Distance

ISBN-13: 9781740279970 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 92 str.

Nathanael O'Reilly

Opis

With its beer-drenched Blundstones, cricket balls retrieved from neighbours backyards, misbehaving pastors kids and crabs plucked from the Moyne river, OReillys 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, from the floor of a petrol station in rural NSW to the evening sky seen from a Scottish beach, this poetry traverses continents, testing spaces and locations and finding them brimming with their own types of desire. Using a light touch and an elegant voice, Distance traces out nostalgias peculiar contours and emotional resonances, resulting in remarkable poetic moments that will return and whisper again to a reader even after the book is set down. - Lachlan Brown, author of Limited Cities 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 OReilly, 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, author of A Slant of Light, Work Life and Australian Poetry: Romanticism and NegativityNathanael OReillys poems sound the major themes of Australian poetry: landscape, displacement, yearning, and above all a critique of cultural narrowness. OReillys plain-spoken diction is often laced with understated wit, but is given ballast by its principled grounding in lived experience. - Nicholas Birns, editor of Antipodes