Richard James Allen 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 and Tasdance, and now at The Physical TV Company. Richard James Allen has published ten books of poetry, fiction or performance texts, most recently Fixing the Broken Nightingale, The Kamikaze Mind, and Performing the Unnameable: An Anthology of Australian Performance Texts, co-edited with Karen Pearlman. He received the 2005 University of Technology, Sydney Chancellor's Award for Best Ph.D Thesis. A multi-award-winning film adaptation of his Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry-nominated book, Thursday's Fictions, 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. [More at Wikipedia]

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