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The Five Quintets is a mammoth poetic adventure undertaken by the celebrated poet Micheal O'Siadhail, 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.

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 personal, plu...

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 personal, plu...

In The Five Quintets, Micheal O'Siadhail has done just that: he delights us in the present with his artistry, even as he reveals hidden treasures of our past and compels us toward the future.--Jeremy Begbie, Thomas A. Langford Research Professor of Theology, Duke Divinity School

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One of Ireland's leading poets publishes his Collected Poems with an audio CD, drawing on thirteen collections as well as new uncollected poems and song cycles.

Micheal OSiadhail, geboren 1947 in Dublin, genießt ein hervorragendes Ansehen sowohl in Irland als auch im englischsprachigen Raum. Seine bisher erschienenen zehn Gedichtbände sowie zahlreiche akademische Werke finden große Beachtung nicht nur unter Kritikern sondern auch bei Dichterkollegen. Der Dichter Brendan Kennelly schreibt: Micheal OSiadhail ist ein Schriftsteller, dessen berauschte Liebe zur Sprache glücklicherweise von einer strengen,...

One of Ireland's leading poets publishes his Collected Poems with an audio CD, drawing on thirteen collections as well as new uncollected poems and song cycles.

In Tongues, Micheal O'Siadhail delights in language and shares its wonder and fascination. Like a genetic code, language brings human life over thousands of years into the present. It unites the personal and the social, allows for continuity and novelty, and can arouse the strongest passions. O'Siadhail explores individual words, plays with grammar, and meditates on pictograms and the distilled meaning of proverbs across cultures.

A collection of love poems which chronicle the last 2 years of O'Siadhail's wife's life, as she suffered from Parkinson's disease. A series of sonnets on the themes of love, illness, death and the depths of parting.

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? This collection explores how a world is shaped.