Brentley Frazer
Brentley Frazer is an Australian poet widely known for his dirty realist, gritty, Gen. X memoir Scoundrel Days (UQP, 2017). From 2001 to 2013 he was publisher and editor of Retort Magazine and was co-founder of The Vision Area (1998–2000) and a founding member of the Brisbane spoken word event Speed Poets (2003–2017).
Brentley Frazer
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- Brentley Frazer
- Born
- January 1972
- Birthplace
- Australia
- Education
- Ph.D (creative writing).
- Occupation
- poet/writer
- Known for
- Poetry, Scoundrel Days: A Memoir
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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. Brentley's memoir Scoundrel Days: A Memoir was published by University of Queensland Press in March, 2017.
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• Honorific Prefix — Dr • Name — Brentley Frazer • Born — January 1972 • Birthplace — Australia • Education — Ph.D (creative writing). Master of Arts (writing). • Occupation — poet/writer • Known for — Poetry, Scoundrel Days: A Memoir • Notable Works — Scoundrel Days: A Memoir 2017, Aboriginal to Nowhere: new poems 2016, A Dark Samadhi: poems + microtexts 2003 • Style — Dirty Realism Grunge lit Transgressive fiction creative non-fiction • Title — Dr • Website — http: www.brentley.com
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• Novels • Scoundrel Days: A Memoir, UQP University of Queensland Press (Australia, 2017) • Brilliant Future - The Butcher's Saga (with Fakie Wilde), Impressed Publishing (Australia, 2004) • Poetry • Opera of Destruction, Homunculus Publications (Australia, 1991) • Oneirodynia, laTorre Press (Australia, 1993) • Blood Psalms, Sabazeos Books (Australia, 1995) • Fugue, Sabazeos Books (Australia, 1996) • A Dark Samadhi, PCPress (Australia, New Zealand, 2003) • 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) • Aboriginal to Nowhere: new poems, HeadworX (New Zealand, 2016) • 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 (as editor)
Publications (as editor)
• Journals • Retort Magazine ISSN 1445-7164 (2001–2014) • Bareknuckle Poet Journal of Letters ISSN 2204-0420 (2013–2020) • 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
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- 1.Austlit. Austlit — Brentley Frazer.
- 2.Academia. "Conference Presentations".
- 3.Australasian Association of Writing Programs. "The Authorised Theft Papers".
- 4.Pandora Archive. National Library of Australia: Archive of Retort Magazine 2001-2014. National Library of Australia.
- 5.Barr, Todd. Words to walk by : exploring literary Brisbane. University of Queensland Press. 54. 2005. 9780702235177.
- 6.Impressed Publishing. Speedpoets : the best of 2003. 2003. 9780975161838.
- 7.Frazer, Brentley. Scoundrel Days: Writing Rebellion. Griffith University Research Repository. 21 December 2017. 10.25904/1912/527.
- 8.Scoundrel Days: A Memoir. Author: Brentley Frazer. University of Queensland Press.
- 9.Frazer, Brentley. Opera of destruction. B. Frazer. 1 January 1992. 0646091956.
- 10.Frazer, Brentley. Fugue. Sabezeos Books. 1995. 9780646248592.
- 11.Brentley, Frazer. A dark samadhi : poems + microtexts. PC Press. 2003. 0975039709.
- 12.Frazer, Brentley. Memories Like Angels at a Ball Tripping Over Their Gowns. National Library of Australia.
- 13.Brentley, Frazer. Kulturkampf : selected poems, 1995-2015. Bareknuckle Books. January 2015. 9780994186119.
- 14.Frazer, Brentley. National Library of Australia: Trove Archive. National Library of Australia. HeadworX. 2016.
- 15.Authorised Theft: Refereed conference papers of the 21st Annual AAWP Conference, 2016, Canberra, Australia
- 16.TEXT Journal, Vol 20 Number 1, April 2016
- 17.TEXT Journal, Vol 20 Number 1, April 2016) (Journal of Poetics Research, JPR05 Sep 2016
- 18.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
- 19.Frazer, Brentley. Bareknuckle poet : Journal of Letters. Bareknuckle Books. 2014. 2204-0420.
- 20.Frazer, Brentley. Bareknuckle Poet Journal of Letters Anthology Volume 01, 2015. Bareknuckle Books. 2015. 2205-7218.
- 21.Frazer, Brentley. Bareknuckle Poet Journal of Letters Anthology Volume 02, 2016. Bareknuckle Books. 2016. 2205-7218.
- 22.McBryde, Ian. We the mapless : new and selected poems. Bareknuckle Books. 2017. 9780994186164.
- 23.Armanno, Venero. Travel under any star : collected stories. Bareknuckle Books. 2016. 9780994186157.
- 24.Pirie, Mark. Rock & roll : selected poems in five sets. Bareknuckle Books. 2016. 978-0994186126.
- 25.Galan, Andrew. For All The Veronicas: The Dog Who Staid - New Poems. Bareknuckle Books. 2016. 978-0-9941-861-4-0.
- 26.Pettet, A. G. Improvised dirges : new & selected poems. Bareknuckle Books. 2015. 9780994186102.
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