Books by Brendan Bonsack

Brendan Bonsack is a poet and songwriter from Melbourne, Australia. His written work has featured in Australian and European festivals, including the Melbourne Writers Festival and White Night, and the UNESCO Poems on the Walls project in Poland. He was a resident public transport poet in the 2016 Moreland City MoreArt Festival, and shortlisted for the XYZ Prize for Innovation in Spoken Word at the 2017 Queensland Poetry Festival. He is included in the audio journal, Audacious II, and on film at Moving Poems. Brendan makes regular appearances at local spoken word events and was runner up in the 2015 Melbourne Spoken Word Prize. He has performed as feature poet at La Mama Poetica, The Eltham Courthouse, The Dan O'Connell Hotel, and as supporting feature for US touring poet, Madison Mae Parker.He has produced six books of poetry, including a collaborative work with poets from coastal Australia and the USA. This book includes selected works from those publications, as well as new pieces in 2017.

At the Edge of Forget is not a traditional collection of individual works. Rather, each poem has been crafted in a long-distance collaborative process between two, three, and even all four authors, from Michigan to California, USA, to Melbourne and coastal Victoria, Australia. The work explores memory and friendship, passion and love, death and grieving, and much in between.

Brendan Bonsack is a songwriter and poet from Melbourne, Australia. His work has won numerous awards and appeared in publications in Australia and the UK. His poetry has also been translated into Polish and Russian and featured in public festival events. Wire Walkers is Brendan's fifth book of poetry.

Brendan Bonsack is an Australian songwriter, performer and recording artist. This first book is an intriguing collection of poems that seem to drift like fragments of song searching for their music. Dry and laconic, tender, fragile and brooding, the succinct and lyrical wordplay of this work is both immediate and inviting of re-discovery.