Ed Wright

Ed Wright is an author, critic, editor and lapsed academic. He has published two books of poetry, six popular histories and an award-winning novella. He writes an Australian Fiction column for The Australian Newspaper, commissions fiction for Puncher & Wattmann and teaches writing to kids and adults at The Creative Wordshop in Newcastle.

Works By Ed Wright

Piling It On For Posterity: 4321 by Paul Auster
Auster’s attempt to borrow from the chronology and geography of his own life to create a masterful multi-noded bildungsroman is an interesting idea, but 4321 is ultimately far too long-winded and sententious for that idea to properly work.'
28 Apr. 2017
Fictions of Newcastle: Dusky Red With Industry
‘The pace of living in a city a tenth the size of Sydney teaches someone like myself, who has been obsessed with literature since my early teens, of the rich complexity of lives and characters to be found outside the community of the book. Where
31 Oct. 2016
Who fries a crumpet? Cocky’s Joy by Michael Farrell
Michael Farrell enjoys a reputation as one of the foremost experimental poets in the contemporary Australian scene. In Cocky’s Joy, while experimentalism is strongly evident, he seems to have struck a superb and playful balance, a kind of lyrical
9 Nov. 2015

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Ed Wright

Works By Ed Wright

Piling It On For Posterity: 4321 by Paul Auster

Fictions of Newcastle: Dusky Red With Industry

Who fries a crumpet? Cocky’s Joy by Michael Farrell