Vincent O'Sullivan showcases his mastery of diverse poetic forms in this collection, exploring themes from sharp satire of modern intellectual and political landscapes to poignant reflections on love and mortality. The poems reveal his artistic prowess and depth, offering readers a rich tapestry of emotions and insights. Recognized for its excellence, the collection was shortlisted for the 2001 Montana New Zealand Book Awards.
The collection showcases a powerful intellect navigating a world marked by constant change and curiosity. Through luminous verses, it explores themes of transformation and the human experience, inviting readers to reflect on the beauty and complexity of life. Each poem offers insight and depth, making it a compelling read for those who appreciate thoughtful and evocative poetry.
Presenting thirty-five stories from seven collections published over more than forty years, Vincent O’Sullivan’s Selected Stories is a milestone in the career of one of New Zealand’s leading writers.
Vincent O'Sullivan is one of New Zealand's leading writers. A prize-winning novelist and short story writer, he is also well known as a poet, playwright, critic and editor. This is his ninth collection of poems.
This anthology presents 50 stories by over 40 of New Zealand's best writers. Nineteenth-century writing, which is largely unknown, is represented by Clara Cheeseman and G B Lancaster, as well as by the more familiar Lady Barker and itinerant Henry Lawson. In the early twentieth century Katherine Mansfield is followed by Greville Texidor as well as Frank Sargeson and Dan Davin. The middle years of the century exhibit a flowering of talent. Janet Frame, Maurice Duggan, and Maurice Gee are all fine practitioners of the genre, while Witi Ihimaera and Patricia Grace are the strong voices of Maori writing. The past dozen or so years have seen an explosion of new writing, with talents as diverse as Owen Marshall, Keri Hulme, Barbara Anderson, and Peter Wells. The selection provides an introduction to New Zealand short fiction that readers interestd in the new literatures in English will find stimulating and surprising. The stories are accompanied by brief biographical notes and a glossary of Maori words.
In Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel, we last see Dr Frankenstein’s Creature shunned by human society and crossing the Arctic wasteland. What if he were rescued by an eccentric English expedition intent on sailing from pole to pole and back - only to be cast away again in a remote fiord in Aotearoa’s deep south?
Things OK with you ? is Vincent O’Sullivan’s first collection of poems since Being Selected Poems (2015) and And So It New Poems (2016). His Selected Stories was published in 2019 and The Dark Is Light Ralph Hotere in 2020. Paperback, 210x138mm, 96 pages.
If we don't have the past in mind, it is merely history. If we do, it is still part of the present. Esther's grandparents first meet at a church dance in London in 1947. Stephen, a shy young Kiwi, has left to practice pharmacy on the other side of the world. Eva has grown up English, with no memory of the Jewish family who sent their little girl to safety. When the couple emigrate, the peace they seek in New Zealand cannot overcome the past they have left behind. Following the lives of Eva, her daughter Lisa, and her granddaughter Esther, All This By Chance is a moving multigenerational family saga about the legacy of the Holocaust and the burden of secrets never shared, by one of New Zealand's finest writers.
Vincent O'Sullivan (1868-1940), an American-born writer and long resident in Europe, was a central figure of the English Decadent Movement. His early books of (mostly fantastic) verse -- POEMS (1896) and THE HOUSES OF SIN (1897) -- were among the movement's key documents, as was his first story collection, A BOOK OF BARGAINS (1896).The morbid stories in this collection were written under the shadow of Poe but are distinctly fin de siècle in their sin-soaked diabolism. The after-death nightmare "When I Was Dead" is a minor masterpiece.