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Keep looking at the outside world until the outside world is no longer outside. Wyeth is a poet of ideas exquisitely wrought and swarming, demanding a reader awake to complexity on a subtle scale.  AILBHE DARCY Adam Wyeths work is fresh and intriguing, alive with imaginative riffs, grave humour and more besides  it rewards close attention.  DEREK MAHON Wyeth is a beachcomber on the edge of his own infinities, where fact, legend and anecdote flow together.  HARRY CLIFTON about:blank crystallizes Adam Wyeths grasp of the theatrical power of language. His creative interweaving of poetry, prose, monologue, drama, and theatricality creatively meets the moment we as a society and artistic community find ourselves in.  JESSE WEAVER, New Work Associate, Abbey Theatre Words must be some kind of cybernetic hoax, Adam Wyeth writes in this hallucinatory and shape-shifting collection. Musing on language and relationships, where words are looking through you, Wyeth conjures a seeking consciousness from the restless blanks of our lives, and like W.S. Graham, a modernist romantic, Wyeth makes writing a raison d?tre. The diversity and depth of these inquiries into poetic identity, and self-hood are by turn meditative and dramatic. Heres a book which delights in the drunkenness of things being various, and fuses connections from the inner and outer lives of its speakers. Imaginatively rhizomatic, about:blank is both a playful and deadly serious manifesto about how language shapes who we are or what we might be.  PAUL PERRY Wyeth is a remarkable wordsmith with a truly distinctive and unique approach to the craft  in that his words play like firecrackers within their own sound and metaphor scape, truly blending poetic idioms with oblique narrative to produce a highly distinctive and evocative set of worlds unlike any other writer in the field today. about:blank takes readers on an epic journey through a dreamtime text of isolation, love, loss and misspent langualó,