Product Description: For twenty years Micheal O'Siadhail's beloved wife, Br¡d, suffered from Parkinson's disease. These love poems chronicle the last two years of her life, her death, and his grief. In this sonnet sequence their love faces illness and death and sounds the depths of parting...read more

Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: Seoirse Bodley's Song Cycles on the Poems of Micheal O'Siadhail. Seoirse Bodley is one of the best-known senior figures of contemporary music in Ireland. This book seeks to examine his engagement with the poetry of Micheal O'Siadhail and the making of these song cycles...read more

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.

Product Description: Actor, producer, and New York Times bestselling author Rob Lowe offers up a collection of personal stories in an honest and celebratory memoir about men and women, art and commerce, fathers and son, addiction and recovery, and sex and love...read more

Product Description: This selection, taken from nine books, includes all of Hail! Madam Jazz (1992) and A Fragile City (1995). (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In this new collection, Michael O'Siadhail measures how a life can be lived in the intensity of 'our double time', alert to its threats, ambiguities and frailties, seizing pivotal moments and tracing the intricacies of families and friendships.

Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: Deemed the best poetry book of 1992 by London's Sunday Tribune, this includes 'The Middle Voice', the whole of his acclaimed sequence 'The Chosen Garden', and selections from five other books.

Micheal O Siadhail considers modern Irish dialects against the background of their common grammar, providing a comprehensive overview for Celticists and general linguists with an interest in dialectical comparison. His Modern Irish contains a wealth of empirical data which is analysed in a fresh and accessible manner, keeping technical terminology to a minimum. It includes background information on the Irish language and gives explanations of basic concepts in order to compare the phonology, morphology and syntax of the dialects. Students of linguistics amd the Irish language will welcome this clear and sensible cross-dialectal survey by Micheal O Siadhail, who is well-known as an Irish scholar and as a poet. (view table of contents)