Keep
looking at the outside world until the outside world is no longer outside
‘Wyeth
is a poet of ideas exquisitely wrought and swarming, demanding a reader
awake to complexity on a subtle scale.’ Ailbhe Darcy
‘Adam
Wyeth’s work is fresh and intriguing, alive with imaginative riffs, grave
humour and more besides – it rewards close attention.’ Derek Mahon
‘Wyeth
is a beachcomber on the edge of his own infinities, where fact, legend and
anecdote flow together.’ Harry
Clifton
‘about:blank crystallizes
Adam Wyeth’s grasp of the theatrical power of language. His creative
interweaving of poetry, prose, monologue, drama, and theatricality creatively
meets the moment we as a society and artistic community find ourselves in.’ Jesse Weaver, New Work Associate,
Abbey Theatre
'
‘Words must be some kind of cybernetic hoax,’ Adam Wyeth writes in this
hallucinatory and shape-shifting collection. Musing on language and
relationships, where ‘words are looking through you’, Wyeth conjures a seeking
consciousness from the restless ‘blanks’ of our lives, and like W.S. Graham, a
modernist romantic, Wyeth makes writing a raison d’être. The diversity and
depth of these inquiries into poetic identity, and self-hood are by turn meditative
and dramatic. Here’s a book which delights in the ‘drunkenness of things being
various’, and fuses connections from the inner and outer lives of its speakers.
Imaginatively rhizomatic, about:blank is both a playful and deadly serious
manifesto about how language shapes who we are or what we might be.' Paul Perry
'Wyeth
is a remarkable wordsmith with a truly distinctive and unique approach to the
craft – in that his words play like firecrackers within their own sound and
metaphor scape, truly blending poetic idioms with oblique narrative to produce
a highly distinctive and evocative set of worlds unlike any other writer in the
field today. about:blank takes readers on an epic journey through a dreamtime
text of isolation, love, loss and misspent language that is contemporary
Dublin. Written as a circular mixture of narrative-poetry, prose, monologue –
the work has also been adapted as an immersive audio journey that is suspended
within a binaural stereo soundscape. With the highly regarded and unique
talents of actors Olwen Fouéré and Owen Roe this is certain to be a highly
memorable, high-profile offering in these times of social
isolation.' Michael
Barker-Caven, Artistic Director, Civic Theatre, Dublin