"THE FULCRUM YEARS" Years of Greatest Change... Or Maybe Not
A unique new online anthology where two back-to-back generations—Boomers & Gen Xers—dive deep into the most pivotal years of their lives and return with pearls.
MCed by Editors Jonathan Cant & Les Wicks.
“THE FULCRUM YEARS” is a scrollable online* literary magazine, Australian Poetry Collaboration #39. Co-editors Jonathan Cant and Les Wicks have selected and curated work from Australia and around the world. Sixty writers—representing a mix of Baby Boomers and Generation X—have contributed one piece each across a wide array of written forms including: reportage, memoir, microfiction, free verse, prose poems, list poems, anaphora, villanelles, vignettes, elegies, along with timely quotes and song lyrics. All have shared their experiences and perspectives on the most pivotal moments for people who lived through the “fulcrum years” of these two respective generations.
*A free downloadable pdf version of the issue will also be available through Meuse Press.
About the editors:
Jonathan Cant is a writer, poet, and musician. His work has been shortlisted in the 2025 Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize; won the 2023 Banjo Paterson Writing Awards for Contemporary Poetry; and was longlisted in the 2023 Fish Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in Cordite, Island, Verandah, and Live Encounters.
Les Wicks (born 15 June 1955) is an Australian poet, publisher and editor. He has a long list of achievements in writing, publishing and broadcasting. In the late 1970s, set up Meuse publications (with Bill Farrow) which was a high-water mark in Australian poetry publishing with its cutting edge mix of text and graphics. Les helped set up the Poets Union in NSW and has published eleven books of poetry.
WHAT: Launch of Fulcrum Years, Australian Poetry Collaboration #39, Meuse Press -
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WHEN: 6:30pm for 7pm Tuesday 7 October 2025
WHERE: Since I Left You, 338 Kent Street, Sydney
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