摘要：Nathanael O’Reilly is Assistant Professor of English in the Department of Literature and Languages at The University of Texas. He has published many poems in literary journals but his chapbook Symptoms of Homesickness is his first collection. It contains twenty poems and is published by Picaro Press. The title poem was published in Transnational Literature Vol. 2, Issue 1. O’Reilly was born in Warrnambool, Victoria and writes as an expatriate, remembering scenes from his childhood and adolescence, growing up in Australia. Graham Catt is an Adelaide poet. His first collection Shooting Stars was published by Ginninderra Press in 2001. Later there were two chapbooks published by Picaro Press, The Hieronymus Bosch Shopping Mall (2007) and Wagtail 84 – the Inverted World (2009). He has also self-published two collections, Travelling Backwards – Lost in New Zealand (2009) and Corduroy & Cabbage – Growing up in 70s Suburbia (2010). Corduroy & Cabbage is the subject of this review, alongside O’Reilly’s Symptoms of Homesickness.
