{"id":101,"date":"2020-11-30T19:49:04","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T19:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/?p=101"},"modified":"2022-01-31T23:56:53","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T23:56:53","slug":"brendan-ryan-walk-like-a-cow-nov-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/2020\/11\/30\/brendan-ryan-walk-like-a-cow-nov-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Brendan Ryan \u2014 &#8216;Walk like a Cow&#8217;  (Nov 2020)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Australian poet Brendan Ryan speaks about his life in this memoir of &#8220;the child, the youth and the young man finding his footing amidst the mysteries of cows and the ruthless cycles of the farm, the dry-eyed melancholy of the milking-shed and the mercy of the weather. Here also are the puzzles of existence contained in parents and siblings, in small things and small talk, and the revelations of the school bus and the school. This is a classic memoir: Brendan Ryan&#8217;s words come at us directly, and often with startling intensity, from indelible experience.&nbsp;And we feel his need to return.&#8221; (Don Watson, 2020)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Walk like a Cow&#8217; is available from the author, contact Brendan directly on Facebook Messenger or Instagram #brendanryanwriter. The book&#8217;s also available through <a href=\"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/bookshop-Ryan-memoir.html\">Walleah Press Bookshop<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img data-opt-id=1884328081  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-118 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/mliu8nxwhmtf.i.optimole.com\/w:704\/h:1024\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/ryan-memoir-small.jpg\" alt=\"Brendan Ryan's 'Walk like a Cow'\" width=\"640\" height=\"931\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mliu8nxwhmtf.i.optimole.com\/w:704\/h:1024\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/ryan-memoir-small-scaled.jpg 704w, https:\/\/mliu8nxwhmtf.i.optimole.com\/w:206\/h:300\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/ryan-memoir-small-scaled.jpg 206w, https:\/\/mliu8nxwhmtf.i.optimole.com\/w:768\/h:1118\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/ryan-memoir-small-scaled.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mliu8nxwhmtf.i.optimole.com\/w:1055\/h:1536\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/ryan-memoir-small-scaled.jpg 1055w, https:\/\/mliu8nxwhmtf.i.optimole.com\/w:1407\/h:2048\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/ryan-memoir-small-scaled.jpg 1407w, https:\/\/mliu8nxwhmtf.i.optimole.com\/w:300\/h:437\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/ryan-memoir-small-scaled.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mliu8nxwhmtf.i.optimole.com\/w:850\/h:1237\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/ryan-memoir-small-scaled.jpg 850w, https:\/\/mliu8nxwhmtf.i.optimole.com\/w:1759\/h:2560\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/ryan-memoir-small-scaled.jpg 1759w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian poet Brendan Ryan speaks about his life in this memoir of &#8220;the child, the youth and the young man finding his footing amidst the mysteries of cows and the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/2020\/11\/30\/brendan-ryan-walk-like-a-cow-nov-2020\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Brendan Ryan \u2014 &#8216;Walk like a Cow&#8217;  (Nov 2020)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memoir","category-ryan-brendan"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121,"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions\/121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}