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Les Wicks (Australia)

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Les Wicks’ 13th book of poetry is Getting By    Not Fitting In (Island, 2016). For 40 years Les has been a figure of substance in the Australian literary community.  He has been a guest at a substantial list of international festivals.
 
Publication has been seen in over 350 different newspapers, anthologies and magazines across 29 countries in 14 languages.
 
Stylistically, the poet sits between camps. Seen as both a “stage” and “page” poet, his work is a mix of accessibility and dense use of language. Poems can be both humorous and fierce, often in the same poem. 
 
Equally well known is his work as a publisher and editor. Australia saw Artransit which put poetry/art into Sydney and Newcastle buses but that is just one of dozens of similar roles: some predictable like literary magazines while others range as far afield as publishing a poem on the surface of a river. The most recent publication is To End All Wars (Puncher & Wattmann, Nov 2018). 
http://leswicks.tripod.com/lw.htm

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