The Movie May Be Slightly Different

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Offering a rich harvest of recent poems, this collection displays the wit, intellectual agility, and arresting beauty for which the author is renowned. This anthology is full of stories thatconfront personal subjects as well as broader topicsfamily, friendship, death, war, and the repeating patterns of life itself. Giving a mature voice to their genre, these pieces go beyond the colloquial andexperiment with semantics and puzzles to achieve a unique type of aesthetic.

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The real thing, wise beyond the attitudes of wisdom, deft beyond the posturing of deftness, brimming with O'Sullivan's exciting ability simply to talk his understated way into sheer bloody poetry." Michael Hulse, New Zealand Books, on Blame Vermeer

Author Bio

Vincent OSullivan is a former professor of English at Victoria University of Wellington and at the University of Waikato. He is the author of the novelsBelievers to the Bright Coast and Let the River Stand;the poetry collectionsBlame Vermeer, Further Convictions Pending: Poems 19992008, Lucky Table, and Seeing You Asked; and Long Journey to the Border, a biography of John Mulgan. He is the coeditor of The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield, and he has edited several major anthologies.