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Niall O'Sullivan is a scrawler, promoter and spitter of poetry. Born of Irish parents in England, he grew up in Slough, studied Art in Bath and has been living in London since the turn of the millennium. He has performed poetry since 1997, playing venues all over the country. He has performed alongside the like of Hugo Williams, John Hegley, Roddy Lumsden, John Stammers, Zena Edwards, Phill Jupitus and Pete Doherty and has been featured at the Cheltenham, Bristol, Bath, Folkestone and Penzance literature festivals.
In June 2005 Niall performed a few gigs in Denmark including an appearance at the Roskilde festival. In the autumn of 2005 Niall performed poetry around the country from Cumbria to Cornwall as part of the Apples and Snakes Temptation Tour, and was also part of the Waterways Publishing Reaching 4 tour.
In 2006, Niall visited Germany as an ambassador for the UK poetry scene performing in Berlin as well as being the special guest at the first poetry slam in the eastern region. His first collection, you're not singing anymore , was published by Waterways in December 2004.
Niall has hosted and promoted many events including the Aromapoetry open mic with Nii Parkes as well as founding and co-hosting New Blood for three years at the Poetry Café with James Byrne. He has also ran a monthly event, The Cellar, at the Poetry Café since April 2005. Niall also hosts London’s biggest weekly open mike event, Poetry Unplugged. Outside of poetry, Niall has also hosted the 2004 Big Issue Film Festival at the Prince Charles Cinema.
For almost a decade, Niall worked as a gardener to keep the wolf from the door and the weeds from the geraniums. His experiences of working the housing estates of Acton, as well as his Catholic upbringing, have become a feature of his gritty but humorous poems. His second collection, Ventriloquism for Monkeys, was released in the autumn of 2007.

"...humour is a defining factor in the spoken word. O'Sullivan's own works, compiled in his new collection, 'You're Not Singing Anymore', are cases in point - containing funny and compassionate observations about disparate lives glimpsed on London street corners."-Time Out

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Niall O'Sullivan's ode to the vanishing culinary institution of the greasy spoon cafe.

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