Michael Brennan

Michael Brennan (born 1973) is an Australian poet. He is the founder of publisher Vagabond Press.

Published Collections (in order of release) The Imageless World, 2003 (Salt Publishing) Language Habits (Chapbook), 2006 (Vagabond Press) Sky was Sky (with Akiko Muto), 2007, translated by Yasuhiro Yotsumoto (Vagabond Press) Unanimous Night, 2008 (Salt Publishing) Autoethnographic, 2012 (Giramondo) Alibi, 2015, Japanese Edition, translated by Yasuhiro Yotsumoto (Vagabond Press) The Earth Here, 2018 (ASM)

Teaching and other external work

Teaching Brennan has taught English literature and cultural studies at universities in both Australia and Japan.

Editing Brennan has contributed as an editor to a number of texts, including Absence and Negativity (2000), Calyx: 30 Contemporary Australian Poets(2000), and Noel Rowe's Posthumous collection: A Cool and Shaded Heart: Collected poems(2008). “I would like to keep building the site so that it becomes more inclusive, better able to show the sheer breadth of difference available in poetry stemming from Australia” . Building on the success of the Rare Objects Series, Vagabond Press started publishing full-length collections.

As of 2026, Vagabond Press has published over 300 titles and won or shortlisted for all the key literary awards for poetry in Australia thanks to the support of Creative Australia and the global community of readers of Vagabond books.