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Wake Forest University Press

Dedicated to Irish Poetry

The Meek

The Meek

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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.”

 

Praise for The Meek

“Martin Dyar explores the trust and understanding that bind lives together, with subtle language, empathy and vision. There is often a satirical edge; there is always true and moving insight.” – Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin

“Martin Dyar writes what Seamus Heaney called ‘necessary poetry’—poems that know the tenderness of the sympathetic heart, even as they acknowledge the pain, the bitterness, the petty furies that torment the living.  Loss and all its permutations, nature and all its consolations, love, grief, joy, Martin Dyar can evoke, with the same swift beauty, all the grand themes we expect from Irish poetry.  You’ll find yourself putting your hand to your own heart as you read.  Certain poems—’Burke’s Goddess,’ for instance—will have you catching your breath.” – Alice McDermott, author of Absolution (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

 

“Martin Dyar’s The Meek is an exceptional second collection from a poet who is also a gifted storyteller. Full of precision, acute observation and reverent encounters with the natural world, it’s a book I’ll come back to many times.” – Joseph O’Connor
“In an age of lurking hopes and squandered possibilities, his is a valuable voice: spirited, unsentimental, brightly alive. Long may it flourish.” Ciarán O’Rourke, Dublin Review of Books

 

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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.”

 

Praise for The Meek

“Martin Dyar explores the trust and understanding that bind lives together, with subtle language, empathy and vision. There is often a satirical edge; there is always true and moving insight.” – Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin

“Martin Dyar writes what Seamus Heaney called ‘necessary poetry’—poems that know the tenderness of the sympathetic heart, even as they acknowledge the pain, the bitterness, the petty furies that torment the living.  Loss and all its permutations, nature and all its consolations, love, grief, joy, Martin Dyar can evoke, with the same swift beauty, all the grand themes we expect from Irish poetry.  You’ll find yourself putting your hand to your own heart as you read.  Certain poems—’Burke’s Goddess,’ for instance—will have you catching your breath.” – Alice McDermott, author of Absolution (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

 

“Martin Dyar’s The Meek is an exceptional second collection from a poet who is also a gifted storyteller. Full of precision, acute observation and reverent encounters with the natural world, it’s a book I’ll come back to many times.” – Joseph O’Connor
“In an age of lurking hopes and squandered possibilities, his is a valuable voice: spirited, unsentimental, brightly alive. Long may it flourish.” Ciarán O’Rourke, Dublin Review of Books

 

INTERNATIONAL CUSTOMERS: In order to avoid international shipping fees, please request this book through your local bookshop or order through Amazon.

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