Niall O'Sullivan – Poet

“Three-dimensional stop-motion model animation created a fantasy world that was so rare. The way the creatures moved encouraged a sense that one was watching a miracle, but when the miracle becomes commonplace, the concept of the miracles ceases to be miraculous.” -Ray Harryhausen For the Master I learned to dream on Bank Holiday Mondays, when [...]

Belated apologies for the lack of recent new content. Marriage, honeymoon, a return to Wimbledon, Latitude and laziness have conspired to keep me from my dedicated shedful of followers. However, that is about to change. For the whole month of September, I am going to be your sonnet hack. That’s right, I will be posting [...]

I had the honour of hanging out with Todd Moore for a couple of days when he came over to London a few years back. All I really knew of Todd Moore was from the terse Dillinger vignettes that appeared regularly in Tim Wells’s Rising magazine. The poems seemed to scan the contents of a moment, much [...]

I think that there is something more to memorizing a poem than helping out performance, I think that there is something natural about it, something wedded to poetry as a natural product of the human mind, something wedded to the poem’s natural history. Memorising a poem is in some ways more of a completion of a poem than the publication, it is a return to the source.

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 [...]

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 might have never finished my degree in Fine Art ( live the cliché!) all those years back, but I’ve got that bit closer to being exhibited by the Tate than my fellow ponces. That’s right, yours truly has written the Poem of the Month on the Tate’s magazine website. The poem is based on [...]

For anyone that didn’t make it, here’s an video of my set at Utter! Evolution a few nights back, click on the “facebook” icon in the top right hand corner to watch it in HD. It was a quality night, with great performances by Baba Brinkman and Kelly Swain. Big kudos is due to Charlie [...]