Ian McBryde is an Australian poet. He was born in 1953 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada but has been a long time Australian resident.^[1] He has published ten books of poems and three audio CDs of spoken word poetry and original music ^[2][3] A widely admired poet in Australia his most recent, and tenth book, a new and selected publication, was highly anticipated by his contemporaries. We the Mapless: new and selected poems was launched in Melbourne, Australia, at Collected Works Bookshop in February 2017 ^[4] and at The Queensland Poetry Festival at the Judith Wright Centre for Contemporary Arts in August, 2017.^[5]

In addition to writing poetry, McBryde has also painted and sketched, and spent time as a drummer in progressive jazz-rock bands.

McBryde's 2005 book ' Slivers' consists entirely of Monostich style poems that attempt to relate a whole poem in one line.^[6]

• The Shade of Angels, 1990 ^[7]
• The Familiar, 1994, Hale and Iremonger^[8]
• Flank, (book with enclosed CD) 1998, Eaglemont Press.^[2]
• Equatorial, 2001 ^[9]
• Ground Floor, 2002 ^[10]
• Ambulance : and other poems, 2003, Picara Press ^[11]
• Domain, 2004, Five Islands Press^[12]
• Slivers, 2005, Flat Chat Press^[13]
• The Adoption Order, 2009 Five Islands Press^[14]
• We the Mapless: New and Selected Poems, 2017 Bareknuckle Books^[15][16]

• At Land's End
• The Still Company

• The Age Poetry Book of the Year, 2005: Domain (shortlisted)

• The bibliography of Australian literature edited by John Arnold, John Hay, Sally Batten, Kerry Kilner, Terence O'Neill, University of Queensland Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-7022-3598-6 (see page 348)
• Monostich

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