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I am a poet and writing tutor, and a lecturer at the Graduate School of Education, University of Exeter.
I can be contacted at a.c.wilson@exeter.ac.uk, through my Facebook pages or LinkedIn.
My books of poetry are How Far From Here is Home? (Stride, 1996), Nowhere Better Than This (Worple Press, 2002) and Full Stretch: Poems 1996-2006 (Worple Press, 2006).
Riddance is now available from Worple Press. You can buy it from me direct by using the Paypal button on the front page of this site. Alternatively you can email Peter Carpenter at Worple Press theworpleco@aol.com for more details.
Love for Now, a memoir of my experience of cancer, is out now from Impress Books.
My research is in the field of poetry in education. I am co-convener of the ESRC Seminar Series Poetry Matters. My current projects include working with Bath Festivals’ The Write Team on a project about the impact of creative writers working in schools. My recent research on teachers’ conceptualisations of poetry has been published in English Teaching: Practice and Critique and Language and Education.
Making Poetry Matter, co-edited with Sue Dymoke and Andrew Lambirth and based on the Poetry Matters Seminar Series, is due from Continuum in 2013.
I have held writing residencies at The Poetry Society, The Times Educational Supplement, The Poetry Trust, Apples and Snakes and Tate Britain. My books include The Poetry Book for Primary Schools (1998) and Creativity in Primary Education (2009).
I am on the editorial board of Canto, a new online poetry magazine. Details of submissions guidelines can be found here.
My poetry writing lesson plans can be found online at The Poetry Trust, The Poetry Archive and the Poetry Society.
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The man has died?!!!!
What a horribly sad loss.
He is one of my major league; I always defer and refer to him – I hope I always will.
What a sad loss.
Very sad news indeed. One of the greats, as you say. Thanks for commenting,Anthony
Thanks for your Like on the Ashbery piece – I was v unsure about putting it up: he has such a fan-base, I don’t want them jumping all over me: if you must show your ignorance, then don’t do it all over etc etc.
I see you’re working with teaching anf language techniques: I’m in the middle of researching ring structures in literature: and wonder if any crop up in your research fields: chiasmus, parallelism in texts etc.
best wishes – dare I add: Happy New Year?
M M
Hello Michael and thanks so much for your kind comment.
I think you seem much more qualified to talk about JA than I do, your piece has helped me read him in a completely new way. Thank you and hats off and good wishes
Anthony
Thank you for following my blog and for liking my post on “men die every day…” I’m enjoying your Lifesaving Poems. The PowerPoint on poetry pedagogy is interesting; I’d like to see more on this topic.
Hi there and thanks so much for your kind comments. If you want to read more -the full-length article on teachers’ metaphors of poetry pedagogy- there is a link on the Research page on the site. It is called ‘A joyous lifeline in a target driven job’. I am so pleased you like the lifesaving poems series. Do spread the word.
As ever with good wishes
Anthony
(Apologies in advance if this is a duplicate post. I’m still getting the hang of the WordPress thing.)
Thanks for following my blog and liking my post on “men die every day…” I’m enjoying the Lifesaving Poems. The PowerPoint on poetry pedagogy was interesting; I’d like to read more.
Anthony…it’s a pleasure to meet you even from such a distance, and I thank you for following Skylark Writing Studio…I hope this finds you in very good health. Your site is a treasure and I look forward to following it. You’re working in a field dear to my heart. And doing it beautifully.
Dear Molly
Thanks so much for stopping by and for your kind comments. I like what you are up to at the Skylark Writing Studio and wish you all the best for it.
With best wishes and hats off
Anthony