Micheal O'Siadhail's TONGUES Published 9/21

Micheal O'Siadhail's latest book Tongues, poems in celebration of language, to be published on September 21st

Micheal O'Siadhail's thirteenth collection and comes almost four years after his acclaimed Globe. Among his other books are Our Double Time, The Gossamer Wall and Love Life. Poetry Quarterly Review has described his work as ‘powerful life-affirming poetry which is by turns urgent, reflective, terrified and loving'.

Language pervades our world, the media, our relationships, minds and hearts. We learn it and we pass it on. Like a genetic code, language brings human life through thousands of years into the present. Across cultures, it unites the personal and the social and enables us to express our strongest passions. Micheal O'Siadhail delights in language and in this book through a variety of forms, from sonnets to complex rhyming and syllabic patterns and shares its wonder and fascination.

Micheal O'Siadhail's new book Tongues, published by Bloodaxe Books, will be launched by Mary Hanafin, Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport in The Dublin Convention Centre, Spencer Dock, North Wall Quay on Tuesday September 21st at 6.00 p.m.

Tongues will be available from leading bookstores Price €11.95

Micheal O'Siadhail

‘One of our foremost poets...his work is that rare combination of the intellectual and the emotional.' - Eugene O'Brien, The Irish Book Review

His most recent are Poems 1975-1995 (1995), Our Double Time (1998), The Gossamer Wall (2002), Love Life (2005) and Globe (2007). He was awarded an Irish American Cultural Institute prize for poetry, the Marten Toonder prize for literature.
He has given poetry readings and broadcast extensively in Ireland, Britain, Europe, North America and Japan. In 1985 he was invited to give the Vernam Hull Lecture at Harvard and the Trumbull Lecture at Yale University. He represented Ireland at the Poetry Society's European Poetry Festival in London in 1981 and at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 1997. He was writer-in-residence at the Yeats Summer School in 1991.

In May of this year At Night a Song is with Me - a work for singers, rhythm section and orchestra - with lyrics by O'Siadhail and music by the composer and arranger Rob Mathes was premiered in Greenwich, Connecticut. This autumn O'Siadhail will be visiting writer-in residence for the Poetry Center at West Chester University in Pennsylvania and at a research institute in Salzburg.

Several of his books have been translated to Japanese and German. For further information See also www.osiadhail.com

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