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Jilly O'BrienJilly O'Brien

Jilly O’Brien is a Dunedin writer. She was educated at Cambridge, and has lived in New Zealand for the past 12 years. Jilly was born in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire in 1972.

The Friday Poem: ‘Deidre Barlow’ by Jilly O’Brien

20 October 201720 October 2017 by Jilly O'Brien

New verse by Jilly O’Brien.   Deirdre Barlow   Deirdre do the neck thing Deirdre do the neck thing Deidre do that thing with your neck The worried neck and specs thing   Oh Ken   a lady gave birth in an ambulance because she left it too late watching you leave Ken in 1983 … Read more

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