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

• Allen, Richard James (2014). Fixing the broken nightingale. ASM: Macau & Cerberus Press: Markwell, N.S.W., Australia: Flying Island Books. pp. 113 p. ; 15 cm. ISBN 978-99965-42-58-9. 

• Allen, Richard James (c. 2006). The kamikaze mind. Blackheath, N.S.W., Australia: Brandl & Schlesinger. pp. 157 p. : ill. ; 18 cm. ISBN 1-876040-71-8. 
• Allen, Richard James (c. 1999). Thursday's fictions. Wollongong, N.S.W., Australia: Five Islands Press. pp. v, 120 p. ; 21 cm. ISBN 0-86418-596-0. 
• Allen, Richard James; Karen Pearlman (c. 1999). Performing the Unnameable: An Anthology of Australian Performance Texts. Sydney, N.S.W., Australia: Currency Press in association with RealTime. pp. xv, 203 p. : ill. ; 28 cm. ISBN 0-86819-420-4. 
• Allen, Richard James; Karen Pearlman (c. 1996). New Life on the 2nd Floor. Launceston, TAS, Australia: Tasdance. pp. 76 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. ISBN 0-9586795-0-9. 
• Allen, Richard James (c. 1995). The air dolphin brigade. Brooklyn, N.S.W., Australia, and Launceston, TAS, Australia: Paper Bark Press in association with Tasdance. pp. 88 p. : ill., ports. ; 21 cm. ISBN 0-646-26678-0. 
• Allen, Richard James (c. 1995). What to name your baby. Brooklyn, N.S.W., Australia, and Launceston, TAS, Australia.: Paper Bark Press in association with Tasdance. pp. 40 p. : ports. ; 21 cm. ISBN 0-646-23747-0. 
• Allen, Richard James (c. 1993). Hope for a man named Jimmie ; &, Grand illusion Joe. Wollongong, N.S.W., Australia: Five Islands Press Associates. pp. 90 p. ; 21 cm. ISBN 1-875604-07-3. 
• Allen, Richard James (c. 1989). To the ocean ; &, Scheherazade. Sydney, N.S.W., Australia: Hale & Iremonger. pp. 160 p. ; 20 cm. ISBN 0-86806-396-7. 
• Allen, Richard James (c. 1986). The way out at last & other poems. Sydney, N.S.W., Australia: Hale & Iremonger. pp. 111 p. ; 23 cm. ISBN 0-86806-248-0. 

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 IMDb
• 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

• U: No 04: 26 May – 6 June 2006 – Review by Jaine P Stockler of The Kamikaze Mind
• 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