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I Was Expecting Someone Taller is actually a collection of people: working people, old people, street people, famous people–from Josephine Baker to Baryshinikov, a woman "lunching out" with Jesus to a barfly. These poetic portraits are truthful, sometimes tinged with black humour, other times political. Sue Nevill’s people break through the flat, artificial surfaces of typical portraits and give us colourful, three-dimensional views of their unexpected natures.
Sue Nevill has the usual eclectic writerly background: jobs in advertising, archeological mudpits, bars, berry fields and book shops; obsessions that range from baseball to opera. Her poetry and short fiction have been appearing in Canadian, British and U.S. magazines since 1987.
Sue Nevill is the author of I Was Expecting Someone Taller, and a co-author of Quintet: Themes & Variations. Her poetry has been widely published in such Canadian literary periodicals as The Antigonish Review, CV2, Event, The Fiddlehead, Grain, The Malahat Review and The New Quarterly. Nevill's work has appeared in many anthologies, including The Windhorse Reader: Choice Poems of 1993. A long-time resident of Vancouver, Nevill works as a freelance writer and editor.