Adam Bolivar

Adam Bolivar

Adam Bolivar is a poet of mythic and folkloric fantasy, a weird fiction writer and a playwright for marionettes with a particular interest in alliterative verse, balladry and “Jack” tales.

He is the author of numerous books of poetry and fiction, the most recent of which, A Wheel of Ravens, is a collection of alliterative verse, the traditional poetic form used in Old English poems such as Beowulf, in Old Norse sagas and the Poetic Edda of the Icelanders.

A marionette-maker as well, he has written multiple original puppet-plays which have been performed in a wide variety of peculiar venues. A native of gambrel-roofed Boston, Massachusetts, he currently resides in the gloomy dreamlands of Portland, Oregon with his golden-haired wife and son.

“This is the work of a master craftsman, the owner of a true word hoard which he freely unlocks. We are led as a result into a world that is very much that of the Old North, in which the landscapes are of fjord and fen, mountain and moor, wood and wold... I have chosen already the selections that I shall recite myself around seasonal campfires. This living, glittering poetry is a true gift to the modern age.” —RONALD HUTTON, Professor of History, University of Bristol