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 eleven books of poetry, fiction
or performance texts, most recently 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. He received
the 2005 University of Technology, Sydney, Chancellor's Award for Best
PhD 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 and the brother of art
critic Christopher Allen.Creative Websites:
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 eleven books of poetry, fiction
or performance texts, most recently 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. He received
the 2005 University of Technology, Sydney, Chancellor's Award for Best
PhD 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 and the brother of art
critic Christopher Allen.Creative Websites:
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