Francis Bede

Poet

Author's Bio

Francis Bede lives and writes in Tasmania Australia. He is the author of Bad Clergy - a question in five fantasies and its companion volume God in the Human Machine - a theobiography. He is also the author of Houdini Weaned on Fear- poems, Between Old Worlds - poems, and Alfonso, His Vignettes 1936-1968. 

Publications & Prizes

Book:
Anthology of Australian Verse (Bonfire Books, 2023)
Journals:
Cordite Poetry Review
,
Literary Heist
,
Quadrant
,
StepAway Magazine
,
TINGE Magazine

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
James Joyce, John Irving, John Milton, Emily Dickinson, Wilfred Owen, Franz Kafka, John Cooper Clarke, Charles Bukowski. Peter Bakowski.
What I'm reading now: 
The System of Nature Vol. 1 by Baron D'Holbach

More Information

Born in: 
Sydney, NSW
Australia
New South Wales
Raised in: 
Australia
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Last update: Jan 29, 2026