The shack
I’m a sixth-generation Tasmanian. I feel this place in my bones ...
Shelley O’Reilly is a sixth-generation Tasmanian, living near the banks of timtumili minanya/Derwent River in Claremont. She holds a PhD in poetry from the University of Tasmania. She is the author of Dying for Beauty, short stories published by Montpelier Press, and If I Had a Wooden Ruler, poems published by The People’s Library. In 2021 she curated The Poetry in Motion Project, supported by The City of Hobart, placing 40 poems about Hobart on 40 Metro buses. She teaches English at Claremont College and writes about place and Tasmanian history.
Shelley O’Reilly is a sixth-generation Tasmanian, living near the banks of timtumili minanya/Derwent River in Claremont. She holds a PhD in poetry from the University of Tasmania. She is the author of Dying for Beauty, short stories published by Montpelier Press, and If I Had a Wooden Ruler, poems published by The People’s Library. In 2021 she curated The Poetry in Motion Project, supported by The City of Hobart, placing 40 poems about Hobart on 40 Metro buses. She teaches English at Claremont College and writes about place and Tasmanian history.