Niall O'Sullivan – Poet

DJ The morning DJ’s gag. O tawdry quip that doesn’t raise a smirk across the city before the regurgitated ditty— the auto-tuned bulimic that the paps pursue for their quota of nipple slips, when China White spews out its casualties, the battle of the B-List deities to be the smile that frames tomorrow’s chips. And [...]

This week at Unplugged we had a little film crew down from UCA Farnham, students making a film about the UK poetry scene. They showed up, weren’t overstaffed, didn’t mess with the lighting and generally proved themselves to be more professional than most of the film crews we’ve had down. I’m wary around cameras and [...]

So here’s the lowdown, I’m five minutes into my set in a dark, broody Soho garret and I’m unable to finish a sentence because some guy keeps on shouting “Fuck off” at me. Other members of the audience are telling him to shut up because they want to hear some poetry. Despite my polite attempts [...]

As far as the weather goes, now is the perfect time for running. I work my own hours so when I head down the hill around lunchtime, I’ll know that the pre work rush will be well over. During Summer I have to run first thing in the morning or last thing in the evening [...]

There’s a little project online called wordia.com, who focus around a word for the day and get someone to wax lyrical about a particular word. Unsuprisingly I picked “evolve” for mine. Here’s the video.

Hello all, just a quick heads up to let you know that I will be doing my thing in an extended set on Wednesday. The show is at the Boileroom in Guildford and the night is called “Blank Verse”. Because this is the first in the series, with Byron Vincent, Luke Wright and Dockers MC [...]

I keep getting into arguments with some other peeps on the internet about this and made the following post to clarify my views on the whole X Factor v Rage Against the Machine for Xmas no1 malarkey. Over the past four years or so, the UK Christmas number one has been a syrupy ballad sung [...]

I’ve had some interesting jobs land in my lap at the last moment these days. A few weeks back, I was heading up to Lyme to perform my Darwin poems at the Marine Theatre and embark on my first proper fossil hunt, having only been contacted by the organisers a few days before. This was [...]

A little late notice reminder to all that may be interested that I will be reading at Littlest Birds Leave the Nest at the Whitechapel Art Gallery at 7pm tonight. http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/event.php?eid=81919104606 I’ll be reading alongside Mr Tim Wells and many others, admission is free though there may be a collection for the Poets with Gout [...]

So here it is, the new look, php-tastic face of my website. I decided a little while back that a list of my underwhelming achievements followed by a photograph of my curtained boat taken at a Tate Modern art show moments before the attendants reminded us that photography was not permitted might get a bit [...]