Brentley Frazer
Brentley Frazer is a Generation X 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.
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, The Sydney Writers Festival, Asia Pacific Writers and Translators and the Australasian Association of Writing Programs.
From 2001-2013 Frazer was publisher and editor of Retort Magazine and was co-founder of The Vision Area and a founding member of the Brisbane spoken word event Speed Poets. In 2012 he completed a MA at James Cook University under the supervision of Lindsay Simpson. In December 2017 he was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy from Griffith University under the supervision of Nigel Krauth and the poet Anthony Lawrence.
He is currently editor-in-chief of Bareknuckle Poet Journal of Letters an open access humanities journal publishing from the inner city suburb of Paddington in Brisbane, Australia.
Brentley's memoir was published by University of Queensland Press in March, 2017.Published works
- Poetry
- * Opera of Destruction, Homunculus Publications
- * Oneirodynia, laTorre Press
- * Blood Psalms, Sabazeos Books
- * Fugue, Sabazeos Books
- * A Dark Samadhi, PCPress
- * Memories Like Angels at a Ball Tripping Over Their Gowns, Black Star Books
- * Tableland Phantoms, Retort Books
- * Kulturkampf: new + selected poems, Bareknuckle Books
- * Aboriginal to Nowhere: new poems, HeadworX
- Novels
- *, UQP University of Queensland Press
- * Brilliant Future - The Butcher's Saga, Impressed Publishing
- Academic Papers
- * Aboriginal to Nowhere ~ Song Cycle of the Post Modern Dispossessed
- * Untitled Plane Crash
- * Beyond Is: Creative Writing with English Prime
- * A Greener Pasture
Publications (editor)
- Journals
- * Retort Magazine ISSN 1445-7164
- * Bareknuckle Poet Journal of Letters ISSN 2204-0420
- * Bareknuckle Poet Journal of Letters Anthology Volume 01, 2015
- * Bareknuckle Poet Journal of Letters Anthology Volume 02, 2016
- Books
- * We the Mapless: new and selected poems by Ian Mcbryde
- * Travel Under Any Star: Collected Short Stories by Venero Armanno
- * Rock & Roll: Selected poems in Five Sets by Mark Pirie
- * For All The Veronicas: The Dog Who Staid - New Poems by Andrew Galan
- * Improvised Dirges: New & Selected Poems by A. G. Pettet