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 The Lay of Old Hex (Hippocampus Press, 2017), The Ettinfell of Beacon Hill (Jackanapes Press, 2021), Ballads for the Witching Hour (Hippocampus Press 2022) and A Wheel of Ravens (Jackanapes Press, 2023), as well as myriad poems and short stories published in a host of journals and anthologies.
A marionette-maker as well, he has written a multitude of 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 (regarding A Wheel of Ravens)
A marionette-maker as well, he has written a multitude of 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 (regarding A Wheel of Ravens)
