Dickon Edwards

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{{Infobox musical artist

| name = Dickon Edwards

| image =

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| birth_name = Richard Edwards

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1971|9|3|df=y}}

| origin = Bildeston, Suffolk, England

| alias = Dickon Angel

| instrument = Vocals, guitar

| genre = Indie pop

| occupation = Musician, Writer

| associated_acts = Fosca, Orlando, Spearmint

| website = {{URL|http://dickonedwards.com}}

}}

Dickon Edwards (born Richard Edwards;{{cite web

| url = https://www.dickonedwards.com/diary/index.php/archive/heres-what-i-know-so-far/

| title = Diary at the Centre of the Earth

| last = Edwards

| first = Richard

| date = 1997-12-08

| website = Dickon Edwards

| access-date = 2024-03-26

| quote = My name is Richard Edwards. My friends and family call me Dickon, but these days I tend to proffer myself to strangers as Richard, in an attempt to be helpful.

}} 3 September 1971), also known as Dickon Angel, is a St Leonards-on-Sea-based [https://www.dickonedwards.com/diary/index.php/archive/new-year-message-a-sussex-carol/] DickonEdwards.com 31 December 2024. Retrieved 1 June 2025. indie pop musician and diarist. [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jan/01/travis-elboroughs-top-10-literary-diarists Top Ten Literary Diarists] The Guardian. 1 January 2014. Retrieved 1 February 2016.

He was a founding member of the bands Orlando and Fosca, and briefly played guitar in the band Spearmint.[http://tmcq.co.uk/interviews/dickon-edwards/ Dickon Edwards] The Minds Construction Quarterly. Winter 2003. Retrieved 1 February 2016.[http://www.spearmint.net/spearmint.html A Spearmint Biography] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304073744/http://www.spearmint.net/spearmint.html |date=2016-03-04 }} Spearmint.net. Retrieved 1 February 2016.

He has kept a blog called The Diary at the Centre of the Earth since 8 December 1997[http://www.dickonedwards.com/diary/ The Diary at the Centre of the Earth] Dickonedwards.co.uk. Retrieved 1 February 2016. (predating the 1999 coining of the term "blog"{{cite news|url=http://www.economist.com/surveys/displaystory.cfm?story_id=6794172|title=It's the links, stupid|newspaper=The Economist|date=April 20, 2006|accessdate=June 5, 2008}} - he terms it an "online diary"). Excerpts from the blog were included in Travis Elborough and Nick Rennison's A London Year[https://books.google.com/books?id=JSokAQAAQBAJ&q=dickon%20edwards&pg=PA11 Introduction] A London Year. 3 October 2013. Retrieved 1 February 2016. and in the follow-up title A Traveller's Year.[https://books.google.com/books?id=iAqaCgAAQBAJ&q=dickon+edwards&pg=PT564 Contributors] A Travellers Year. 1 October 2015. Retrieved 1 February 2016.

In March 2008 he released a printed collection of lyrics titled The Portable Dickon Edwards, which was released in a limited edition alongside Fosca's The Painted Side of the Rocket album.[http://www.butisitart.org/index2_files/press/Fosca_TPSOTR_press_release_sv.pdf Press Release for Painted Side of the Rocket]. Butisitart.org. Retrieved 1 February 2016.

In 2021, Edwards completed a PhD on Ronald Firbank and the Legacy of Camp Modernism at Birkbeck College, University of London.[https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/47553/ Dickon Edwards PhD Thesis final version]. BIROn - Birkbeck Institutional Research Online. Retrieved 3 April 2022.