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." -- MICHARL BARKER-CAVEN, Artistic Director, Civic Theatre,
Dublin
