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Globe

Globe

by Michael O ' Siadhail (Author)

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    Paperback 2007

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Synopsis

In his latest collection, Globe , Micheal O'Siadhail explores how a world is shaped. 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? The book's climactic sequence, Angel of Change, catches the mood of immense changes in our times: cyberspace and non-stop trading, mixing of peoples and blurred boundaries, vulnerable and shifting values and in all of this a strange new jazz of possibility - 'Born in a land, I wake in a globe.' This publication marks Micheal O'Siadhail's 60th birthday.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 128
 Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Published: 10 Jan 2007
ISBN 10: 1852247576
ISBN 13: 9781852247577

Media Reviews
'This is powerful life-affirming poetry which is by turns urgent, reflective, terrified and loving...These are poems that celebrate life, that confront and revitalise the old themes of love, loss, memory and desire and do so in a variety of verse forms. They are tender, vulnerable and defiant' - Paul Donnelly, Poetry Quarterly Review '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
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) Love Life (120 pages, GBP8.95)