Maureen O'Brien. 1962-2016. #punkgirlsbook is dedicated to Maureen who sadly passed away two years a
Maureen O'Brien. 1962-2016. #punkgirlsbook is dedicated to Maureen who sadly passed away two years ago. Maureen was the founder of the infamous Melbourne punk pub crawl and also worked as a live music promoter working with Prophagandi and No Use for a Name. What struck me most about Maureen in our chats and emails back and forth was her love of writing poetry and her extreme connection with her family. “I have the best parents in the world” she told me. Maureen had some very dark times but found a lot of positivity and fun in the punk scene, she also spoke of saving at least one dozen lives saying “my favourite thing is helping people, I am not a bystander.” Here is a snippet of Maureen’s email to me in 2015; “Remember, I write about reality, always have. I say things that most people don’t have the guts to say. Let me know what you think about my poem ‘War’ Soldiers clashing, men against men, weapons firing, death falls upon them, fighting for reasons, reasons they’ve forgot, men falling like rag dolls at the fire of a shot. Murder, mayhem and destruction, is this the world that man has constructed? Man has no right to rake the life of another, we were born equal, sister and brother” (at Thornbury, Victoria, Australia) -- source link
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