In a review for Presence, Jeremiah Webster commends The Five Quintets: “For years I’ve been on the lookout for contemporary poets as well-read as Eliot’s modernists, as ingenious as Emily Dickinson, as comprehensive as the metanarratives that inspire the songs of Antiquity. I have found such a poet in Micheal O’Siadhail and his The Five… Read More
Read moreJohn O’Donnell reviews The Five Quintets for the Dublin Review of Books, commending the book as a work that “delights even as it teaches.” Read more here.
Read moreIn “Madame Jazz vs. Madame Guillotine” Rose Marie Berger reviews The Five Quintets for Sojourners. Read the review by clicking here.
Read moreIn “An Astonishing Poetic Tour de Force” Iain R Torrance calls The Five Quintets “a visionary engagement on a breath-taking scale” as the book is honored as “Book of the Month” by The Expository Times. Read the review by clicking here.
Read moreFrom March 20-23, Micheal O’Siadhail will be present for the panel discussion of The Five Quintets at the American Conference for Irish Studies in Boston. For more information: https://www.acis2019.com
Read moreThe Five Quintets has been honoured to win the “Academic Press” category of the Eric Hoffer Award (May 2020). The Eric Hoffer Book Award honours the memory of the great American philosopher Eric Hoffer by highlighting salient writing, as well as the independent spirit of small publishers. Since its inception, the Hoffer has become one… Read More
Read more“Play meticulously, but dream boldly.” In October of 2017, Micheal O’Siadhail received an honorary doctorate from the University of Manitoba. Watch the occasion here:
Read moreAndrew Hamilton at Eureka Street writes a glowing review of The Five Quintets: The Five Quintets, by Irish poet Micheal O’Siadhail, is a gloriously unfashionable book. In an age of lyrics it is a long, conversational poem of almost 350 pages. In an age that focuses on detail, its topic is vast: the nature of… Read More
Read moreRead Cahir O’Doherty’s review of The Five Quintets by clicking here.
Read moreIn December of 2018, Micheal O’Siadhail received an honorary doctorate from the University of Aberdeen. Watch his commencement address here (speech starts around 1.43.49).
Read moreIn “Singing with Madam Jazz: a conversation with Micheal O’Siadhail” Jake Morley, senior editor at Transpositions, sits down with O’Siadhail to talk about The Five Quintets. “For those interested in the intersection of poetry and theology, not to mention all general lovers of poetry, one of the major publishing events of recent years must surely… Read More
Read moreProfessor Antoin Murphy, Irish monetary economist and historian of economic thought, reviews The Five Quintets on Finance Dublin. Click here to read.
Read moreMicheal reading from ‘The Five Quintets’ in the Armstrong-Browning Library Foyer on ‘Meditation Monday’, 18 September. Read on for some interesting short interviews with both Micheal, and Cary Newman, director of Baylor University Press. Please click here to link to the full article.
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Read more“The Five Quintets is every bit the epic poem,” says Anthony Domestico in his profile of Micheal O’Siadhail in Commonweal Magazine. Click on book title to link to the article.
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