Phil Brown

Phil Brown is a respected arts journalist and commentator, poet and author who has worked for all the major news outlets in Australia and internationally.

For many years he has also written wry columns about his life and the vagaries of existence with occasional references to Dumb and Dumber.

“As an author I often write about myself,” Phil says. “And, if that sounds self-indulgent, you don't know the half of it. Mind you if you read any of my memoirs - Travels with My Angst, Any Guru Will Do and The Kowloon Kid, all will be revealed. Existential angst reigns in all my work including my two books of poetry - Plastic Parables and An Accident in the Evening. Is that a good thing? You can be the judge of that.”

Phil is a popular presenter at festivals and events of an artistic or literary nature and is available for speaking and writing engagements. In fact, try shutting him up.

The Kowloon Kid - A Hong Kong Childhood

Paper Book Format & E-Book - Published by Transitlounge

Phil Brown’s life begins in small-town Australia – Maitland NSW to be precise – but in 1963 his father Ted hankers to return to the Hong Kong of his childhood and to cash in on a construction boom in the burgeoning colony..... READ MORE

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