The Meek

Originally from Swinford in County Mayo, Martin Dyar is the author of the Pigott Prize-shortlisted poetry collection Maiden Names (Arlen House, 2013) and The Meek (Wake Forest University Press, 2025). He has written a play, Tom Loves a Lord, about the Irish poet Thomas Moore; and, with the composer Ryan Molloy, a poetry song cycle (a suite for soprano, harp, and flute), titled Buaine na Gaoithe, which had an Irish national tour in 2018. He is also the editor of the anthology Vital Signs: Poems of Illness and Healing (Poetry Ireland, 2022). A Vital Signs poetry and music tour, which visited care homes and mental health facilities across Ireland, was produced by the Festival in a Van company in 2023. The winner of the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award, the Strokestown International Poetry Award, and the recipient of an Irish Arts Council Literature Bursary Award, Dyar has held writing fellowships at the University of Iowa, the Washington Ireland Program, and at the University of Limerick. He teaches in the field of Medical Humanities in the School of Medicine at Trinity College Dublin.