Distance

By Nathanael O'Reilly

'With its beer-drenched Blundstones, cricket balls retrieved from neighbour's backyards, misbehaving pastor's kids and crabs plucked from the Moyne river, O'Reilly's poetry collects and curates a series of vernacular objects and experiences that comprise life in Australia and beyond. From the streets of Ballarat to the dry highways of West Texas, f

• Language: English
• Publisher: Debbie Lee
• Release date: Jul 14, 2015
• ISBN: 9781740279987

Nathanael O'Reilly

Irish-Australian poet Nathanael O'Reilly teaches creative writing at the University of Texas at Arlington. His poetry collections include Selected Poems of Ned Kelly (Downingfield Press, 2024), Landmarks (Lamar University Literary Press, 2024), Dear Nostalgia (above/ground press, 2023), (Un)belonging (Recent Work Press, 2020), BLUE (above/ground press, 2020) and Preparations for Departure (University of Western Australia Publishing, 2017). His work appears in 125 journals and anthologies published in 15 countries, including Cordite Poetry Review, The Honest Ulsterman, Mascara Literary Review, New World Writing Quarterly, Southword: New International Writing, Trasna, Westerly and Wisconsin Review. He is poetry editor for Antipodes: A Global Journal of Australian/New Zealand Literature.

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