Richard James Allen

Richard James Allen (born 1960) is a contemporary Australian poet, dancer, actor and filmmaker. The former artistic director of the Poets Union Inc, and founding director of the Australian Poetry Festival, Allen 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).[http://physicaltv.com.au/ Physical TV]

Allen has published thirteen books of poetry, fiction or performance texts, most recently Text Messages from the Universe (2023), More Lies (2021), The short story of you and I (2019), 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 Doctoral 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. [https://creative.gov.au/news/media-releases/a-story-of-the-future-in-second-life-2/ Creative Australia]

He is the grandson of World War II Major General Arthur Samuel "Tubby" Allen, son of novelist and short story writer Robert Allen, and the brother of art critic Christopher Allen.[https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A119045 Christopher Allen profile], AustLit

Books

{{cite book

| last = Allen

| first = Richard James

| title = Text Messages from the Universe

| year = c. 2023

| publisher = Flying Island Books

| location = ASM: Macau & Cerberus Press: Markwell, N.S.W., Australia

| isbn = 978-0-6455503-1-3

| ref =none

}}

{{cite book

| last = Allen

| first = Richard James

| title = More Lies

| year = c. 2021

| publisher = Interactive Press

| location = Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

| isbn = 978-19223-32-64-6

| ref =none|author-mask=1

}}

{{cite book

| last = Allen

| first = Richard James

| title = The short story of you and I

| year = c. 2019

| publisher = UWA Publishing

| location = Perth, Western Australia, Australia

| isbn = 978-17608-00-21-5

| ref =none|author-mask=1

}}

{{cite book

| last = Allen

| first = Richard James

| title = Fixing the broken nightingale

| year = c. 2014

| publisher = Flying Island Books

| location = ASM: Macau & Cerberus Press: Markwell, N.S.W., Australia

| isbn = 978-99965-42-58-9

| ref =none|author-mask=1

}}

{{cite book

| last = Allen

| first = Richard James

| title = The kamikaze mind

| year = c. 2006

| publisher = Brandl & Schlesinger

| location = Blackheath, N.S.W., Australia

| isbn = 1-876040-71-8

| ref =none|author-mask=1

}}

{{cite book

| last = Allen

| first = Richard James

| title = Thursday's fictions

| date = c. 1999

| publisher = Five Islands Press

| location = Wollongong, N.S.W., Australia

| isbn = 0-86418-596-0

| ref =none|author-mask=1

}}

{{cite book

| last = Allen

| first = Richard James

|author2=Karen Pearlman|author-link=Karen Pearlman

| title = Performing the Unnameable: An Anthology of Australian Performance Texts

| date = c. 1999

| publisher = Currency Press in association with RealTime

| location = Sydney, N.S.W., Australia

| isbn = 0-86819-420-4

| ref =none|author-mask=with

}}

{{cite book

| last = Allen

| first = Richard James

|author2=Karen Pearlman|author-link2=Karen Pearlman

| title = New Life on the 2nd Floor

| year = c. 1996

| publisher = Tasdance

| location = Launceston, TAS, Australia

| isbn = 0-9586795-0-9

| ref =none|author-mask=with

}}

{{cite book

| last = Allen

| first = Richard James

| title = The air dolphin brigade

| year = c. 1995

| publisher =Paper Bark Press in association with Tasdance

| location = Brooklyn, N.S.W., Australia, and Launceston, TAS, Australia

| isbn = 0-646-26678-0

| ref =none|author-mask=1

}}

{{cite book

| last = Allen

| first = Richard James

| title = What to name your baby

| year = c. 1995

| publisher = Paper Bark Press in association with Tasdance

| location = Brooklyn, N.S.W., Australia, and Launceston, TAS, Australia

| isbn = 0-646-23747-0

| ref =none|author-mask=1

}}

{{cite book

| last = Allen

| first = Richard James

| title = Hope for a man named Jimmie; &, Grand illusion Joe

| date = c. 1993

| publisher = Five Islands Press Associates

| location = Wollongong, N.S.W., Australia

| isbn = 1-875604-07-3

| ref =none|author-mask=1

}}

{{cite book

| last = Allen

| first = Richard James

| title = To the ocean; &, Scheherazade

| year = c. 1989

| publisher = Hale & Iremonger

| location = Sydney, N.S.W., Australia

| isbn = 0-86806-396-7

| ref =none|author-mask=1

}}

{{cite book

| last = Allen

| first = Richard James

| title = The way out at last & other poems

| date = c. 1986

| publisher = Hale & Iremonger

| location = Sydney, N.S.W., Australia

| isbn = 0-86806-248-0

| ref =none|author-mask=1

}}

References

External links

Creative Websites:

[http://www.physicaltv.com.au The Physical TV Company]
[https://www.youtube.com/user/PhysicalTV The Physical TV Channel on YouTube]
[https://soundcloud.com/user-387793087 #RichardReads - an online compendium of Global Poetry, Read Aloud]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20091028201106/http://www.physicaltv.com.au/PerformingTheUnnameable_565_1260_3_0.html Performing The Unnameable: An Anthology of Australian Performance Texts]
[https://opus.lib.uts.edu.au/handle/10453/152690 Out Of The Labyrinth Of The Mind: Manifesting A Spiritual Art Beyond Dualism (Abstract for Doctorate of Creative Arts)]

Interviews:

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnWz6EPtlAA&ab_channel=TASA%28TheAustralianSociologicalAssociation%29/ TASA Media Voices Series, interview on creativity across various artforms (7 October, 2021)]
[https://verityla.com/2020/02/24/the-silence-between-one-person-and-the-next-richard-james-allens-the-short-story-of-you-and-i-tony-messenger/ Tony Messenger, Verity La, interview on poetry, spirituality and the arts (24 February, 2020)]
[https://thewombwellrainbow.com/2019/08/02/wombwell-rainbow-interviews-richard-james-allen/ Paul Brookes, The Wombwell Rainbow, interview on writing history and practice (7 August, 2019)]
[https://anchor.fm/compulsivereader/episodes/Interview-with-Richard-James-Allen-e4e5ho/ Magdalena Ball, Compulsive Reader, interview on poetry and creativity (24 June, 2019)]
[http://www.backstoryjournal.com.au/2019/06/16/richard-james-allen-2/ Samuel Elliott, Backstory Journal, interview on poetic form (16 June, 2019)]
[https://fbiradio.com/945fm/programs/mornings-with-eddy-diamond/2019-02-27/with-richard-james-allen/ Eddy Diamond, FBi Radio, interview on poetry (2 February, 2019)]
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fD4pm3mi00/ Interactive Media Innovation (imi) industry leader interview (April, 2012)]
[http://www.lightandheatphoto.com/richard-james-allen Andrew Mikkelsen interview on yoga, creativity, philosophy and personal history (21 February, 2012)]
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6XxGwU4po8 Josef Brown interview on dance film and creativity (30 May, 2011)]
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuRhhWjSghc Orion Mitchell interview on dance film and the internet, as part of Dancing Through YouTube (April 26, 2011)]
[http://www.spikemagazine.com/rhythm-methods-the-physical-tv-company-and-dance-in-second-life.php SPIKE Magazine interview on dance for film and virtual worlds (6 April 2011)]
[http://vimeo.com/17910917 Transmedia Victoria – Meet transmedia artist: Richard James Allen (20 December, 2010)]
[http://www.realtimearts.net/article/99/10014 RealTime interview on mixed reality dance film (Issue #99, October–November 2010)]
[http://www.abc.net.au/rn/bookshow/stories/2007/2051930.htm ABC Radio National interview on writing for Second Life (The Book Show, 10 October 2007)]
[http://www.realtimearts.net/article/issue80/8662 RealTime interview on dance film (Issue #80, August–September 2007)]
[http://www.realtimearts.net/article/issue10/6136 RealTime interview on dance and poetry (Issue #10, December–January 1995)]

Archives:

[https://redroomcompany.org/poet/richard-james-allen/ Richard James Allen at Red Room Poetry]
[http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/allen-richard-james Richard James Allen at the Australian Poetry Library]
[https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20120625140000/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/35285/20120626-0000/www.australiadancing.org/apps/adcf42.html Richard James Allen at Australia Dancing, National Library of Australia]{{cbignore|bot=medic}}
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[http://colsearch.nfsa.gov.au/nfsa/search/summary/summary.w3p;adv=;group=;groupequals=;page=0;parentid=;query=richard%20james%20allen;querytype=;resCount=10 Richard James Allen at the National Film and Sound Archive]
[http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/search/simpleSearch.aspx?authority=creatorauthorartist&ID=156203 Richard James Allen at the Manuscripts Collection, the State Library of New South Wales]
[http://www.austlit.edu.au/run?ex=ShowAgent&agentId=A1%7DW Richard James Allen at AustLit]
[https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/tep/85206 The Physical TV Company Website selected for preservation by Pandora, Australia's Web Archive, at the National Library of Australia]

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