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Stephen Brock Stephen Brock i(A84855 works by) (a.k.a. Steve Brock; Stephen James Thoms Brock)
Born: Established: 1971 Adelaide, South Australia, ;
Gender: Male
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1 A Community of Poets and Activists : Steve Brock Launches ‘The Dilemma of Writing a Poem’ by Juan Garrido-Salgado Stephen Brock , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , vol. 38 no. 1 2023;
— Review of The Dilemma of Writing a Poem Juan Garrido Salgado , 2023 selected work poetry
1 Reading Tu Fu Late at Night i "It’s nearly midnight", Stephen Brock , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: Foam:e , March no. 20 2023;
1 Second-hand Trader i "I learnt from poet and judge John Bray", Stephen Brock , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: Foam:e , March no. 20 2023;
1 Aged Parchment of Dawn i "Red and yellow bins scattered", Stephen Brock , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: Quadrant , June vol. 67 no. 6 2023; (p. 9)
1 Objects i "A house empties its contents", Stephen Brock , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: Quadrant , June vol. 67 no. 6 2023; (p. 9)
1 Liquid and Infinitely Yielding : The Renaissance of Australian Prose Poetry Stephen Brock , 2021 single work review essay
— Appears in: Social Alternatives , October vol. 40 no. 3 2021; (p. 44-47) 'The Anthology of Australian Prose Poetry is the first major collection of its type in Australian letters1, as highlighted in the erudite and informative introduction. Editors Cassandra Atherton and Paul Hetherington are the co-authors of an academic study of the prose poem, so the reader is in good hands. Part of the sport of reviewing a significant and generational anthology such as this is to interrogate the biases of the editors and dwell upon who gets a guernsey. When it comes to prose poetry, however, the territory feels less emotionally charged. One can never be sure who’s playing in the muddy field between prose and poetry. In terms of the difficult task of defining the ‘prose poem’ the introduction provides some loose parameters: a prose poem is short and pithy, preferably half a page in length and not exceeding one page. Attention is also given to the justification of the right margin, which it is observed gives the impression of the text being fenced visually (as though the primary purpose of the Australian prose poem might be to keep the sheep in). Ultimately the editors resort to prose poetry to define the prose poem; according to James Harms they ‘feel horizontal in their rhetorical designs, like waves rushing up the beach, slowly flattening out into foam and a thin sheet of water, then receding back to the depths’ (14). This is as good a definition as any and the reader can proceed safe in the knowledge we’ll know one when we see one.'
1 When She Washes Her Hair i "When she washes her hair", Stephen Brock , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Quadrant , October vol. 65 no. 10 2021; (p. 95)
1 Mao Please i "My first evening in Melbourne", Stephen Brock , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Meanjin , Autumn vol. 80 no. 1 2021;
1 The Sun and the Moon i "in the front bar", Stephen Brock , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 34 no. 1 2020; (p. 43)
1 Bird Man i "I was a boy of ten", Stephen Brock , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Social Alternatives , vol. 39 no. 4 2020; (p. 44)
1 Personality Test i "a colleague", Stephen Brock , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Social Alternatives , vol. 39 no. 4 2020; (p. 4)
1 2 y separately published work icon Live at Mr. Jakes Stephen Brock , Adelaide : Wakefield Press , 2020 20878657 2020 selected work poetry

'Relaxed and laconic, Live at Mr Jake's riffs on a mix of highbrow and popular culture references. Accessible yet literary, this collection celebrates a diversity of voices from Australia and beyond. Spanning four continents, the poems are equally at home in the front bar as they are on the literary trail in Paris or San Francisco. Cool and understated, Brock surfs the cultural interstices of the Latin American influences on his life and work to create a poetic vision transpacific in scope.'

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1 Saturday 19 March 2016 Stephen Brock , 2017 single work prose
— Appears in: Just Off Message : A 20th Year Anthology 2017; (p. 30)
1 Day Burner Stephen Brock , 2017 single work prose
— Appears in: Just Off Message : A 20th Year Anthology 2017; (p. 27)
1 Double Glaze Stephen Brock , Jen Lush (composer), 2017 single work lyric/song
— Appears in: The Night's Insomnia 2017;
1 Zucchini Flowers i "I meet Sergio", Stephen Brock , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Communion Literary Magazine , December no. 8 2017;
1 You Only Queue Twice i "standing on the Puente Romano", Stephen Brock , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: States of Poetry - South Australia 2017;
1 The Window i "I wake up", Stephen Brock , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: States of Poetry - South Australia 2017;
1 Post Apocalypse i "the day of the storm", Stephen Brock , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: States of Poetry - South Australia 2017;
1 Market Day i "a flock of starlings", Stephen Brock , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: States of Poetry - South Australia 2017;
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