Maggie O'Sullivan

see also

Discussion of O'Sullivan's work by others

Interviews with O'Sullivan

texts

ELLEN'S LAMENT (also as MP3 audio)

(from Palace of Reptiles)

chain crate ilate (also as MP3 audio)

(from murmur : tasks of mourning (1999-2004)-unpublished)

recent publications

full bibliography

Poetry:

red shifts (Buckfastleigh, Devon: etruscan books, 2001).
In the House of the Shaman (London: Reality Street, 1993, reprinted 2003).
Palace of Reptiles (Ontario: The Gig, 2003).
"all origins are lonely" (London: Veer Books, 2003) - (signed edition of 40)

Editor:

Out of Everywhere:Linguistically Innovative Poetry By Women In North America and the UK (London: Reality Street, 1996).

audio:

her/story:eye STEM 01 on the new STEM CD label.
info@stemrecordings.com or website: www.stemrecordings.com

recent work:

(sections from murmur) can be found at Pores, An Avant-Gardist Journal of Poetics Research - Issue Three - Time : Tempo : Temporality http://www.bbk.ac.uk/pores/3/index.html (April 2004) and Issue Two - Writing: Art: Forms of Politics at http://www.bbk.ac.uk/pores/2/main-htm (December 2002)

and in The Gig 16, (February 2004), Willowdale, Ontario

Chicago Review, 48:4, winter 2003/4 contains my article on a poetry reading given by Tom Raworth and myself, as well exhibition of Tom Raworth's Petites Irregularites, held at centre international de poesie marseille, May, 2002

IMPROVIsation for Bob Cobbing, a tribute to Bob Cobbing, can be found at http://www/indigogroup.co.uk/llpp/tributes.html (October 2002)

Birth Palette (from Palace of Reptiles) and To Our Own Day (from In the House of the Shaman) can be found at www.militantesthetix.co.uk/MERZNITE.html an Evening of Free Improvisation to Celebrate Dadaist Kurt Schwitters, held on 25th January 2002 at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Selected anthology/journal appearances:

Now to the Ears (from Palace of Reptiles) in Homo Sonorus: An International anthology of Sound Poetry (with CD), edited/curated by Dmitry Bulatov, The National Center for Contemporary Art, 2001, Kaliningrad:

Anthology of Twentieth-Century British & Irish Poetry, ed. Keith Tuma, OUP, 2001

Contemporary Women's Poetry: Reading/Writing/Practise eds. Alison Mark and Deryn Rees-Jones, Macmillan, 2000

Other - British & Irish Poetry since 1970, eds. Richard Caddel and Peter Quartermain, Wesleyan University Press, 1999

Poems for the Millennium (Vol 2 - From Postwar to Millennium) eds. Jerome Rothenberg and Pierre Joris, University of California Press, 1998

WORD SCORE UTTERANCE CHOREOGRAPHY - visual poetry and its performance eds. Bob Cobbing Lawrence Upton, Writers Forum, 1998

Conductors of Chaos, ed. Iain Sinclair, Picador, 1996

50 : A Celebration of Sun & Moon Classics, ed. Douglas Messerli,Sun & Moon, Los Angeles, 1995

Verbi Visi Voco : A Performance of Poetry, eds. Bob Cobbing and Bill Griffiths, Assisted by Jennifer Pike, Writers Forum, 1992

Floating Capital : New Poets from London, eds. Adrian Clarke and Robert Sheppard, Potes & Poets, Connecticut, 1991

The New British Poetry : 1968 - 1988, eds. Ken Edwards, et al. Paladin, London, 1988

journals

Boundary 2 - 99 Poets/1999 : An International Poetics Symposium - a Special Issue ed. Charles Bernstein, Vol 26, Duke University Press, Spring 1999

British Poets - host No. 4, ed. Petr Mikes, Brno, 1998

if No. 11 ed. Jean-Jacques Viton, Marseilles 1997

West Coast Line: New British & Irish Writing No. 17 (29/2) ed. Peter Quartermain, University of British Columbia, Burnaby, BC, 1996

Talisman : A Selection of New UK Poetry No. 16 eds. Richard Caddel and Peter Middleton, Boston, 1996

Interstate 17 : Special British Writing issue eds. Loris Essary Mark Loeffler, Austin, Texas, 1986

biographical note

Born Lincolnshire, 20th July, 1951 to Irish parents. Poet, artist, editor, publisher, she has performed her work and published internationally since the late 1970's. Worked for BBC-TV in London, continuously from1973 and 1988, latterly on arts documentary films, notably as production assistant/researcher on the Arena series.

In 1988, moved to the Pennines outside Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire. For over a decade she ran her celebrated Writing in Action Adult Education/WEA weekly classes in Hebden Bridge. Held many residencies in a range of educational settings, as well as tutoring in creative writing and poetry for Open College of the Arts correspondence courses for last 11 years. Involved in numerous, ongoing performance/workshop presentations.

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