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...