Research Catalog

Title

And so it is : new poems / Vincent O'Sullivan.

Author

O'Sullivan, Vincent

Publication

• Wellington [New Zealand] : Victoria University Press, 2016.
• ©2016

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Holdings

Details

Description

96 pages; 21 cm

Summary

"Hot on the heels of Being Here, his capacious Selected Poems which was chosen by the NZ Listener as one of the poetry highlights of 2015, comes this dazzling collection of 75 new poems."--Publisher's information.

Uniform Title

Poems. Selections

Alternative Title

Poems.

Subject

• 2000-2099
• New Zealand poetry
• New Zealand poetry > 21st century

Genre/Form

New Zealand poetry – 21st century.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Knowing what it's about -- The recall factor -- Each packet comes with a warning -- Once Derrida died -- Think of the girl, for once -- Anzac morning -- Almost -- Medication may be called for -- Spectators please note -- Enough surely? -- Beach Road -- The trouble with reading, frankly -- And so it is -- Season -- Flicking the calendar -- Pretty much every day, really -- Talk about old hat -- Life writing, 4 to 5, in the Leisure Lounge -- Song for untuned voices -- The narrative drift -- Despatches from the shed -- Imaginative for her age -- Neighbour -- Calabrone -- Gifts for a grandson -- The Reality Problem -- Formal -- Nice talk -- Anniversary -- Reading German poetry -- Mr Newman's tooth -- All arsonists being liars, which liars deplore -- I so like the man who wrote -- One version of the telling, which is all we're allowed -- Plot lines -- Special delivery -- By way of later chapters -- Simple enough to get there -- Mayakovsky's dog -- Most mornings, sort of -- Westmere on my mind -- Novel times -- Has to be a line somewhere -- Arguing the Fall -- Cigars, pinpricks, beasts of all description -- In the movie I'd like to make -- As illicit lovers note -- To spell it incorrectly -- I'm guessing, in the library -- Letter back -- The less than genuine article -- Reading Akhmatova -- Into the swing of it -- Even better, when it's whistled -- On reading X -- The case of disappointed extras -- A sonnet of sorts relating to the Judgement -- What was that, again? -- Where is that did you say, precisely? -- Greene Fingers -- Shelf Life -- Ida Valley business -- Saying no to the mortician -- Think K9 -- Seminar, late harvest -- The decent man confirms -- For a friend who likes to tell you -- On hearing the News -- Whose move is it, comrades? -- Finders, keepers -- Disciples, frankly -- Made it! -- Timetable, 1917 -- I expect we would -- To get personal a moment -- Being a dream is no excuse -- This week then.

ISBN

• 9781776560592
• 1776560590

LCCN

^^2016438458

OCLC

• 944180224
• SCSB-11546463

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library