Still Is

Still Is gathers ninety dazzling new poems by Vincent O’ Sullivan. These are poems that call and respond, poems that elaborate and pare down, and poems in which an ending is a beginning. ’The fact that Still Is feels like a bunch of different, eloquent, strangers is a testament to the breadth of O’ Sullivan’s experience and also his style. . . . It feels if not an ending, then a eulogy. And who better to write it than the man himself?’ -- Sam Brooks, Dramatic Pause

Born in Auckland in 1937, Vincent O’ Sullivan was the author of the novels Let the River Stand, Believers to the Bright Coast, and All This by Chance. 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 was the author of acclaimed biographies of John Mulgan and Ralph Hotere. He was the New Zealand poet laureate for 2013- 2015.