A paddock in his head

Brendan Ryan is an essential addition to the anti-pastoral strain in Australian poetry. His yarn-voiced epistles of contemporary farm life eschew any corny bush mythologising for cool irony, realism and lived-in wisdom. Henry Lawson would have said, 'Yes! Yes!' of him.

-Craig Sherborne

Author Bio HERE

Prizes

Shortlisted for the 2008 Judith Wright Award

Reviews

Geoff Page Reviews Brendan Ryan in Australian Book Review

Publishing Date: 2007

ISBN: 9780734037091