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    The People Collection
    The People Collection
    The People Collection
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    The People Collection

    By Mike O'Sullivan

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    A collection of 23 Poems of varying length and form, raising awareness of individuals who suffer, deserve mention, or stand out against the system, and the great majority who for their own reasons stay silent at critical times when their voices might make the difference between what is seen as fair and what is seen as corrupt in society.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMike O'Sullivan
    Release dateJul 17, 2015
    ISBN9781310974120
    The People 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 People Collection - Mike O'Sullivan

      The People Collection

      poems by

      Mike O’Sullivan

      Copyright © 2014 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

      The tide

      Hairdresser

      The man who screwed up his world

      Security

      Council Planning Officer

      Guildford 4

      Preacher

      Posers in Peterborough Square

      A Poets night out

      Dream time gentlemen please

      Moment of truth

      Pink

      Life and words

      Drivers

      Blue boys

      Chair of despair

      Where we come from

      Themselves

      The boss

      People

      The canal

      Arsene Wenger

      Death of a poet

      1 The tide

      It falls to me to meet the tide

      of protest and mass hysteria

      with questions that investigate

      attitudes of mass media

      the cause celeb the raging banker

      the child molester family honour

      the wars we fight the reasons why

      flash points erupt and people die

      slogan language catchy headline

      pouring of oil on natural grapevine

      climate clinchers commercial decision

      to murder millions with sheer precision

      public enquiries cover up deeds

      ‘concerned media’ field of weeds

      housing miseries

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