FIRST THOUGHTS: Micheal O’Siadhail poetry collection offers portrait of love and immortal faithfulness

THIS new collection by the poet Micheal O’Siadhail is more than a mere assembly of new poems.

It is, as the divine, Jean Vanier, says in the blurb a ‘beautiful but terribly sad poem of love’.

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.