Böcker av Micheal O'Siadhail

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.

Both poetry and cultural history, this book 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.

There is tenderness, intensity, and gratitude--which will resonate with all who know both love and loss.--Teresa Black "The Poetry Shelf, Midwest Book Review"

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.