Niall O'Sullivan – Poet

The first chimp isn’t feeling too good, the virus crawls his cluttered veins. All he can do is grab his aching sides tear at the attacking army beneath his skin. The cage is small but spotlessly clean if there is a piece of dirt in this lab it’s either him or the other ape in [...]

I still remember an Independent article by Christina Patterson from a few years back. The only part relevant to this blog is the first paragraph: One of the worst evenings I’ve ever endured was at an event called Poetry Unplugged. About 50 people were crammed into a sweaty basement, all perched expectantly on orange plastic [...]

So the basic plan for the year ahead is this. To finally shake off my ring rust and get to serious work on a long sequence of poems about human evolution. So far I’ve written about ten, though some of these are quite long and made up of many parts. However, now is the time [...]

New video of me reciting a poem from my first collection in the walled garden of Brockwell Park. Followed by a grilling from the super talented young poet, Kayo Chingoyi. Filmed for Lit-Up Singapore. http://litupfestival.ning.com/

Stephen Moss is launching a bid for the Oxford Professorship and decided a night at Unplugged might help him. I come across as a bit of a nob. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jul/17/oxford-poetry-professor

I could never get past the notion that I was watching Depp, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. It’s just that I was watching a Dillinger movie with a missing vital ingredient. Dillinger. After about twenty minutes I was able to accept that I was watching Deppinger and move on.

Having blogged extensively about Wimbledon for a fortnight, you might think that I wouldn’t want to write more about it. Indeed, I can hardly imagine that any of you that have been following the Postcards from Wimbledon blog are really in the mood to read any more of it. However, I think, maybe just for [...]

I’m having a ball at Wimbledon at the moment, but I don’t feel like blogging on my days off. To catch up with all my writings as well as those of Nii Parkes and Roger Robinson, click on the link below. http://www.wimbledon.org/en_GB/news/blogs/Postcards.html