AustLit

'‘If I had a wooden ruler I would write your name on it …’

'This collection of short poems by Shelley O’Reilly is about desire and infatuation, the vicissitudes of daily life, schooling, and the processes of mourning. Poems about obsession yield to revelations about the beauty found in everyday life which then give way to consideration of the common disasters that plague us. If I Had A Wooden Ruler And Other Poems are self-deprecating, humorous, sometimes plaintive, poems about love, death, yearning and the human condition. The tone is light and the experiences are universal but rendered in uniquely tender, wry and spiky verses.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.