New Poetry by Nathanael O'Reilly

Bookpeople

For Celeste

Bookstore browsing

we begin with Harry Potter

discuss the merits

of various cover art

before moving on to Star Wars

crafts and Percy Jackson

finally it's Dad's turn

so we descend the stairs

to Poetry and Fiction

break for bagels and coffee

with Quidditch Through The Ages

and Charles Wright's Caribou

before finishing with journals

magazines, fridge magnets

wands and horcruxes

- Nathanael O'Reilly 2016

Nathanael O’Reilly was born and raised in Australia and now lives in Texas. He is the author of the full-length collection Distance and the chapbooks Cult, Suburban Exile and Symptoms of Homesickness. He is the recipient of an Emerging Writers Grant from the Australia Council for the Arts. His poems have been published in journals and anthologies in eight countries, including Antipodes, Australian Love Poems, Bluepepper, Cordite, FourW, LiNQ, Mascara, Postcolonial Text, Prosopisia, Red River Review, Snorkel, Social Alternatives, Tincture, Transnational Literature, Verity La and Writ Poetry Review.