His fifth book of poems, "The Ways of Waves" (Sidewalk, 2000) celebrates the Australian summer. Number six, "Appetites of Light" (PressPress, 2002), is an exploration of the qualities of light, while the seventh takes readers to "peopled landscapes"... "Stories of the Feet" (Five Islands, 2004). "The Ambrosiacs" (Island Press (Australia), 2009) concerns "endings"- an elegy – from ecology under stress to the loss of close friends. Wicks explores a sequence of endpoints: spiritual exploration, suburbia, rural escapes and travel...all with his typical raw honesty, humour and rage. A startling, and ultimately affirming picture of generations and lives. Joanne Burns writes of "the Ambrosiacs" "…intense, quite relentless, often dark and pessimistic. But this of course is not the whole story, for within these pages are striking moments of grace, awareness, acceptance, restitution…". Much of the work in later books features what Wicks describes as "this waterwall, an alluvion". Through building layers of proposition, assertion, voice & imagery a broader picture is created.