page_title: Michael Brennan (poet)
section_title: Early life and education
hierarchical_section_title: Michael Brennan (poet) / Early life and education
caption_attribution_description: English: Sydney University's neo-gothic Main Quadrangle designed by architect Edmund Blacket and completed progressively in sections.
context_page_description: Michael Brennan is an Australian poet. He is editor of the Australian sector of Poetry International Web and publishes with The Vagabond Press.
context_section_description: Brennan completed his Ph.D at The University of Sydney in 2001, where he wrote his thesis: The Impossible Gaze: Robert Adamson and the work of negativity . During his time at The University of Sydney, Brennan co-edited the university’s undergraduate literary journal, Hermes , an annual magazine which publishes the works of students at the university. He also began writing a journal for a class taught by Elizabeth Webby  who was the editor of the Australian literary magazine Southerly from 1988-1999. Webby asked Brennan to work on Southerly, an opportunity which Brennan has referred to, saying “That was my real start”. While Brennan was living in Paris in 1998, he was inspired by Blanchot’s Chapbooks, which had been published by Fata Morgana , and on his return to The University of Sydney in 1999,  Michael Brennan founded and began directing The Vagabond Press, his own independent literary press .
caption: The Main Quadrangle of the University of Sydney
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