2013, Oliver Bainbridge – Lord Nelson’s Great Grandson?, was mentioned in the Newsletter of the Clarence River Historical Society, Issue 132, 27 March, p. 8
2013, Oliver Bainbridge- Lord Nelson’s Great Grandson? (with research assistance by Patricia Wightley) was published (Woodbine Press) in 2013
2012, Helen Hawkes, The Northern Star, Saturday 8 December, Relax:Read/Watch/Listen, p. 39, ‘A Must Read: Collected Work from a Lifetime’ (re New Collected Poems), and a reference to my Website.
2012, Robyn Gray, Secretary Mullumbimby High School Ex-Students Association (electronic) Newsletter for December, mention of New Collected Poems.
2012, The Gardens, Journal of the Foundation & Friends of the Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney, Issue 95 (Summer 2012- 2013), mention of New Collected Poems.
2012, Blackwall Bugle, Issue 21 (for December), mention of my Wardell visit and tree planting, with reference to New Collected Poems and details for this Website.
2012, my dot painting of ‘Balinise Woman’ (after Arthur Fleishmann) was hung in an exhibition ‘The Figure in Focus’ (16 November – 8 December) at Artarmon Galleries Sydney (along with Ann Cape, Robert Hannaford, Jocelyn Maughan, Godfrey Millar, Robin Norling, Wendy Sharp and others).
2012, read at Live Poets, New Tattersalls Hotel, Lismore, on the evening of 14 November.
2012, interview on ‘Mornings’ with Joanne Shoebridge (about New Collected Poems and The Mullumbimby Kid) on 2NR (ABC Radio Lismore), on 14 November.
2012, interview with Tony Bennett (about poetry) played on 2NVR, Nambucca Valley (Community) Radio, 13 November.
2012, Education, 29 October, Reviews 33, ‘In brief: a Lifetime of Poetry’, with cover of New Collected Poems and reference to PDF posting on Website.
2012, Live Poets, Don Bank, North Sydney, 24 October, launch of New Collected Poems by Danny Gardner and Tony Bennett.
2012, The Byron Shire Echo, Vol 27, Issue 20, 23 October, mention of New Collected Poems on ‘Backlash’, p. 56.
2012, Kate Crawford, Mosman Daily, 18 October (News 28), a mention of projected launch of New Collected Poems at Live Poets, Don Bank, North Sydney (24 October).
2012, Kate Crawford, Mosman Daily, 13 September, ‘Poet’s Craft: A Constant Companion’, a feature article on New Collected Poems with a photo of myself with the Modigliani nude (not used as the time of the Artarmon Galleries Exhibition).
2012, PDF of New Collected Poems posted for free download (in the Poetry section of this Website).
2012, New Collected Poems (Kardoorair Press), with and Introduction and Epilogue by Professor John Ryan, published in 2012
2012, PDF of Cedar House posted for free download on this Website.
2012, PDF of second edition of The Mullumbimby Kid posted for free download on this Website.
2012, good mention of second edition The Mullumbimby Kid, with cover, in Education, 28 May 2012
2012, sniffy notification of second edition of The Mullumbimby Kid, with cover, in Sydney Morning Herald, In Short, 19/20 May 2012
2012, Blackwall Bugle (e-newsletter of Wardell Historical Society), Issue 18, mention of second edition of The Mullumbimby Kid (with cover illustration)
2012, Mullumbimby High School Ex-students Association, mention of second edition of The Mullumbimby Kid in their e-newsletter, with cover photo, May 2012
2012 The Byron Shire Echo, 3 April 2012, mention of electronic second edition of The Mullumbimby Kid on Backlash (their back page)
2012, second edition of The Mullumbimby Kid (Woodbine Press)published in 1012
2011 An exhibition with Bruce Herps at the Artarmon Galleries, July/August
2011 Featured as a ‘Writer for 2011′ at the Byron Bay Writers’ Festival, 5 -7 August
2011 Jenny Dell, re Byron Bay Writers Festival, The Northern Star, 23 August 2011
2011 The unveiling of renovated Charles Dickens ‘ Statue on his birthday (7 February 2011) in Centennial Park Sydney, was related to my book, The Wishing Tree. Gaenor Vallack, a volunteer at the NSW Library (and Member of The Dickens Society) was leafing through The Wishing Tree and came across a photograph of the Dickens Statue, removed in 1972 because of decapitation, which started a chain of events that resulted in the old statue (with a new head) being returned to Centennial Park
2011 Martin Stevenson, review of New Selected Poems, The Examiner (Launceston) 15 January 2011, p. 37
2010 Caroline Glen, electronic review of New Selected Poems, Gold Coast Writers Association (2010)
2010 New Selected Poems (Woodbine Press), dedicated ‘to Cheryl Lillian, sheet anchor, goad and ballast’, was published in October 2010. It was turned into an electronic format (and posted for free download as PDF on this Website) in early 2011
2010 Won the ‘Medal of Distinction’ (first prize for my painting ‘Church at Berrima’) at the Royal Art Society of New South Wales Spring (Painting) Exhibition, September 2010
2009 Guest Reader at Pottsville Writers Group, 21 November 2009
2009 Met with Mullumbimby Writers Group, 15 June 2009
2009 Readings at Mullumbimby High School (organized by Librarian Janice Edwards), 16 June 2009
2009 Daan Spijer, review of Banyan, The Botanic Verses, and My Brother Jim in The Australian Writer (Newsletter of FAW Victoria), March-May 2009
2009 Fay Knight, ‘Star story led to a brother’ (relating to My Brother Jim), The Northern Star, ‘Weekender’, 28 February 2009
2009 My Brother Jim, February 2009, was (also) dedicated ‘to Edwin James (Jim) Onslow/Wilson, 1939 – 2008′
2008 Jim died (of prostate cancer), 12 September 2008
2008 John Ryan, ‘Poems, Plants and Post-modern Australian Men and Women: or ‘The Boy form the Bush’ in Sydney Town’ (relating to The Melancholy Dane), Australian Folklore No. 23, 2008, pp. 59 – 70
2007 Peter Pierce, Non-Fiction review of The Melancholy Dane (as part of a large batch of books), Westerly, Vol. 52, November 2007
2006 Guest Reader (with Geoff Page and Iggy McGovern (Irish poet)) at the 35th Montsalvat Poetry Festival, 10 December 2006
2006 The Melancholy Dane, September 2006, was dedicated ‘to my brother Jim’
2006 Nikki Barrowclough, ‘Edwin Wilson & ‘Jim’ Onslow’, interview for the ‘Two of Us’ with reference to The Mullumbimby Kid, ‘Good Weekend’, Sydney Morning Herald, 26 August, 2006
2006 My mother died 18 May 2006 at Mullumbimby
2006 Christine McNeill, ‘Edwin returns to his Garden of Eden’, on talk to the Bryon District Orchid Society (having been a child member in the 1950s), with reference to The Mullumbimby Kid, Byron Shire News, 13 March 2006
2006 Spoke to Byron and District Orchid Society on the Latouria breeding project with Phil Spence (having been a child member of this society in the 1950s), 13 March 2006
2006 Posed for Jenni Mitchell for a portrait (as part of her ‘Poets of Australia’ series of portraits) at Eltham, Victoria, 2/3 March 2006
2005 Guest Reader at ‘Dangerously Poetic’ (Bangalow), 12 March 2005
2005 Guest Reader at Canberra (organized by Geoff Page), 2 March 2005
2005 ‘The prickly problems growing in our parks’, article derived from the Poetry of Place, Sydney Morning Herald, 26 February 2005
2004 Poetry of Place, launched Maiden Theatre (RBG) by Hon. Bob Debus, Minister for Environment and Attorney General, 14 October 2004. This book was (also) dedicated to Kathleen Wall, 1915 – 2003′
2004 John Millett, review of Collected Poems, Five Bells, Vol. 11, No. 4, Spring, 2004
2004 New York based Sharon Olinka, positive review of Collected Poems, as published (electronically) in Australian Poetry Book Reviews, March 2004
2004 Guest Reader (with Norma Balzer, and my brother Jim came along for the experience), ‘Lismore Live Poets’, Rous Hotel, 18 February 2004
2003 Discovered by my half brother, Edwin James (‘Jim’) Wilson/McGuire/Onslow (Jim Onslow), following the publication of my piece (in The Northern Star, 1 November 2003) on the centenary of our father’s birth, 1 November 2003
2003 Read at ‘Writers at the Rail’ (Byron Bay), 2 November 2003
2003 Guest Reader at ‘Molly Blooms’ (Victorian FAW, Melbourne), 29 September 2003
2003 Steve Evans, sniffy review of Collected Poems for Online Network Review of Books, Perth, Australian Public Intellectual Network, August/September 2003, in which he failed to grasp the subtle message of my ‘Binary Poem’. For once in my life I had a chance to respond to criticism, and posted a reply while my blood was still hot.
2003 Guest Reader at ‘Live Poets’ (North Sydney), 27 August 2003
2003 Listed as Senior Poet in ‘Silver’/Winter edition of Five Bells, Vol. 10 No. 3, 2003
2003 Read at ‘Closet Poets’ (Canberra), 10 May
2003 Guest Reader at ‘Friendly Street Poets’ (Adelaide), 6 May. Kathleen Wall died at the precise time I was having lunch at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, on my way back from Adelaide
2003 Guest Reader at ‘Poetry at the Pub’ (Newcastle), 21 April 2003
2003 Guest Reader at ‘Poets at the Parakeet’ (Katoomba, organized by Denis Kevans), 10 March 2003
2003 Joe Weston, ‘Wide ranging poetry collection’, review of Collected Poems in Education, 17 February 2003
2003 Peter Bernhardt, article on my ‘botanic poetry’ in ‘The Last Word’, in London-based Plant Talk 31, January 2003
2003 ‘Gardens’ historian, poet &storyteller retires’, with mention to recent books, RBG News, 30 January 2003
2002 ‘The Botanic Verses on sale now’, relating to Collected Poems, RBG News, 25 November 2002
2002 ‘Déjeuner sur L’Herbe’ (or ‘Lunch on the Grass’), advertised luncheon and readings from Collected Poems, 16 November 2002
2002, ‘Wilson collects his poems’, reference to John Ryan’s Lismore launch (at Southern Cross Co-op bookshop) of Collected Poems, Byron Shire Echo, 5 November 2002
2002 ‘A poet’s plant paradise’, article on retirement and reference to proposed ‘Déjeuner sur L’Herbe’ (Lunch on the Grass), a luncheon and reading from Collected Poems at Lion Gate Lodge (on 16 November), North Shore Times, 1 November 2002. Other references to luncheon and reading appeared in The Gardens (Friends of the Gardens), p. 6, Spring 2002, and What’s on in the Gardens Spring 2002, the Daily Telegraph, ‘Homes’, 9 November 2002, p. 4, and Domain 3 ‘Events’, Sydney Morning Herald, 14 November 2002
2002 Collected Poems, launched Moore Room (RBG) by Anne Deverson (on my 60th birthday), 27 October 2002. This book was dedicated ‘to Gwen Kelly, colleague and friend who assisted me at a critical stage in my pathway towards verse’
2002 John Ryan, Introduction to Collected Poems (used in reduced format in New Selected Poems)
2002 Joe Weston, ‘Poetic prose sparkles in this yarn’, review of Cedar House in Education, 2 September 2002, p. 24
2002 Asteroid Belt, June 2002, was dedicated ‘to Elizabeth McAlpine, who graced my early books of verse with her delicate pencil drawings’
2002 Edwin Wilson, ‘Mullum Dreaming: Life of a Young Poet’, as posted electronically on Thylazine: Australian Arts and Literature on Landscape and Animals, 2002
2002 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
2002 An Australian Wuthering Heights? – review of Cedar House in RBG News, 14 February 2002
2002 ‘Shades of Bronte on the north coast’, and article on Cedar House, Byron Shire Echo, 8 January 2002
2001 Cedar House, came off the presses November 2001. This book was dedicated ‘to Kathleen Wall OAM, renaissance lady, mentor, critic, feminist and friend, who assisted with the re-education of the not-so-young-Edwin, and made me far less of a chanvinist’
2001 Review of The Mullumbimby Kid, Richmond River Historical Society Bulletin, Vol 12, No. 178, September 2001
2001 Mention of The Mullumbimby Kid, in Book Reviews, Outback Magazine, Issue 17, June/July 2001
2001 ‘Poet’s pilgrimage to old stamping ground’, story about the Armidale connection with my books, on the occasion of my launch of Lionel Gilbert’s biography of J.H. Maiden, The Little Giant, Armidale Express, 26 April 2001
2001 Read thematically appropriate ‘Phaius Orchid’ at my Armidale launch of Lionel Gilbert’s biography of J.H. Maiden, The Little Giant, 12 April 2001
2001 Mark O’Connor, ‘This portrait of ‘poet as a child’ almost as grim as Les Murray’s’, review of The Mullumbimby Kid and Cosmos Seven, The Canberra Times, 17 February, 2001
2000 Joe Weston, ‘Memories of Armidale last centruy’, review of The Mullumbimby Kid, Education, 11 December 2000
2000 James Cockington, ‘Tall Stories’ (stories of important Sydney trees), reference to the Coolibah Tree, royal Botanic Gardens (from The Wishing Tree), Weekend 6, Metropolitan, Sydney Morning Herald, 18 November 2000
2000 ‘Child poet’, review/article on The Mullumbimby Kid, The Daily Examiner (Grafton), 13 November 2000
2000 Michael McDonald, ‘Memoirs of a Mullum kid’, review of The Mullumbimby Kid, Byron Shire Echo, 24 October 2000
2000 Elvira Sprogis, mention of The Mullumbimby Kid, Books, The Newcastle Herald, 21 October 2000
2000 ‘The Mullumbimby Kid’, review of The Mullumbimby Kid, RBG News, 27 September 2000
2000 Jennifer Somerville, ‘Edwin’s poetic journey’, feature review of The Mullumbimby Kid (with photograph and insert) in Saturday Review, The Northern Star (Lismore), 23 September 2000
2000 The Mullumbimby Kid, whose working title had been ‘The Orchid Boy’, was launched in the Education Classroom (RBG) by Kathleen Wall, 18 August 2000. This book was dedicated ‘to ‘Tidge’, Edwin James (‘Tidge’) Wilson, 1903 – 1942′
1999 Bettina Cummins, review of Cosmos Seven, Writers Voice, No. 164, June – July 1999, p. 17
1999 Wendy Wilkins, review of Cosmos Seven, this Month in Books, Muse (The Australian Museum Society) April – May 1999
1999 ‘Poet latest addition to school’s wall of fame’ (with photo of Wal Wardman, old English teacher), on being inducted into Mullumbimby High School’s Hall of Fame, Saturday Star (Lismore), 29 February 1999
1999 Induction as fifth member into the Mullumbimby High School ‘Hall of Fame’, where I gave a talk on Chincogan, ‘Muse and Mountain of a Mullumbimby childhood’, 22 February 1999
1999 Bruce Copping, ‘Illuminations of ourselves’, review of Cosmos Seven, The Newcastle Herald, 30 January 1999
1998 Wayne Crawford, ‘Ideal chance to feast on quality poetry’, review of Cosmos Seven (and some other books), Sunday Mercury (Tasmania), 6 December 1998
1998 Hamesh Wyatt, ‘Wry, haunting, amusing poems with plenty of grit’, review of Cosmos Seven (and three other books), Otago Daily Times (New Zealand), 4 November 1998
1998 Lecture and readings at National Women’s Register Group, Maiden Theatre, Royal Botanic Gardens, 24 October 1998
1998 Jennifer Somerville, ‘Homecoming for poet’, on the publication of Cosmos Seven (with photograph) and a projected reading at Mullumbimby High School (1 September 1998), The Northern Star (Lismore), 1 September 1998
1998 Reading at Mullumbimby High School, 1 September 1998
1998 Joe Weston, ‘Radiant Harmonic Verse’, review of Cosmos Seven in Education (Journal of the New South Wales Teachers’ Federation), 31 August, 1998
1998 Hetty Cislowski, ‘Well Read’, review of Cosmos Seven, Inform (New South Wales Department of Education), 26 August 1998, p. 19
1998 Ben Smailes, ‘The perfect read for a rainy day’, review of Cosmos Seven, The Daily Examiner (Grafton), 14 August, 1998
1998 Sue Hicks, ‘Getting in touch with the nature of things – cultivating a WAR of words’, review of Cosmos Seven (with photograph and insert), ‘in Style’, Mosman Daily, 13 August 1998
1998 Endorsement of Cosmos Seven, RBG News, 10 August 1998
1998 Guest Reader at ‘Live Poets’ for the launch of Cosmos Seven, at Don Bank by Shirley Colless, Deputy Lord Mayor North Sydney, 24 June 1998. This book was (also) dedicated to Dick Edwards, pig-farmer, philosopher, printer, publisher, poet, mentor, friend, and silent partner Woodbine Press before the electronic age’
1997 Linda Conn, ‘A Mature Reflection’, review of Chaos Theory, Biblionews (University of Sydney), December 1997, pp. 168-9
1997 Poetry Walks (for Botanic Verses) in the Gardens, 28 October 1997
1997 Bettina Cummins, review of Chaos Theory, Free Xpres Sion, October 1997, p. 18
1997 David Kelly, mention of Chaos Theory with ‘illustration’ of ‘No-Yes Crystallography’ poem, The Book Page, Five Bells (Poets Union), July 1997, p.12
1997 ‘Chaos, compost, creativity, and the craft of verse’, talk to Friends of the Gardens, 15 July 1997
1997, Joe Weston, ‘Poetry in motion’, review of Chaos Theory, Education, 21 April 1997
1997 ‘The botanic nurses’, talk to the Colonial Science Club, 14 April 1997
1997 Cathy Bajelis, ‘A theory crops up with words’, review of Chaos Theory (with photograph), North Shore Times, 11 April 1997
1997 Chaos Theory, dedicated ‘to my reader’ (in the form of a poem), came off the presses in April 2007
1996 Posed for a portrait by Judy Cassab (in Danish flag T-shirt, a detail of which was used for the cover of The Melancholy Dane), 1996
1995 Meg Stewart, ‘Where magic is carved in stone’, article about creativity in the Gardens with reference to my poetry and The Wishing Tree, Sydney Morning Herald, 29 December 1995
1995 Taped first batch of readings of poems to be used on ‘The Science Show’, Radio National, 12 May 1995
1994 Graham Croker, ‘No curses on botanic verses poems’, review of The Botanic Verses, UNIKEN (University of NSW), 4 November 1994
1994 Taped interview and reading with Sophia Hendel, (Paddington) community Access Radio (projected to go to air in early February), 21 January 1994
1994 John Ryan, review of The Botanic Verses, New England Review, No. 2 1993/4
1994 Phil Brown, ‘Not Enraging, Stirring’, review of The Botanic Verses and one other book, Australian Book Review, No. 157, December/January 1993/4
1993 Guest Reader (with David Malouf and Rhyll McMaster), ‘Writers in the Park” (Harold Park Hotel), 5 October 1993
1993 Guest Reader (with Mark O’Connor), ‘Environmental Poets in the Park’, Gardens Restaurant, 26 September 1993
1993 The Botanic Verses, dedicated ‘for the Banyan Trees at East Wardell’, was launched in Maiden Theatre (RBG) by Professor Carrick Chambers, with advertised Rainforest (Poetry) Walks in the Gardens, 20 August 1993
1993 ‘botanic verses’, reference to poetry walks in the Gardens in association with the launch of The Botanic Verses, Arts Section, Sydney Morning Herald, 26 July 1993
1993 Evan Jones, review of The Wishing Tree, The Australian Garden Journal, August/September 1993
1993 Chris Betteridge, review of The Wishing Tree, Australian Garden History Journal, Vol 5, No. 1, July/August 1993
1993 ‘Gardens’ forgotten statues find a place to rest in pieces’, feature article (with photographs) on statues in the Gardens (from The Wishing Tree), Sydney Morning Herald, 5 March 1993
1992 John Ryan, review of The Rose Garden, New England Review, 1992
1992 Kathleen Wall, review of The Rose Garden, The Australian Garden Journal, December 1992
1992 Robert Boden, ‘ACT’s botanic links with Sydney’, expansive review of The Wishing Tree (with photograph), The Canberra Times, 30 December 1992
1992 Susan Parsons, ‘An old wishing tree remembered’, mention of The Wishing Tree, The Canberra Times, 13 December 1992
1992 Pamela Jane, ‘books to suit the festive season’, mention of The Wishing Tree, Home, Sun Herald, 6 December 1992
1992 Leo Schofield, review of The Wishing Tree in ‘Leo at Large’, Sydney Morning Herald, 5 December 1992
1992 ‘Wishing Tree Walks’ in the Gardens, Events, Telegraph Mirror, 4 December 1992
1992 Geraldine O’Brien, ‘Gardens’ hidden charms exposed’, feature article (with photograph) to mark the launch of The Wishing Tree the day before by Frank Sartor, Lord Mayor of Sydney, Sydney Morning Herald, 1 December 1992
1992 The Wishing Tree launched in Maiden Theatre (RBG) by Frank Sator, Lord Mayor of Sydney, 30 November 1992. Ths book was dedicated ‘to Tony (Antoinette) Jeans, for many hours spent following up lelalds and footnotes, and for her continuity is a sea of interrruptions’
1992 Advertisement for ‘Wishing Tree Walks’ in the Gardens, Sydney Morning Herald, 28 November 1992
1992 Pamela Polglase, ‘Wishing Tree Walks’ in the Gardens (in association with the launch of The Wishing Tree), Garden Style, Manly Daily, 26 November 1992
1992 Valerie Swane, mention of ‘Wishing Tree Walks’, Sunday Telegraph, 22 November 1992
1992 ‘Spring fever hits Sydney’, photo of Botanic Gardens ‘worker’ Ed Wilson under peach tree in blossom, Sydney Morning Herald, 17 August 1992
1992 Readings at Nutcote, 17 January 1992 (on occasion of May Gibbs’ birthday)
1991 Tony Scanlon, review of Songs of the Forest, Northern Perspective (Northern Territory), Vol. 14, No. 1, 1991
1991 Read-in for ‘Nutcote’, Maiden Pavilion, Royal Botanic Gardens, 1 November 1991
1991 David Kelly, review of The Rose Garden and Falling Up IntoVerse, OZMuze, Vol. 1, No. 13, October 1991
1991 Martin Langford, review of The Rose Garden, Muse News (Newsletter of the Poets Union of NSW, University of Sydney), 4 October 1991
1991 The Rose Garden launched at Country Kitchen, Mullumbimby, with Byron Poets, 2 July 1991. This book was dedicated ‘to my critics’ (in the form of a poem)
1991 Jennifer Somerville, ‘Poetry comes to life’, an article relating to the Mullumbimby launch of The Rose Garden (2 July 1991), The Northern Star, 29 June 1991
1991 Review of Songs of the Forest, Adelaide Botanic Gardens Friends Newsletter, Vol. 14, No. 2, April – May 1991
1991 Readings from Songs of the Forest to Friends of the Gardens, Maiden Theatre, 21 February 1991
1991 Guest reader at L’Orangerie (precursor of Live Poets) after the publication of Songs of the Forest
1991 Readings (of ‘Rainforest’ and ‘Thunalgunaldin’) on live radio in Gardens Restaurant with Sirocco, ABC –FM, Songs and Stories of Australia, 17 January, 1991
1990 Shirley Stackhouse, ‘Reading to the rescue’, to help save May Gibbs’ home, ‘Nutcote’, with reference to Songs of the Forest, Gardening, Sydney Morning Herald, 30 October 1990
1990 ‘Reading for Nutcote’ (to help save the gumnut home), reading in Gardens with Alex Buzo, Robin Williams, Shirley Stackhouse, Marion and Neil Shand, Short Black, Sydney Morning Herald, 23 October 1990
1990 Dan Byrnes, review of Songs of the Forest, Education, 24 October 1990
1990 Readings at Quorrobolong, met Pytor Patrushur and gave Peter Minter a lift home, 23 August 1990
1990 Tim North, mention of Songs of the Forest, ‘Reviews in Brief’, Garden Journal, June/July 1990
1990 Wal Upton, review of Songs of the Forest, Book Review, Australian Orchid Review, June 1990
1990 Susan Parsons, ‘Of loomed blooms, Tut’s tomb’, mention of Songs of the Forest (‘Tut’s tomb’) and ‘flowers of the Loom’ walks in the Gardens, The Canberra Times, 11 May 1990
1990 Roland Robinson, positive review of Songs of the Forest, The Newcastle Herald, 21 April 1990
1990 Peter Pierce, ‘Wide-ranging themes in our recent poetry’, review of Songs of the Forest (along with five other publications). Pierce did not like my ‘Kangaroo’ poem (when the poets Roland Robinson and Mark O’Connor – in a typed 1983 review for radio – had seen its merit), The Canberra Times, 30 June 1990
1990 Pamela Jane, ‘Averse to rape of the forest’, review of Songs of the Forest, Sun Herald 18 March 1990
1990 Michael McDonald, review of Songs of the Forest, Byron Shire Echo, March 1990
1990 Songs of the Forest launched in the Gardens with advertised Rainforest (Poetry) Walks (plus inspection of the new glasshouse being built), 3 and 4 March 1990. This book was dedicated ‘to ‘Mac’, Miss K.M. McIllrath, Banora Point’ (orchid grower and mentor)
1990 Bettina Cummins, review of Falling Up Into Verse, Writers Voice (FAW NSW Bulletin 109), February/March 1990
1990 Pamela Polglase, ‘A walk in the rainforest’, mention of rainforest walks and poetry readings and inspection of new Arc Glasshouse (under construction) in association with the launch of Songs of the Forest, The Manly Daily, 1 March 1990
1990 ‘Love affair with things botanical’, article about Songs of the Forest (with photograph of Kathleen McIllrath, to whom the book was dedicated), Tweed Gold Coast Daily (Murwillumbah), 21 February 1990
1990 John Ryan, ‘The Survival of a Poet from Down Under’, review of Falling Up Into Verse, Education, 12 February 1990
1989 Bev Roberts, review of Falling Up Into Verse, Australian Book Review, No. 113, August 1989
1989 Falling Up Into Verse launched with featured reading at the Poets Union, 19 May 1989. This book was dedicated ‘to Dick Edwards, pig-farmer, philosopher, printer, publisher and poet’
1989 Yasuko Claremont, article on Australian poets published in Japanese source in Japanese (received 28 April 1989), with photos of Henry Lawson, Les Murray, and myself under the banyan tree at the Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney (with reference to a Sydney poet)
1997 Letter to Editor re Statues of Seasons in the Royal Botanic Gardens, with reference to The Wishing Tree, Sydney Morning Herald, 19 November 1997
1987 Denis Kevans, review of Wild Tamarind, Education, 26 October 1987
1987 ‘The Story of the Domain’, reference to Discovering the Domain, Manly Daily 16 October 1987
1987 Dan Byrnes, review of Wild Tamarind, Education, 14 September 1987
1987 Mention of Wild Tamarind, Australian Book Review, No. 94, September 1987
1987 John Ryan, review of Wild Tamarind, UNE Convocation Bulletin and Alumni News, August 1987
1987 Featured Reader at Poets Union, Neighborhood Centre, Newtown (with Pam Brown and Thomas Shapcott), 7 August 1987
1987 Review of Wild Tamarind, Byron Shire Echo, April 1987
1987 Mention of The Dragon Tree, Australian Book Review, February/March 1987
1987 Judith White, ‘Pat and the Wild Tamarind’, mention and endorsement of Wild Tamarind, and reference to its launch by Pat O’Shane in the Gardens Restaurant, Sun Herald, 22 March 1987
1987 Spoke to Phillip Adams about Wild Tamarind, Radio 2UE, on morning of its launch, 18 March 1987
1987 Wild Tamarind (no dedication) was launched by Pat O’Shane in the Gardens Restaurant, 18 March 1987
1987 Taped reading of ‘The Garden’ (Poem), for Steve Rapley, Radio National, c January 1987
1986 Letter to Editor about extending the Harbour Tunnel, with reference to Discovering the Domain, Sydney Morning Herald, 12 December 1986
1986 Tim North, review of Discovering the Domain, Garden Journal, December 1986
1986 Jane Burgess, review of Discovering the Domain, Heritage Conservation News, Vol. 4. No. 1, 1986
1986 John Ryan, reference to Banyan, The Dragon Tree, Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney, and Liberty, Egality, Fraternity, UNE Convocation Bulletin and Alumni News, October 1986, pp. 35 – 38
1986 ‘Read, walk and discover the Domain’, reference to free guided ‘Domain’ walks to be offered in the week after the launch of Discovering the Domain by Lady Rowland, wife of the Governor of NSW (25 August), North Shore Times, 27 August 1986
1986 Additional mentions of ‘Domain’ walks (to be offered after the launch of Discovering the Domain), Sun Herald ‘Dates to Remember’, 24 August 1986, and Daily Telegraph, 24 August 1986
1986 Bettina Cummins, review of The Dragon Tree, FAW Bulletin, No. 88, August 1986
1986 Discovering the Domain (no dedication) was launched by Lady Roland (wife of the Governor of NSW) in a marquee at Fleet Steps, Mrs Macquaries Point, 25 August 1986
1986 Featured reader at Voice Prints, Performance Space at 199 Cleveland Road Redfern, 13 July 1986
1986 Read in Open Section at ‘Writers in the Park’ at Glebe, 6 May 1986
1986 Conducted workshop and readings, ‘Poetry in the Bush’, Quorrobolong, April 1986
1986 John Ryan, ‘A Modern James Joyce or Henry Lawson for NE’, feature review of Liberty, Egality, Fraternity! in The Armidale Express, 18 April, 1986, p 2
1986 Keith Russell, ‘More than a cultural afterflow’ (some Recent Australian Poetry), review of The Dragon Tree (and other books), Quadrant, January/February 1986
1985 Barbara Aylott, ‘Champagne Breakfast with a Dragon’, on the launch of The Dragon Tree, FAW Newsletter by Bettina Cummins, December 1985
1985 ‘Special tree for a grave’, review of The Dragon Tree, The Northern Star, 7 December 1985
1985 Denis Kevans, review of The Dragon Tree, Education, 2 December 1985, p. 22
1985 ‘Mountain’ artist illustrates book of verse’, Wentworth Falls Feature, about illustrations by Elizabeth McAlpine in Banyan (with an illustration from the book), photocopy sent to me by Elizabeth McAlpine (Wentworth Falls), 1985 (of unknown source and date)
1985 Pamela Jane, review of The Dragon Tree (with art work of cover), Sun Herald, 3 November 1985
1985 The Dragon Tree launched with a champagne breakfast under the Dragon’s Blood Tree, Lower Garden, followed by a ‘real’ launch in the reconstituted ‘Liberty’ boat at Mrs Macquaries Point, 28 September 1985. This book was dedicated ‘for the Dragon Tree, Lower Garden, Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney’
1985 John Broomhall, review of Liberty, Egality, Fraternity, Education, 9 July 1985
1985 Jennifer Somerville, ‘Geography puzzle in first novel’, review of Liberty, Egality, Fraternity, Northern Star, 6 July 1985
1985 Frances McInherny, ‘Hypocrisy in Australia’, review of Liberty, Egality, Fraternity, Australian Book Review, June 1985
1985 Andrew Bray, ‘Model Yachts from Foam’, an article on construction of the self-steering sailing ship used to launch Liberty, Egality, Fraternity from a hired ferry at Sydney Heads (Brian Mundy had retrieved the boat near the edge of the continental shelf and returned it to be ‘recycled’ for the launch of The Dragon Tree from Mrs Macquaries Point), The Cruising Skipper, No. 12, 1985, p. 94
1985 Dan Byrnes, review of The Dragon Tree, Northern Magazine (Tamworth), week commencing 18 May 1986
1985 ‘Unknown puts down his pen for the road’, review of Liberty, Egality, Fraternity, The Macleay Argus (Kempsey), 23 March 1985
1985 Bettina Cummins, review of Liberty, Egality, Fraternity, and Barbara Aylott, ‘A Genuine book Launch’ (on the ‘real’ launch of Liberty, Egality, Fraternity in a self-steering model sailing boat at Sydney Heads), FAW Newsletter, 1985
1984? M.A. Smith, LinQ, vol.14, No. 2, review of Liberty, Egality, Fraternity
1984 ‘…ten about the Bush’, review of Liberty, Egality, Fraternity, Adelaide Advertiser, 17 November 1984
1984 Dan Byrnes, Showcase ‘It just had to be written’, review of Liberty, Egality, Fraternity, The Northern Daily Leader, 6 November 1984
1984 David Myers, ‘Warning: keep an eye on the blood pressure’, a put down review of Liberty, Egality, Fraternity in The Age, (?) November 1984
1984 A ‘real’ launch of Liberty, Egality, Fraternity in a painted self-steering model sailing boat from a hired ferry at Sydney Heads, 15 September 1984, featured on Channel Ten evening news, 15 Setpember 1984. This book was dedicated to James Joseph Wilson (my grandfather) and James Richmond Wilson (my first child)
1984 Gwen King, ‘Visit to North Shore by Poet, Edwin Wilson’, FAW Newsletter, 1984
1984 Reading of ‘Man on the Ten Dollar Note’ at Henry Lawson’s statue in the Domain, as part of a reading of Lawson’s poems on the occasion of his birthday, with John Derum and Chrissie Shaw, April 1984
c 1984 Read all of my book Banyan (in two sessions) for Ryde (Community) Radio, 2 RRR c 1984
1984 Andrew Bray, ‘Stanzas from Banyan Lost In Sydney Harbour’, about the launch of Banyan in a small boat from Mrs Macquaries Point, Shorelines, Australian Boating, February 1984
1984 Ban Byrnes, ‘Author knows poetry has no gender’, review of Banyan, Northern Daily Leader, 22 January 1984
1984 Dan Byrnes, feature on Banyan, with reference to the publication of ‘The Cherry Tree’, Northern Daily Leader, November 1970, Northern Daily Leader, 21 January 1984
1983 Reading at the wake for Edwards & Shaw (read ‘Education Officer’s Lament’ and ‘Thunalgunaldin’) and Rod Shaw taped the proceedings, 2 December 1983
1983 Drawn from Life, exhibition catalogue of an exhibition of Australian floral art of the same name, 1983
1983 Mark O’Connor, typed review of Banyan (projected for radio?) received 1983 (outcome unknown)
1983 John Baxter, ‘New Garden Books’, review of Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney, Your Garden, November 1983
1983 Guy Weller, Bookbox, very good review of Banyan, Artlook, September 1983
1983 Jennifer Maiden, ‘The Poets are Biting … Edwin Wilson’s Banyan balances precariously but thrillingly between cynicism and sentiment, intellect and erudition (the poet is a public relations officer for the Botanic Gardens and the reader rarely forgets it)’, review of Banyan, Sydney Morning Herald, 13 August 1983
1983 Edwin Wilson Profile, Australian Horticulture, June 1983
1983 Michael Kindler, sniffy review of Banyan, Education 27 June 1983
1983 Review of Banyan, This Australia (Melbourne), Autumn 1983
1983 Barbara Giles (Mother I’m Rooted poet) , nasty dismissive review of Banyan, Booknotes, Australian Book Review, No. 50, May 1983
1983 Kerrie Kerans, ‘Mountain was gateway to world of poetry’, feature about Banyan, North Shore Times, 16 February 1983
1983 Tim North, review of Banyan, Garden Cuttings, Vol. 2, No. 4, January 1983
1983 Mention of Banyan in Ecologist’s Diary, 1983 (photocopy, details unknown)
1982 Mention of Banyan, FAW Bulletin, December 1982
1982 Maurice Kelly, ‘Local interest in poem book’, review of Banyan, Armidale Express, 24 December 1982
1982 Pamela Pollglase, ‘Just the presents for keen gardeners’, mention of Banyan, Manly Daily, 9 December 1982
1982 Mark Gallagher, Book Reviews, ‘botanical imagery in love of nature’, review of Banyan, The Northern Star, 14 November 1982
1982 Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney (‘Blue Book’ or Guide to the Gardens), received 15 October 1982
1982 Banyan, launched in Gardens Restaurant, followed by ‘real’ launch at Mrs Macquaries Point, 15 October 1982. this book was dedicated ‘for Chinny’ (Chincogan, guardian mountain of a Mullumbimby childhood), unaware that Henry Kendall had dedicated his third and final book of poems was dedicated to a mountain too
1981 Construction and launch of papyrus boat, Ra III, into Sydney Harbour (at Mrs Macquaries Point) as the launch of a campaign to construct more display glasshouses at the Sydney Gardens, proceeded by a dance at the site of the Pyramid Glasshouse by students of Summer Hill OC School, and the procession through the gardens to transport a model of the Sun God Ra to the boat, prior to lanch, 11 April 1981 that received saturation coverage on evening TV news
1980 ‘New era starts for the Botanic Gardens’, interview with Director Lawrie Johnson, with mention of the appointment of a new officer, Edwin Wilson, whose job ‘is to organize programs, tours, displays and exhibitions, and … redeveloping the gardens along more thematic lines.’
1975 Photo of ‘Mr and Mrs Wilson’ at the Dinosaur Ball, Australian Museum, in the Social Pages, Sun Herald, 7 December 1975
1975 James Richmond Wilson, aged four years and two months, accidently hit and killed by a motor car at Redland Bay, Queensland, 20 January 1975. Threw myself into my writing and my work to help ease the pain. Oversaw construction of the ‘Stegomobile’ (cut out hanging model of a Stegasourus) at the Australian Museum, at the start of the Dinosaurathon, the selling of ‘shares’ in dinosaurs to purchase replica dinosaurs from America, featured (as a photograph) in The Australian Encyclopaedia, The Grollier Society of Australia, Fourth Edition, 1983, construction started 6 May 1975. The Dinosaur Appeal attracted considerable publicity, including a mention in Education and The Financial Review, and I spoke on the Super Flying Fun Show (TV), and sang our ‘Dinosaur Song’ (with others) on ABC radio
1975 Ian Moffitt, Perspective, ”Verse reversal’, an outing of my literary hoax, on ‘Eileen’ Wilson having been published in Mother I’m Rooted, the Australian, 20 March 1975
1975 ‘Boy killed’, less than one column inch reference to the accidental death of James Wilson, Redland Bay, on 20 January, Queensland, Brisbane Courier Mail, 22 January 1975, resulting in my throwing myself into the manuscript of Liberty, Egality, Fraternity!
1970 Read ‘Homage to a Mountain’ at Tony Bennett’s ‘Poetry Club’ when lecturing at Armidale Teachers’ College (c. 1970). Tony later published my Collected Poems through his Kardoorair Press (2002)
1968 Planted two Lord Howe Island banyan trees at East Wardell, between the northern tip of Cabbage Tree Island and Meaney’s Lane, between the river and the road. The northern-most tree (‘Ed’s tree’, with a brass plaque several metres up its trunk) was planted opposite the fibro cottage where I spent my first five years (where the original pioneer homestead had been built). The southern tree was christened ‘Jim’s tree’ in 2004 (on our trip up north).
1967 Part of Art Exhibition Goldstein Hall, when at Phillip Baxter College, University of New South Wales (sold three paintings)
