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Issue Details: First known date: 2018... 2018 If I Had a Wooden Ruler and Other Poems
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'‘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.

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    • Hobart, Southeast Tasmania, Tasmania,: A Published Event , 2018 .
      Extent: 106p.p.
      Description: illus.
      Series: y separately published work icon The People's Library A Published Event , Tasmania : 2018 18983593 2018 series - publisher

      Created by A Published Event, The People's Library is a contemporary artwork that involves the commissioning of 113 original works of poetry, prose, memoir and more, which were 'presented' in the form of live readings and performances at the Hob/Art Book Fair, 21-22 September 2018.

      Number in series: 3
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