Brentley Frazer


Brentley Frazer is an Australian poet widely known for his dirty realist, gritty, Gen. X memoir Scoundrel Days.
Brentley has been a guest at numerous literary festivals, poetry readings, culture conserves and academic conferences, including: The Queensland Poetry Festival, The Australian National Poetry Festival, The Sydney Poetry Festival, Brisbane Writers Festival, The Wellington International Poetry Festival, The Oxfam Bookfest in London, "Spoken" and "Couplet" at the State Library of Queensland, The Sydney Writers Festival, Asia Pacific Writers and Translators and the Australasian Association of Writing Programs.
From 2001 to 2013 he was publisher and editor of Retort Magazine and was co-founder of The Vision Area and a founding member of the Brisbane spoken word event Speed Poets. In 2012 he completed a MA at James Cook University under the supervision of Lindsay Simpson. In December 2017 he was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy from Griffith University under the supervision of Nigel Krauth and the poet Anthony Lawrence.
Brentley's memoir Scoundrel Days: a memoir was published by University of Queensland Press in March, 2017.

Published works

Publications (as editor)

  • Journals
  • * Retort Magazine ISSN 1445-7164
  • * Bareknuckle Poet Journal of Letters ISSN 2204-0420
  • * Bareknuckle Poet Journal of Letters Anthology Volume 01, 2015
  • * Bareknuckle Poet Journal of Letters Anthology Volume 02, 2016
  • Books
  • * We the Mapless: new and selected poems by Ian Mcbryde
  • * Travel Under Any Star: Collected Short Stories by Venero Armanno
  • * Rock & Roll: Selected poems in Five Sets by Mark Pirie
  • * For All The Veronicas: The Dog Who Staid - New Poems by Andrew Galan
  • * Improvised Dirges: New & Selected Poems by A. G. Pettet