Dr Brentley Frazer is an Australian writer of Celt, Norse & Wiradjuri descent widely known for his dirty realist, gritty, Gen. X memoir Scoundrel Days (UQP, 2017)
He was publisher and editor of Retort Magazine ISSN 1445-7164 (2001-2013) and Bareknuckle Poet Journal of Letters (2013-2020). He 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 creative non-fiction author Lindsay Simpson (Brothers in Arms, Daniel’s Story). In 2017 he was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy from Griffith University under the supervision of Nigel Krauth and the poet Anthony Lawrence.
Brentley Frazer’s language is electric, ornate, oddly formed and brilliant, poignant, sometimes surreal images and passages abound. The longer poems have a mixture of sharp, even dazzling writing. The vocabulary is massive, events and situations are charged, and the voice of the poet compelling. These collected meditations rip apart what we image to be ‘order’ . . . Frazer performs his trademark linguistic magic, penetrating everything from personal trauma to world order. In his hand, little is left unnoticed or forgotten by the poet, who has about him both the dreamer and the theorist, whose keen eye infiltrates everything it sees. ~Takahē Magazine
