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True voices abound in The Meek, Martin Dyar’s second full-length collection of poems, throughout which a dramatically charged lyricism links environmental understanding with an emotive exploration of human experience and potential.
The Meek is distinguished by the resonance and range of its stories, by its closeness to elemental landscape and wildlife, and by its moments of unforgettable insight and beauty. In one poem, “A Lockdown Fox,” “The whole street felt acknowledged by the earth and longed for more.” Elsewhere, in “A Merlin in the Sheeffrys,” “There is a feeling that is equal to the land, / a sense of self that is the journey’s length.” And in the title sonnet, a powerful consideration of animal rights, one of Dyar’s bruised and enigmatic characters arrives at “a cold acceptance of nature’s cold view / that all of life is love misunderstood.”
About the Author
From Co. Mayo, Martin Dyar is the author of the Pigott Prize-shortlisted poetry collection Maiden Names (Arlen House, 2013). His play Tom Loves a Lord is about the Irish poet Thomas Moore. With composer Ryan Molloy, he wrote a poetry song cycle titled Buaine na Gaoithe. He is the editor of the anthology Vital Signs: Poems of Illness and Healing (Poetry Ireland, 2022). A Vital Signs poetry and music tour visited care homes and mental health facilities across Ireland in a Van company in 2023.
Martin won the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award in 2009. He received an Irish Arts Council Literature Bursary Award and has held writing fellowships at the University of Iowa, the Washington Ireland Program, and the University of Limerick. In 2023 he was appointed curator of the Listowel Writers Week Festival. He teaches in Medical Humanities at Trinity College Dublin's School of medicine.
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