MARK O'FLYNN
Mark O’Flynn's poetry collections include The Too Bright Sun (1996), The Good Oil (2000), What Can Be Proven (2007), Untested Cures (2011), The Soup’s Song (2015), and Shared Breath (2017). His short stories and reviews have appeared in a wide range of journals and magazines, both in Australia and overseas. His novel, Grassdogs, was the Varuna Manuscript Award and was published in 2006 by Harper Collins. It was followed by The Forgotten World, (2013). A collection of short stories, White Light, was also published later that year. He has also published a memoir, False Start, (2013). A recent novel, The Last Days of Ava Langdon, (UQP, 2016) was shortlisted for both the Miles Franklin Award and the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Fiction, as well as winning the Voss Literary Award, 2017. Recent books include the collection of short stories Dental Tourism (Puncher & Wattmann 2020), and Undercoat: Poems about Paintings, launched by Peter Minter on 17th March, 2022. Mark lives in the Blue Mountains, NSW.
Poetry
Launch speeches
New Poets' Series, Series 5
— Five Islands Press, 05 Jul 1998
Deb Westbury's 'Winter in Stone Country'
— Hope
Street Press, 04 Sept 2016
Essays
New Uses for the Penguin Book of Science Fiction
The Rare, Endangered Leura Skink
Reviews
Louise Oxley's Compound Eye
— Five Islands Press, 2003
Tim Thorne's Best Bitter
— PressPress, NSW, 2006
Avalon Burning: a review of Deb Westbury's
The View From Here, New and Selected Poems
— Brandl & Schlesinger, 2008