Dr Fergus Edwards
@drfergusedwards.bsky.social
Lecturer in English at UTAS | ultrarunner | he/him
https://discover.utas.edu.au/Fergus.Edwards
https://discover.utas.edu.au/Fergus.Edwards
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Stoppard has died at 88.
The Brantley and Billington obituaries are the most notable so far; appreciative of the man and generously acknowledging their gradual reassessment of the philosophical and emotional content of his work.
Of which there is much more yet to be said.
Vale.
The Brantley and Billington obituaries are the most notable so far; appreciative of the man and generously acknowledging their gradual reassessment of the philosophical and emotional content of his work.
Of which there is much more yet to be said.
Vale.
November 30, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Stoppard has died at 88.
The Brantley and Billington obituaries are the most notable so far; appreciative of the man and generously acknowledging their gradual reassessment of the philosophical and emotional content of his work.
Of which there is much more yet to be said.
Vale.
The Brantley and Billington obituaries are the most notable so far; appreciative of the man and generously acknowledging their gradual reassessment of the philosophical and emotional content of his work.
Of which there is much more yet to be said.
Vale.
Reposted by Dr Fergus Edwards
Just out. I've written a major report (with David Edgar) looking at the effect of Covid on British Theatre. You can download it here: www.britishtheatreconsortium.co.uk/britishtheat...
British Theatre Before and After Covid
www.britishtheatreconsortium.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Just out. I've written a major report (with David Edgar) looking at the effect of Covid on British Theatre. You can download it here: www.britishtheatreconsortium.co.uk/britishtheat...
Reposted by Dr Fergus Edwards
Published next Monday with a beautiful introduction by Dan Rebellato that makes me teary and blush @nationaltheatre.org.uk @methuendrama.bsky.social @danrebellato.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Published next Monday with a beautiful introduction by Dan Rebellato that makes me teary and blush @nationaltheatre.org.uk @methuendrama.bsky.social @danrebellato.bsky.social
Finn: Is this the appeal of ultrarunning? To push ourselves to a place where we stand face to face with the devil, but then to rise up to overcome it?
Jennings: laughs, calls it an interesting theory. For her there is something else.
Only Caitriona is right...
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/n...
Jennings: laughs, calls it an interesting theory. For her there is something else.
Only Caitriona is right...
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/n...
‘A drug that’s very safe and healthy‘: what ultrarunners can teach us about life | Sean Ingle
Caitriona Jennings ran 100 miles in just over 12 hours and wants other women to follow her example – ‘it’s not actually that difficult’
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Finn: Is this the appeal of ultrarunning? To push ourselves to a place where we stand face to face with the devil, but then to rise up to overcome it?
Jennings: laughs, calls it an interesting theory. For her there is something else.
Only Caitriona is right...
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/n...
Jennings: laughs, calls it an interesting theory. For her there is something else.
Only Caitriona is right...
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/n...
Reposted by Dr 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
Yep, you're all getting 'The Rot' by @evelynaraluen.bsky.social for Christmas and there *will* be a test...
Harms done to people of the palawa and pakana when recognising genocide is elided with an assumed extinction are sensitively introduced in @lrb.co.uk
But: part of that harm is forgetting lutrawita and the palawa and pakana, and only using Tasmania and Tasmanians...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
But: part of that harm is forgetting lutrawita and the palawa and pakana, and only using Tasmania and Tasmanians...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Lorraine Daston · Kaboom! Slow-Motion Extinction
Historians who address such topics as extinction, which straddle the history of humans and of the Earth, face the...
www.lrb.co.uk
October 29, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Harms done to people of the palawa and pakana when recognising genocide is elided with an assumed extinction are sensitively introduced in @lrb.co.uk
But: part of that harm is forgetting lutrawita and the palawa and pakana, and only using Tasmania and Tasmanians...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
But: part of that harm is forgetting lutrawita and the palawa and pakana, and only using Tasmania and Tasmanians...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Reposted by Dr Fergus Edwards
News report on our Read, Write, Publish day yesterday!
October 28, 2025 at 6:22 AM
News report on our Read, Write, Publish day yesterday!
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!
🎭
...thankyou Adrian, Anna, Autumn, Brooke, Laree, and Megan, and everyone involved!
October 24, 2025 at 5:46 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!
🎭
...thankyou Adrian, Anna, Autumn, Brooke, Laree, and Megan, and everyone involved!
And we're down to the final runner!
🇦🇺 Phil Gore
He starts loop 114 alone and looking SO FRESH - if he makes it back within an hour he wins - but as last person standing he won't have a shot at his world record...
🇧🇪 Awesome Ivo Steyart finishes loop 113 and "refuses to continue"
#bigdogultra
🇦🇺 Phil Gore
He starts loop 114 alone and looking SO FRESH - if he makes it back within an hour he wins - but as last person standing he won't have a shot at his world record...
🇧🇪 Awesome Ivo Steyart finishes loop 113 and "refuses to continue"
#bigdogultra
October 23, 2025 at 5:00 AM
And we're down to the final runner!
🇦🇺 Phil Gore
He starts loop 114 alone and looking SO FRESH - if he makes it back within an hour he wins - but as last person standing he won't have a shot at his world record...
🇧🇪 Awesome Ivo Steyart finishes loop 113 and "refuses to continue"
#bigdogultra
🇦🇺 Phil Gore
He starts loop 114 alone and looking SO FRESH - if he makes it back within an hour he wins - but as last person standing he won't have a shot at his world record...
🇧🇪 Awesome Ivo Steyart finishes loop 113 and "refuses to continue"
#bigdogultra
And we're down to the final two!
🇦🇺 Phil Gore
🇧🇪 Ivo Steyart
After 112 continuous loops - 4 days and 16 hours, 751.027km - they're out on loop 113...!
🇺🇸 Harvey Lewis timed out after a fantastic 111 loops to place third (not finish third: technically no-one ever finishes a backyard...)
#bigdogultra
🇦🇺 Phil Gore
🇧🇪 Ivo Steyart
After 112 continuous loops - 4 days and 16 hours, 751.027km - they're out on loop 113...!
🇺🇸 Harvey Lewis timed out after a fantastic 111 loops to place third (not finish third: technically no-one ever finishes a backyard...)
#bigdogultra
October 23, 2025 at 4:06 AM
And we're down to the final two!
🇦🇺 Phil Gore
🇧🇪 Ivo Steyart
After 112 continuous loops - 4 days and 16 hours, 751.027km - they're out on loop 113...!
🇺🇸 Harvey Lewis timed out after a fantastic 111 loops to place third (not finish third: technically no-one ever finishes a backyard...)
#bigdogultra
🇦🇺 Phil Gore
🇧🇪 Ivo Steyart
After 112 continuous loops - 4 days and 16 hours, 751.027km - they're out on loop 113...!
🇺🇸 Harvey Lewis timed out after a fantastic 111 loops to place third (not finish third: technically no-one ever finishes a backyard...)
#bigdogultra
It's 🇬🇧 Sarah Perry's world record 🥳...
... but maybe don't tell her?
She's got a shot at the whole thing: 11 set out on loop 93, the world record is 119...
#bigdogultra
(96 'yards' will be 96 hours and 400miles: 4 days of 4.167miles every single hour)
🇺🇸 Megan Eckhert made an awesome 92 laps
... but maybe don't tell her?
She's got a shot at the whole thing: 11 set out on loop 93, the world record is 119...
#bigdogultra
(96 'yards' will be 96 hours and 400miles: 4 days of 4.167miles every single hour)
🇺🇸 Megan Eckhert made an awesome 92 laps
October 22, 2025 at 9:15 AM
It's 🇬🇧 Sarah Perry's world record 🥳...
... but maybe don't tell her?
She's got a shot at the whole thing: 11 set out on loop 93, the world record is 119...
#bigdogultra
(96 'yards' will be 96 hours and 400miles: 4 days of 4.167miles every single hour)
🇺🇸 Megan Eckhert made an awesome 92 laps
... but maybe don't tell her?
She's got a shot at the whole thing: 11 set out on loop 93, the world record is 119...
#bigdogultra
(96 'yards' will be 96 hours and 400miles: 4 days of 4.167miles every single hour)
🇺🇸 Megan Eckhert made an awesome 92 laps
The race isn't over, but the womens's world record has just gone...
🇬🇧 Sarah Perry
🇺🇸 Megan Eckart
... are both through 88 'yards' (590km) - one yard an hour, every hour - as it looks like 14 athletes are still standing at the #bigdogultra
🥳
🇬🇧 Sarah Perry
🇺🇸 Megan Eckart
... are both through 88 'yards' (590km) - one yard an hour, every hour - as it looks like 14 athletes are still standing at the #bigdogultra
🥳
Big Dog’s Backyard Ultra 2025 Individual World Championship begins tomorrow morning at 0700 Central Time (US). You can follow along on YouTube, Facebook, Insta; links are at bigsbackyardultra.com. I’ll post the live tracking link tomorrow morning. #bigdogultra #backyardultra
Big's Backyard Ultra
There is no finish
bigsbackyardultra.com
October 22, 2025 at 4:40 AM
The race isn't over, but the womens's world record has just gone...
🇬🇧 Sarah Perry
🇺🇸 Megan Eckart
... are both through 88 'yards' (590km) - one yard an hour, every hour - as it looks like 14 athletes are still standing at the #bigdogultra
🥳
🇬🇧 Sarah Perry
🇺🇸 Megan Eckart
... are both through 88 'yards' (590km) - one yard an hour, every hour - as it looks like 14 athletes are still standing at the #bigdogultra
🥳
Reposted by Dr Fergus Edwards
Syllabus! A unit on home, empire, and the unheimlich. Texts from Victor Séjour, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Alice Perrin, Marcus Clarke, Rabindranath Tagore, Lettice Galbraith, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and more ...
October 21, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Syllabus! A unit on home, empire, and the unheimlich. Texts from Victor Séjour, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Alice Perrin, Marcus Clarke, Rabindranath Tagore, Lettice Galbraith, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and more ...
Phenomenal 24hr Running World Championship yesterday
Two women beat the previous world record...
+ Australia's Holly Ranson 273.058km
...and the new world record holder:
+ Great Britain's Sarah Webster 277.559km
🥳
www.irunfar.com/great-britai...
Two women beat the previous world record...
+ Australia's Holly Ranson 273.058km
...and the new world record holder:
+ Great Britain's Sarah Webster 277.559km
🥳
www.irunfar.com/great-britai...
Great Britain's Sarah Webster Sets Women's 24-Hour World Record
Sarah Webster of Great Britain smashes the previous women's 24-hour world record.
www.irunfar.com
October 19, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Phenomenal 24hr Running World Championship yesterday
Two women beat the previous world record...
+ Australia's Holly Ranson 273.058km
...and the new world record holder:
+ Great Britain's Sarah Webster 277.559km
🥳
www.irunfar.com/great-britai...
Two women beat the previous world record...
+ Australia's Holly Ranson 273.058km
...and the new world record holder:
+ Great Britain's Sarah Webster 277.559km
🥳
www.irunfar.com/great-britai...
Travelling from Tasmania to see Indian Ink at the Hampstead Theatre in December!
(Conveniently can see family at the same time)
The @leslietravers.bsky.social staging will be unusually relevant for a Stoppard; neither the radically determined set of a Jumpers nor the freedom of a Rosencrantz...
(Conveniently can see family at the same time)
The @leslietravers.bsky.social staging will be unusually relevant for a Stoppard; neither the radically determined set of a Jumpers nor the freedom of a Rosencrantz...
Happy to share that I am designing sets for Tom Stoppard’s ‘Indian Ink’ at the Hampstead Theatre (opening 3 December) and the Bath Theatre Royal. The production will be directed by Jonathan Kent and cast includes Felicity Kendal.
October 14, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Travelling from Tasmania to see Indian Ink at the Hampstead Theatre in December!
(Conveniently can see family at the same time)
The @leslietravers.bsky.social staging will be unusually relevant for a Stoppard; neither the radically determined set of a Jumpers nor the freedom of a Rosencrantz...
(Conveniently can see family at the same time)
The @leslietravers.bsky.social staging will be unusually relevant for a Stoppard; neither the radically determined set of a Jumpers nor the freedom of a Rosencrantz...
Reposted by Dr Fergus Edwards
Love writing? Curious about how to get published? Teaching creative writing? Come join a vibrant community of writers at Read, Write, Publish: Hobart on Monday 27th October! www.facebook.com/share/19hBVu... @utas.edu.au
October 7, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Love writing? Curious about how to get published? Teaching creative writing? Come join a vibrant community of writers at Read, Write, Publish: Hobart on Monday 27th October! www.facebook.com/share/19hBVu... @utas.edu.au
The (idiosyncratic) Nobel Prize for Literature is announced tomorrow
One Australian has the best the odds (Gerald Murnane), another (Alexis Wright) is seen as a genuine possibility
(FWIW, if it's Tom Stoppard I'm here for all your media inquiries... 🤓)
lithub.com/here-are-the...
One Australian has the best the odds (Gerald Murnane), another (Alexis Wright) is seen as a genuine possibility
(FWIW, if it's Tom Stoppard I'm here for all your media inquiries... 🤓)
lithub.com/here-are-the...
Here are the bookies’ odds for the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature.
The 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature will be announced next week, on Thursday, October 9. As always, to prepare myself (emotionally, I guess?), I consulted the UK betting site NicerOdds (nicer than w…
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October 7, 2025 at 10:16 PM
The (idiosyncratic) Nobel Prize for Literature is announced tomorrow
One Australian has the best the odds (Gerald Murnane), another (Alexis Wright) is seen as a genuine possibility
(FWIW, if it's Tom Stoppard I'm here for all your media inquiries... 🤓)
lithub.com/here-are-the...
One Australian has the best the odds (Gerald Murnane), another (Alexis Wright) is seen as a genuine possibility
(FWIW, if it's Tom Stoppard I'm here for all your media inquiries... 🤓)
lithub.com/here-are-the...
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
(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
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
(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
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...😬
🏃♂️
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
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...😬
🏃♂️
Latrobe -> Ulverstone -> Latrobe
Hoping for dry(ish) and still(ish)
🌦️
As always, it will be hardest on the (wonderful) crew...😬
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...
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
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...
2025 Tasmanian Premier's Prize for Fiction Winner, with, among other things, a fair bit of middle-class Hobart in it...
"You can be an academic badass and a track goddess"
BA in English (Cam) *and* 200m silver medallist (22.14s) at the World Athletics Championships
If you need a sporting role model, you could do a lot worse than Amy Hunt...
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/s...
BA in English (Cam) *and* 200m silver medallist (22.14s) at the World Athletics Championships
If you need a sporting role model, you could do a lot worse than Amy Hunt...
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/s...
‘You can be an academic badass and a track goddess’ – GB sprinter Amy Hunt revels in shock 200m silver
Hunt powers from sixth to second with the kind of fearless attitude that helped her come back from a quadriceps rupture
www.theguardian.com
September 19, 2025 at 9:35 PM
"You can be an academic badass and a track goddess"
BA in English (Cam) *and* 200m silver medallist (22.14s) at the World Athletics Championships
If you need a sporting role model, you could do a lot worse than Amy Hunt...
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/s...
BA in English (Cam) *and* 200m silver medallist (22.14s) at the World Athletics Championships
If you need a sporting role model, you could do a lot worse than Amy Hunt...
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/s...
This was a joy to listen to - intelligent, humble, informed, and, unexpectedly, intensely moving. I cannot imagine a better case being made for King Lear.
Thankyou Douglas Schatz, Mark Lawson, and Michael Billington
🎭
open.spotify.com/episode/4od4...
Thankyou Douglas Schatz, Mark Lawson, and Michael Billington
🎭
open.spotify.com/episode/4od4...
The Play Podcast - 101 - The 101 Greatest Plays
open.spotify.com
September 10, 2025 at 9:58 AM
This was a joy to listen to - intelligent, humble, informed, and, unexpectedly, intensely moving. I cannot imagine a better case being made for King Lear.
Thankyou Douglas Schatz, Mark Lawson, and Michael Billington
🎭
open.spotify.com/episode/4od4...
Thankyou Douglas Schatz, Mark Lawson, and Michael Billington
🎭
open.spotify.com/episode/4od4...
Teaching HEN319: Literary Cultures @utasenglish.bsky.social, and the treatment of Meanjin is an obscene paragon of what we're studying
www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/08/m...
www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/08/m...
Meanjin's 'financial' shutdown doesn't add up
Melbourne University reported a $273 million surplus in 2024 on an operating income of $3.2 billion. It is against these figures that the 'purely financial decision' to close Meanjin has raised eyebro...
www.crikey.com.au
September 8, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Teaching HEN319: Literary Cultures @utasenglish.bsky.social, and the treatment of Meanjin is an obscene paragon of what we're studying
www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/08/m...
www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/08/m...
Grateful for @jamesley's most recent SRB piece. The key (the call to arms is elsewhere):
Neo-liberalism's "transference of the emancipatory language of rights and freedoms to capital makes the rights and freedoms of actual people secondary and conditional."
sydneyreviewofbooks.com/reviews/bast...
Neo-liberalism's "transference of the emancipatory language of rights and freedoms to capital makes the rights and freedoms of actual people secondary and conditional."
sydneyreviewofbooks.com/reviews/bast...
Bastards! | Sydney Review of Books
From economic rationalism to libertarianism, neoliberalism appears under many guises. Reviewing Quinn Slobodian’s new book on neoliberal thought, James Ley shows that what its founders share with latt...
sydneyreviewofbooks.com
September 6, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Grateful for @jamesley's most recent SRB piece. The key (the call to arms is elsewhere):
Neo-liberalism's "transference of the emancipatory language of rights and freedoms to capital makes the rights and freedoms of actual people secondary and conditional."
sydneyreviewofbooks.com/reviews/bast...
Neo-liberalism's "transference of the emancipatory language of rights and freedoms to capital makes the rights and freedoms of actual people secondary and conditional."
sydneyreviewofbooks.com/reviews/bast...