The Meek
The Meek is the second poetry collection by Martin Dyar, forthcoming from WFU Press. Additional information coming soon!
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)
Description
The Meek is the second poetry collection by Martin Dyar, forthcoming from WFU Press. Additional information coming soon!
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)
