BOOKS

The AMBROSIACS

(Island Press, 2009) $22.00 (Aust)

Wicks’ The Ambrosiacs visual and tonal senses, shown through a series of relentless escapes and endscapes, create a striking depiction of the poet’s perceptions and observations. Matthew Hall, Cordite

…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… joanne burns

...the poetry is firmly anchored in the recognisably here and now of the material world, craftily exploiting tensions between the natural world and the depredations of short-sighted materialism and consumerism. Cliff Forshaw

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STORIES of the FEET

(Five Islands Press, 2004) $18.95 (Aust)

In Australia, dramatic narratives, in a variety of styles, still have a vitality that at least matches, perhaps outshines what other English poetries can show…[“Two Ghosts…” featured herein] with its oral manner, builds up an eerie tension… Christopher Pollnitz , Ulitarra

We need a book like this once in a while to remind ourselves that poets document contemporary society in a way that social scientists never will. With Stories of the Feet, Les Wicks focuses his rearview mirror on us. Rob Walker, Cordite

Les is your tour guide to the real Australia, a land of Emus and Kangaroos indeed, also a land of dead bodies covered in sheets, or cold nights thumbing rides along deserted highways… Another fabulous book, from a great poet. Paul Gilbert, Above Ground Testing

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APPETITES of LIGHT

(PressPress, 2002) $7.70 (Aust)

Wicks lights the desires, ideas, acceptance & epiphanies of his everyday Australian protagonists in a … rich, impressionistic, resonant way. Christine Ferrari

…a fresh, strong, humanistic voice… Patricia Prime, Stylus

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The WAYS of WAVES

(SideWaLK [Poets], 2000) $10.00 (Aust)

...summer through a sharply focused lens, a sudden wit and quick shifts of tone and mood. ...he is chameleon, restless, full of questions, refusing to be pinned down. Happily moving here & there, amused, bemused, shaking his head in disbelief, belief… in love with it all. Brook Emery

encapsulates Australian beach culture….poems so bright you need Ray Bans. Smell the briny & the blockout; feel the salt in your hair, the sand in your socks… Mark O’Flynn, Famous Reporter

Out of print.

NITTY GRITTY

(Five Islands, 1997) $13.00 (Aust)

....assembles an amazing cast of people in recognisable often dark places. With fine detail, their domestic & working lives are brilliantly portrayed. Anthony Lawrence

varied, nimble, humane, wry & well timed Jennifer Maiden

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