Maeve O'Sullivan
Maeve O’Sullivan is an Irish poet based in her home city of Dublin. Her poetry and haikai (haiku and related forms) have been widely published, anthologized and translated since the mid-1990s. Maeve is the author of six collections of long- and short-form poetry with Alba Publishing, the latest one being Where All Ladders Start (2024). This contains mainly long-form poems, but also includes Japanese forms: some sequences of senryu (human-nature haiku) and a number of haibun, the form that combines prose with haiku.
Prizes
Maeve is a former prize-winner of the Brendan Kennelly Poetry Competition, the Listowel Writers’ Week Poetry Competition and the Haiku Museum of Literature Award (via Blithe Spirit). Her work has also been nominated for both a Forward Prize (for Poetry) and a Touchstone Award (for Haikai).
Memberships
Teaching, workshops & mentoring
You can find Maeve
As a tutor in a college of further education in Dublin for over twenty years, Maeve has taught English, journalism, public relations, communications and professional skills development at various levels.
Since the start of the millennium, she has been leading workshops in haikai (haiku and related forms), including evening classes for the Irish Writers’ Centre, and one-off beginners’ workshops for the Bray, Dingle, Dromineer and Kinsale Literary Festivals and for various libraries in Dublin City and County.
Since 2022, she has been delivering haiku workshops in secondary schools to support Duais Basho / The Basho Prize, a joint venture between Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann and the Imram Literary Festival / Féíle Litríochta Gaeilge.
Previous Books
Maeve is the author of five previous collections from Alba Publishing www.albapublishing.com, all which have received highly favourable reviews in poetry and haikai journals to date:
All of these five titles are out of print. However, Initial Response, A Train Hurtles West and Wasp on the Prayer Flag can be accessed for free in The Haiku Foundation’s Digital Library.
