Ian McBryde
{{short description|Australian poet (born 1953)}}
{{See also|Ian McBryde (South Australian politician)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2020}}
{{Infobox writer
| name = 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.{{cite web | date = 11 September 2006 | title = McBryde, Ian | work = AustLit | url = http://www.austlit.edu.au/run?ex=ShowAgent&agentId=A$%5BP | access-date = 27 January 2010 }} He has published ten books of poems and three audio CDs of spoken word poetry and original music {{Cite book|url=https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/390196|title=Flank|last1=McBryde|first1=Ian|last2=Riddell|first2=Greg|date=1998|publisher=Eaglemont Press|location=Clifton Hill, Vic|quote=Performers on CD: Greg Riddell, keyboards, multisync, samples; Ian McBryde, voice, text, drum sequences.}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.softblow.org/mcbryde.html|title=SOFTBLOW {{!}} Ian McBryde|website=www.softblow.org|access-date=2018-04-15}} 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 {{Cite news|url=http://melbournespokenword.com/events/launch-ian-mcbrydes-we-the-mapless/|title=Launch: Ian McBryde's We the Mapless|date=2017-02-07|work=Melbourne Spoken Word|access-date=2018-04-15|language=en-EN}} and at The Queensland Poetry Festival at the Judith Wright Centre for Contemporary Arts in August, 2017.{{Cite web|url=http://www.queenslandpoetryfestival.com/site/performer/ian-mcbryde/|title=Ian McBryde – Queensland Poetry Festival|website=www.queenslandpoetryfestival.com|language=en-US|access-date=2018-04-15}}
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.Prater, David Interview with McBryde, ' Cordite Poetry Review Aug 23 2004
Bibliography
=Books=
- The Shade of Angels, 1990 {{Cite book|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/28308618|title=The shade of angels|last=McBryde|first=Ian|date=1990|publisher=Brighton North, Vic. : Radial|language=en}}
- The Familiar, 1994, Hale and Iremonger{{Cite book|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/13375802|title=The familiar|last=McBryde|first=Ian|date=1994|publisher=Sydney : Hale & Iremonger|isbn=0868065196|language=en}}
- Flank, (book with enclosed CD) 1998, Eaglemont Press.
- Equatorial, 2001 {{Cite book|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/42009183|title=Equatorial|last=McBryde|first=Ian|date=2001|publisher=Wollongong, N.S.W. : Five Islands Press|isbn=0864187173|language=en}}
- Ground Floor, 2002 {{Cite book|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/28496212|title=Ground floor|last=McBryde|first=Ian|date=2002|publisher=Port Melbourne : Slow Joe Crow Press|language=en}}
- Ambulance : and other poems, 2003, Picara Press {{Cite book|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/46650443|title=Ambulance : and other poems|last=McBryde|first=Ian|date=2003|publisher=Warners Bay, N.S.W. : Picara Press|language=en}}
- Domain, 2004, Five Islands Press{{Cite book|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/16841997|title=Domain|last=McBryde|first=Ian|date=2004|publisher=Wollongong, N.S.W. : Five Islands Press|isbn=1741280451|language=en}}
- Slivers, 2005, Flat Chat Press{{Cite book|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/46654529|title=Slivers|last=McBryde|first=Ian|date=2005|publisher=Greensborough, Vic. : Flat Chat Press|isbn=0975720279|language=en}}
- The Adoption Order, 2009 Five Islands Press{{Cite book|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/46278599|title=The adoption order|last=McBryde|first=Ian|date=2009|publisher=Parkville, Vic : 5 Islands Press|isbn=9780734040572|language=en}}
- We the Mapless: New and Selected Poems, 2017 Bareknuckle Books{{Cite book|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/249628456|title=We the mapless : new and selected poems|last=McBryde|first=Ian|date=2017|publisher=Brisbane, Australia Bareknuckle Books|isbn=9780994186164|language=en}}{{Cite web|url=https://rochfordstreetreview.com/category/writers/ian-mcbryde/|title=Ian McBryde {{!}} Rochford Street Review|website=rochfordstreetreview.com|language=en|access-date=2018-04-15}}
=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
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External links
{{Wikiquote}}
- [http://www.cordite.org.au/features/david-prater-interviews-ian-mcbryde David Prater interviews Ian McBryde]
- [http://cordite.org.au/reviews/alizadeh-mcbryde-sinclair/ Ali Alizadeh Reviews Ian McBryde and Tim Sinclair]
- [http://ianmcbryde.com/cv McBryde website]
- [http://cordite.org.au/poetry/antiheroes/slivers Examples of McBryde's monostich , whole poems in one line]
- [http://redroomcompany.org/poem/ian-mcbryde/beyond-omerta Example of other McBryde poetry]
- [https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Search/Home?lookfor=author:%22McBryde%2C%20Ian%2C%201953-%22&iknowwhatimean=1 National Library of Australia Catalogue for this author]
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