One Crimson Thread - Tapa blanda

O'Siadhail seems to rise to a new intensity of writing and analysis in this collection. This is both a searing and a beautiful interrogation... it offers immense compassion and consolation. --Martyn Halsall "Church Times " It is the biography of a marriage and one of the most elegant pictures of faithfulness that I have ever encountered in all my years of reading...This is an extraordinary collection; a portrait of love and of a poet's immortal faithfulness. --Thomas McCarthy "The Irish Examiner " One Crimson Thread is a compelling, intimate, and memorable body of heartfelt poetry. --The Poetry Shelf, Midwest Book Review Micheal O'Siadhail is one of Ireland's finest poets...but his latest collection of poems is perhaps his most personal and affecting yet. --Miriam O'Callaghan, RT (Ireland's national radio station) This is poetry that is deeply human and accessible, beautifully observed, honest and technically controlled. --Francis Phillips "Catholic Herald " The images conjured by the poet are so vivid that I feel I have been to the place where she lives for the few months before she dies...I think those who have loved ones who have Parkinson's disease would learn more from reading this poem than reading swathes of medical literature, and likewise professionals can only benefit from the emotional understanding gained from reading and re-reading this poem. --Teresa Black "Journal of Geriatric Care and Research " I read slowly, carefully, and with deep emotion One Crimson Thread. It's a beautiful, beautiful but terribly sad poem of love. --Jean Vanier One of the most emotionally compelling books of poetry I've read in a long time, the sequence chronicles the final two years of a forty-year marriage, as the poet's beloved wife... The privilege of witnessing the hard but redemptive reality this couple had to face is one of the great gifts this remarkable book provides. --David M. Katz "The Hopkins Review " One Crimson Thread, a beautiful, tender and heartbreaking series of poems that chronicle the last two years of Br d's life, her death and his grief. --Andrea Smith "Sunday Independent "

For twenty years,celebrated poet Micheal O'Siadhail's beloved wife, BrA-d, suffered from Parkinson's disease. O'Siadhail's verses explore the ordinary triumph of human fidelity and sound the depths of parting through a 150-sonnet sequence in which love faces wasting illness and the specter of death. There is tenderness, intensity,and gratitudeawhich will resonate with allwho know both love and loss.