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Come on an adventure with Helen and her pint-size friend Terri, who lives in an old teapot in Helen's garden. They become the best of pals who always look out for each other as they learn all about what it means to be a true friend.

Drawing from his experiences as a freelance journalist covering European affairs, the author reworks textual sources to offer revealing glimpses into the latent political machinery underlying our discourse. The poems serve as a testimony and reappropriation of language, providing a unique perspective on a continent wrestling with agency. This collection unveils the complexities of European experience, resonating with the challenges of the contemporary political landscape.Praise for the Author and WorkImplausibly yet necessarily, enditem. shimmers with what could be called a 'poetics of logistics,' re-arranging and recasting the bureaucratic language of distribution and circulation into a language of transcultural revolution. Jeremy Allan Hawkins presents a portrait of 'the European project' that reveals the hypocrisy behind borders closed to bodies but open to markets, as well as tracks the role Global English plays in both distorting and codifying lived, local experience. However, Hawkins also shows us that ambivalence and malleability are written into the language, such that 'end item' becomes enditem., less a finalized product for sale than the poetic imperative to keep connecting, configuring, and mobilizing.- Mia You, author of I, Too, Dislike It (1913 Press, 2016) Jeremy Allan Hawkins's collection enditem. employs collage to juxtapose pieces of current events - war, entertainment, commerce, geopolitical haggling and its human cost - against one another. Built with the language of news articles, Hawkins crafts a sharp portrait of our lived moment, vibrating with the 'uncertainties that persist,' and 'political catastrophic stupidity' of global proportions. This project emphasizes the schism between our felt and lived realities, amid the ongoing violence of wars, displaced communities, destruction. Readers will find themselves entranced with the language we are fed, only to have it reveal itself as poem, riddle, and ouroboros.- Avni Vyas, author of Little God (Burrow Press, 2021)

Boulevard, a poetic journey forged amid the crucible of the COVID-19 pandemic, encapsulates a year of the poet's life confined to working from home due to travel restrictions to Australia and Ireland, his cherished homelands.Comprising 76 sections, this collection beckons readers into a nuanced exploration of the extraordinary events unfolding on a boulevard and its neighboring surroundings during this unprecedented time.Is it a book-length poem or a collection of 76 standalone works? That decision rests with you, the reader.Step into Boulevard, where the local becomes a tapestry of universal resonance, and the poet's journey becomes yours to traverse.Praise for the Author and Work'Boulevard achieves a poet's holy mission to elevate and preserve the times one lives in with starkly rich, elegant, Hopper-like vignettes unfolding over time in the micro-view outside his window of one stretch of an American street while hunkering down during the initial period of the Covid-19 pandemic. The everyday is made new and unusual; the seemingly mundane, extraordinary. O'Reilly reminds us that poetry is the alchemy that give us light, even from the darkest moments in the human experience.'Matt Hohner, author of Thresholds and Other Poems (Apprentice House, 2018)With irrepressible ingenuity, Nathanael O'Reilly employs the poem as fragment to explore his neighbourhood's resilience in the jittery and ludic rhythm of life during the pandemic. Highly attentive and closely focused, Boulevard is a superbly crafted and questing poeticization of the hyperlocal-exploring the daily and seasonal tempi of the suburban and the quotidian. Boulevard is razor sharp; it is testimony, celebration and elegy.Cassandra Atherton, poet and critic, Professor of Writing and Literature, Deakin University

The poems in this collection were composed using only words that appear in the following texts attributed to the legendary, notorious, and infamous Irish-Australian bushranger Ned Kelly, who lived from 1854 to 1880: The Jerilderie Letter, The Cameron Letter, The Babington Letter and The O'Loghlen Letter.The poems use Kelly's spelling and mimic his punctuation and capitalisation. This collection was partly inspired by Peter Carey's novel True History of the Kelly Gang and Ian Jones's biography Ned Kelly: A Short Life, along with the author's own visits to many of the important places in Kelly's short life, which form the setting for the poems.The collection attempts to answer a simple question: what if Ned Kelly wrote poetry?Praise for the Author and Work'Borrow[ing]' from Kelly's letters, 'Wombat[-]clever' O'Reilly has moulded found poetry that is 'Fearless free and bold' as the Australian bushranger. His lines 'gallop' like the 'Stallion[s] the greatest horsestealer borrow[ed].'¿¿Stuart Barnes, poet. Like to the Lark (2023) and Glasshouses (2016).In Selected Poems of Ned Kelly, O'Reilly allows the famed outlaw's inventive sentences room to breathe and perform anew the rebelliousness which 'made the country ring / with the name of Kelly.Toby Davidson, poet and author of Good for the Soul: John Curtin's Life with Poetry.

This critically reviewed collection of two long-form works and four shorter form works details loss, meaning, identity, the multiplicity of self-hood, love, passion, and how we understand each other through time.