B. R. Dionysius was founding Director of the Queensland Poetry Festival and Director of Fringe Arts Collective Inc., a not-for-profit literary collective that organised the Brisbane Writers Fringe Festival (1993–1996), the Queensland Poetry Festival (1997–2001), The Arts Queensland Award for Unpublished Poetry (now the Val Vallis Award for Unpublished Poetry), published the poetry broadsheet Seriously Fishy, and ran literary events in Brisbane including Chalice Poets, With Baited Breath and The Word Made Flesh. He has an M.Phil. (Creative Writing) from The University of Queensland.
With poets Liz Hall-Downs and Sam Wagan Watson he wrote a sequence of poems, Boondall Cycle, for the ‘Black Fellas White Fellas Wetlands’: Boondall Wetlands Website project (1996–1999, Brisbane Stories, Brisbane City Council). An audio CD of the poetry from the ‘Black Fellas, White Fellas Wetlands’ project was released in 2000.
Bitter as the Cud 