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Michael Brennan Michael Brennan i(A35123 works by)
Born: Established: 1973 Sydney, New South Wales, ;
Gender: Male
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BiographyHistory

Michael Brennan was born in Sydney in 1973. His first collection, The Imageless World (Salt, 2003) was short-listed for the Victorian Premier's Award for Poetry and won the Mary Gilmore Award. Brennan received the 2004 Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship for Poetry and moved to Japan in 2005. In 2004 he became the Australian editor of www.poetryinternational.org.

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On the Web

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Personal Awards

2023 recipient Australia Council Grants, Awards and Fellowships — Arts Projects for Individuals and Groups
2019 recipient Australia Council Grants, Awards and Fellowships — Literature

Arts Projects For Individuals and Groups $39,097
2017 recipient Australia Council Grants, Awards and Fellowships — Literature Board Fellowship Literature $18,264.00
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Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Autoethnographic Artarmon : Giramondo Publishing , 2012 Z1901163 2012 selected work poetry Autoethnographic tunes into the feedback loops of liquid modernity and the strange loop of the self. With an anarchic openness to anxiety, dysfunction and the endless hunger for community, Brennan's third collection offers hallucinatory jumpcuts from a dystopic near-present inhabited by casino capitalists, bonobo cultists, free market geneticists, grifters, lurkers and lovers going about their business in the aftermath of the freedom agenda. Interrogating the surreality of perpetual growth and the violent ellipses of democratic capitalism, his short narratives are jagged canticles to the beautiful monsters of language, love, friendship and family; field notes from a protean and kaleidoscopic world governed by speed and recurrence, the flows of desire and the architecture of fear; a disorientating and relentless mix of elegy, anti-poetry and post human punk. [From the publisher]
2014 shortlisted Victorian Premier's Literary Awards — Prize for Poetry
2012 joint winner Grace Leven Poetry Prize
y separately published work icon Unanimous Night Cambridge : Salt Publishing , 2008 Z1523261 2008 selected work poetry
2009 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry
y separately published work icon Imageless World Applecross : Salt Publishing , 2003 Z1093224 2003 selected work poetry
2004 shortlisted Victorian Premier's Literary Awards — Prize for Poetry
2004 winner ASAL Awards — Mary Gilmore Award for a First Book of Poetry
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