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Edward Reilly

Edward Reilly

About Edward Reilly

b. 1944 Adelaide, but has lived in Geelong for the past 30 or more years. I hold an MA (Deakin) for a thesis on the Irish poet Thomas Kinsella & PhD (Victoria) in Poetics. A former secondary teacher & curriculum consultant, I currently lecture as a sessional in education & literary studies at Victoria Uni. I am interested in contemporary poetics & poets, especially of Eire & eastern Europe. My poems & essays have been published by Literatura ir menas (Vilnius), Blemish (Canberra), Redreaming the Plain (RMIT), Eureka Street (Melbourne), SideWalk (Adelaide), DiVerseCity (Austin), Rio Grande Review (El Paso) & Nimrod (Tulsa), and now in Cordite.



Silence in snowy streets

Posted on August 1, 2010 by Edward Reilly

The footprints were black as tarmac, somehow withholding the light which otherwise streamed across the intersection of snowy streets: perhaps they had captured her soul as she walked from the basilica over to the poet’s monument and then to the …

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Edward Reilly: The house leans

Posted on December 3, 2008 by Edward Reilly

The house leans against the icy southwesterlies, Dreaming itself as one of those pioneer ships threading Between gnarled cliffs near Glenample & barbed islands, Running in uncharted waters before five green fathoms Under a Moon too shy to show even …

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