Les Wicks
- January 4, 2024
- Poet
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Les Wicks Biography
| Name | Les Wicks |
| Birthday | Jun 15 |
| Birth Year | 1955 |
| Home Town | Sydney |
| Birth Country | Australia |
| Birth Sign | Gemini |
Les Wicks is one of the most popular and richest Poet who was born on June 15, 1955 in Sydney, Australia. Australian poet, editor, and publisher. He is best known for The Ways of Waves and Nitty Gritty. He was a performance poet and toured to many Australian literary festivals.
He was born in Australia, as was his fellow poet He and fellow poet Dorothy Coade Hewett were both born in Australia..
In the late 1970s, he embarked on his first publishing exercise – Meuse publications (with Bill Farrow) which was a high-water mark in Australian poetry publishing with its cutting edge mix of text and graphics. He helped set up the Poets Union in NSW. From the 1980s, he worked as a union industrial advocate for a number of Unions after obtaining a Graduate Diploma in Industrial Law from the University of Sydney.
His fifth book of poems, The Ways of Waves (Sidewalk, 2000) celebrates the Australian summer. Number six, Appetites of Light (PressPress, 2002), is an exploration of the qualities of light, while the seventh takes readers to “peopled landscapes”… Stories of the Feet (Five Islands, 2004). The Ambrosiacs (Island Press (Australia), 2009) concerns “endings”- an elegy – from ecology under stress to the loss of close friends. Wicks explores a sequence of endpoints: spiritual exploration, suburbia, rural escapes and travel…all with his typical raw honesty, humour and rage. A startling, and ultimately affirming picture of generations and lives. Joanne Burns writes of “the Ambrosiacs” “…intense, quite relentless, often dark and pessimistic. But this of course is not the whole story, for within these pages are striking moments of grace, awareness, acceptance, restitution…”. Much of the work in later books features what Wicks describes as “this waterwall, an alluvion”. Through building layers of proposition, assertion, voice & imagery a broader picture is created.
After witnessing the political divisive effects on his family from the Vietnam War, he was attracted to political activism.
Les Wicks Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Poet |
| House | Living in own house. |
Les Wicks is one of the richest Poet from Australia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Les Wicks 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
He was a student of Industrial Law at the University of Sydney, and was instrumental in the organization of a union of poets.
In 1980, he was nominated to the Pushcart Prize.
Les Wicks (born 15 June 1955) is an Australian poet, publisher and editor. He has a long list of achievements in writing, publishing and broadcasting. This includes the publication of thirteen books of poetry.
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2016 saw publication of Getting By Not fitting In ( Island Press (Australia), 2016) El Asombrado” (Rochford St, 2015) is his 12th title, a selection of poems from the previous 15 years in Spanish and English (translated by G Leogena).
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Les Ranked on the list of most popular Poet. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Australia. Les Wicks celebrates birthday on June 15 of every year.