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Michael Brennan
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 for Poetry and spent time in Berlin and at the the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris. Brennan published a chapbook titled Language Habits in 2006. In 2007, his second collection Unanimous Night is forthcoming from Salt, as well as (Sky Was Sky), a chapbook collaboration with Japanese artist Akiko Muto, translated by Yasuhiro Yotsumoto, and a limited edition artbook collaboration with Sydney artist Kay Orchison titled Atopia. Brennan holds a PhD in English Literature and has taught literary, language and cultural studies at universities in Australia and Japan. He currently lives in Tokyo, where he is a lecturer in the Faculty of Policy Studies, Chuo University. He is the Australian editor of http://www.poetryinternational.org/ and director of Vagabond Press.
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