[4] He also began writing a journal for a class taught by Elizabeth Webby[3] who was the editor of the Australian literary magazine Southerly from 1988 to 1999.
[5] Brennan has written six individual collections of poetry to date and two collaborative works, with a style described by David McCooey of Jacket Magazine as “a strange, sometimes surreal, world, to illustrate the possible foreignness of any place, even home”.
[7] The collection is described on Google Books as “Dipping between parody and mourning”, and contains three sections: Youth, Excavation Series and Pop Currency.
[1] Brennan's second collaborative work was an art book: Atopia, which was produced with Kay Orchison, a Sydney-based artist, and also made a reappearance in Unanimous Night.
[17] Another of the poems in the collection Alibi, titled “Alibi at the Start of Summer” was published in the book “The Best Australian Poems 2010” edited by Robert Adamson, the same poet whose work Brennan wrote his Thesis on, and published by Black inc.[18] Brennan was also featured in Pam Brown's Fifty-one contemporary poets from Australia: Part 5.
[21] Brennan's sixth individual book is titled “The Earth Here”, the same name of a poem featured in his Unanimous Night collection.
[1] In 2019, he resigned from his role of associate professor and lecturer at Chuo University in the faculty of Policy Studies, to return to Sydney to focus on writing and publishing with the Vagabond Press.
The first titles published by the Vagabond Press were two chapbooks, ‘The Dead’ written by poet David Brooks and ‘Falling Objects’ by Nick Riemer.
[3] In his interview with Australian Book Review for Publisher of the Month, Brennan stated “Twenty years of unpaid labour followed” the founding of the Vagabond Press.
[27] Whilst the home base for the Vagabond Press is in Marrickville, Sydney, Australia, Brennan spent 15 years publishing abroad in Japan, from 2004 to 2019.
[3]On Brennan's return to Sydney he planned to increase the sustainability of The Vagabond Press and “explore new trajectories, such as novellas and essays”.