Richard James Allen
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Richard James Allen (born 1960) is a contemporary Australian poet, dancer and filmmaker.
Richard James Allen recently published his ninth book, The Kamikaze Mind, and received the 2006 University of Technology, Sydney Chancellor's Award for Best Ph.D Thesis. A film adaptation of his previous book, the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry nominated Thursday's Fictions, has also been produced.
[edit] Works
Poetry
- The Way Out at Last & Other Poems. (Sydney: Hale & Iremonger, 1986)
- To the Ocean & Scheharazade. (Sydney: Hale & Iremonger, 1989)
- Hope For a Man Named Jimmie & Grand Illusion Joe. (Wollongong: Five Islands, 1993)
- What To Name Your Baby. (Brooklyn: Paper Bark, and Launceston: Tasdance, 1995)
- The Air Dolphin Brigade. (Sydney: Paper Bark, and Launceston: Tasdance, 1995)
- New Life on the 2nd Floor. Poems by Allen, essays by Karen Pearlman (Launceston: Tasdance, 1996)
- Thursday's Fictions. (Wollongong: Five Islands, 1999)
- The Kamikaze Mind. (Blackheath: Brandl & Schlesinger, 2006)
Anthologies
- Performing the Unnameable: An Anthology of Australian Performance Texts. Edited with Karen Pearlman (Currency and RealTime, 1999)
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