Maggie O'Sullivan

Performed Poetics at Kings College London, March 12-13, 2022

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Virtual reading hosted by University of Glasgow, February 25, 2021

Complete recording (57:30): MP3

Maggie O'Sullivan Reads Tom Raworth and John Clare at Eric Mottram conference, King’s College, London, Nov. 23, 2019

• "Gaslight" by Tom Raworth (1:21): MP4
• Poem via John Clare (4:24): MP4

Text and notes on O'Sullivan's poems via John Clare can be found here.

Reading at the Other Room Series in Manchester, England, October 3, 2016

1. Introduction (2:49): MP3
2. All Origins Are Lonely (3:21): MP3
3. From Murmur (3:19): MP3
4. Cardiac Load (2:29): MP3
5. From Courtship of Lapwings (3:58): MP3
6. Quag, Edge, Ear Lone (2:45): MP3
7. Stilled In (0:47): MP3
8. Jugular Parting (4:24): MP3
9. Continuance (1:35): MP3
10. Breath (3:06): MP3
11. This Earth (2:46): MP3

• MP3 (34:54): MP3, Video by Charles Bernstein, poster



A Poetry reading at the Kelly Writers House as part of Writing Without Borders, UPenn,

April 1, 2013

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1. Introduction (5:38): MP3
2. Homage to a City (4:00): MP3
3. All Origins Are Lonely (2:18): MP3
4. For Making Dying Illegal (0:51): MP3
5. From Murmur (3:23): MP3
6. That Bread Should Be (6:23): MP3
7. Own Land (1:50): MP3
8. Quag, Edge, Ear Lone (2:54): MP3
9. Jugular Parting (1:56): MP3
10. Stilled In (1:05): MP3
11. Circles from Which (1:09): MP3
12. Courtship of Lapwings (3:42): MP3
13. Fragment (2:13): MP3
14. Continuance (1:38): MP3
15. Placard of the Candle (2:06): MP3
16. Post-Reading Q&A (18:58): MP3
Complete Recording: MP3




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Manchester, 2010



Voiceworks Workshop at Birkbeck College, University of London, January 15, 2011

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Reading at the Poetry Project, New York, October 5, 2011

• Complete reading (40:44): MP3





1. Introduction (2:56): MP3
2. Circles from Which (2:08): MP3
3. Murmur (20:14): MP3
4. Excerpt from "All Origins are Lonely" (2:35): MP3
5. Quag, Edge, Ear lone (3:23): MP3
6. Jugular Parting Wild Horses (6:32): MP3
7. Homage (2:19): MP3

"Suddenly Everyone Began Reading Aloud": A Celebration of Bob Cobbing at the Kelly Writers House, October 11, 2007

Complete reading (23:38): MP3

1. third (final) section of From the Handbook of That & Furriery, originally published London, Writers Forum, 1986  from Body of Work (London: Reality Studios, 2006)
2. red shifts, Buckfastleigh, Devon: etruscan books, 2001

Discussing the life and work of Bob Cobbing (13:16): MP3

Reading for the Belladonna* Reading Series, NYC, October 9, 2007

1. Introduction (3:08): MP3
2. All Origins Are Lonely (2:15): MP3
3. Murmur (1:54): MP3
4. Premonitions and Return (1:25): MP3
5. Cardiac Load (8:24): MP3
6. Purpled Matter (10:11): MP3
7. Theoretical Economies (3:29): MP3
8. Narcotic Properties (3:36): MP3
9. Windows Opening (3:59): MP3

Complete Reading (37:40): MP3


Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club (New York), October 6, 2007

1. sections one and two of From the Handbook of That & Furriery, originally published London, Writers Forum, 1986 from Body of Work (London: Reality Street, 2006)
2. "all origins are lonely," London: Veer Books, 2003
3. "quag edge, ear lone", 2007
4. Windows Opening, Belladonna* Chapbook #108, Brooklyn, New York: Belladonna* Books, 2007
Complete reading (31:17): MP3

From Charles Bernstein's Portraits Series: Maggie's Pen, October 5, 2007

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Maggie O'Sullivan
Maggie had just arrived in New York and came by my place after visiting Steve Clay. She was in the U.S. for the Bob Cobbing festival at Penn. We talked about Bob's generous spirit but also how generally inhospitable she found England, which often has greeted artists like her with a colossally cold shoulder. Maggie remembered that I always wrote my poems by hand and with a fountain pen, if possible. Or used to anyway. I gave her my favorite current pen, the Impact Gel writer.
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States of Emergency, Maggie O'Sullivan Poems 1982-1988, Rockdrill CD #11

Published by the Contemporary Poetics Research Centre, Opic Nerve for Birkbeck College, 2005.
Produced by Colin Still. Used with the permission of Colin Still.

from Concerning Spheres, Broken Ground Press, 1982:

1. Concerning Spheres (4:30): MP3
2. Numbers in Winter (1:42): MP3
3. Joining the Colours (4:34): MP3
4. Growth (2:30): MP3
5. Notes & Outings (5:57): MP3
6. For My Mother (1:44): MP3
7. Remembering (3:26): MP3
8. Tree Pieces (1:23): MP3
from Un-Assuming Personas, Writers Forum, 1985:

• Un-Assuming Personas (15:15): MP3
from States of Emergency, International Concrete Poetry Archive, 1987:

1. Lottery & Requiem (1:15): MP3
2. Headlights (6:43): MP3
3. Busk, Pierce (3:12): MP3
4. Plight (8:28): MP3
from Unofficial Word, Galloping Dog Press, 1988:

• Unofficial Word (11:49): MP3

Reading at SUNY-Buffalo, October 27, 1993

1. Introduction by Charles Bernstein (4:04): MP3
2. Lottery & Requiem (for Basil Bunting: 1900-1985) (from States of Emergency, Oxford: ICPA Publication #11, 1987) (1:24): MP3

From In the House of the Shaman (London: Reality Street Editions, 1993, reprint 2003)


3. Book I: Another Weather System (8:43): MP3

Book II: Kinship with Animals


4. Hurls to the Untitled, of bees (0:43): MP3
5. Equities Water (0:26): MP3
6. To Our Own Day (1:05): MP3

Book III: Prism and Hearers


7. Garb (2:51): MP3
8. Hill Figures (1:13): MP3

From Palace of Reptiles (Willowdale, Ontario: The Gig, 2003)


9. Ellen's Lament (2:01): MP3
10. Narrow Bandages, Even Tombs (Now to the Ears) (1:43): MP3
11. Orphée (2:31): MP3
12. Narcotic Properties (3:24): MP3
13. Theoretical Economies (3:06): MP3
14. Birth Palette (2:32): MP3

From eXcLa, a collaboration with Bruce Andrews (London, Writers Forum, 1993)


15. from A2 (2:18): MP3
16. from B4 (1:42): MP3

From Palace of Reptiles


17. Doubtless, Section 1 (4:32): MP3
18. Riverrunnings (Realisations) (15:53): MP3
19. Interview by Charles Bernstein (34:41): MP3, RealAudio

At The Kootenay School of Writing

• Reading on November 2, 1993 (43:12): MP3
• Reading on November 3, 1993 Part 1 (21:37): MP3
• Reading on November 3, 1993 Part 2 (38:44): MP3

Openned Series, London, May 14, 2008

Full video: MOV

Reading "Windows," with Bernstein accompanying readng her text "commentary:" FLV, streaming (after July 1)


Charles Bernstein on Maggie O'Sullivan


Photo © Charles Bernstein/PennSound. Click on image for hi-res.

These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial and educational use only. All rights to this recorded material belong to the author. © 2016 Maggie O'Sullivan. Used with permission of Maggie O'Sullivan. Distributed by PennSound.