Francis Bede Francis Bede i(14757421 works by)
Gender: Male
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1 At an Aussie Rules Match.. Francis Bede , 2024 single work poetry
— Appears in: Anthology of Australian Verse 2023 2024; (p. 44)
1 Joe McClusky Francis Bede , 2024 single work poetry
— Appears in: Anthology of Australian Verse 2023 2024; (p. 43)
1 Two Blokes and the Pickle i "Heavy raindrops engineered like overripe cantaloupes", Francis Bede , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Quadrant , 1 June vol. 65 no. 6 2021; (p. 59)
1 The Lament of Kel Nedly i "All right you kiss my arses, you bleeding simples, you stay at homes,", Francis Bede , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , October no. 97 and 98 2020;
1 Spelling B Minus i "Therefore I, a person of reasonably bred Letters", Francis Bede , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Eureka Street , 11 August vol. 29 no. 16 2019;
1 The Turn of a Friendly Path i "There are semblances of him scattered", Francis Bede , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Eureka Street , 7 April vol. 27 no. 7 2019; (p. 43-44)
1 A Trick of the Soil i "There are those, who are living,", Francis Bede , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Eureka Street , 7 April vol. 27 no. 7 2019; (p. 43)
1 y separately published work icon Bad Clergy : A Question in Five Fantasies Francis Bede , Michael Carolan (editor), Melbourne : Niche Press , 2018 14757460 2018 single work novel

'On a wintry Friday in 1980 the Bad Clergy are out for a night in the deliciously dirty old 'Syndey' city. Kelly, Muldoon, Mahone and Clancy (plus two silent companions) - young Catholic priests all - throw off their robes and embrace the contradictions of their theological guardianship. A literary concoction of satire, criticism, magic realism, atheism, theology and social commentary, Bad Clergy weaves their night's journey from eager Eucharist to doubtful Divinity. Through prose, verse and dialogue, as well as a series of absurdist encounters refracted through the actions of the six young priests, Bad Clergy offers a jarring, darkly humorous and fantastical taste of the bitter clash between convenient dogma and inconvenient reality.'  (Publication summary)
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