Brentley Frazer
Quick Facts
Biography
Brentley Frazer (1972) is a contemporary Australian poet and author of experimental literature. Raised in Queensland, his poems, prose and academic papers have been published in Australia, New Zealand, the United States, Canada, U.K, France, India and Slovenia. A multitude of his texts can be found on his website, http://www.brentley.com
Brentley has been a guest at numerous literary festivals, poetry readings, culture conserves and academic conferences, including: The Queensland Poetry Festival, The Australian National Poetry Festival, The Sydney Poetry Festival, Brisbane Writers Festival, The Wellington International Poetry Festival, The Oxfam Bookfest in London, "Spoken" and "Couplet" at the State Library of Queensland and the Australasian Association of Writing Programs (Massey University 2014, Swinburne University 2015, University of Canberra 2016).
From 2001-2013 Frazer was publisher and editor of Retort Magazine http://www.retortmagazine.com and is a co-founder of The Vision Area (1998-2000) and a founding member of the Brisbane spoken word event Speed Poets (2003 - current). In 2012 he completed a MA at James Cook University under the supervision of Lindsay Simpson. Currently he is a P.h.D Candidate at Griffith University under the supervision of Nigel Krauth and the poet Anthony Lawrence.
Brentley's nonfiction novel Scoundrel Days is forthcoming from University of Queensland Press in March, 2017.
Books
POETRY
- Opera of Destruction, Homunculus Publications (Australia, 1991) ISBN 0646091956
- Oneirodynia, laTorre Press (Australia, 1993)
- Blood Psalms, Sabazeos Books (Australia, 1995)
- Fugue, Sabazeos Books (Australia, 1996) ISBN 9780646248592
- A Dark Samadhi, PCPress (Australia, New Zealand, 2003) ISBN 0975039709
- Memories Like Angels at a Ball Tripping Over Their Gowns, Black Star Books (Australia 2007)
- Tableland Phantoms, Retort Books (Digital 2013)
- Kulturkampf: new + selected poems, Bareknuckle Books (Australia, 2015) ISBN 9780994186119
- Aboriginal to Nowhere: new poems, HeadworX (New Zealand, 2016) ISBN 9780473365677
NOVELS
- Scoundrel Days: a memoir, UQP University of Queensland Press (Australia, 2017) ISBN 9780702258923
- Brilliant Future, (with Fakie Wilde), Impressed Publishing (Australia, 2004)
ACADEMIC PAPERS (PEER REVIEWED)
- Beyond Is: Creative Writing with English Prime (TEXT Journal, Vol 20 Number 1, April 2016) (Journal of Poetics Research, JPR05 Sep 2016)
- A Greener Pasture (Writing the Ghost Train: Rewrriting, Remaking, Rediscovering Papers – The Refereed Proceedings Of The 20th Conference of The Australasian Association of Writing Programs, 2015, Melbourne, Australia)