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David Whyte is a poet of remarkable depth. Born of an Irish mother, David oozes a distinct trace of that ancient personality, and the deliberate process of Irish poetry is ingrained in his work.

Whyte deals in universal themes; identity, home, and the sense of belonging. His attention to the detail of his prose is infectious to the point that every person who speaks about him can only use a voice that that doesn't belong to them in describing the man. He has a peculiar ability to unearth a vocabulary in people that they themselves did not know was there. Only in listening to David's work does a person then have the ability to speak about him. This, I believe, is an essential purpose of a poet; to speak so distinctly that those listening are quite unable to resist sounding the exact same way.