Dec 24, 2018BOOK REVIEW ⌘ CRUMPLING UP BUKOWSKI✑ Reviewed by Dr Brentley Frazer ⇥ @BrentleyFrazer ⌘ This review first published by The Poets’ Republic ⇥ @poets_republic and my heart crumples like a coke can by Ali Whitelock I wish review copies would arrive sans publisher’s assertions and solicited opinions from names dropped on the cover. It’d also help if the review copy has the forward or introduction already…Poetry5 min readPoetry5 min read
May 5, 2018A Note to Non-Indigenous Australian PoetsJudith Wright, (et al.) hit the shin with a sledge hammer when she said Australia is a landscape without echoes for the non-indigenous poet. [1] If I present my love with a rose we both know the symbolism, we have inherited a cultural history of the array of possible meanings…Poetry6 min readPoetry6 min read
Feb 10, 2017The Real Truth SucksWaking up in the savage garden — I want to believe the Simulation Argument. I wish to meet a time traveller who’d take me with them. I want someone to prove the moon a hologram, the ISS a fake and that chemtrails will kill us all while terraforming the planet for our alien overlords. I want to…Artificial Intelligence3 min readArtificial Intelligence3 min read
Aug 28, 2015Posthuman PornographyThe camera changed the world when first imagined and is still changing the world today. The first porn film was made in 1896 almost immediately after the invention of the motion picture camera, and today . . . well, you have probably heard that the pornography business is responsible for…Porn4 min readPorn4 min read
Aug 11, 2015AftermathAn extract from Scoundrel Days First published May 2014 antiTHESIS, University of Melbourne: ISSN 1030–3839 Apologies readers . . . this story is now copyright by the publishers of Scoundrel Days: a memoir which will be available world wide from Feb 27 2017 from University of Queensland Press (UQP) Read a review here — http://brentley.com/scoundrel-days-review-by-brendan-fredericks/ Check out the Penguin page — https://penguin.com.au/books/scoundrel-days-a-memoir-9780702259562Experimental Literature1 min readExperimental Literature1 min read
Aug 11, 2015If You Can’t Convince Them, Confuse Them: Plundering The Rabbit HoleWhen Jean Baudrillard wrote in his essay The Spirit of Terrorism ‘the World Trade Center & New York hits, the absolute event, the “mother” of events, the pure event which is the essence of all the events that never happened…’ you can easily take him out of context. …4 min read4 min read