Brendan Ryan

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The blurb on the back of the book refers to this type of writing as ‘hard pastoral’. It is what we encounter in those bucolic bards, Seamus Heaney and Les Murray. It is also what we see in that lesser-known Australian Phillip Hodgins, a poet who was taken from us far too young. By Brendan’s admission, all three poets have influenced his writing. The sensibility of these four poets is a far cry from the sentimental evocations of rural life by the likes of Banjo Paterson and CJ Dennis.

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This idea of returning forms one of the central tropes of Feldspar in both a figurative and literal sense. Many of these poems revisit scenes of the past, of the casual rituals of life down on the farm.

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Rochford Street Review, 2023 Sonic Poetry Festival Supplement. This month in conjunction with Sonic Poetry Festival, Poetry from Agitation Hill is featuring Brendan Ryan.

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Rochford Street Review – Sonic Poetry Festival Supplement. Poetry from Agitation Hill & Brendan Ryan. This month in conjunction with Sonic Poetry Festival, Poetry from Agitation Hill is featuring Brendan Ryan.

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No poet appears out of context, in fact, most poets write in response to or against the many poets who have come before them, as well as the poets that they may share a connection with in contemporary. Johnson’s poetry is no different, in the sense that her eco-poetics and position as a writer keenly aware of the power and fragility of the natural world is borne out of her close reading of other poets and writers.

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