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Beth O'Brien

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My name is Beth O'Brien and I am an author and poet!

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Photo of Beth - a woman in her twenties with long, dark blond hair and smiling at the camera.

Sun shine brightly through flowers overlayed with text reading: I have pretended for so long that I thought the best compliment would be:

Light Perception
by Beth O'Brien


​This pamphlet is a collection of poems that centres on the theme of disability, visual impairment, and dealing with how people react to one with a disability.

Light Perception discusses the feeling of being labelled as ‘wrong’ from a young age, the struggle of trying to seem as able as possible, even if it’s just an act, and coming to terms with learning that everyone needs help sometimes.

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I Left the Room Burning 
By Beth O'Brien 


​A woman who never wanted children finds herself reluctantly bringing up her sister’s daughter. The narrative threaded through these eighty short poems confuses and obfuscates, whilst completely drawing the reader in to the extent that by the end, one is left with the feeling of having watched a deeply immersive film or read an engrossing novella.

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Photo of a notebook on a wooden desk overlayed with text that reads: Proof is taken from the margins beneath the tip-ex applied too thickly it crinkles the page, adding another layer of distortion. The contortionist watches from the footer, gazing up at the trapeze crossed wires of scribbled out sentences, crossed out edits, and she morphs herself into a question mark before she, too, is taken. From 'Taking proof' in I Left the Room Burning by Beth O'Brien (2021)
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