Being Here: Selected Poems

Being Here is the first book to survey the entire span of Vincent O’Sullivan’s poetry, from Bearings (1973) to new poems first published in this volume. On display is the full range of the wit, intellectual agility and arresting beauty of one of New Zealand literature’s finest poets.

Vincent O’Sullivan (1937–2024) was one of New Zealand’s leading writers, author of the biography of John Mulgan, Long Journey to the Border, the novels Let the River Stand, Believers to the Bright Coast and All This By Chance, and many plays and collections of short stories and poems. He was joint editor of the five-volume Letters of Katherine Mansfield and edited a number of major anthologies. 

Cover painting: Karl Maughan