Brentley Frazer

Brentley Frazer is an Australian poet widely known for his dirty realist, gritty, Gen. X memoir Scoundrel Days (UQP, 2017).

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 (Massey University 2014, Swinburne University 2015, ).

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). 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.

Published works 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) Journals Retort Magazine ISSN 1445-7164 (2001–2014) 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