Monday, March 23, 2015

You are invited to the launch of "Being Here: Selected Poems" by Vincent O'Sullivan

'The most famous shadow in the world
is the fastest ever made.'

– from 'Hiroshima', by Vincent O'Sullivan

Victoria University Press warmly invites you to the launch of
 
Being Here: Selected Poems
by Vincent O'Sullivan

on Wednesday 15 April
5.30pm–7.30pm
at National Library of New Zealand (Ground Floor),
70 Molesworth Street, Thorndon,
Wellington.


This is a double launch with Steele Roberts
for
Let the Writer Stand: the work of Vincent O'Sullivan, edited by Judith Dell Panny


Dame Fiona Kidman will launch both books at this event.

Copies will be available for purchase courtesy of Vic Books:
Being Here: Selected Poems, hb, $40.
Let the Writer Stand, pb, $30.


 
More about Being Here
Being Here is the first book to survey the entire span of Vincent O’Sullivan’s poetry, from Bearings (1973) to new poems first published in this volume. On display is the full range of the wit, intellectual agility and arresting beauty of one of New Zealand literature’s finest poets.
Cover painting by Karl Maughan

Vincent O’Sullivan is one of New Zealand’s leading writers, author of the biography of John Mulgan, Long Journey to the Border, the novels Let the River Stand and Believers to the Bright Coast, and many plays and collections of short stories and poems. He is joint editor of the five-volume Letters of Katherine Mansfield and has edited a number of major anthologies. Vincent is the current NZ Poet Laureate. He lives in Duned
in.

 

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