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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.
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Awards for Works

Lost i "Over the browns and", 1997 single work poetry
— Appears in: Five Bells , January-February vol. 4 no. 1 1997; (p. 16) Other Voices International Project , vol. 13 no. 2005;
1997 winner The Harold Ogilvie Poetry Competition
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