Our Double Time
Mícheál Ó Siadhail
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Description for Our Double Time
Paperback. 128pp. Keywords: Irish poetry
Living life to the full means offering trust as well as embracing vulnerability. That delicate balance was the pivot of Micheal O’Siadhail’s previous book of poems, A Fragile City. In this new collection, he measures how a life can be lived in the intensity of ‘our double time’, alert to its threats, ambiguities and frailties, seizing pivotal moments and tracing the intricacies of families and friendships. Our Double Time ranges through tradition and renewal, lovemaking and gratitude, sufferings and secrets, birth and death, music and abundance. Like O’Siadhail’s earlier work in Hail! Madam Jazz, these new poems resonate with a ... Read more
Living life to the full means offering trust as well as embracing vulnerability. That delicate balance was the pivot of Micheal O’Siadhail’s previous book of poems, A Fragile City. In this new collection, he measures how a life can be lived in the intensity of ‘our double time’, alert to its threats, ambiguities and frailties, seizing pivotal moments and tracing the intricacies of families and friendships. Our Double Time ranges through tradition and renewal, lovemaking and gratitude, sufferings and secrets, birth and death, music and abundance. Like O’Siadhail’s earlier work in Hail! Madam Jazz, these new poems resonate with a ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
1st Edition
Yes
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781852244507
SKU
KHS1010530
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-2
About Mícheál Ó Siadhail
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. His Collected Poems (2013) draws on thirteen previous collections, nine of these published by Bloodaxe, including Hail! Madam Jazz: New and Selected Poems (1992), Our Double Time (1998), Poems 1975-1995 (1999), The Gossamer ... Read more
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