Damen O’Brien

O'BRIEN, Damen

Damen O’Brien is a multi-award-winning poet based in Brisbane. His awards include The Moth Poetry Prize, the Peter Porter Poetry Prize and the Val Vallis Award. His poems have been published in many journals, including Overland, Island, Southerly, Westerly and Meanjin. His first collection of poetry, Animals with Human Voices, is published by Recent Work Press

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Sonnet for the weekend

Poetry Glory to God for long weekends,for lattes served by obsequious baristas,sunnied eggs and bacon with the crispy ends,for an empty park in front of the cinemas.To she which gives us rain on shaggy lawns,all glory given, by which we...

The future

PoetryFor a moment he was given his future: a prophetic pulse racing to the horizon of his life and washing it stark and certain, the glacier of days crisp with everything he would ever achieve, the pitiful lies he would tell his wife, his...

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