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Phil is a popular speaker and presenter and is happy to talk about his books or any other subject you care to name.
He regularly visits schools and universities to talk about his books and his work as an author and journalist.
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Phil is an experienced journalist and is presently Editor of InReview Queensland and a regular columnist for InQueensland
His books have been well reviewed.
Confessions of a Minor Poet by Phil Brown
'What a life. What a book. When it's not making your ribs rattle with laughter, it's making your heart ache with all the pathos and poetry. A memory box of jewels from a true Brisbane treasure.' Trent Dalton
Hilarious, heartfelt and revealing.
Phil Brown tells all (well almost all) in this rollicking account of his career in literature and journalism from The Morning Bulletin in Rockhampton to Melbourne's Sunday Age and back to The Courier-Mail in Brisbane. He shares his challenges as a young surfer foolishly yearning to be a poet and his personal struggles on the road to becoming a writer with a fluctuating passion for poetry and a top drawer full of rejection slips. There are the seminal friendships with poets Bruce Dawe and Les Murray and a cavalcade of characters from the world of arts and letters Barry Humphries, Willem Dafoe, Daniel Craig, Alain de Botton, Richard E. Grant and characters he meets (and interviews) along the way, for better and occasionally, worse.
Confessions of a Minor Poet is a hugely entertaining memoir that shows us all how the life of a writer can be frustrating, even enraging but ultimately life-enriching. This is a vital, wild and affectionate ride across Queensland, New South Wales, and Victoria, from the seventies to now.
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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
Review by: Cass Moriarty Aug 17, 2019 | What Am I Reading?
The Kowloon Kid - Kindle E-book Edition
ANZ LitLovers LitBlog - A Review - Australian and New Zealand - Ambassador for Australian literature
The Weekend Edition - THE LOCALS - An Interview
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Available as E-book
Journalist-about-town Phil Brown has travelled widely but always reluctantly. Whether pursuing a tailor-made suit in the back alleys of Hong Kong, souvenir hunting in Ubud or dodging potholes on the road to Kathmandu, he shoulders a veritable kitbag of travel phobias. read more - click here
Available as E-book
A Modern Man's Search for Meaning
Phil Brown's life has been one long existential crisis. His path to enlightenment has been uphill - think of climbing Everest with a colonic irrigation or two along the way.
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Paperback
Phil Brown s poetry is the kind of work you should give to people who think poetry is elitist , or simply too hard to be bothered with. His is the inspiration that comes while you are waiting for that pizza, hitching a ride to a country town on a misty morning ... read ore - click here
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Transitlounge - 29.99
The Kowloon Kid
Kindle E-book Edition
'An exquisite love letter to Hong Kong.' - Ross Fitzgerald
Phil Brown Editor
InReview Qld
at InDaily Queensland
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