounds True Interview April 2010
  28. Book: Whyte. David. Consolations: The Solace, nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words.. January 2015. Many Rivers Press. Langley. 1st.
  29. Web site: Whyte . David. Web bio and Irish Tours . davidwhyte.com.
  30. Web site: The Poetic Narrative Of Our Times. David. Whyte. 3 December 2009. HuffPost.
  31. Web site: The Questions that Have No Right to Go Away. David. Whyte. 18 June 2012. HuffPost.
  32. News: Ideas for modern living: regret. The Observer. David . Whyte. 25 July 2010.
  33. Web site: Whyte . David . Mythopoetic Tour of the West of Ireland. live.davidwhyte.com.
  34. Book: Whyte . David . River Flow . 2012 . 978-193288727-3 . 265–288 . Many Rivers Press . 2nd.
  35. Web site: Invitas. invitas.net.
  36. http://www.conversational-leadership.org/who.html Institute of Conversational Leadership
  37. Web site: Who is an Irish citizen by birth? . Citizen's Information.
  38. Web site: Gayle Karen Young: Supporting Wikimedia's dynamic culture – Wikimedia Blog. blog.wikimedia.org. 13 February 2013 . 31 December 2017.
  39. News: Time to make your life work. The Irish Times. Sylvia . Thompson. 18 May 2004.
  40. Crawley, John, BBC obituary of John O'Donohue, 5 January 2008.

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