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
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.
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...
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!
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...
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...
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: Sport (2/2)
Lions! Wallabies! MCG! (Rugby Union!)
A game that I suspect many more than 90,000 might claim to have attended...
Lions! Wallabies! MCG! (Rugby Union!)
A game that I suspect many more than 90,000 might claim to have attended...
24 hours in Melbourne: Literature (1/2)
Homer! Virgil! Bookshops! Library!
Homer! Virgil! Bookshops! Library!
July 26, 2025 at 1:03 PM
24 hours in Melbourne: Literature (1/2)
Homer! Virgil! Bookshops! Library!
Homer! Virgil! Bookshops! Library!
There is a cloud over Launceston this morning.
July 17, 2025 at 10:31 PM
There is a cloud over Launceston this morning.
Sam Jinks - Mortal Reflections - at Launceston's QVMAG.
Life size, hyperreal sculpture; intensely moving.
Life size, hyperreal sculpture; intensely moving.
July 12, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Sam Jinks - Mortal Reflections - at Launceston's QVMAG.
Life size, hyperreal sculpture; intensely moving.
Life size, hyperreal sculpture; intensely moving.
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
...though, in this case, it's not only Ludwig
June 25, 2025 at 12:00 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
...though, in this case, it's not only Ludwig
Returning to Stoppard, and 'Brazil' (1985) couldn't be more timely.
Newly learned that the final shot - the torture chamber - is, in fact, Croydon.
Newly learned that the final shot - the torture chamber - is, in fact, Croydon.
June 24, 2025 at 11:27 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.
Newly learned that the final shot - the torture chamber - is, in fact, Croydon.
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
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...
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!
📖
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
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!
📖
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!
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!
📖
... 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
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!
📖
... 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!
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!
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
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!
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!
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.
...she's called Mavis, apparently.
May 13, 2025 at 2:42 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.
...she's called Mavis, apparently.
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...
www.thenewdaily.com.au/life/enterta...
April 10, 2025 at 1:29 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...
www.thenewdaily.com.au/life/enterta...
Perfect weather to summit Black Bluff; views to Cradle, Barn, and Ossa.
The only one on the hill today.
Terrible.
The only one on the hill today.
Terrible.
March 30, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Perfect weather to summit Black Bluff; views to Cradle, Barn, and Ossa.
The only one on the hill today.
Terrible.
The only one on the hill today.
Terrible.
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.
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
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.
Wet and windy on Saturday, but beautiful on Sunday.
As @kudelka.bsky.social reminds us: Tasmania is awful, do not come here.
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...
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
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...
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...
Update: melon territory 🙄
March 1, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Update: melon territory 🙄
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
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
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
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
Looking forward to running 101km from Stanley to Wynyard tomorrow!
Beautiful weather forecast so hopefully a good day out...
Beautiful weather forecast so hopefully a good day out...
February 28, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Looking forward to running 101km from Stanley to Wynyard tomorrow!
Beautiful weather forecast so hopefully a good day out...
Beautiful weather forecast so hopefully a good day out...
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...
...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
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...
...and I have yet to reference Julie Andrews's role as a well-composed Gramma, but it's surely just a matter of time...