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be-attitudes
be-attitudes is a powerful debut collection of poems written between 1983 and 1989, capturing Kevin O’Hara’s fierce engagement with inner life and the outer world as a young poet.
Moving between city streets, workplaces, bedrooms, churches, bus stations and mental battlefields, this collection explores identity, desire, power, violence, belief, alienation and the strange theatre of everyday life. His voice is by turns philosophical, satirical, tender and brutal, examining both private psychology and the social systems that shape us.
From the corporate rituals of The Works Meal and Overtime, to the existential isolation of To nowhere, the sexual politics of The Creation, and the cultural unease running through pieces such as White European Cuckoo and Ameriligion, the book documents a consciousness pushing against conformity, religion, consumerism and emotional silence.
At the heart of the collection lies a recurring question, what does it mean to be a self in a world that is constantly trying to define you.
Raw, reflective and intellectually charged, be-attitudes speaks to readers of literary, philosophical and socially aware poetry who value language that challenges as much as it reveals.
Moving between city streets, workplaces, bedrooms, churches, bus stations and mental battlefields, this collection explores identity, desire, power, violence, belief, alienation and the strange theatre of everyday life. His voice is by turns philosophical, satirical, tender and brutal, examining both private psychology and the social systems that shape us.
From the corporate rituals of The Works Meal and Overtime, to the existential isolation of To nowhere, the sexual politics of The Creation, and the cultural unease running through pieces such as White European Cuckoo and Ameriligion, the book documents a consciousness pushing against conformity, religion, consumerism and emotional silence.
At the heart of the collection lies a recurring question, what does it mean to be a self in a world that is constantly trying to define you.
Raw, reflective and intellectually charged, be-attitudes speaks to readers of literary, philosophical and socially aware poetry who value language that challenges as much as it reveals.
70 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 5, 2026
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