Terry Wilson was born in Adelaide, South Australia, in 1955 and still resides there.
Fifty is his first book of published poems.
Fox Spirit
In his third book of poetry, Wilson relates stories and dilemmas that grow out of the hidden tracks of everyday life, as they take us in time and outside of time.In Fox Spirit, words are at play and hopefully even in the hardest poems we will still find happiness. From darkness they follow a light t...
The Lane and Other Poems
In The Lane and Other Poems, readers are transported to a unique setting: opposite a sobering-up unit in the heart of Adelaide's CBD. Amidst the nightly commotion and close encounters with the rawness of humanity, one might expect tales of chaos. Yet, these poems are imbued with the serenity of ...
The Morning Star
In this sixth collection, Terry Wilson writes about a fish that became an elephant and how this is better than becoming a human.We all want to be elephants someday.This is poetry about the holes in life rather than the whole of life, and what we see through them....
Under
If we deliberately pause our breath – sitting or standing, watching closely – we notice a second stream of breathing, quieter and more elusive, yet always there.Even when we think it stops, we discover, thankfully, it never truly does.This new collection of poems, Under, works the same way. As y...
At the Blue Door
After penning his previous collection The Lane and Other Poems, Wilson remains ensconced in his Hocking Place residence – known locally as ‘the Lane’ – while compiling this new selection. Though soon he will graduate from this phase of life, the Lane has proven a fecund wellspring of experi...
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