Ian McBryde is an Australian poet. He was born in 1953 in
Toronto
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,
Ontario
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, Canada but has been a long time Australian resident.
He has published ten books of poems and three audio CDs of spoken word poetry and original music
A widely admired poet in Australia his most recent, and tenth book, a new and selected publication, was highly anticipated by his contemporaries. We the Mapless: new and selected poems was launched in Melbourne, Australia, at Collected Works Bookshop in February 2017 and at The Queensland Poetry Festival at the Judith Wright Centre for Contemporary Arts in August, 2017.
Career
In addition to writing poetry, McBryde has also painted and sketched, and spent time as a drummer in progressive jazz-rock bands.
McBryde's 2005 book ' Slivers' consists entirely of
Monostich
A monostich is a poem which consists of a single line.
Form
A monostich has been described as "a startling fragment that has its own integrity"
and "if a monostich has an argument, it is necessarily more subtle."
A monostich could be also titled ...
style poems that attempt to relate a whole poem in one line.
Bibliography
Books
* ''The Shade of Angels,'' 1990
* ''The Familiar,'' 1994,
Hale and Iremonger
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John left the company in 1980, moving to Allen & Unwin. By 2002, when Sylvia became involved in NSW state politics ...
* ''Flank,'' (book with enclosed CD) 1998,
Eaglemont Press.
* ''Equatorial,'' 2001
* ''Ground Floor,'' 2002
* Ambulance : and other poems, 2003, Picara Press
* ''Domain,'' 2004,
Five Islands Press
* ''Slivers,'' 2005,
Flat Chat Press
*''The Adoption Order,'' 2009
Five Islands Press
*''We the Mapless: New and Selected Poems,'' 2017
Bareknuckle Books
Audio CDs
* ''At Land's End''
* ''The Still Company''
Awards
* The Age Poetry Book of the Year, 2005: ''Domain'' (shortlisted)
See also
* ''The bibliography of Australian literature'' edited by John Arnold, John Hay, Sally Batten, Kerry Kilner, Terence O'Neill, University of Queensland Press, 2008, (see page 348)
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Monostich
A monostich is a poem which consists of a single line.
Form
A monostich has been described as "a startling fragment that has its own integrity"
and "if a monostich has an argument, it is necessarily more subtle."
A monostich could be also titled ...
References
External links
David Prater interviews Ian McBrydeAli Alizadeh Reviews Ian McBryde and Tim SinclairMcBryde websiteExamples of McBryde's monostich , whole poems in one lineExample of other McBryde poetryNational Library of Australia Catalogue for this author
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1953 births
Australian poets
Canadian emigrants to Australia
Living people
Writers from Toronto