Richard James Allen
Richard James Allen (born 1960) is a contemporary Australian poet, dancer, actor and filmmaker. The former artistic director of the Poets Union Inc, and founding director of the Australian Poetry Festival, Allen was co-artistic director with Karen Pearlman of That Was Fast (New York City) and Tasdance (Launceston), and now at The Physical TV Company (Sydney). Allen has published thirteen books of poetry, fiction or performance texts, most recently Text Messages from the Universe (2023), More Lies (2021), The short story of you and I (2019), Fixing the Broken Nightingale (2014), The Kamikaze Mind (2006), and Performing the Unnameable: An Anthology of Australian Performance Texts (1999), co-edited with Karen Pearlman.
Richard James Allen
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- Richard James Allen
- Born
- 1960
- Birthplace
- Kempsey, New South Wales, Australia
- Occupation
- Poet, dancer, actor and filmmaker
- Nationality
- Australia
- Languages
- English
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He received the 2005 University of Technology, Sydney, Chancellor's Award for Best Doctoral Thesis. A multi-award-winning film adaptation of his Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry-nominated book, Thursday's Fictions (1999), was first broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 2007. This surreal dance fantasy also has a Second Life presence, Thursday's Fictions in Second Life. He is the grandson of World War II Major General Arthur Samuel "Tubby" Allen, son of novelist and short story writer Robert Allen, and the brother of art critic Christopher Allen.
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• Name — Richard James Allen • Born — 1960 • Birthplace — Kempsey, New South Wales, Australia • Occupation — Poet, dancer, actor and filmmaker
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- 1.Austlit. Austlit — Richard James Allen.
- 2.Physical TV. "The Physical TV Company".
- 3.ABC Radio. "Writing for Second Life: Richard James Allen". 10 October 2007.
- 4.Austlit. Austlit — Christopher Allen.
- 5.Jacket 33, July 2007. "The Exhilaration and Anxiety of Free Fall" Dr Mark Seton.
- 6.YouTube. "The Physical TV Channel on YouTube".
- 7.Red Room Poetry. "Richard James Allen".
- 8.National Library of Australia. "Richard James Allen at Australia Dancing".
- 9.State Libraray of NSW. "Richard James allen".
- 10.National Library of Australia. "The Physical TV Company Website on Pandora".
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