Michael Brennan (poet)
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Michael Brennan, born in Sydney in 1973, is an Australian poet based in Tokyo.
His first volume of poetry, The Imageless World, won the Mary Gilmore Award. According to critic David McCooey
, together with Unanimous Night it forms "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..."
Brennan is the director of Vagabond Press, and the Australian editor of Poetry International Web
. He is also an academic, and his doctoral thesis was entitled "The Impossible Gaze: Robert Adamson and the work of negativity."
His first volume of poetry, The Imageless World, won the Mary Gilmore Award. According to critic David McCooey
David McCooey
Dr. David McCooey, poet, critic and academic, was born in London in 1967. He moved to Perth, Western Australia, with his family in 1970. He studied at University of Western Australia , and completed his doctorate at Sydney University ....
, together with Unanimous Night it forms "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..."
Brennan is the director of Vagabond Press, and the Australian editor of Poetry International Web
Poetry International Web
Poetry International Web is a monthly international webzine and an important poetry archive put together by a collective body of editors around the world and centrally edited in Rotterdam. The site presents poetry from 34 countries in their original languages and in English translation....
. He is also an academic, and his doctoral thesis was entitled "The Impossible Gaze: Robert Adamson and the work of negativity."
Books
- The Imageless World, Salt, 2003
- Language Habits (chapbook), 2006
- Sky was sky (with Akiko Muto), 2007
- Atopia (with Kay Orchison)
- Unanimous Night, Salt 2008
As Editor
- Absence and Negativity in Australian Literature, 2000
- Calyx: 30 Contemporary Australian Poets, 2000