If Micheal O'Siadhail weren't already a large figure in Irish literature, this enormous volume would raise a monument to him. Brian Lynch, Irish Independent
OSiadhails books in turn report and discuss his experiences, of school, a long marriage and, latterly, his responses to the Holocaust, globalisation and other languages. Those last two subjects are the starting points for his most recent collections, Globe (2007) and Tongues (2010), which are admirably interested in trying out new kinds of line and form as they jam together his disorienting sense of a changing world with his memories of what has disappeared. John McAuliffe, Irish Times
This is a vital book for anyone tracking the contemporary poetic landscape; it is the testament of a poet working not in a school or tradition, but rather as a tradition-bearer, a memory-passer and a welcome... years of reading, analysis, and generous artistry provide rich gifts for every reader. Martyn Halsall, Church Times
A controlled sensuousness of language and it comes as near as poetry can, without being confessional, to conveying the overtones and textures of actual experience. Anne Stevenson
O'Siadhail is both a poet of the world and for the world his poetry is intricately complex yet accessible. Richard Dilworth Rust, Irish Literary Supplement
The tone of O'Siadhail's voice is one of barely suppressed joy exuberant, exploratory and incredibly entertaining. Mary O'Donnell, Studies
One of our foremost poets his work is that rare combination of the intellectual and the emotional. Eugene O'Brien, The Irish Book Review
