Micheal O'Siadhail

Micheal O’Siadhail was born in 1947. He has published sixteen books of poetry: The Leap Year (1978), Rungs of Time (1980), Belonging (1982), Springnight (1983), The Image Wheel (1985), The Chosen Garden (1990), The Middle Voice (in New and Selected 1992), A Fragile City (1995), Our Double Time (1998), The Gossamer Wall (2002), Love Life (2005), Globe (2007), Tongues (2010), Collected Poems (2013), One Crimson Thread (2015), The Five Quintets (2018) and Testament (2022). O'Siadhail was awarded an Irish American Cultural Institute prize for poetry (1982), the Marten Toonder prize for Literature (1998), Eric Hoffe Award (2020) and honorary doctorates in literature from the universities of Manitoba (2017), Aberdeen (2018) and Trinity College Dublin (2022). He was a member of the Arts Council of the Republic of Ireland and of the Advisory Committee on Cultural Relations (1989 -97), a founder member of Aosdána (Academy of distinguished Irish artists) and a former editor of Poetry Ireland Review. He was the founding chairman of Literature Ireland. For more information, please visit osiadhail.com.