BRENDAN RYAN

Brendan Ryan grew up on a dairy farm at Panmure in Western Victoria. His poetry, reviews and essays have been published in literary journals and newspapers, including Meanjin, Island, Southerly, Westerly, Antipodes, The Age, The Weekend Australian, The Best Australian Poems series (Black Inc) and Contemporary Australian Poetry (Puncher and Wattman). His poem, 'Blister Country', was included in A Single Tree by Don Watson. Critical essays on his poetry have appeared in The Age and in The Australian’s Poet’s Voice column by Sarah Holland-Batt. The author of six collections of poetry, Travelling Through the Family was shortlisted for the 2014 Victorian Premier’s Awards. His collection of poetry, The Lowlands of Moyne, was published with Walleah Press in 2019. His memoir, Walk like a cow, was published December 2020. His poetry collection Feldspar (Recent Work Press) was published in September 2023.

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Barry Gillard's launch of 'The Lowlands of Moyne' (Geelong, 20 Jul 2019)

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Brendan Ryan's memoir Walk like a Cow was published in November, 2020.

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Other Work: Poetry

Cruach Mharthain
Play Time
Territorial Claims
The Mountain
Woman Leaving a Farm
These Days
Gravel Stories
Broken Sleep
Farm Boys
Morning After
Winter Drift

Interview

Cassie Lewis' interview with Brendan Ryan, first published on the email discussion list Poetry Espresso in February 2002

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External sites

—   Cordite,     03 Feb 2012    'Q & A with Brendan Ryan',    [interview]
—    The Weekly Times   22 Jan, 2014 [news article]