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Nathanael O'Reilly
The poems in this collection were composed using only words that appear in the following texts attributed to the legendary, notorious, and infamous Irish-Australian bushranger Ned Kelly, who lived from…
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Boulevard, a poetic journey forged amid the crucible of the COVID-19 pandemic, encapsulates a year of the poet's life confined to working from home due to travel restrictions to Australia…
A poetry collection that explores travel, migration, and fatherhood in contemporary America. The poet, Nathanael O'Reilly, offers a unique perspective on the world today as an Australian immigrant living in…
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In Dublin Wandering, Nathanael O'Reilly rearranges, remixes and recombines words and phrases from James Joyce's Ulysses into seventeen poems, each named for the corresponding episodes in Joyce's novel. Dublin Wandering…
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New and Selected Poems of Anna Wickham is the first collection of Wickham's poetry to be published in over three decades. This collection republishes one hundred of Wickham's poems selected…
"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…
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The poems in (Un)belonging explore physical and psychological spaces, examining the consequences of a life lived on three continents, defined by separation from homelands and loved ones, shaped by departure…
Exploring Suburbia is the first book-length study of suburbia in Australian literature; it addresses a long-neglected and underexamined area within Australian literature and analyzes novels by some of Australia’s most…
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…
This book presents thirteen essays that address the numerous ways in which Australian literature is postcolonial and can be read using postcolonial reading strategies. The collection addresses a wide variety…
Includes bibliographical references (pages 330-331) and index.
