Michael Brennan in 2007. Courtesy Australian Poetry Library.
Michael Brennan (born 1973) is an Australian poet and academic.[1]
Life[]
Brennan was born in Sydney. He graduated from the University of Sydney, completing a Ph.D. thesis on the work of poet Robert Adamson entitled "The Impossible Gaze: Robert Adamson and the work of negativity."[2]
Brennan is the director of Vagabond Press, and the Australian editor of Poetry International Web.[1]
Writing[]
According to critic David McCooey, Brennan's books The Imageless World and Unanimous Night form "the first parts of a triptych", and both books exhibit a "...complex and stylish interplay between opposing categories: light and dark; presence and absence; prose and poetry..." McCooey notes that "[t]he poetry is both brilliantly imagistic and pared back, both worldly and almost mystical in its concerns. In both books we find similar interests and motifs: hunger, darkness, eroticism, the earth and the sky..." [3]
Recognition[]
Brennan's first collection of poetry, The Imageless World, won the Mary Gilmore Prize in 2004. His second collection, Unanimous Night, won the William Baylebridge Memorial Prize.
Publications[]
Poetry[]
- The Imageless World. Cambridge: Salt, 2003.
- Language Habits (chapbook), 2006.[1]
- Sky was sky (with Akiko Muto), 2007.[1]
- Atopia (with Kay Orchison), 2007.[1]
- Unanimous Night. Cambridge: Salt 2008.
- Autoethnographic. Artarmon, NSW: Giramondo Publishing, 2012.
Edited[]
- Absence and Negativity. Rushcutters Bay, NW: Halstead, 2000.
- Calyx: 30 Contemporary Australian Poets (edited with Peter Minter). Sydney: Paper Bark Press, 2000.
- Noel Rowe, A Cool and Shaded Heart: Collected poems. Sydney: Vagabond Press, 2008.
Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[4]
See also[]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Michael Brennan: Four Poems," Salt, Issue #1, Salt Publishing, Issue #1, Web, Mar. 3, 2012.
- ↑ http://jacketmagazine.com/27/kane-bren.html
- ↑ http://jacketmagazine.com/36/r-brennan-rb-mccooey.shtml
- ↑ Search results = au:Michael Brennan, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Aug. 31, 2015.
External links[]
- Poems
- 3 Poem by Michael Brennan at Jacket
- Michael Brennan: Four Poems, Salt, Issue #1.
- Michael Brennan at PoemHunter (15 poems)
- Michael Brennan at the Australian Poetry Library (78 poems)
- About
- Michael Brennan at the Red Room.
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