Brian’s first poems were published in the UK in the early eighties, and he has subsequently had more than fifty published in magazines and books in Australia. He is probably best known as the singer/lyricist for the electronic rock band Distant Locust. A cult band performing and occasionally recording in Sydney from 1985, they relocated to Europe at the end of 1990, playing in arenas in Holland, Italy and Germany, and appearing on MTV Europe. The LP Chemical Wedding Feast was released in June 1991 to positive reviews, on the Italian city of Florence’s Contempo International label.

On his return to Australia, Brian became President and first Public Officer of the Poets Union (1992-94) and Membership Secretary of the Australian Society of Authors (1993-98). He wrote articles for the Australia Author magazine and is the author of the ASA’s paper Writing for the Poetry Market. In 1996 he began a Master of Writing at Sydney’s UTS under novelist Glenda Adams, concentrating on novel writing. His classmates and friends included the future novelists Nicki Gemmell, Arabella Edge and Belinda Alexandra. From 1998 until 2003 he worked as Producer and later Senior Producer of Talking Books at the Royal Blind Society, after which he worked freelance for ABC Audio.

From late 2003 to March 2008, he worked for the Australia Council for the Arts, initially for the Music Board and then during 2006-07, as Program Officer for the Literature Board. Since 2003 he has worked on manuscript assessments for a top agency, and in early 2008 moved and established RMS in Bellingen, on NSW’s mid-north coast. One of the highlights of 2009 was an invitation to co-judge the Byron Bay Writers’ Festival Poetry Prize with Varuna’s Peter Bishop, and visiting the festival to announce the winners.