Brief Bio: Paul Hardacre was born in Brisbane, Australia in 1974. Between 1998 and 2003, Paul was the Contributing Queensland Editor for the South Australian poetry journal, Sidewalk. In 2003 he was appointed as an editorial correspondent for Cordite, and he edited selections for the US ezines Big Bridge and Fuse Box

Paul’s poetry has appeared in the anthologies In the criminal’s cabinet: An nthology of poetry and fiction (nth position press, USA, 2004), The Second Wellington International Poetry Festival Anthology (HeadworX, New Zealand, 2004), Greatest Hits - JAAM 21: An Anthology of Writing 1984-2004 (HeadworX / Earl of Seacliffe Art Workshop, New Zealand, 2003), (Some from) Diagram: An anthology of text, art, and schematic (Del Sol Press, Washington, D.C., 2003), and Short Fuse: The Global Anthology of New Fusion Poetry (Rattapallax Press, New York, 2002). His first collection of poetry, The Year Nothing, was published by HeadworX (Wellington, NZ) in 2003. His unpublished poetry manuscript, Love in the place of rats, was shortlisted for the Thomas Shapcott Award in both 2003 and 2004. In 2003/04 he completed a third (and also currently unpublished) collection, The river is far behind us, with the assistance of a Major Grant from Arts Queensland. Paul currently lives and works in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

List of publications:

papertiger: new world poetry #01 (papertiger media, 2001)
http://www.papertigermedia.com/cdroms/pt01.html

subversions [generations of contemporary poetry] (papertiger media, 2001)
http://www.papertigermedia.com/cdroms/subversions.html

papertiger: new world poetry #02 (papertiger media, 2002)
http://www.papertigermedia.com/cdroms/pt02.html

papertiger: new world poetry #03 (papertiger media, 2003)
http://www.papertigermedia.com/cdroms/pt03.html

The Year Nothing (HeadworX, 2003)
http://headworx.eyesis.co.nz/poetry/yearnothing.php

papertiger: new world poetry #04 (papertiger media, 2004)
http://www.papertigermedia.com/cdroms/pt04.html

Website: http://www.papertigermedia.com/about/hardacre.html (English)

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Country: Australia and Thailand