Brendan Bonsack

Touch Drunk is the debut collaborative collection of Australian and US poets, Brendan Bonsack and Reka Jellema. In the foreword, artist Angie LaPaglia writes, "From separate hemispheres they confront melancholy, pain, longing, loss, and love head-on, tenderly, and together. The resulting poems are so intimate that in reading them, it's easy to feel like you've stumbled upon a sacred place, a hidden cloister that you enter reverently, gingerly, as if you're not sure you should be here. You should."

Brendan Bonsack is a poet, broadcaster, photographer and filmmaker. His written work appears in print and online, and has been featured in Australian and European festivals, including the Melbourne Writers Festival and White Night, and the UNESCO Poems on the Walls project in Poland. His poetry is included in the audio journal, Audacious II, and on film at Moving Poems, Poetry+Video International touring festival, and The Visible Poetry Project. Brendan makes regular appearances at local spoken word events and was runner up in the 2015 Melbourne Spoken Word Prize. His works have appeared in Recent Work Press, Cordite Poetry Review, Rochford Street Review, Pitt Street Poetry and The Guardian. Brendan is co-producer and presenter on Melbourne Community Radio 3CR, for weekly arts program, Spoken Word. Brendan's work is available online at www.brendanbonsack.com. Choice of Illusion is his 13th collection of poetry.

This is a special collection of love and family poetry by the Melbourne poet and songwriter, Brendan Bonsack. It draws on works from previous books, Wire Walkers, The Dances, and Two Hands of the Same Thumb. Also included are new pieces written for performance.

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 a poet and songwriter from Melbourne, Australia. This is his third book of poetry.

Brendan Bonsack is an Australian poet and songwriter. This is his second book of original poems.

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.