Michael O'Sullivan Biography
Michael's books have won many national and international awards. His collection THE PHYSICS OF PARTING (Wyndham Hall Press/Cloverdale Library 1993.) won the American Cloverdale Prize for poetry, chosen from a panel of judges from ten countries.
MORNINGS OF THE ORESTEIA, SELECTED POEMS (1975-2008) was greeted with wide international acclaim.
His website is: michaelosullivan59.weebly.com
His WIKIPEDIA entry is under: Michael O'Sullivan, poet.
His first feature film, BECAUSE I COULD NOT STOP FOR DEATH (85 mins) has just been completed. It is based on the life and work of Emily Dickinson.
His work has appeared in numerous anthologies and journals throughout the world.
His new collection BEETHOVEN IN VIENNA will be published in Ireland in the summer.
When ashes ventured to Heraclitus
That more things may exist than fire
He disappeared into a sunny gap
Created by foreshortening of his stride.
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Only when homeless
Did I discover
I was the sole and sanguine heir
To two family graves.
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Having no chronmetric choice
The clock ticks on, yet in its shadow
Lurks a deeper time with hands
Of teeming flesh. Keats measured
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No shapes nor fine geographies will spring
Around me on this Island place.
I study water worrying a rock and know
How countless eyes have seen this present glint,
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