Ian McBryde

See also: Ian McBryde (South Australian politician)

Ian McBryde
Born	1953 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Occupation	Poet
Nationality	Australian/Canadian
Citizenship	Australian
Genre	Australian Contemporary Poetry

Ian McBryde is an Australian poet. He was born in 1953 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada but has been a long time Australian resident. ^[1] He has published ten books of poems and three audio CDs of spoken word poetry and original music ^{[2] [3]} 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 ^[4] and at The Queensland Poetry Festival at the Judith Wright Centre for Contemporary Arts in August, 2017. ^[5]

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 style poems that attempt to relate a whole poem in one line. ^[6]

Bibliography

Books

• The Shade of Angels, 1990 ^[7]
• The Familiar, 1994, Hale and Iremonger ^[8]
• Flank, (book with enclosed CD) 1998, Eaglemont Press. ^[2]
• Equatorial, 2001 ^[9]
• Ground Floor, 2002 ^[10]
• Ambulance : and other poems, 2003, Picara Press ^[11]
• Domain, 2004, Five Islands Press ^[12]
• Slivers, 2005, Flat Chat Press ^[13]
• The Adoption Order, 2009 Five Islands Press ^[14]
• We the Mapless: New and Selected Poems, 2017 Bareknuckle Books ^{[15] [16]}

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, ISBN   978-0-7022-3598-6 (see page 348)
• Monostich

References

1. "McBryde, Ian". AustLit . 11 September 2006. Retrieved 27 January 2010.
2. McBryde, Ian; Riddell, Greg (1998). Flank. Clifton Hill, Vic: Eaglemont Press. Performers on CD: Greg Riddell, keyboards, multisync, samples; Ian McBryde, voice, text, drum sequences.
3. "SOFTBLOW | Ian McBryde". www.softblow.org. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
4. "Launch: Ian McBryde's We the Mapless". Melbourne Spoken Word. 7 February 2017. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
5. "Ian McBryde – Queensland Poetry Festival". www.queenslandpoetryfestival.com. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
6. Prater, David Interview with McBryde, ' Cordite Poetry Review Aug 23 2004
7. McBryde, Ian (1990). The shade of angels. Brighton North, Vic.: Radial.
8. McBryde, Ian (1994). The familiar. Sydney: Hale & Iremonger. ISBN   0868065196.
9. McBryde, Ian (2001). Equatorial. Wollongong, N.S.W.: Five Islands Press. ISBN   0864187173.
10. McBryde, Ian (2002). Ground floor. Port Melbourne: Slow Joe Crow Press.
11. McBryde, Ian (2003). Ambulance : and other poems. Warners Bay, N.S.W.: Picara Press.
12. McBryde, Ian (2004). Domain. Wollongong, N.S.W.: Five Islands Press. ISBN   1741280451.
13. McBryde, Ian (2005). Slivers. Greensborough, Vic.: Flat Chat Press. ISBN   0975720279.
14. McBryde, Ian (2009). The adoption order. Parkville, Vic: 5 Islands Press. ISBN   9780734040572.
15. McBryde, Ian (2017). We the mapless : new and selected poems. Brisbane, Australia: Bareknuckle Books. ISBN   9780994186164.
16. "Ian McBryde | Rochford Street Review". rochfordstreetreview.com. Retrieved 15 April 2018.

External links

• David Prater interviews Ian McBryde
• Ali Alizadeh Reviews Ian McBryde and Tim Sinclair
• McBryde website Archived 29 January 2016 at the Wayback Machine
• Examples of McBryde's monostich, whole poems in one line
• Example of other McBryde poetry
• National Library of Australia Catalogue for this author