Niall O’Sullivan

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Poet, editor, lecturer.

https://niallosullivan.substack.com

websitehttp://niallosullivan.co.uk
newsletter/essayshttps://buttondown.email/niall
digital gardenhttps://niall.garden
pronounshe/him
Niall O’SullivanSep 28
Something I added to my digital garden a few weeks back when a slightly slimmer Rock was big news. I like setting alternate versions of Frank O'Hara's POEM (Lana Turner had Collapsed) as a writing exercise for my students but keep writing them myself because they're the perfect way of ingesting pop culture and spitting it out again. My digital garden is an online place where I post poems and micro-essays in varying stages of completion (the potted plant emoji means this one is kinda finished). https://niall.garden
Niall O’SullivanDec 7, 2024
Isn't that how it normally works?
Show threadNiall O’SullivanOct 30, 2023
I ONLY WENT AND DID IT!!! LOW TECH DISTRACTION FREE WRITING HERE I COME!!! NUFFINK’S GONNA STOP ME NOW!!! IT’S THE BIG TIME FOR ME BABY, WOOHOO!!!!
Niall O’SullivanMay 18, 2023

LITTLE LIVES ROUNDED

I step off the narrow path onto the long grass to let a new dad pass with his tiny treasure harnessed to his chest.

Probably the first, seeing the slight bewilderment in his eyes and how he cradles the back of the child's head with his soft, white collar palm.

It will take a while for his world to settle again from its current state of swirling newness.

All these sleepness nights until the waking life returns to the state of familiarity and routine.

Another form of sleep.

#clockcard #poem #fatherhood #poetry

Niall O’SullivanMay 17, 2023

ASK A SILLY QUESTION...

Is this sky that shifts from faultless morning clarity to murky afternoon nimbostratus an English sky or a London sky?

The trees offer no answer to the throbbing knots potbound in human skulls.

Their new leaves have waited centuries to answer the same questions that think themselves different.

The same answer now as it will be when they burnish and fall.

Now. Now. Now. Now. Now.

#poem #poetry #clockcard #prosepoem #now

Niall O’SullivanMay 6, 2023
God save the King!
Niall O’SullivanApr 28, 2023

last day on campus – stubborn blossom

#monoku #haiku

Niall O’SullivanApr 24, 2023

fly tipped mirror -- vain dandelions

#monoku #haiku #poem

Niall O’SullivanApr 18, 2023

Spring chill -- a groggy fox slinks behind a butchered oak.

#haiku #monoku #spring #fox

Niall O’SullivanMar 19, 2023
Just located my childhood in a square metre of the Design Museum.