Over 45 years Wicks has performed widely in Australia & internationally. Published/broadcast in over 400 different channels, magazines, anthologies & newspapers across 35 countries in 15 languages. Conducts workshops around Australia, has edited various projects over the decades, latest being Guide to Sydney Crime (2022) & runs Meuse Press which focuses on poetry outreach projects like poetry on buses & poetry published on the surface of a river. His 15th book of poetry is Time Taken – New & Selected (Puncher & Wattmann, 2022).
Links: leswicks.tripod.com/lw.htm
Flying Islands Pocket Poet Publications
Belief
…because his eye is withering and direct, Wicks gives his subjects a dignity and specificity that many a contemporary Australian novelist would envy.
Adam Aitken, Communion
Iconoclastic, irreverent, but always vigorous and compelling.
Margaret Bradstock
an elaborate mosaic where the tiles are words; paradoxes, satire and the vernacular adorn the pages of this beautifully crafted book.
Beatriz Copello
clever and brutal – an unflinching examination of human belief, in all of its horror and beauty.
Judith Nangala Crispin
…Belief displays an accomplished elder statesman of Australian poetry laying out with disarming agreeableness some of the fundamental questions of the near future. Often playful, sometimes circular, always self-aware in an optimistic rather than despairing way…
Lucas Smith, Plumwood Mountain
