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Books by Micheal O'siadhail
  | | The Five Quintets by Micheal O'siadhail Hardcover, 381 Pages, Published 2018 by Baylor University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4813-0709-3, ISBN: 1-4813-0709-6 " The Five Quintets is both poetry and cultural history. It offers a sustained reflection on modernity―people and movements―in poetic meter. Just as Dante, in his Divine Comedy, summed up the Middle Ages on the cusp of modernity, The Five Quintets takes stock of a late modern world on the cusp of the first-ever global century.Celebrated Irish poet Micheal O’Siadhail structures his Quintets to echo the Comedy. Where Dante had a tripartite ..." |
 | | One Crimson Thread by Micheal O'siadhail Paperback, 164 Pages, Published 2017 by Baylor University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4813-0780-2, ISBN: 1-4813-0780-0 "For twenty years, celebrated poet Micheal O’Siadhail’s beloved wife, Bríd, suffered from Parkinson’s disease. O’Siadhail’s verses explore the ordinary triumph of human fidelity and sound the depths of parting through a 150-sonnet sequence in which love faces wasting illness and the specter of death. There is tenderness, intensity, and gratitude―which will resonate with all who know both love and loss." |
 | | Collected Poems by Micheal O'siadhail Paperback, 832 Pages, Published 2013 by Bloodaxe Books ISBN-13: 978-1-85224-982-3, ISBN: 1-85224-982-X "Micheal O'Siadhail knows desire, love, trust and wonder, while at the same time facing suffering, tragedy and loss. His life has always been a yearning for meaning, and these four decades of poems work both head and heart towards a ripe wisdom. They are not only richly personal - marriage, friendship, vocation, grief - but also engage with what matters in culture and society - music, language, city life and the dynamics of history ..." |
 | | One Crimson Thread by Micheal O'siadhail Paperback, 158 Pages, Published 2016 by Bloodaxe Books Ltd ISBN-13: 978-1-78037-127-6, ISBN: 1-78037-127-6 "For twenty years Micheal O'Siadhail's beloved wife, Brid, suffered from Parkinson's disease. These love poems chronicle the last two years of her life, her death and his grief. In Love Life, now available again in his Collected Poems, he told their story of over three decades of marriage. In this sonnet sequence their love faces illness and death and sounds the depths of parting. There is a tenderness, intensity and gratitude which will ..." |
 | | Desire (Hardback or Cased Book) by Micheal O'siadhail Hardcover, 128 Pages, Published 2023 by Baylor University Press, Waco ISBN-13: 978-1-4813-2006-1, ISBN: 1-4813-2006-8 "Critically acclaimed and award-winning poet Micheal O'Siadhail's Desire is a quartet of poems which addresses the pressing global concerns of our times." |
 | | Testament (Hardcover) by Micheal O'siadhail Hardcover, 160 Pages, Published 2022 by Baylor University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4813-1628-6, ISBN: 1-4813-1628-1 "Gospel, the second part, retells in poetry stories from the four Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. The emphasis is on the plain sense of the stories, newly imagined." |
 | | Collected Poems by Micheal O'siadhail Hardcover, 838 Pages, Published 2018 by Baylor University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4813-0918-9, ISBN: 1-4813-0918-8 "Celebrated poet Micheal O'Siadhail knows desire, love, trust, and wonder. He also intimately knows sorrow, suffering, tragedy, and loss. His life and his poetry have always yearned for meaning and virtue despite, and in the midst of, life's pain.This collection of poems, spanning four decades and drawing upon thirteen smaller collections, works both head and heart toward a mature and seasoned wisdom. The poems are not only richly person ..." |
 | | Globe(1st Edition) by Micheal O'siadhail Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 2007 by Bloodaxe Books Ltd ISBN-13: 978-1-85224-757-7, ISBN: 1-85224-757-6 "In his latest collection, "Globe", Micheal O'Siadhail explores how a world is shaped. How do the past and our memories bear on the present? What kind of people help to alter the dynamics of history? How do we face the open wounds of irreversible tragedies and loss? The book's climactic sequence, Angel of Change, catches the mood of immense changes in our times: cyberspace and non-stop trading, mixing of peoples and blurred boundaries, v ..." |
 | | Love Life(Updated) by Micheal O'siadhail Paperback, 117 Pages, Published 2006 by Bloodaxe Books ISBN-13: 978-1-85224-707-2, ISBN: 1-85224-707-X "In "Love Life", one of our most thoughtful and accomplished poets finds a fresh intensity and reach. In four sequences Micheal O'Siadhail tells of a life in love moving through the passionate erotic, the dramas of wooing, promising and quarrelling and the day-by-day of home. The seasons of love unfold - young love opening to intimacy, growth into commitment and the slow transformations of life together. Throughout, the core theme recurs ..." |
 | | Collected Poems by Micheal O'siadhail Paperback, 828 Pages, Published 2018 by Baylor University Press 2018-08-15 ISBN-13: 978-1-4813-0917-2, ISBN: 1-4813-0917-X "O'Siadhail's roots may be deeply Irish, but his poetry speaks for and to all.--Eugene O'Brien "The Irish Book Review"" |
 | | The Gossamer Wall(1st Edition) Poems in Witness to the Holocaust by Micheal O'siadhail Paperback, 124 Pages, Published 2002 by Time Being Books ISBN-13: 978-1-56809-088-7, ISBN: 1-56809-088-9 "How does poetry respond to the extermination camps? After them, what hope is there? These poems bear witness to the Jewish trauma and its meaning for all of us." |
 | | The image wheel(1st Edition) by Micheal O'siadhail, Seoirse Bodley Hardcover, 49 Pages, Published 1985 by Bluett ISBN-13: 978-0-907899-05-1, ISBN: 0-907899-05-6 "Book by O'Siadhail, Micheal" |
 | | The Five Quintets by Micheal O'siadhail Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 2019 by Canterbury Press Norwich ISBN-13: 978-1-78622-195-7, ISBN: 1-78622-195-0 "The Five Quintets is a mammoth poetic adventure undertaken by the celebrated poet Micheal O’Siadhail, representing the culmination of an extraordinary life’s work. The project is vast in scope, attempting nothing less than an exploration of the predicaments of Western modernity. Drawing on inspiration from T S Eliot’s Four Quartets, The Five Quintets brings the premise of Dante’s Divine Comedy into the current day. As Dante explored hum ..." |
 | | Collected Poems by Micheal O'siadhail Paperback, 832 Pages, Published 2014 by Bloodaxe Books Ltd ISBN-13: 978-1-78037-121-4, ISBN: 1-78037-121-7 "Micheal O'Siadhail knows desire, love, trust, and wonder, while at the same time facing suffering, tragedy, and loss. His life has always been a yearning for meaning, and these four decades of poems work both head and heart towards a ripe wisdom. They are not only richly personal - marriage, friendship, vocation, grief - but also engage with what matters in culture and society - music, language, city life, and the dynamics of history. H ..." |
 | | Learning Irish(Updated) Text with DVD by Micheal O'siadhail Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2012 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-19106-6, ISBN: 0-300-19106-5 ""Learning Irish" is the standard introductory course to the Irish language. The product of many years of original and scholarly research as well as much teaching experience, this book and its accompanying DVD serve a double function: they provide a sound approach to the ordinary language learner and at the same time furnish the professional linguist with an authentic description of the spoken language. The book does not presuppose prior ..." |
 | | Poems, 1975-1995 Hail! Madam Jazz & A Fragile City by Micheal O'siadhail Paperback, 238 Pages, Published 2000 by Bloodaxe Books Ltd ISBN-13: 978-1-85224-495-8, ISBN: 1-85224-495-X "This book traces the continuity of a poetic voice which 'heals the rift of head and heart', resonating with classic traditions. Micheal O'Siadhail is deeply rooted in Ireland while at home in the European and American traditions." |
 | | A Fragile City by Micheal O'siadhail Paperback, 78 Pages, Published 1996 by Bloodaxe Books Ltd ISBN-13: 978-1-85224-334-0, ISBN: 1-85224-334-1 ""Very personal, very free (if very precise) with common speech, altogether interesting and engaging". -- Books Ireland "His poems, especially when he speaks of love, express tenderness remarkable in a time when poets seem afraid to write with feeling. He works in skilful verse forms, yet his language is so suited to the thought as to seem perfectly natural...a delightful poet...I don't know of any other who writes with such affection of ..." |
 | | Hail Madam Jazz New and Selected Poems by Micheal O'siadhail, O. Siadhail Micheal Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 1993 by Dufour Editions ISBN-13: 978-1-85224-208-4, ISBN: 1-85224-208-6 "Hail! Madam Jazz includes Micheal O'Siadhail's new collection, The Middle Voice, the whole of his acclaimed recent sequence The Chosen Garden, and selections from five other books written over the past 16 years." |
 | | Collected Poems (Hardback) by Micheal O'siadhail Hardcover, 832 Pages, Published 2014 by Bloodaxe Books ISBN-13: 978-1-85224-981-6, ISBN: 1-85224-981-1 "His deep roots are Irish but O'Siadhail's scope is global. This is life lived to the full with jazz-like leaps and let-go where classical forms and variations make for playful freedom and innovation." |
 | | The Gossamer Wall Poems in Witness to the Holocaust by Micheal O'siadhail Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 2002 by Gardners Books ISBN-13: 978-1-85224-601-3, ISBN: 1-85224-601-4 "... Christopher R. Browning's Ordinary Men and Philip Hallie's Lest Innocent ... In and Out of the Ghetto, edited by R. Po-Chia Hsia and Hartmut Lehmann. ..." |
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