Michael Brennan

Michael Brennan is a writer, editor, and a publisher. His books include Unanimous Night (Salt, 2008) Autoethnographic (Giramondo, 2012), and the earth here (ASM, 2018). His work has been translated and published in Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, Italian, French and Spanish. Since 1999, he has run Vagabond Press (www.vagabondpress.net) and since 2004 edited the Australian pages of Poetry International.

Michael Brennan reviews ‘A Break in the Weather’ by John Jenkins

June–July 2003, no. 252 • 01 June 2003

At a time when publishers of poetry in Australia are light on the ground, the verse novel as a form appears to be, at least comparatively, a growth industry. The Australian poetry scene has been blessed on this front in recent years, with the sticky-as-sex efforts of Dorothy Porter (The Monkey’s Mask and Wild Surmise), the curious-noir of John Tranter (The Floor of Heaven) and the boots’n’al ... (read more)

Michael Brennan reviews 'The Fireflies of Autumn: And other tales of San Ginese' by Moreno Giovannoni

August 2018, no. 403 • 26 July 2018

Moreno Giovannoni’s collection of tales – populous and baggy, earthy and engrossing – offers not a history but the lifeblood, the living memory, of a small town in northern Italy called San Ginese, or more specifically a hamlet in its shadow called Villora. Villora is the point of departure and return for generations of Sanginesini, and the locus of the tales told. The tales begin with Ugo, ... (read more)