Micheal O'Siadhail

Website: http://www.osiadhail.com

Micheal O'Siadhail [pronounced Mee-hall Oh Sheel] is a prolific Irish poet whose work sets the intensities of a life against the background of worlds shaken by change.

He has published nine books of poetry with Bloodaxe, including Our Double Time (1998), Poems 1975-1995 (1999), The Gossamer Wall: poems in witness to the Holocaust (2002), Love Life (2005), Globe (2007) and Tongues (2010). He translated his first three collections – originally written in Irish – into English for Hail! Madam Jazz: New and Selected Poems (1992).