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 (New York City) and Tasdance (Launceston), and now at The Physical TV Company (Sydney).

Richard James Allen recently published his ninth book, The Kamikaze Mind, and received the 2006 University of Technology, Sydney

University of Technology, Sydney

The University of Technology Sydney is a university in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The university was founded in its current form in 1981, although its origins trace back to the 1870s. UTS is notable for its central location as the only university with its main campuses within the Sydney CBD...

 Chancellor's Award for Best Ph.D Thesis. A multi-award-winning film adaptation of his previous book, the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry

Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry

The Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry is awarded annually as part of the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards for a book of collected poems or for a single poem of substantial length published in book form...

-nominated Thursday's Fictions, has also been produced. This surreal dance fantasy also has a Second Life presence, Thursday's Fictions in Second Life.

External links

Creative Websites:

• The Physical TV Company
• The Physical TV Channel on YouTube
• 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:

• SPIKE Magazine interview on dance for film and virtual worlds (6 April 2011)
• 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 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