O'Sullivan, Vincent

Vincent O'Sullivan (b. 1937)

Contents:

Classic New Zealand Poets in Performance (2006):

Butcher in Sunlight
Butcher on Life in General
Still Shines when you Think of it
Elegy for a School Mate
Seeing You Asked
Before you go

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD28

1. Butcher in Sunlight
2. Butcher on Life in General
3. Look Sheila Seeing You’ve Asked Me
4. What Sheila Tells Him, Softly
5. Don’t Knock the Rawleigh’s Man
6. Seeing You Asked
7. July, July
8. Elegy: again
9. Before you go
10. Lucky Table
11. No Harm in Hoping

New Zealand Poets Read Their Work (1974):

LP 1, side 1

Butcher in Sunlight
I have taken a Thrush
Medusa

Waiata Archive (1974):

CD 15

Elegy for a School Mate
Medusa
The Keepers
I Have Taken a Thrush
Butcher in Sunlight
Butcher’s Nightmare
Butcher on Life in General
Still Shines when You Think of it

Bio /Bibliography:

Vincent O’Sullivan is a Wellington-based poet, playwright, novelist, short story writer and academic. He has also compiled anthologies of New Zealand poetry and short fiction, and is co-editor (with Margaret Scott) of the collected letters of Katherine Mansfield. O’Sullivan was born in Auckland in 1937, and educated at the universities of New Zealand and Oxford. Returning to New Zealand in 1963, he worked first as lecturer in the English Department at Victoria University, Wellington (1963-6), followed by ten years in the English Department at the University of Waikato. In the late 1970s, he left academia to become a full-time writer; from 1979-80 he was literary editor of the New Zealand Listener, and from 1981-7 literary fellow at various universities in Australasia. In 1988, he returned to Victoria University as professor of English, and since 1997 has been director of the Stout Research Centre. In 2003, he published Long Journey to the Border, a biography of John Mulgan.

Poetry:

Our Burning Time, Wellington: Prometheus Books, 1965
Revenants, Wellington: Prometheus Books, 1969
Bearings, Wellington: Oxford University Press, 1973
From the Indian Funeral, Dunedin: McIndoe, 1976
Butcher & Co, Wellington: Oxford University Press, 1977
Brother Jonathan, Brother Kafka, Wellington: Oxford University Press, 1980
The Butcher Papers, Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1982
The Rose Ballroom, and Other Poems, Dunedin: McIndoe, 1982
The Pilate Tapes, Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1986
Selected Poems, Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1992
Seeing You Asked, Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1998
I’ll Tell You This Much, Wellington: Pemmican Press, 2000
Lucky Table, Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2001
Nice morning for it, Adam, Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2004

Prose (Short Stories and Novels):

The Boy, the Bridge, the River, Dunedin: McIndoe, 1978
Dandy Edison for Lunch, and Other Stories, Dunedin: McIndoe, 1981
Survivals, and Other Stories, Wellington: Allen & Unwin, 1985
The Snow in Spain: Short Stories, Wellington: Allen & Unwin, 1990
Palms and Minarets: Selected Stories, Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1992
Let the River Stand, Auckland: Penguin Books, 1993
Believers to the Bright Coast, Auckland: Penguin, 1998