Archive for the 'REVIEWS' Category

REVIEW @ THE BOHEMIAN AESTHETIC

Sunday, April 22nd, 2007

My Review of Zanesville

REVIEW OF ZANESVILLE

Sunday, April 9th, 2006

REVIEW OF ZANESVILLE and an Interview with the author Kris Saknussemm
by Brentley Frazer © Brentley Frazer 2006
ZANESVILLE by Kris Saknussemm
A Villard Trade Paperback Original
ISBN 0-8129-7416-6 $23.95 US
As yet unreleased in Australia
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http://www.saknussemm.com
In January I met with ZANESVILLE author Kris Saknussemm outside Readings Bookstore on Lygon Street in Carlton, Melbourne, Australia. I have been […]

REVIEW OF A DARK SAMADHI BY KRIS SAKNUSSEMM

Monday, February 13th, 2006

REVIEW OF A DARK SAMADHI BY KRIS SAKNUSSEMM
I’ve been having dark fun and disturbing visions with DS. I think it’s deserving in every way of the Robert Smith and Corpse praise. There is a quirky and novel sense of craft but also what the mathematician David Hilbert called “spurkraft”–hunch power, resulting in both a sense […]

A DARK SAMADHI - Melbourne Launch October 2003

Thursday, October 23rd, 2003

A DARK SAMADHI
Melbourne Launch October 2003
Speech/Review by Brett Dionysius
© Copyright Brett Dionysius 2003
Early on in A Dark Samadhi, we get an indication of the type of poetry manifesto that Brentley Frazer has been writing for well over a decade now, his sublime, neo-symbolic, maladapted, but forward thinking imagined world. In the poem “Abstract Building (hands)” […]

A BLEAK ENLIGHTENMENT

Saturday, February 22nd, 2003

A BLEAK ENLIGHTENMENT
from Prat Magazine Issue #1 2003
A Review of A Dark Samadhi
[Brentley Frazer: PC Press ISBN 0-9750397-0-9 Australia 2003]
Prat Magazine February 2003 Issue 1 pp 12-15
Poets have long been acknowledged as an intellectual group that hold unique abilities to shape public thought. Their historical position at the very forefront of social, political, and cultural […]