The seasons of love unfold – young love opening to intimacy, growth into commitment and the slow transformations of life together. Throughout, the core theme recurs: a lifetime’s amazement at the mystery of one woman. The book culminates in the subtleties and variations of growing old while revelling in the love of life à deux.

'O’Siadhail is both a poet of the world and for the world….Like Yeats, O’Siadhail embraces the full range and depth of English. Like Yeats, he is tuned to the musical possibilities of poetry…O’Siadhail’s poetry is intricately complex yet accessible. He is a maker, a seer, a narrator, a praiser, a lover exploring ‘the wonderful and bewildering paradoxes and complementarities, the constant change and becoming’ - Richard Dilworth Rust, Irish Literary Supplement

'This collection is a hymn to the transformative experience of a live given over to a single love….A collection that is tender but not rose-tinted and a fitting tribute to a lifetime’s love' - Sarah Crown, The Guardian

'… a fine book – intelligent, erotic, sensual and evocative…one of the most beautiful books of poetry that I have read. There is a fusion of the physical and the cerebral aspects of love that is reminiscent of John Donne at his best…This is a love life, and one that deserves to be read and quoted by those in need of words to describe this most protean of emotions' - Eugene O’Brien, The Irish Book Review

'O’Siadhail is comfortably surefooted within the arc of his own poetics. Although it’s music that predominates, his imagery is often aptly fresh. His rhythms are beautifully exact' - Fiona Sampson, The Irish Times

‘From writing about personal experience Micheal O’Siadhail has moved to writing about the world. His poems, especially when he speaks of love, express tenderness – remarkable in a time when poets seem afraid to write with feeling. He works in skilful verse forms, yet his language is so suited to the thought as to seem perfectly natural’ – Louis Simpson