Lucky Table
O'Sullivan, Vincent
Published 2001
ISBN 9780864734068
Format paperback
Category Poetry
RRP: $24.95
Lucky Table is the dazzling follow-up to Vincent O’Sullivan’s
acclaimed 1999 Montana New Zealand Book Award-winning collection Seeing You
Asked. Lucky Table was shortlisted in the poetry section of the Montana
NZ Book Awards 2001
Praise For Vincent O'Sullivan
‘one of the outstanding books of poems of the decade’ —
Kevin Ireland
‘Wise, wry, acerbic, ironic, each piece begs to be savoured slowly’ —Harvey McQueen
‘demonstrates anew O’Sullivan’s insatiable curiosity about human
nature and language . . . a very remarkable collection of poems’ —
Ken Arvidson
O’Sullivan works language into unlikely shapes, displaying his power as
a wordsmith, while acknowledging that words can take us only so far.
Evening Post
There is a kind of luminous spirituality about O’Sullivan’s poetry,
that long after you have read the poems, continues to reside in the objects or
the situations the poems describe...
Waikato Times