Love Life

Love Life

by Michael O ' Siadhail (Author)

Synopsis

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: a lifetime's amazement at the mystery of one woman. The book culminates in the subtleties and variations of growing old while revelling in the love of life a deux.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 117
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Published: 10 Sep 2005

ISBN 10: 185224707X
ISBN 13: 9781852247072

Media Reviews
'From writing about personal experience Micheal O'Siadhail has moved to writing about the world. 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' - louis simpson 'A gifted and confident poet intent on celebration and not embarrassed by tackling the old numbers - love, friendship, memory, childhood, faith' - lawrence sail, Stand 'A controlled sensuousness of language and it comes as near as poetry can, without being confessional, to conveying the overtones and textures of actual experience' - anne stevenson
Author Bio
micheal o'siadhail won the Marten Toonder Prize for Literature in 1998. He is a freelance writer, and was formerly a lecturer at Trinity College Dublin and a professor at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. His academic works include Learning Irish (Yale University Press) and Modern Irish (Cambridge University Press). Also available from Bloodaxe: Poems 1975-1995 (224 pages, GBP9.95) Our Double Time (112 pages, GBP7.95) The Gossamer Wall: Poems in Witness to the Holocaust (128 pages, GBP8.95)