Richard James Allen (born 1960) is a contermporary Australian poet and dancer.
With the publication of The Kamikaze Mind, Richard James Allen's ninth book, the receipt of the 2006 University of Technology, Sydney Chancellor's Award for Best Ph.D Thesis, and the release of his multi-award-winning film adaptation of his last book, the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry nominated Thursday's Fictions, it is possible to see the jigsaw pieces of a remarkable and arresting artistic vision coming together into a mature body of work in literature, dance and film. The UTS tower on Broadway The University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), is a university in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. ... The Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry is awarded annually as part of the N. S. W. Premiers Literary Awards for a book of collected poems or for a single poem of substantial length published in book form. ...
Works
Poetry
The Way Out at Last & Other Poems. (Sydney: Hale & Iremonger, 1986)
To the Ocean & Scheharazade. (Sydney: Hale & Iremonger, 1989)
Hope For a Man Named Jimmie & Grand Illusion Joe. (Wollongong: Five Islands, 1993)
What To Name Your Baby. (Brooklyn: Paper Bark, and Launceston: Tasdance, 1995)
The Air Dolphin Brigade. (Sydney: Paper Bark, and Launceston: Tasdance, 1995)
New Life on the 2nd Floor. Poems by Allen, essays by Karen Pearlman(Launceston: Tasdance, 1996)
Thursday's Fictions. (Wollongong: Five Islands, 1999)
The Kamikaze Mind. (Blackheath: Brandl & Schlesinger, 2006)
Anthologies
Performing the Unnameable: An Anthology of Australian Performance Texts. Edited with Karen Pearlman (Currency and RealTime, 1999)
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