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Brentley Frazer, Australian writer

Brentley Frazer
Born
Australia
EducationMaster of Arts (writing). P.h.D (creative writing)
Occupation(s)Author, academic and editor
Known forPoetry and Scoundrel Days: a memoir
Websitehttp://www.brentley.com

Brentley Frazer (1972) is a contemporary Australian poet and author of the experimental non-fiction novel Scoundrel Days: a memoir. 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. More information can be found on his website, http://www.brentley.com

Brentley has been a guest at numerous literary festivals, poetry readings, culture conserves and academic conferences, including: The Rock and Roll Writers Festival (2017) 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 and the Australasian Association of Writing Programs (Massey University 2014, Swinburne University 2015, University of Canberra 2016).

From 2001-2013 Frazer was publisher and editor of Retort Magazine http://www.retortmagazine.com and is a co-founder of The Vision Area (1998-2000) and a founding member of the Brisbane spoken word event Speed Poets (2003 - current). In 2012 he completed a MA at James Cook University under the supervision of Lindsay Simpson. In 2016 he completed a P.h.D (creative writing) at Griffith University under the supervision of Nigel Krauth and the poet Anthony Lawrence.

Brentley's nonfiction novel Scoundrel Days was published by University of Queensland Press in March, 2017 to critical acclaim and inspired in reviewers comparisons to Marcel Duchamp, Kathy Acker, Charles Bukowski, Jack Kerouac, J.D. Salinger, Helen Garner, Andrew McGahan and Nick Earls.

The Australian wrote: “It’s refreshing to find that Brentley Frazer’s memoir, Scoundrel Days, [that] provides us with that rarest of literary treats: a good dose of the shocking… Frazer is writing here in the tradition of Helen Garner, Andrew McGahan and Nick Earls. This is dirty realism at its dirtiest…an immersive, vital prose that almost drags the reader along. This is not your ordinary memoir. Think of it more as an autobiographical novel or creative nonfiction. If, like I do, you remember the 80s and 90s as times of bohemian excess, you’ll find a lot to enjoy in Frazer’s terrific book. Beware, though: we were nastier, uglier people back then. Frazer is determined to show the truth of those days, ugliness and all.”

The Sydney Morning Herald echoed: […] Frazer is a legendary protagonist, in the vein of Bukowski's literary alter-ego. Frazer's writing is also compared to that of Andrew McGahan, in particular McGahan's coming-of-age novel Praise, but Scoundrel Days spends little time examining the consistency of its author's bodily fluids. Instead, he uses that nervy present-perfect tense to take us further, faster, harder. It has more in common with the hyperbolic, ugly-beautiful prose of Kathy Acker.”

The Australian Book Review wrote of Scoundrel Days: "Under it all lies a dark, nihilist void where, like Gordon in Andrew McGahan’s Praise (1992), expectation is seen as the root of unhappiness. But unlike Gordon, who slouches towards destruction content in the acceptance of an awed physicality, Frazer oscillates between bravado and moments of self-awareness. This enigmatic, self-styled outsider bravely lets us into the inner sanctum, which makes for a fascinating read.”

Books

POETRY

  • Opera of Destruction, Homunculus Publications (Australia, 1991) ISBN 0646091956
  • Oneirodynia, laTorre Press (Australia, 1993)
  • Blood Psalms, Sabazeos Books (Australia, 1995)
  • Fugue, Sabazeos Books (Australia, 1996) ISBN 9780646248592
  • A Dark Samadhi, PCPress (Australia, New Zealand, 2003) ISBN 0975039709
  • 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) ISBN 9780994186119
  • Aboriginal to Nowhere: new poems, HeadworX (New Zealand, 2016) ISBN 9780473365677

NOVELS

  • Scoundrel Days: a memoir, UQP University of Queensland Press (Australia, 2017) ISBN 9780702258923
  • Brilliant Future, (with Fakie Wilde), Impressed Publishing (Australia, 2004)

ACADEMIC PAPERS (PEER REVIEWED)

External links

References

[1] [2] [3]

  • Austlit. "Brentley Frazer". www.austlit.edu.au. Retrieved 20 September 2016.
  • "Search results for 'frazer%2C brentley' - Books". Trove. Retrieved 20 September 2016.
  1. ^ http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/review/brentley-frazers-memoir-gorges-on-excess-of-sex-drugs-and-violence/news-story/bbff23bedbd92a149e671bc93612379d
  2. ^ http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/memoir-review-scoundrel-days-20170315-guykzo.html
  3. ^ https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-online/current-issue/march/3926-duncan-fardon-reviews-scoundrel-days-a-memoir-by-brentley-frazer
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