Edwin James "Peter" Wilson (27 October 1942 – 27 July 2022) was an Australian poet, painter, and lapsed scientist, with a strong interest in history.
[1] He spent his early years in the then isolated farming community of East Wardell, in far northern coastal New South Wales, having been known as 'Peter' as a child, whose father died before he was born.
In 1975 he executed a literary hoax in opposition to quotas (in which he had a poem published under the female pseudonym of 'Eileen' in Kate Jennings' Mother I'm Rooted, an Anthology of Australian Women Poets).
[4] After an article on the centenary of ‘Tidge’ Wilson’s birth in the local paper at Lismore, New South Wales, aged 61, he was discovered by his brother Jim, then retired, who had previously worked as a carpenter and builder, and died in 2008.
Notables publications include: Dan Byrnes, review of Liberty, Egality, Fraternity!, ‘It just had to be written’, The Northern Daily Leader, 6 November 1984.
Susan Mason and John Ryan, review of Cedar House – ‘If You Were a Carpenter and I Were a Lady’, Australian Folklore (University of New England), No 17, 2002.
Edwin Wilson, ‘Mullum Dreaming: Life of a Young Poet’, as posted electronically on Thylazine: Australian Arts and Literature on Landscape and Animals, 2002.
Radio National, Poetica, ‘A Stroll Through the Gardens’ (adapted from Australian Folklore No 15 article), played 3 December 2005, repeated 26 January 2008.
Nikki Barrowclough, ‘Two of Us: Edwin Wilson & ‘Jim’ Onslow, ‘Good Weekend’, Sydney Morning Herald, 26 August 2006, p22.