Michael Brennan (poet)

Michael Brennan, born in Sydney in 1973, is an Australian poet based in Tokyo.^[1]

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..." ^[2]

Brennan is the director of Vagabond Press, and the Australian editor of Poetry International Web. He is also an academic,^[3] and his doctoral thesis was entitled "The Impossible Gaze: Robert Adamson and the work of negativity."^[4]

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

1. ^ http://www.saltpublishing.com/books/smp/9781844713257.htm
2. ^ http://jacketmagazine.com/36/r-brennan-rb-mccooey.shtml
3. ^ http://www.saltpublishing.com/books/smp/9781844713257.htm
4. ^ http://jacketmagazine.com/27/kane-bren.html

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