‘Nathanael O’Reilly’s poems sound the major themes of Australian poetry: landscape, displacement, yearning, and above all a critique of cultural narrowness. O’Reilly’s 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
Satendra Nandan is still able to surprise and move us to revisit our own pasts, and the pastness of the past, in order to rediscover what we thought we already knew.
The poems in this collection articulate our emotional incursions into the landscape around us; how we measure our experiences of change and growth, how we resist and endure, with the land as backdrop.