Being Here

'You're just a few pages in when you know you're in the company of a master. The poems are so meaty, so pithy, so well crafted, so damned good.' Nicholas Reid on The movie may be slightly different 'O'Sullivan is a witty, intellectual poet and these are poems full of story, full of detail. Auden talks about poetry as "memorable speech" - that's what these poems are. I love the life in these poems. Recommended!' Harry Ricketts on Further Convictions Pending 'one of the outstanding books of poems of the decade' Kevin Ireland on Seeing You Asked 'There is a kind of luminous spirituality about O'Sullivan's poetry, that long after you have read the poems, continues to reside in the objects or situations the poems describe.' Anna Jackson on Lucky Table 'Blame Vermeer is the real thing, wise beyond the attitudes of wisdom, deft beyond the posturing of deftness, brimming with O'Sullivan's exciting ability simply to talk his understated way into sheer bloody poetry.' Michael Hulse on Blame Vermeer