Philip Wilcox is an awarded and published full-time poet, touring nationally and internationally. He is an Australian Poetry Slam champion and two-time New South Wales Poetry Slam champion. He is a regular on the writers’ festival circuit, has been published in multiple journals, and recently was awarded a residency at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity where he completed his first manuscript, a collection of poems called Beetle Prayer.
Philip believes poetry is used by everyone: from advertising execs – tricking us into buying stuff we don’t need, to football fans – humiliating the opposing team. His mission is to empower people through poetry to realise how the world might be enchanted.
He has made it his mission to share his poetry in the hope of sparking a passion for words and language and in the last few years, Philip has worked with upwards of `100,000 students in over 200 schools in 12 countries.