BIOGRAPHY
BRENTLEY FRAZER is an Australian born Writer. Described by Wikipedia as a “Literary Outlaw”, and by cult style bible Dazed&Confused magazine as a “21st Century Baudelaire on acid“, his poems and other writings have been published in many of the world’s most reputable anthologies, journals, magazines and periodicals. He is the author of the critically acclaimed 2003 collection A Dark Samadhi - new poems+microtexts and more recently Memories like Angels at a ball tripping over their gowns- (2007).
Brentley is also the Publishing Editor of retortmagazine.com which has been placed in the the top 10 online publications of it’s kind by media giants the Guardian UK and The Colombia Journalism Review in New York.
Brentley undertook a Bachelor of Arts majoring in the philosophy of Nietzsche at the University of New England 1996-1999 and is currently doing a Master of Arts in writing at James Cook University 2010.
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The Critics say:
Brentley Frazer (is) a 21st Century Baudelaire on acid - Dazed & Confused Magazine
a true underground poetic visionary - Identity Theory
Brentley has precise nightmares in prose! We fear them. - Exquisite Corpse Journal of Letters
as a poet and founding editor of online literary and art journal Retort Magazine, Frazer has gained an international reputation as one of the most innovative of contemporary writers… ~ The Courier Mail Brisbane Australia
a literary genius… ~ Prat Magazine
a word politician and master of communication deconstruction and reinvention… ~ PoeticInhalation.com Washington DC USA
There was a time not so long ago when I didn’t believe poetry of such tragic intensity and mercurial wit would ever be written (let alone published) in this nation of kitchen bards. ~ The Red Room Project Sydney Australia
I think it goes without saying that there are some people–and in many cases they can be theoretically cultured, regular readers of both poetry and prose–who aren’t willing to take the kinds of journeys or to give themselves over to the liquidification of conventional thought patterns that Brentley Frazer’s work provokes. - Kris Saknussemm
A Dark Samadhi is Philip K Dick melded with Andre Breton; a Rimbaud modified to produce the diaspora of Ballard. This is a post-surreal, techno-lingual savvy text that uses the oppressor’s corporatist and jingle-laden language against them. - Brett Dionysius
-the themes are wonderfully understated and unemotional, although the topics are often violent, Some images are heavy but still it reads from far away, like Orwell’s “the land that never was” Brentley is a master of this genre, and handles his craft very subtly. He rarely steps forward to scream. Somehow, it seems unemotional and serene.
Robert Smith
Clever. Ethereal. Medical. Evil. Brilliant. Beautiful. Grimy. Pornographic. Low-brow Art. High Porno. Vaginal. Manifesto. Poem. Talk to me…Mr. Frazer is a poetic, naive, scared, remarkable, spartan Writer with a gift for description, a style similar to Clive Barker and more than a passing similarity to William S. Burroughs’ inculcation (,i.e.: “but strange clear suckers filled with black blood and decorated wings like paisley, vast wings sought after religiously by taxidermists…”), and Charles Bukowski( See: Entire ouevre)…and that ain’t bad. Looking forward to reading more from this strange, erudite, neo-literate oddball. Bob Freville Staff Writer GetUnderground.com USA
