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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 Dunedin.
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