Adam Wyeth

Adam Wyeth is an award-winning poet and freelance writer with five books (poetry, essays, and drama) published by Salmon Press. His poetry collections includeSilent Music (2011), which was Highly Commended by the Forward Poetry Prize, and The Art of Dying (2016), an Irish Times Book of the Year. His essays, The Hidden World of Poetry: Unravelling Celtic Mythology in Contemporary Irish Poetry (2013), published by Salmon Poetry with a foreword by Paula Meehan, is a teaching tool globally, including at DeSales University’s MFA program in Creative Writing and DePaul University’s classes on Celtic Mythology and Contemporary Celtic Literature.

Wyeth’s plays have been performed across Ireland, New York, and Berlin. His first two plays, Hang Up and Lifedeath, were produced by Brokencrow in 2013, with the latter selected as the play of the Triskel Festival by the Irish Examiner. His play This Is What Happened was published in 2019, and his hybrid book about:blank received critical acclaim upon its release in 2021. His latest project, There Will Be No Silence, premiered in 2024 at the National Concert Hall as part of Dublin’s New Music Festival, created in collaboration with Emmy-nominated composer David Downes.

In 2021, Wyeth’s hybrid drama and poetry book about:blank won an Arts Council Ireland Literature Project Award and was subsequently adapted into an immersive audio performance, premiering at the Dublin Theatre Festival. He has also been an Associate Artist at the Civic Theatre, Dublin, and worked as a researcher for the RTÉ Poetry Programme from 2016 to 2022.

Last year, Wyeth had the honour of being the keynote speaker at an academic congress in France, joining a distinguished list of past speakers that includes Seamus Heaney and Angela Davis. In 2019, he was awarded the Patrick Kavanagh Fellowship. He is currently working on his first novel.