New Balls Please

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 [...]

My belated thoughts on the “poetry boom”

Like many people that are really involved with poetry on a day to day basis, I was incredibly sceptical about all the press that poetry has been getting. Firstly we had the announcement of a brand new Laureate, then we had poetry featured on it’s own BBC season of programmes, and it all kicked off [...]

Littlest Birds Leave the Nest

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 [...]

niallosullivan.co.uk gets a makeover

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 [...]