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April 2009
announcing the publication of

WATERFALLS
Maggie O’Sullivan

WATERFALLS (worked February 1994 – February 1999) companions red shifts
(worked August 1997 – February 1999) – etruscan books, 2001: ISBN 1 901538 25 7.
 

Cover: Maggie O'Sullivan, Waterfalls,
1994-1999 (inks & mixed media on paper).

 
This publication of WATERFALLS makes available both books that compose
the poetic project her/story:eye (1994 – 1999).

Excavating saying, riddle, lore, tale, song, lament, elegy, drawn from Irish mythological, ancestral and folk traditions, socio-political history, (particularly the Great Famine of 1845-52, the clearances, dispossession and exile), as well as personal mappings, meditations, family oral histories, her/story:eye is a multi-dimensional, visceral performance, interrogating its own trans/formations as it floods and explodes acoustic-aural-visual-verbal-sculptural force fields across red shifts and WATERFALLS in a passionate, radical, physicalised installation of languagings im/possibilities.

Click here to read a post about WATERFALLS
on REALITY STREET: Ken Edwards' blog

Click here for a page of Notes and Resources for her/story:eye.
 

WATERFALLS
80 pages, limited edition bookwork of 75 copies, numbered & signed, cased in glacine sleeve w/additional hand written text by Maggie O'Sullivan.

ISBN 1 901538 56 6 cased edition

Typeset by Robert W. Palmer at Tuff Talk Press, Uley, Gloucestershire.
Printed and bound by Colin Sackett, Axminster, Devon.

Published by etruscan books, April 2009

Elm House, Stowe Lane,
Exbourne,
West Devonshire EX20 3RY
atetruscan[AT]aol[D0T]com
www.e-truscan.co.uk
 

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BODY OF WORK
Maggie O'Sullivan

(326 pages, Reality Street Editions 2006)

Cover: Antony Cook, Icened Mollusc, 1987
(painting, oil & acrylic on canvas).

Body of Work brings together for the first time all of Maggie O'Sullivan's solo collections of poetry and visual texts published before her 1993 Reality Street book In the House of the Shaman. These booklets, long out of print, are here presented in facsimile, scanned from the original publications, or in some cases the original mauscripts, together with a selection of previously unpublished works.

 

'... autochthonous verse, tilling the inter-indigenous brainscape of the Celtic / Northumbrian / Welsh / Gaelic / Scots / Irish / Anglo / Saxon transloco-voco-titillated strabismus. It's not that O'Sullivan writes directly "in" any one of the languages "of these isles", as she told once, but that they form a foundational "force field" out of which her own distinctive language emerges, as figure set against its grounding....
O'Sullivan cleaves to charm: striating song with the visceral magic of shorn insistence.'
From Charles Bernstein's foreword

Click here to read the complete essay Colliderings: O'Sullivan's Medleyed Verse by Charles Bernstein.

'Body of Work brings us face to face with the radically beautiful series of bookworks and pamphlets in which the designed, sounded ecosystems of Maggie O'Sullivan's poetry first arrived at form. Everything we couldn't find is here, reproduced with an unmatched sensitivity to the original publications, which sing as new in the very characters the poet chose.'
Peter Manson

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Maggie O'Sullivan, photographed by Peter Manson at the SoundEye festival in Cork, July 2005.

 

All content on these pages is Copyright © Maggie O'Sullivan, 2005-9, unless otherwise stated.
Site last updated: 17th April 2009.
Web design by Peter Manson.

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