Hail Madam Jazz New and Selected Poems Author:Micheal O'Siadhail Deemed the best poetry book of 1992 by London's Sunday Tribune, this includes `The Middle Voice', the whole of his acclaimed sequence `The Chosen Garden', and selections from five other books. A writer whose rampant love of language is fortunately disciplined by an austere, scholarly intelligence... — "His poems convey this vivid... more » sense of a shrewd, meditative observer, a perceptive critic of the life that is about him and within him" - Brendan Kennelly.
"The poems dedicate themselves to exploring the possibilities of people sharing a voice, whether through ancestry, common knowledge or experience, or shared moments" - Irish Literary Supplement.« less