It was great to hear the BBC’s Deputy Political Editor James Landale’s interview about his experience of treatment for cancer on World at One this lunchtime. He was kind enough to recommend Love for Now, my memoir of treatment for the same disease, to listeners who might be going through similar experiences.
In particular it was great to hear James’ beautiful dismantling of the notion of cancer as a ‘battle’.
You can listen to the whole of World at One on iplayer here. You can listen to the whole of the cancer piece from the programme, including James’ interview, here
I am a lecturer, poet and writing tutor. I work in teacher and medical education at the University of Exeter. My anthology Lifesaving Poems was published by Bloodaxe Books in 2015. In 2012 I published Riddance (Worple Press), a collection of poems, and Love for Now (Impress Books), a memoir, about my experience of cancer. My most recent books are Deck Shoes (Impress Books, 2019), a book of prose memoir and criticism, and The Afterlife (Worple Press, 2019). In 2023 I will publish The Wind and the Rain, my sixth collection of poems, with Blue Diode Press. My current research project, with Sue Dymoke from Nottingham Trent University and funded by the Foyle Foundation, is Young Poets' Stories: https://youngpoetsstories.com/. This blog is archived by the British Library.
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It was a really good interview, balanced and wise. Like you really.
We saw David Smith at the Exeter Respect festival last week and he told us.that Tina is being treated for leukaemia. I don’t know whether you already knew that.
Anthony Wilson 
It was a really good interview, balanced and wise. Like you really.
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Thanks Gwenllian! X
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Hi Ant,
We saw David Smith at the Exeter Respect festival last week and he told us.that Tina is being treated for leukaemia. I don’t know whether you already knew that.
Roger
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hi Rog
What a total bugger of a piece of news. Thanks so much for letting me know.
love
Ant
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