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Issue Details: First known date: 2023... 2023 Text Messages from the Universe
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'Text Messages from the Universe was inspired by The Tibetan Book of the Dead, a Buddhist text which guides souls on their 49-day transmigration through the ‘Bardo’, or intermediate state, between dying and rebirth. It immerses readers in subjective states of consciousness they might experience when they die. It imagines what they can see and think and hear in a seamless but fragmentary flow of poetic images which turn time and space on their heads.

'Text Messages from the Universe, the book, designed by Dylan Jones, includes images taken from the film of the same title by The Physical TV Company, and a front cover painting created especially for the occasion by Australian painter Michelle Hiscock, who similarly created the cover for Richard James Allen’s earlier volume with Flying Islands: Fixing the Broken Nightingale.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Bulahdelah, Bulahdelah area, Hawks Nest - Great Lakes area, Port Stephens, Mid North Coast, New South Wales,: Flying Island Books , 2023 .
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      Extent: 1v.p.
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      • Published 1 January 2023.
      ISBN: 9780645550313
      Series: y separately published work icon Flying Islands Pocket Books of Poetry Australian Pocket Poets; Pocket Poets Series Flying Island Books (publisher), Macao Bulahdelah : Flying Island Books Cerberus Press , 2011- Z1922767 2011- series - publisher poetry

Works about this Work

Review of ‘Text Messages from the Universe’ by Richard James Allen Gemma White , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: Editor's Desk - 2024 2024;

— Review of Text Messages from the Universe Richard James Allen , 2023 selected work poetry
Josh Stenberg Reviews Text Messages from the Universe Josh Stenberg , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: Plumwood Mountain [Online] , August 2024;

— Review of Text Messages from the Universe Richard James Allen , 2023 selected work poetry
[Review] Text Messages from the Universe Jane Frank , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: StylusLit , March no. 15 2024;

— Review of Text Messages from the Universe Richard James Allen , 2023 selected work poetry

'Australian poet, dancer, actor and filmmaker, Richard James Allen’s most recent work transports the reader through a disorienting and disturbing but also fascinating afterlife encounter.'  (Introduction)

A Kind of Sense Making : Daragh Byrne Launches ‘Text Messages from the Universe’ by Richard James Allen Daragh Byrne , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , vol. 36 no. 1 2023;

— Review of Text Messages from the Universe Richard James Allen , 2023 selected work poetry
An Odd Way to Be Born Michele Seminara , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: TEXT : The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs , October vol. 27 no. 2 2023;

— Review of Text Messages from the Universe Richard James Allen , 2023 selected work poetry
'Text Messages from the Universe begins with a dedication from its author, Richard James Allen, that reads “For My Virgils”, a reference to Italian poet Dante Alighieri’s literary masterpiece The Divine Comedy, which depicts its protagonist’s arduous journey through the afterlife.' 

(Introduction)          

Text Messages from the Universe by Richard James Allen Lynne Lancaster , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Sydney Arts Guide , January 2023;

— Review of Text Messages from the Universe Richard James Allen , 2023 selected work poetry
Mark Seton Reviews Text Messages from the Universe by Richard James Allen Mark Seton , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , no. 29 2023;

— Review of Text Messages from the Universe Richard James Allen , 2023 selected work poetry

'It’s 2023, and our world flounders under an encroaching deluge of Artificial Intelligence apps, especially ChatGPT, that might enable anyone to ‘generate’ poetry, so why bother! The good news, I believe, is that the poetry that touches us, moves us and connects us still emerges from a living, breathing, feeling, embodied poet. That’s what Richard James Allen generously offers the reader in his latest work Text Messages from the Universe. And it’s fun too!' (Introduction)

Review : Text Messages from the Universe — Richard James Allen Antonia Cassetta , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Other Terrain , October no. 12 2023;

— Review of Text Messages from the Universe Richard James Allen , 2023 selected work poetry
An Odd Way to Be Born Michele Seminara , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: TEXT : The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs , October vol. 27 no. 2 2023;

— Review of Text Messages from the Universe Richard James Allen , 2023 selected work poetry
'Text Messages from the Universe begins with a dedication from its author, Richard James Allen, that reads “For My Virgils”, a reference to Italian poet Dante Alighieri’s literary masterpiece The Divine Comedy, which depicts its protagonist’s arduous journey through the afterlife.' 

(Introduction)          

[Review] Text Messages from the Universe Jane Frank , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: StylusLit , March no. 15 2024;

— Review of Text Messages from the Universe Richard James Allen , 2023 selected work poetry

'Australian poet, dancer, actor and filmmaker, Richard James Allen’s most recent work transports the reader through a disorienting and disturbing but also fascinating afterlife encounter.'  (Introduction)

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