Richard James Allen
Richard James Allen (born 1960) is a contemporary Australian poet, dancer and filmmaker. The former Artistic Director of the Poets Union Inc, and founding director of the Australian Poetry Festival, Richard 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).[1]
Richard James Allen has published ten books of poetry, fiction or performance texts, most recently 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.
Books
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External links
Creative Websites:
- The Physical TV Company
- The Physical TV Channel on YouTube
- Fixing the Broken Nightingale
- The Kamikaze Mind
- Performing The Unnameable: An Anthology of Australian Performance Texts
- Out Of The Labyrinth Of The Mind: Manifesting A Spiritual Art Beyond Dualism (Abstract for Doctorate of Creative Arts)
Interviews:
- Interactive Media Innovation (imi) industry leader interview (April, 2012)
- Andrew Mikkelsen interview on yoga, creativity, philosophy and personal history (21 February, 2012)
- Josef Brown interview on dance film and creativity (30 May, 2011)
- Orion Mitchell interview on dance film and the internet, as part of Dancing Through YouTube (April 26, 2011)
- SPIKE Magazine interview on dance for film and virtual worlds (6 April 2011)
- Transmedia Victoria – Meet transmedia artist: Richard James Allen (20 December, 2010)
- RealTime interview on mixed reality dance film (Issue #99, October–November 2010)
- ABC Radio National interview on writing for Second Life (The Book Show, 10 October 2007)
- RealTime interview on dance film (Issue #80, August–September 2007)
- RealTime interview on dance and poetry (Issue #10, December–January 1995)
Archives:
- Richard James Allen at the Australian Poetry Library
- Richard James Allen at Australia Dancing, National Library of Australia
- Richard James Allen at the National Film and Sound Archive
- Richard James Allen at the Manuscripts Collection, the State Library of New South Wales
- Richard James Allen at AustLit
- The Physical TV Company Website selected for preservation by Pandora, Australia's Web Archive, at the National Library of Australia
References
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- Jacket (magazine) 33 — July 2007 – "The Exhilaration and Anxiety of Free Fall" – Dr Mark Seton reviews The Kamikaze Mind by Richard James Allen
- Second Life Insider, 18 October 2007 Thursday's Fictions, by Tateru Nino
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