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Les Wicks Les Wicks i(A18195 works by)
Also writes as: 'Frank Malley'
Born: Established: 1955 ;
Gender: Male
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BiographyHistory

Les Wicks grew up in Western Sydney. He has been a traveller, railworker and union advocate. Wicks has run workshops and performed around Australia. He edited 'Artransit' (bus poetry) in Sydney and Newcastle, and was an editor of Meuse Press. Wicks assisted in the editing of Fighting Arts : godhead : a Meuse anthology (1979).

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2017 longlisted Red Room Poetry Fellowship
2015 shortlisted The Fair Australia Prize Poetry Prize for ‘Struggle’
2014 recipient Creative Industries Career Fund to travel to Spain in February 2015 to attend Granada’s International Poetry Festival.

Awards for Works

Misfits i "Like high-register piano notes", 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: FourW (New Writing) , no. 31 2020; (p. 232-233)
2020 shortlisted The Booranga Prize The Booranga Prize for Poetry
Riding the Heatwave 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: FourW New Writing Twenty-Seven , no. 27 2016; (p. 136)
2016 shortlisted The Booranga Prize The Booranga Prize for Poetry
Atlantis i "The incontinence of islands was an embarrassment", 2014 single work poetry
— Appears in: New Writing : Twenty Five 2014; (p. 165)
2014 shortlisted The Booranga Prize The Booranga Prize for Poetry
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