Posts from The Editors Desk
★ Editor-in-chief: Jerzy Beaumont
★ Founder and Consulting Senior Editor: Dr Brentley Frazer
★ Senior Editor: Arielle Cottingham
Dear fighters,
This next round of FIGHT will be our last for the foreseeable future.
We have been doing our best to give back, and the response from our community has blown us away. For that we are humbled, and so thoroughly grateful to be reminded again and again of the power in art and community.
Artwork © Jerzy Beaumont ⌖ BAREKNUCKLE POET JOURNAL OF LETTERS: EDITORIAL MARCH 24, 2020 Fighters, we’re going to be blunt with you for a spell. Everything is pretty fucked. The world is melting down, and we’re all feeling the heat. When I took on Bareknuckle in November, I knew I’d never make a cent more »
Photograph © Harrison Warne ⌖ BAREKNUCKLE POET JOURNAL OF LETTERS: EDITORIAL APRIL 06, 2018 A Note to Non-Indigenous Australian Poets Judith Wright, (et al.) hit the shin with a sledge hammer when she said Australia is a landscape without echoes for the non-indigenous poet. [1] If I present my love with a rose we both know the symbolism, more »
Dear Readers & Writers After a bit of down time Bareknuckle Poet has weathered a few blows, regained foothold and delivered a lovely right uppercut to the opponent Circumstance. For all our dedicated readers, expect the unexpected as we bring you new writing from the pale blue dot and writers, help us tear out the more »
Due to a perfect storm of commitments Bareknuckle Poet Journal of Letters will resume publishing on a regular basis February 2017. Visit Bareknuckle Books to keep up-to-date with our latest print titles. Order Anthology 1+2 or visit the home of Bareknuckle Books at TITLE Bookshop 1/133A Grey St, South Brisbane QLD 4101 and pick up a more »
Come join us at the Brisbane Writers Festival 9th September 2016: Guests – Samuel Wagan Watson, Mandy Beaumont and Edward Willes https://uplit.com.au/festival/brisbane-writers-festival/program/bareknuckle-press-launch
To celebrate World Poetry Day 2016 we are holding our inaugural amateur poetry competition. Opens Today 18 March 2016 and closes April 18 2016. The Rules . Open to residents of Queensland, Australia who have not yet attained any formal publication credits (excluding personal blogs/social media). . One poem only, no word count limit, no theme, more »
In the interests of transparency, and because we are an open access journal, we share with our readers and patrons the yearly reader statistics of Bareknuckle Poet. In the past 12 months we have had 1279985 hits, which breaks down as follows. We served 358002 pages to a total of 132966 unique (individual) readers. That’s about 400 more »
Dear Readers Our first annual anthology 2015 received itself a mention in The Australian newspaper’s ‘best books of 2015’ annual wrap in the Weekend Review on December 19 2015: Bareknuckle Poet, an anthology edited by Brentley Frazer and AG Pettet, is beautifully produced and packed with punchy reading, worth the price alone for two prose more »