B. R. Dionysius — Not for Heroics
Join us in-store on Friday 11 December, 6pm for a 6.30pm start, for a 60-minute conversation with Dr Jane Frank and B. R. Dionysius about his new book of poetry, Not for Heroics.
Find full event details and RSVP at avidreader.com.au.
ABOUT THE BOOK
The poems in B.R. Dionysius’s new collection Not for Heroics, centre on the quiet resistance and selfless bravery of ordinary individuals variously caught up in extraordinary events and circumstances of grief, death, suffering and loss. These are people (and animals) who don’t ask to be valorised but who go about their business – not for fame and not for fortune. These free verse poems and sonnets tenderly and sometimes humourously celebrate family, human connection and interrelationship with the natural world – the full significance of what we inherit and what we can gift. From particles accelerating through a human brain to parents saving their children and children sacrificing themselves for the benefit of an ancient community – these are acts done for the greater good of humanity – not for heroics.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
B. R. Dionysius was founding Director of the Queensland Poetry Festival. He has published poetry, a verse novel and an artist’s book. He won the 2009 Max Harris Poetry Award, was a joint winner of the 2000 Five Islands Press New Poets Program, the 2011 Whitmore Press Manuscript Prize, and the 2016 Paul Sherman Community Poetry Award. He was short-listed in the 2013 and 2017 Montreal International Poetry Prize. He was recently awarded a 2023 Queensland Writers’ Fellowship from Arts Queensland, the State Library of Queensland and the Queensland Writers’ Centre to write The Eromanga Sea (forthcoming, Calanthe Press). Not for Heroics is his tenth poetry collection.
ABOUT THE LAUNCHER
Dr Jane Frank is an award-winning Brisbane poet, editor and academic. Her debut poetry collection ‘Ghosts Struggle to Swim’ was published by Calanthe Press in May 2023, and she is the author of two previous chapbooks. Her work regularly appears in journals and anthologies in both Australia and internationally— most recently in ‘The Memory Palace’ (The Ekphrastic Review, Canada, 2024). She likes to run writing workshops, has appeared in a number of poetry podcasts here and in the UK, is Reviews Editor for ‘StylusLit Literary Journal’ and teaches communication and creative industries at the University of the Sunshine Coast’s Moreton Bay campus. Her most recent poetry book is ‘Gardening on Mars’ (Shearsman Books, UK, 2025)
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