The Five Quintets is a mammoth poetic adventure undertaken by the celebrated poet Micheal O-Siadhail, representing the culmination of an extraordinary life-s work. The project is vast in scope, attempting nothing less than an exploration of the predicaments of Western modernity. Drawing on inspiration from T S Eliot-s Four Quartets, The Five Quintets brings the premise of Dante-s Divine Comedy into the current day. As Dante explored humanity though mythical characters, O-Siadhail focuses on the humanity of the creators of today-s dreams of perfection: scientists, artists, economists, politicians, politics, and philosophers and theologians from the past speak with each other in this extraordinarily imaginative work. The result is an unparalleled book of instruction for a troubled age. The Five Quintets retrieves and exhibits human gifts our own age may have lost to create a work -whose pulse draws us to love. A book of poetry in the category of the epic, the encyclopedic, and the sacred
