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Damen O'Brien Damen O'Brien i(A29747 works by)
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1 Carpool i "Tuesday and Thursday afternoons, the rain blew you", Damen O'Brien , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 435 2021; (p. 59)
1 The Future i "For a moment he was given his future:", Damen O'Brien , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Griffith Review , no. 73 2021;
1 What Animal Could You Beat in a Fight? Damen O'Brien , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , August no. 102 2021;
1 The Left i "What became of the silent child who", Damen O'Brien , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Westerly , vol. 66 no. 1 2021; (p. 49)
1 Twined i "Strange child that I have borne, globed", Damen O'Brien , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: StylusLit , March no. 9 2021;
1 y separately published work icon Animals with Human Voices Damen O'Brien , Canberra : Recent Work Press , 2021 20909275 2021 selected work poetry

'In Animals with Human Voices you will find worms that dream of god, jellyfish weary of immortality, a powerless Superman, some illogical observations on aliens’, a lightning conductor tired of lightning and the truth about Elvis.  In multi award-winning poet Damen O’Brien’s debut collection, his cinematic eye and love of nature deliver poems which are ciphers for the normal concerns of every human: love, life and death and what we leave behind.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
1 How the Angels Covet Heaven i "Perhaps we were birds once, in another life,", Damen O'Brien , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Verity La , November 2020;
1 Light Speed i "Light was slow, wo winged messengers", Damen O'Brien , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rabbit , no. 31 2020; (p. 42-43)
1 A First Approximation Damen O'Brien , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Anthology 2020; (p. 82)
1 Bookend to a Flood i "Sky empty of clouds and we chew stubble for weeks", Damen O'Brien , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Montreal International Poetry Prize - 2020 Shortlist 2020;
1 Fatberg i "Help, I’ve fallen in a fatberg and I can’t get out.", Damen O'Brien , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 February no. 95 2020;
1 The Relocation of Adamsville i "Whatever made the town a town moved on south", Damen O'Brien , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: FourW New Writing , no. 30 2019; (p. 168)
1 Christmas Dinner i "The end of year approaching, we return to our places", Damen O'Brien , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Stilts , December no. 6 2019;
1 The Grass Shark i "Nothing about her knitting the lawn", Damen O'Brien , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Meniscus , vol. 7 no. 2 2019;
1 The Persistence of the Image Damen O'Brien , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Grieve : Stories and Poems about Grief and Loss: Volume Seven 2019;
1 Ice and Glass i "You will be out of reach upon a wafer shelf of ice,", Damen O'Brien , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 November no. 93 2019;
1 Bezoar i "Every day a beetle has its bowl of grass.", Damen O'Brien , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 November no. 93 2019;
1 The Superman Complex i "He cannot stop the bullet", Damen O'Brien , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Island , no. 158 2019; (p. 63)
1 Grey’s Anatomy i "Grey’s Anatomy", Damen O'Brien , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Ipswich Poetry Feast 2019;
1 Toad i "Toad in the garden, which is the same as", Damen O'Brien , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Overland , Spring no. 236 2019;
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