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An Evening of Poetry
Micheal O’Siadhail is one of the most significant living poets in the world today. His work covers an impressively vast range of themes and has been compared by some commentators to Dante, John Milton, W. B. Yeats, and John Donne. A number of his poems have been commissioned and set to music for performance and broadcasting. He was awarded an Irish American Cultural Institute Prize for Poetry in 1982 and the Marten Toonder Prize for Literature in 1998. An extraordinary linguist, fluent in over five languages, O’Siadhail has also been a noteworthy academic speaker and writer, publishing important works on the Irish language, and lecturing at the Universities of Harvard, Yale, Iceland, and Trinity College Dublin. His most recent poetry publications include the highly acclaimed Collected Poems (2013) and the newly released One Crimson Thread (2015).
- Speaker
- Micheal O'Siadhail
- Venue
- Divinity Library, King's College, University of Aberdeen
- Contact
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Free entry followed by wine reception