Research Catalog

Title

Further convictions pending : poems 1998-2008 / Vincent O'Sullivan.

Author

O'Sullivan, Vincent

Publication

Wellington, N.Z. : Victoria University Press, 2009.

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Description

208 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

"A collection of Vincent O'Sullivan's celebrated poetry of the last decade. Forty or so poems from each of four previous volumes are gathered here with forty-four new poems, displaying wit, intellectual agility and arresting beauty for which O'Sullivan is renowned." -- Back cover.

Subject

• New Zealand poetry > 20th century
• New Zealand poetry > 21th century

Genre/Form

New Zealand poetry – 21st century.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• From Seeing you asked 1998 : Primavera. Secular thoughts. Learner's slope. 'It is one thing...'. Remembering Westmere. Playback. Check-up. Nexus. Elegy, of sorts. Against abstinence. Marginalia. Seeing you asked. Purely local matters. In time of thanks and praise. They Cheyenne party. The grieving process. Driving south with Lucy to the big blue hills. Last word. July, July. No nostalgia, please!. Troyilism. Remembering Mrs Hardy. The reader on the beach. Too much act two. Mr Stevens at the calculator. Rilke in the mountains. The man on platform 1. Love response theory. Musée du monde. Under new management. The keeper will explain. Maestro. The monster in the gallery. The café is always open. Saying begins it. Reflections I. Reflections II. However you put it. Not leaping but waving. Keep telling the artist --^
• from Lucky table 2001 : Right on. New year, Mangaweka. One more, for spring. Line of approach. Hanging on. As is, is. Elegy: again. Love: revised verison. Rector, S.J.. Dark night on the lake. The solipsist on the veranda. Climbing Mt. Semantic. Hearing Aunt M. out. A bit late, but still. Before you go. Lucky table. Funny thing, romance. Zoo's as good a place as any. Nothing new in this one. Lines of dissent. Not a nice one, this. 10 a.m., workday. Choosy, mind. That's the story. No news, nevertheless.... Talking of stone. Reading the Russians. And after that?. The reader objects. Astronaut at 13. Setting it right. Mrs Dempsey's bright side. Angels, whacko!. Pictures: Frida and Diego. Stepping out in the museum. Gravestone, Athens. Not that you'll hear me. Poetry, oh yes!. M'sieur Fauve steps out. The truth about realism. Picture at an exhibition. No harm in hoping --^
• from Nice morning for it, Adam 2004 : The child in the gardens: winter. Author's bluff. Why biographers fudge it. Le misérable. After such events. The best of men declines. Mid-sentence, so to speak. The colour of going. On a bad day. Reading the runes. Child playing drafts. Nice morning for it, Adam. Lexicographer's brief. Loving Pablo. 'Please?'. The retired bruiser dreaming La Belle Dame at the least. Brief visitation. 1945. Lines from the beach house. River road, due south. Not quite still life. Taking in the world. The note the lover tore up. The girl on the beach knows how. Life sentence. Open home. Not without its moral. Nightmare on Cape Aesthete. Any sunset, with gin. Basil at the gate. Simply. Moving in. Mission statement. The lovers in the beer garden. Facts not withstanding it. Jealousy's not in it. As though. The monastic life. But never say so. Still waiting, are we? --^
• from Blame Vermeer 2007 : Not one to let on. So that's the point then, Maestro?. Sizing up the bones. Well bred in the necropolis. A dream of my father, winding our watches together. In praise of those who drive. 19th century. The private man. Late night movie. Taste, basically. Pièce du théâtre. Offcuts. Yorick's shoulder. Avoiding the volcano. Blame Vermeer. Not much, but do better. Travel bug. After the cleansing. Reference. Smal talk. Off limits. Day the cat came home. A moral, somewhere. Class envy, simply. Feeding time for the elect. Hindsight. Humanity, the stone says. Defending the West. Watch it!. Blonde ink. In your case, though. A story I can vouch for. Saying it straight. Too early to call. Hinenui-te-po stages a comeback. One might as well tell it. 'Roses from the South' is quite another story. So the stories go. Getting off proper on le temps perdu. Out Mahana Road. Save it for autumn. How things are --^
• Further convictions pending 2008 : Being here. Seeing's believing. Childen's cemetary: Hamilton. Poolburn. Clever, mind. Cape Introspect speaks out. Anniversary blue. Late praise for Nurse Smythe. The master of Venetian glass. History, for you. Hard case. Note to HQ. Last instructions. Sum total. Nailing the past. For B.T. Past Butcher's Dam. Ovid writes it off. No time for portents. Watching the Hawduns. Fessing up. Streetwise way back. Principled? Reckon. Late April grass. Lines. 1919. Must have been the Sixties. Reprise. Goldilocks, off the scale. Consolations of philosophy. As Galileo told it to Mrs G. Nothing wrong with recycled. Something's up. Varnish. Elementary, surely. Listen very carefully. Check-out. Ho hum. So the loser says. Witness 217. Politics it is, sir. Believe me. Over to you. Bells & fiddles.

ISBN

• 9780864736062 (pbk.)
• 0864736061 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 311539095
• SCSB-12751053

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library