Being here : selected poems / Vincent O'Sullivan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Sullivan, Vincent, author.

Contributor:

Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

New Zealand poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

238 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Wellington : Victoria University Press, 2015.

Summary:

"Surveys the entire span of Vincent O'Sullivan's poetry, from Bearings (1973) to new poems first published in this volume"--Publisher's website.

Contents:

From Bearings (1973). Morning

Leafburn

Kingfisher: winter

For where you skill

from From the Indian funeral (1976). Chiapas

Masks

Lent procession

Holy Thursday-2

Avenida ocho

from Butcher & Co (1977). Resthaven

For a third birthday

Kaka

Back where we started

Butcher & Co

Butcher in sunlight

Butcher talks on time

Odd

Butcher on life in general

Still shines when you think of it

Hold it

Do you ever consider

from The Butcher Papers (1982). The tree of fancy ethics never missed a leaf

Fish for all that rise as rise wet stars

Don't feed us that

Look Sheila seeing you've asked me

N.B.

Foreign gentleman

What Sheila tells him, softly

from Brother Jonathan, Brother Kafka (1980). 2

3

6

8

12

13

19

25

26

31

32

34

38

39

40

43

44

from The Rose Ballroom (1982). Waikato-taniwha-rau

Love poem

Saving the image

So we say at sunset

Don't knock the Rawleigh's man

Further instructions

Return visit, Wisconsin

from The Pilate Tapes (1986). liberal

An old soldier tells him

Who doesn't know?

Sententiae

Domestic

Dreamtime

Ultima verba

lines

The westmere replays

Corner

Visiting

Cousins

Was she?

Late romantic

Meeting up

Surfacing

from Selected Poems (1992). Hiroshima

Matinée

Hund, Fuchs, und Katze

Note from the gardener

Excellent people

from Seeing You Asked (1998). Secular thoughts

'It is one thing...'

Check-up

Elegy, of sorts

Seeing you asked

July, July

Rilke in the mountains

Lover response theory

The café is always open

Saying begins it

from Lucky Table (2001). Right on

Line of approach

As is, is

Elegy : again

Love : revised version

Rector, S.J.

Dark night on the lake

Before you go

Lucky table

That's the story

Talking of stone

Reading the Russians

Pictures : Frida and Diego

Gravestone, Athens

The truth about realism

No harm in hoping

from Nice Morning for it, Adam (2004). The child in the gardens : winter

Why biographers fudge it

The best of men declines

Reading the runes

Nice morning for it, Adam

'Please?'

The retired bruiser dreaming La Belle Dame at the least

Brief visitation

River road, due south

Not quite still life

The girl on the beach knows how

Any sunset, with gin

Simply

As though

The monastic life

Still waiting, are we?

from Blame Vermeer (2007). Not one to let on

A dream of my father, winding our watches together

19th century

The private man

Taste, basically

Blame Vermeer

Yorick's shoulder

Small talk

Reference

A moral, somewhere

Feeding time for the elect

Hindsight

Blond ink

In your case, though

So the stories go

How things are

from Further Convictions Pending (2009). Being here

Anniversary blue

Last instructions

Seeing's believing

Past butcher's dam

Ovid writes it off

1919

Nothing wrong with recycled

Varnish

Listen very carefully

Check-out

Ho hum

Witness 217

Over to you

from The movie may be slightly different (2011)

Now, without angels

Late tribute

Politics for the unborn

Who'd have thought

Shaping up

Even so

The believer on the bus

One of these mornings, Old St Paul's

The panel meets for lunch

Convent girl in the Wairarapa

On the same road you can't help thinking

Partners, from way back

Sprung!

By chance, this evening

From the ranks, can you believe it

So you like to say

from Us, them (2013). According to the doco

Getting the picture

Cruise ship afternoon

News from out the Heads

What for some it comes down to

Freedom

Screensaver

Road from the camp

Still

What story's that, then?

After reading the warnings

On the track above the bay

Nowhere further from Belgium

Always on the cards

St Clair, September

As the boy, the man

Not included in the footnotes

Come again?

Skol

Sight unseen

First time, about Easter

Us, then

After that, to begin with

New Poems (2014). There, being Monday morning

The hare, he said

Sunday being when I write

All right then, are we?

So much to remember, Dad at the Colosseum

As it should be called

Horace's day off

The sentiment of goodly things.

Notes:

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

ISBN:

9780864739315

0864739311

OCLC:

921828357

Publisher Number:

99968411389