Maggie O'Sullivan was born in 1951. She is a British
poet
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,
performer
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and visual artist associated with the
British Poetry Revival
"The British Poetry Revival" is the general name given to a loose poetry movement in Britain that took place in the 1960s and 1970s. The revival was a modernist-inspired reaction to the Movement's more conservative approach to British poetry. T ...
.
O'Sullivan was born in
Lincoln, England of
Irish
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immigrant parents. She moved to
London
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in 1971 and worked for the
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until 1988. Her early work appeared in magazines such as
. She now lives in
. Her books include ''An Incomplete Natural History'' (1984), ''In the House of the Shaman'' (1993), ''Red Shifts'' (2000) and ''Palace of Reptiles'' (2003). She edited ''out of everywhere: An anthology of contemporary linguistically innovative poetry by women in North America & the UK'' (1996).