Andrew Wyeth

Life
1978- ; b. Sussex (England); settled in West Cork, 2000; produced a CD of Desmond O’Grady reading his poems as The Wandering Celt (2002); also dir. A Life in the Day of Desmond O’Grady (Cork Internat. Film Fest. 2004), and Soundeye International Poetry Festival (2005), films; issued Silent Music (2011), a début collectionhighly commended by Forward Poetry Prize panel; issued The Art of Dying 2016) and about; blank (2021) - all from Salmon Poetry; runner-up of Arvon International Poetry Competition, 2006, and winner of Fish International Poetry Competition, 2009; featured in Agenda, 2008 and 2010;

Hang Up, a first play, was produced by Broken Crow at festivals incl. Galway Th. Fest.; adapted for the screen and dir. by Enrique Carnicero (Cork International Film Festival 2014); wrote Poetry Sessions (2013) with Paula McGlinchey, a commissioned full-length play covering poets on the Irish Leaving Cert. which toured successfully in Ireland; Lifedeath, staged by Broken Crow, premiered at Triskel Arts Centre (Dec. 2013) and played the UCC Theatre Festival and Engage Arts Festival (Bandon 2014); criticism in The Hidden World of Poetry: Unravelling Celtic Mythology in Contemporary Irish Poetry (2013), being close readings of 16 poems; now lives in Dublin.

[ top ]

Works
Poetry
  • Silent Music (Cliffs of Moher: Salmon Poetry 2011), 69pp.
  • The Art of Dying: In Memory (Cliffs of Moher: Salmon Poetry 2016), 62pp.
  • about: blank (Cliffs of Moher: Salmon Poetry 2021), 114pp.
Drama
  • Hang Up, (Broken Crow Th. Co. 2013; filmed 2014).
  • Poetry Sessions (Cyclone Rep. 2013).
  • Lifedeath (Triskel Arts, Cork 2013).
Criticism
  • The Hidden World of Poetry: Unravelling Celtic Mythology in Contemporary Irish Poetry(Galway: Salmon 2013), 147pp;.

Poetry Ireland notice (at Aug. 2023) - abstract

Poetry, Silent Music (2011), highly commended by the Forward Poetry Prize panel; The Art of Dying (2016), named Irish Times Book of the Year; - both with Salmon Poetry.

Plays, Hang Up (Broken Crow Co. 2013) [performed at Electric Picnic; Home Festival, Cork; Galway Theatre Fest.) and adapted as film, Cork’s International Film Fest., 2014); Apartment Block, staged with Hang Up and an 'Evening of Adam Wyeth' (Theaterforum Kreuzberg, Berlin); Lifedeath (Triskel Arts Centre, Dec. 2013), named best play of the festival by the Irish Examiner; also staged at University College Cork Theatre Fest. and Engage Arts Fest. (Bandon, Co. Kerry), 2014; with Paula McGlinchey, The Poetry Sessions (Cyclone Rep. 2013), toured nationally; co-founded Why on Earth Productions with McGlinchey, producing Yoga For Beginners - a one-hander - at Smock Alley, Dublin, 2016.

Criticism, The Hidden World of Poetry: Unravelling Celtic Mythology in Contemporary Irish Poetry (2013), an anthology of Irish poetry with "unpacking" each explore its Celtic mythological references[Details on experience as creative writing facilitator follow with contact address.]

Contribs. (anthologies) incl. The Forward Prize Anthology (2012 Faber), The Best of Irish Poetry (Southword 2010) and The Arvon 25th Anniversary Anthology.

Awards incl. The Bridport Poetry, The Arvon Poetryand The Ballymaloe Poetry; selected poet for the 2016 Poetry Ireland Review’s Rising Generation

See online; accessed 09.09.2023.

 

Commentary
Paula Meehan, ‘This book connects us back to a Celtic dreamtime through mythology, which is, no more, no less than the poetry of the ancestors. It reaffirms the vestigial and, paradoxically, central role of ancestral thought in contemporary Irish poetry.’ (q. source; quoted on Headstuff - online [19.06.2015.].)

[ top ]