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by Niall O'Sullivan
Born of Irish parents in England, Niall O'Sullivan grew up in Slough, studied Art in Bath and has been living in London since the turn of the millennium. A former council gardener, he has performed poetry since 1997, playing venues worldwide. He has featured at the Cheltenham, Bristol, Bath, Folkestone and Penzance literature festivals in the UK and internationally in Berlin, Norway and, in 2005, at the world famous Roskilde festival in Denmark. Niall's first collection, you're not singing anymore (waterways, 2004), explores religion, youth, and the many faces of London. It was received with widespread acclaim, becoming a 20th Century bestseller on Amazon.co.uk. In Ventriloquism for Monkeys, his second, he turns his attention to science, memory, evolution and ideology.
It's tempting to call his [Niall's] second collection a crossover - yet these don't read like performance pieces tamed for the page, for Niall is no genre hybrid, he is simply a good writer - warm, smart, thoughtful. His poetry inhabits a place where pertinence and impertinence meet".
- Roddy Lumsden
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