Micheal O’Siadhail

A Testament of Witnesses and Other Poems

Arts & Literature

“David Lyle Jeffrey’s lifelong immersion in the Bible and its influence on English literature culminates here in his second book of poems with an extraordinary series of biblical figures’ imagined interior monologues alongside a briefer collection of personal devotional or playful poems, concluding with some beautiful nature poetry. Carefully wrought and skillful rhymes combine a Miltonic gravity and colloquial jauntiness which engage us where ‘ageless memory cherished, gleams and joy finds reason, rhyme, and dreams.’”

A Unicorn Dies

Fiction

“An extraordinary achievement . . . the author has invented a new genre. . . . He writes very beautifully—finely rhythmic sentences and great descriptive phrases, holding the tension until the end.”

Cameos of Faith

Arts & Literature

“Here, Toddy Hoare, combining his many talents and life experience, melds the roles of priest and sculptor, homilist and poet. His words, whether in serious or humorous mode, and his illustrations, whether in sculpture or photography, exude a deep concern for others and a belief that ‘worship comes through service to others.’”

Circles and the Cross

Science & Faith

“Pondering ‘Why is there anything and why are we aware of it?’ Loren Wilkinson brings to bear a lifetime of thought and an astonishing breath of knowledge on a journey from the origin of the cosmos to our life-friendly but wounded planet. Beyond an enlightenment mindset, he glories in wonder and gratitude for gifts of a loving God, self-sacrificed on the cross, as the source of worship, science, and art. This book is a classic.”

Pattern Evidence

Arts & Literature

“Michael Riley did not live to see his final work in print but this aptly-titled book is indeed pattern evidence for the shape and distribution of a thoughtful and kindly observant mind that delighted in nature, in personal memory, and the quirks of his fellow humans. Throughout these poems is an angle of vision widened by his need to soar on a wind of ultimate hope.”

Rhapsody and Redolence

Arts & Literature

“This book is unique. . . . [The] constant awareness of finitude, ‘every day is the last day of our lives,’ and the fascination with time and death is offset by an overflowing sense of erotic and mystical abundance where the worldly and unworldly blend in an outpouring of challenging, impressionistic poems.”