Australia, (b. 1973)
Together
- I no longer know if I held it against you, or it held me from
you. - Here I am, twenty thumbs and two left hearts.
- Love, stop threatening me with forgiveness.
- Oh memory, you truffle-snuffling pig, so busy with the
rotten past! - Oh loneliness, silly cumquat! I was always there keeping
you company.
Michael Brennan. Unanimous Night (Salt Modern Poets Series). Cambridge: Salt Publishing (2008).
About the Poet:
Michael Brennan, Australia (b. 1973), is a poet, educator and editor. Brennan graduated from the University of Sydney and completed a PhD on the poetry of Robert Adamson in 2001. Brennan has taught in the fields of English literature and cultural studies at universities in Australia and Japan. He currently lives in Tokyo, where he is an associate professor in the Faculty of Policy Studies, Chuo University.
Besides poetry he has written literary criticism, and was co-editor (with Peter Minter) of the anthology Calyx: 30 Contemporary Australian Poets (2000), and editor of a posthumous selection of Noel Rowe’s poetry, A Cool and Shaded Heart (2008). [DES-02/17]
Additional information:
- Brennan is also the Australian editor of the online, Netherlands-based poetry journal, Poetry International Web and director of the independent publisher Vagabond Press.