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.

Education and work

He was born in

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. Dionysius received a Bachelor of Education (Secondary) Grad Entry and then earned an M.Phil. (Creative Writing) from the

University of Queensland The University of Queensland is a Public university, public research university located primarily in Brisbane, the capital city of the Australian state of Queensland. Founded in 1909 by the Queensland parliament, UQ is one of the six sandstone ...

after. He served as Director of Fringe Arts Collective Inc., a not-for-profit literary collective that organised the Brisbane Writers Fringe Festival (1993–1996) and a precursor (1997–2001) to the modern incarnation of the

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

. He was also founding Director of that early iteration.

Personal life

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.

Awards

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 C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry 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. * Max Harris Poetry Award, 2009 * Whitmore Press Manuscript Prize, 2011 * Queensland Writers Fellowship, 2023

Bibliography

* ''Fatherlands'' (2000) * ''Bacchanalia'' (2002) * ''Universal Andalusia'' (2006). . * ''The Negativity Bin'' (2010) * ''The Curious Noise of History and Other Poems'' (2011) * ''Bowra'' (2013)

References

External links

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