Preparations for Departure
$23.37
- Paperback
100 pages
- Release Date
1 May 2017
Summary
“Joseph Brodsky, the Russian Nobel laureate, once remarked that memory and art have in common the ‘ability to select, a taste for detail.’ In the work of Nathanael O’Reilly, memory and art come together to bring us poems that remember what cannot - what must not - be forgotten, in rich and telling detail and with a taste for quiet but incisive irony.” ~ Paul Kane
The poems in this transnational, cosmopolitan collection traverse fourteen countries, from Australia,…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781742589459 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1742589456 |
| Author: | Nathanael O'Reilly |
| Publisher: | UWA Publishing |
| Imprint: | UWAP |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 100 |
| Release Date: | 1 May 2017 |
| Weight: | 400g |
| Dimensions: | 7mm x 140mm x 210mm |
| Series: | UWAP Poetry |
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Nathanael O'Reilly
Nathanael O’Reilly was born in Warrnambool in 1973 and raised in Ballarat, Brisbane and Shepparton. He attended university at Monash and Ballarat before moving overseas in 1995. He has travelled on five continents and spent extended periods in England, Ireland, Germany, Ukraine and the United States, where he currently resides. His poems have appeared in journals and anthologies published in eight countries, including Antipodes, Australian Love Poems, Cordite, FourW, LiNQ, Mascara, Postcolonial Text, Prosopisia, Red River Review, Snorkel, Social Alternatives, Tincture, Transnational Literature, and Verity La. O’Reilly is the recipient of an Emerging Writers Grant from the Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts. He is the author of Distance (Picaro Press, 2014; Ginninderra Press, 2015) and the chapbooks Cult (Ginninderra Press, 2016), Suburban Exile (Picaro Press, 2011) and Symptoms of Homesickness (Picaro Press, 2010). Preparations for Departure is his second full-length poetry collection.
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