Ian McBryde explained

See also: Ian McBryde (South Australian politician).

Ian McBryde
Birth Date:	1953
Birth Place:	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.
• 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, (see page 348)
• Monostich

External links

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: 11 September 2006 . McBryde, Ian . . 27 January 2010 .
2. Book: Flank. McBryde. Ian. Riddell. Greg. 1998. Eaglemont Press. Clifton Hill, Vic. Performers on CD: Greg Riddell, keyboards, multisync, samples; Ian McBryde, voice, text, drum sequences..
3. Web site: SOFTBLOW Ian McBryde. www.softblow.org. 2018-04-15.
4. News: Launch: Ian McBryde's We the Mapless. 2017-02-07. Melbourne Spoken Word. 2018-04-15. en-EN.
5. Web site: Ian McBryde – Queensland Poetry Festival. www.queenslandpoetryfestival.com. en-US. 2018-04-15.
6. Prater, David Interview with McBryde, ' Cordite Poetry Review Aug 23 2004
7. Book: McBryde, Ian. The shade of angels. 1990. Brighton North, Vic. : Radial. en.
8. Book: McBryde, Ian. The familiar. 1994. Sydney : Hale & Iremonger. 0868065196. en.
9. Book: McBryde, Ian. Equatorial. 2001. Wollongong, N.S.W. : Five Islands Press. 0864187173. en.
10. Book: McBryde, Ian. Ground floor. 2002. Port Melbourne : Slow Joe Crow Press. en.
11. Book: McBryde, Ian. Ambulance : and other poems. 2003. Warners Bay, N.S.W. : Picara Press. en.
12. Book: McBryde, Ian. Domain. 2004. Wollongong, N.S.W. : Five Islands Press. 1741280451. en.
13. Book: McBryde, Ian. Slivers. 2005. Greensborough, Vic. : Flat Chat Press. 0975720279. en.
14. Book: McBryde, Ian. The adoption order. 2009. Parkville, Vic : 5 Islands Press. 9780734040572. en.
15. Book: McBryde, Ian. We the mapless : new and selected poems. 2017. Brisbane, Australia Bareknuckle Books. 9780994186164. en.
16. Web site: Ian McBryde Rochford Street Review. rochfordstreetreview.com. en. 2018-04-15.