Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady (born 1974 in Philadelphia) is an American poet and lecturer at Queen Mary. She studied at Columbia University and the University of Cambridge. Her academic work focuses on contemporary poetry and the early modern period. She is the curator of the Archive of the Now and the co-editor (with Keston Sutherland) of Barque Press.

Publications

Poetry

• Vacation of a Lifetime (Cambridge: Salt, 2001).
• Embrace (Glasgow: Object Permanence, 2005).
• Wildfire: A Verse Essay (San Francisco: Krupskaya, 2010).
• Mutability: Scripts for Infancy (Seagull Books, 2013)
• Cut from the Rushes (Hastings: Reality Street, 2013).
• Dompteuse (Toronto: Bookthug, 2014).
• The Strong Room (London: Crater Press, 2016).
• Desiring Machines (Boiler House Press, 2021).
• The Blue Split Compartments (Wesleyan University Press, 2021).

Criticism

• English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning (2006)
• The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe, co-ed. with Emily Butterworth (2009)
• Poetry and Bondage: A History of Lyric and Constraint (2021)

References

Further reading

• Keston Sutherland, University of Sussex: ‘Vocal Stupor 2: Notes on Love Poetry’, and Jonathan Clay, Birkbeck, University of London: ‘Andrea Brady’s ‘Saw Fit’: Poetic Innovation and Politics’ (New Readings of British Contemporary Poetry, University of Dundee, 3 June 2006).

External links

• Andrew Duncan. Andrea Brady Interview, The Argotist Online
• Nada Gordon (Fall 1999). Review of Liberties, readme 1
• Marianne Morris (April 2006). ‘Behind the Veil’: Review of Embrace Jacket 29
• John Sears (April 29, 2012). Andrea Brady's Wildfire — Generation in Destruction, temporel: revue littéraire & artistique 13
• Vicky Sparrow (December 6, 2013). Review of Mutability: Scripts for Infancy, literateur.com
• Ashleigh Lambert (January 8, 2014). Review of Mutability: Scripts for Infancy, therumpus.net