Further Convictions Pending: Poems 1998–2008

Further Convictions Pending is a collection of Vincent O'Sullivan's celebrated poetry from 1998 to 2008. Forty or so poems from each of four previous volumes are gathered here with forty-two new poems, displaying the wit, intellectual agility and arresting beauty for which O'Sullivan is renowned.

'O'Sullivan is a witty, intellectual poet and these are poems full of story, full of detail. . . . Auden talks about poetry as "memorable speech" – that's what these poems are. I love the life in these poems. Recommended!' —Harry Ricketts, RNZ

Vincent O'Sullivan (1937–2024) was one of New Zealand’s leading writers. His novels include Let the River Stand, which won the 1994 The Montana NZ Book Awards, Believers to the Bright Coast, which was shortlisted for the 2001 Tasmania Pacific Region Prize, and All This by Chance (2018), which was shortlisted for the 2019 Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize. He wrote many plays and collections of short stories and poems, was joint editor of the five-volume Letters of Katherine Mansfield, edited a number of major anthologies, and authored acclaimed biographies of John Mulgan and Ralph Hotere. Vincent was a Distinguished Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit.