One Crimson Thread

I read slowly, carefully, and with deep emotion One Crimson Thread. It's a beautiful, beautiful but terribly sad poem of love.

This is poetry that is deeply human and accessible, beautifully observed, honest and technically controlled.

O'Siadhail seems to rise to a new intensity of writing and analysis in this collection. This is both a searing and a beautiful interrogation... it offers immense compassion and consolation.

One of the most emotionally compelling books of poetry I've read in a long time, the sequence chronicles the final two years of a forty-year marriage, as the poet's beloved wife... The privilege of witnessing the hard but redemptive reality this couple had to face is one of the great gifts this remarkable book provides.

It is the biography of a marriage and one of the most elegant pictures of faithfulness that I have ever encountered in all my years of reading...This is an extraordinary collection; a portrait of love and of a poet's immortal faithfulness.

The images conjured by the poet are so vivid that I feel I have been to the place where she lives for the few months before she dies...I think those who have loved ones who have Parkinson's disease would learn more from reading this poem than reading swathes of medical literature, and likewise professionals can only benefit from the emotional understanding gained from reading and re-reading this poem.

One Crimson Thread is a compelling, intimate, and memorable body of heartfelt poetry.

Micheal O'Siadhail is one of Ireland's finest poets...but his latest collection of poems is perhaps his most personal and affecting yet.

One Crimson Thread, a beautiful, tender and heartbreaking series of poems that chronicle the last two years of Br d's life, her death and his grief.

Micheal O'Siadhail is an internationally acclaimed poet whose Collected Poems, gathering together thirteen collections, was published in 2015. Married for forty-three years, he chronicles in One Crimson Thread the last two years of his wife's life, her death, and his grief. He now lives and works in New York City.