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    The Style Collection
    The Style Collection
    The Style Collection
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    The Style Collection

    By Mike O'Sullivan

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    A collection of contemporary verse dealing in a light hearted way with issues of style: - lifestyle, living in style, living with style. How people style themselves to fit in with others – or not, country style both political and promotional, personal style, and more.

    30 poems of varying length and form in which Mike uses his Irish humour in gentle vein to review how we all have style of some kind......

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMike O'Sullivan
    Release dateJul 17, 2015
    ISBN9781310508783
    The Style Collection
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    Mike O'Sullivan

    Mike is an Irish novelist and poet, married and living in Herefordshire England. He was born in Dublin and spent his school years in Cork. In primary school Mike needed to get by the eagle-eyed headmaster who looked hard at his long essays designed to hide the words he could not spell. This carried on further up the line when at UCD the Professor of English likened Mike to another who could not spell, George Bernard Shaw. But Mike made the connection, he did not have to be a genius at spelling. He moved to London in his twenties and has worked in a wide range of industries – music and cosmetics, in oil exploration, mining, insurance, catering, City Finance and Management Consultancy. Mike uses that experience in his novels. When he first arrived in London Mike fell in with a group of three other Irishmen debating the philosophical process of making a million or finding a job that was more like pleasure. Mike found the job, but it would take too long to explain his philosophy here. Mike says that in a sense he had a plan for life and so far it has been working out. His novels often start with an individual battling the system but without a plan of how he or she will cope. Mike believes that social systems and institutions are usually rigid when it comes to change or quick decisions and therefore the individual can become trapped. It takes effort, some courage and guile to walk out into the wider world of individual thinking. He shows that an individual can focus enough to even the odds and come out on top. He often uses humour and comedic situations to make his point leaving the reader to consider the underlying philosophy if they wish. A key element of Mike’s writing is the Irish skill of fast paced conversation as Mike’s overall aim is to entertain his readers.

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      The Style Collection - Mike O'Sullivan

      The Style Collection

      poems by

      Mike O’Sullivan

      Copyright © 2015 by Mike O’Sullivan

      This book is a work of fiction and, except in the case of historical fact, any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

      All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise) without the prior written permission of the copyright owner.

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      Contents

      Escape

      Wonderful life

      Life on the edge

      Getting there

      The stage you set

      Time

      Striding through life

      Life afterwards

      The dance

      Doorways

      Great words

      Light of day

      Life and words

      The beat

      The crime writer

      Absorb the mood

      Reality

      Wild road to Seville

      The stage - lyrics

      Performance - lyrics

      What to expect

      The word machine

      Discover Ireland.com - commentary

      It’s all in the mind

      Taking it easy

      The pan

      The lanes (Gorsley Herefordshire)

      Our thinking

      Fishin’

      The Garden

      1

      Escape

      The attractiveness of an Escape holiday

      is that you escape from the everyday

      to the each day

      Each day you will remember from where you escaped

      and (why) each day will be remembered

      for the incredible excitement between two midnights

      two

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