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Dr Fergus Edwards
@drfergusedwards.bsky.social
Lecturer in English at UTAS | ultrarunner | he/him
https://discover.utas.edu.au/Fergus.Edwards
Yep, you're all getting 'The Rot' by @evelynaraluen.bsky.social for Christmas and there *will* be a test...
November 8, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Really enjoyed watching the third year show from @utas.edu.au's Theatre & Performance students this afternoon...

🎭

...thankyou Adrian, Anna, Autumn, Brooke, Laree, and Megan, and everyone involved!
October 24, 2025 at 5:46 AM
2nd at the Coastal Pathway 64km (5h12)

(and a 50km PB (4h) en route)

🥳

Wonderful crew, good running weather, lovely day out all round

Now for a nap and all the food
October 5, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Running the first Coastal Pathway 64km Ultra on Sunday

🏃‍♂️

Latrobe -> Ulverstone -> Latrobe

Hoping for dry(ish) and still(ish)

🌦️

As always, it will be hardest on the (wonderful) crew...😬
October 3, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Looking forward to chatting about Kate Kruimink's novel 'Heartsease' with @helenshield.bsky.social on ABC Hobart, tonight at 21:15

2025 Tasmanian Premier's Prize for Fiction Winner, with, among other things, a fair bit of middle-class Hobart in it...
September 29, 2025 at 10:47 PM
24 hours in Melbourne: Sport (2/2)

Lions! Wallabies! MCG! (Rugby Union!)

A game that I suspect many more than 90,000 might claim to have attended...
July 26, 2025 at 1:09 PM
24 hours in Melbourne: Literature (1/2)

Homer! Virgil! Bookshops! Library!
July 26, 2025 at 1:03 PM
There is a cloud over Launceston this morning.
July 17, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Sam Jinks - Mortal Reflections - at Launceston's QVMAG.

Life size, hyperreal sculpture; intensely moving.
July 12, 2025 at 2:46 AM
If I'm back with Stoppard, then, in my case, it's also time to go back to Wittgenstein...

...though, in this case, it's not only Ludwig
June 25, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Returning to Stoppard, and 'Brazil' (1985) couldn't be more timely.

Newly learned that the final shot - the torture chamber - is, in fact, Croydon.
June 24, 2025 at 11:27 AM
The real impact is on the ground, but still nice to see which lamentable pun (h/t @seanmicallef.bsky.social) the WritersBLOCK/ReadersBLOCK project would inspire in the local press...
June 9, 2025 at 11:17 PM
WritersBLOCK/ReadersBLOCK started today: highly recommended.

📖

Two hours of reading Adam Ouston's 'Waypoints' passed in minutes; conscious of focused, creative work being done by Dr Lucy Christopher next door.

📝

Hopefully normalising focused literary engagement; clearly new for some passersby!
June 1, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Participating in Dr Lucy Christopher's WritersBLOCK/ReadersBLOCK project tomorrow...

📖

... spending two undisturbed hours reading Tasmanian literature in a glass fronted block in Salamanca Square, Hobart, while a Tasmanian writes in the block alongside...

📝

...hope it's as idyllic as it sounds!
May 31, 2025 at 6:51 AM
This Russel Herneman cartoon accompanied me through my PhD.

I have no idea what the going rate is for an original, but this one had already gone when I asked.

So I was beyond thrilled to receive this in the post: a signed print, with a dedication that I couldn't be happier about.

Thanks Russel!
May 27, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Enjoying - as ever - @theplaypodcast.bsky.social ; but especially this edition about Ionesco's 'The Rhinoceros', since @utas.edu.au has its own life size rhinoceros, who hangs out, appropriately, just outside the Annexe Theatre...

...she's called Mavis, apparently.
May 13, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Just seen that @thenewdaily.bsky.social has picked up my article, and I do like the wording of their front page link!

www.thenewdaily.com.au/life/enterta...
April 10, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Perfect weather to summit Black Bluff; views to Cradle, Barn, and Ossa.

The only one on the hill today.

Terrible.
March 30, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Hiked in for a night on Lake Rhona.

Wet and windy on Saturday, but beautiful on Sunday.

As @kudelka.bsky.social reminds us: Tasmania is awful, do not come here.
March 23, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Spent the morning with honours students @utasenglish.bsky.social talking about 'The Comedy of Errors' and the works of @oldfortunatus.bsky.social and Northrop Frye.

An unalloyed pleasure in itself, and also a chance to reflect on that time The X-Men met Frye and chatted about Blake's poetry...
March 6, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Update: melon territory 🙄
March 1, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Well, I had a great first 2km!

A badly rolled ankle, so no run for me; but happy with my decision making processes since the ankle is now the size of a large orange (or small melon...)

And it was a stunning morning
February 28, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Looking forward to running 101km from Stanley to Wynyard tomorrow!

Beautiful weather forecast so hopefully a good day out...
February 28, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Enjoying my first days teaching HEN105: Composition and Grammar @utasenglish.bsky.social...

...and I have yet to reference Julie Andrews's role as a well-composed Gramma, but it's surely just a matter of time...
February 25, 2025 at 11:06 PM
In Launceston's own "Le Petit Chou" to read "In Search of Lost Time" for the Modernist Reading Group hosted @utasenglish.bsky.social

Apparently the madeleines didn't sell locally (though they were delicious) so it will be their most delicate macaron instead...

😋
February 8, 2025 at 12:39 AM