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Nathanael O'Reilly Nathanael O'Reilly i(A77245 works by) (birth name: Nathanael David O'Reilly)
Born: Established: 1973 Warrnambool, Warrnambool area, Western District, Victoria, ;
Gender: Male
Departed from Australia: 1995
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1 Australia i "Australia, you beautiful tragic stolen continent", Nathanael O'Reilly , 2024 single work poetry
— Appears in: Meanjin Online 2024;
1 My Ancestors i "left Ireland, England, Wales and Portugal", Nathanael O'Reilly , 2024 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rabbit , no. 38 2024; (p. 34-36)
1 After the Pandemic i "Hike from Avebury to Stonehenge", Nathanael O'Reilly , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: Saltbush Review , no. 4 2023;
1 Undertow i "Niall from Eniskillen sang Carrickfergus", Nathanael O'Reilly , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: Meniscus , vol. 11 no. 2 2023; (p. 137)
1 Returning Homewards i "Father, you are his son. Look, wonder, perfect display.", Nathanael O'Reilly , 2023 poetry
— Appears in: Live Encounters , August 2023;
1 Villiers Street i "A one-storey house with baby-blue", Nathanael O'Reilly , 2023 poetry
— Appears in: Live Encounters , August 2023;
1 Rainwater i "Rain falls flooding the backyard.", Nathanael O'Reilly , 2023 poetry
— Appears in: Live Encounters , August 2023;
1 y separately published work icon Selected Poems of Ned Kelly Nathanael O'Reilly , Tipperary (County) : Beir Bua Press , 2023 26429411 2023 selected work poetry

'The poems in this collection were composed using only the words that appear in the following texts attributed to the legendary/notorious/infamous Irish-Australian bushranger Ned Kelly (1854-1880): The Jerilderie Letter, The Cameron Letter, The Babington Letter and The O’Loghlen Letter. The poems use Kelly’s spelling and mimic his punctuation and capitalization. This collection was partly inspired by Peter Carey’s novel True History of the Kelly Gang and Ian Jones’s biography, Ned Kelly: A Short Life, along with my own visits to many of the important places in Kelly’s short life (and settings for the poems). The collection attempts to answer a simple question: what if Ned Kelly wrote poetry?'

Source: Introduction.
1 Ride i "ride a tram up Collins, cross King, William, Queen", Nathanael O'Reilly , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Axon : Creative Explorations , December vol. 12 no. 2 2022;
1 In the Beginning i "The OB-GYN sliced through your mother’s", Nathanael O'Reilly , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Axon : Creative Explorations , December vol. 12 no. 2 2022;
1 Epithalamium i "You’re blueberries and I’m compost.", Nathanael O'Reilly , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Axon : Creative Explorations , December vol. 12 no. 2 2022;
1 Fortitude i "We rode our bikes to school along Parkside", Nathanael O'Reilly , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , vol. 34 no. 1 2022;
1 Melbourne i "Melbourne,", Nathanael O'Reilly , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , vol. 34 no. 1 2022;
1 Notes and Feedback i "Distorted notes & feedback roar from my daughter’s room;", Nathanael O'Reilly , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , vol. 34 no. 1 2022;
1 Silent Still i "the boulevard is quiet today. cars", Nathanael O'Reilly , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , vol. 34 no. 1 2022;
1 Riding West i "a twentysomething woman cruises", Nathanael O'Reilly , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , vol. 34 no. 1 2022;
1 Dying Fall i "two weeks into the pandemic", Nathanael O'Reilly , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , vol. 34 no. 1 2022;
1 Where the West Begins i "a black Dodge Charger runs the stop sign", Nathanael O'Reilly , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , vol. 34 no. 1 2022;
1 Chords and Lyrics i "I pause 20,000 Days on Earth", Nathanael O'Reilly , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Meniscus , vol. 10 no. 1 2022; (p. 97)
1 Shared Wall i "my daughter plays chords on a Fender Strat", Nathanael O'Reilly , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Social Alternatives , April vol. 41 no. 1 2022; (p. 86)
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