R. J. Dent

R J Dent is an English writer of fiction and non-fiction.

Work
His stories, poems and essays have appeared in publications including Writer’s Muse, Orbis, Chanticleer, Agenda, Panda, Roundyhouse, Quazen, Authspot, and Philosophy Now.

His first novel, Myth, is a dark fantasy/horror story set on a Greek island. It was published in July 2006.

He has translated Le Comte de Lautréamont's The Songs of Maldoror, Charles Baudelaire's The Flowers of Evil, and Alcaeus's Poems & Fragments into English.

Novels

 * Myth (2006)

Short stories

 * A Triumph (2002) Writer's Muse
 * Jordy Michaels Leaps the Great Divide (2004) Philosophy Now
 * More to the Picture (2006) Writer's Muse
 * Chest of Wonders (2006) Express Art Gallery
 * Mimique (2007) AWEN
 * 9/11 Considered as the First Turn in a Game of Darts (2007) Authspot
 * The Purple Butterfly (2008) Writer's Muse
 * For Heart's Sake (2008) Authspot
 * Yellow Bandana (2008) Authspot
 * The Short Story (2008) Writinghood
 * Tally (2008) Authspot
 * Windows (2008) Authspot
 * On The Bus (2008) Authspot
 * The Six Letters of Henry VIII (2008) Authspot
 * Echoes (2008) Authspot

Translations

 * Alcaeus: Poems and Fragments (2012)
 * Comte de Lautréamont: The Songs of Maldoror (2011)
 * Charles Baudelaire: The Flowers of Evil (2009)

Essays

 * A Collaboration of Unlike Minds: Robert Graves’ and William Blake’s The Tyger (2006) Roundyhouse
 * You who magically make supple the old bones of the after-hours drunkard trampled by the horses’ – an essay on translating (2006) Agenda
 * Violence and exquisite beauty – the aesthetics of Roy Campbell (2006) Agenda
 * J. G. Ballard and the fiction of enclosed space (2007) Quazen
 * The Life, Death and Afterlife of Richard Bachman(2007) Quazen

Poetry collections

 * Moonstone Silhouettes

As contributor

 * Sade: Sex and Death - Essays on the Marquis De Sade
 * The Blood Delirium: The Vampire in 19th Century Literature
 * 'Introduction: The Rolling Stones and Jeremy Reed' in Voodoo Excess: Rolling with the Stones by Jeremy Reed