Intense, engaging and accessible, poet Micheal O’Siadhail returns to Greenbelt with his latest collection, Globe (Bloodaxe, 2007), an exploration of how a world is shaped. Sarah Crown, writing in The Guardian, describes the book as a ‘timely and disquieting dissection of the planet’s parlous state.’ Author of 12 books of poetry — including: Love Life (2205), The Gossamer Wall: Poems in Witness to the Holocaust (2002) and Poems 1975-1995 (1999) — O’Siadhail was formerly a lecturer at Trinity College Dublin and a professor at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. His work has won several awards, including the Irish American Cultural Institute Prize (1982) and the Marten Toonder (1998).