Writer, filmmaker, flâneur: Dean Kyte is a mec with many strings to his bow.

The author of The Melbourne Flâneur and The Spleen of Melbourne, Dean Kyte calls the noirish laneways of Melbourne his home—when this dapper dandy-at-large isn’t ‘flâning’ about, prowling the small towns and big burgs de l’Australie.

Though undercover, he is rarely inconspicuous.  You’ll often espy the Melbourne Flâneur in his trademark fedora scribbling at ‘the office’—any place where the coffee is long, strong, and noir.

A hunter after beauty armed with Moleskine and Montblanc, and with a full clip of Kodak film in his camera, Dean Kyte writes prose poetry and literary noir fiction in the style of the Nouveau Roman.

The French connection runs deep with our man: Since 2019, Dean’s blog, The Melbourne Flâneur, has established itself as one of the most frequently consulted and trusted resources for quality information on French culture and literature in the English-speaking world.

Every year, thousands of visitors from the U.S., Australia, England, and Canada flock to The Melbourne Flâneur, engaged by Dean’s insightful articles, videos, and audio tracks as he shares his expertise in French literature and explains how he applies his æsthetic lifestyle philosophy of Parisian flânerie to an Aussie context.

Dean Kyte is particularly consulted for citable analysis on his speciality—the life and work of French poet Charles Baudelaire.

One of the most sensitive contemporary interpreters of Baudelaire’s poetry and prose poetry, in 2025, Dean Kyte will release a new book of translations drawn from the works of Baudelaire, Maledictions, Blasphemies, Laments: Selections from Toxic Blossoms and Parisian Spleen.

Maledictions, Blasphemies, Laments will be released in June 2025 as Vol. II in The Melbourne Edition of Dean Kyte’s collected works via the author’s personal small press.

A craftsman of fine literature, Dean Kyte has been an authorpreneur since before it was respectable!

After a stint in the print world, he became interested in digital print-on-demand and has been self-publishing his own books, zines, and CD audiobooks since 2012.

Dean Kyte has been providing his niche skills and the unique expertise he has gained in Artisanal Desktop Publishing to aspiring authors since 2018, assisting writers, photographers, artists and other creatives to get their messages elegantly into print.

Dean is particularly passionate about working with other poets and literary writers in Australia, the U.S., and Canada who are as determined as he is to completely reimagine the technology of the book and its possibilities in the twenty-first century, and to build a renascent, flourishing literary culture in the Anglosphere.

If you are interested in working with Dean, or just vibe with his flâneurial philosophy and want to say hi, get in touch with him here.