B. R. Dionysius (born 1969) is an Australian

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and

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. His poems have appeared in numerous national and international anthologies, journals, magazines, newspapers and other periodicals. He was born in

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. He was founding Director of the ''

Queensland Poetry Festival Queensland Poetry Festival is the flagship program of Queensland Poetry one of Australia's premier organisations for all things poetry. It exists to support and promote a poetry culture in Queensland and Australia, embracing the wide possibility o ...

'' and Director of Fringe Arts Collective Inc. a not-for-profit literary collective that organised the ''Brisbane Writers Fringe Festival'' (1993-1996) the ''

'' (1997-2001), ''The Arts Queensland Award for Unpublished Poetry'' (now the ''

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Award for Unpublished Poetry'') published the poetry broadsheet, ''Seriously Fishy'' and coordinated literary events in Brisbane including ''Chalice Poets'', ''With Baited Breath'' and ''The Word Made Flesh''. Dionysius completed an M.Phil. (Creative Writing) at the

University of Queensland , mottoeng = By means of knowledge and hard work , established = , endowment = A$224.3 million , budget = A$2.1 billion , type = Public research university , chancellor = Peter Varghese , vice_chancellor = Deborah Terry , city = ...

and a Bachelor of Education (Secondary) Grad Entry. He lives in Brisbane, Queensland, is married to the writer

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and has two daughters, Rhiannon and Sylvie, and a son, Theo. In 1999, he was awarded a New Work Grant from the Literature Fund of the Australia Council to write the verse novel, ''Universal Andalusia. Universal Andalusia'' was shortlisted for the

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in 2006. He won the 2009 Max Harris Poetry Award. A chapbook, ''The Negativity Bin'' was published by PressPress in 2010. ''The Curious Noise of History'' was released by Picaro Press in 2011. He recently won the Whitmore Press Manuscript Prize, 2011.

Awards

* Max Harris Poetry Award, 2009 * Whitmore Press Manuscript Prize, 2011

Bibliography

* ''Fatherlands'' (2000) * ''Bacchanalia'' (2002) * ''Universal Andalusia'' (soi 3/papertiger media, 2006) * ''The negativity bin'' (2010) * ''The curious noise of history: and other poems'' (2011) * ''Bowra'' (2013)

References

External links

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