Thank you to Julia McGuinness for posting this interview with me on her Creative Connections blog.
In it I discuss the process of writing two books about my experience of cancer in 2006: Riddance (Worple, 2012), a book of poems, and Love for Now (Impress Books, 2013), a journal-memoir.
About Riddance
Why it’s called Love for Now
Published by Anthony Wilson
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. The Wind and the Rain, my sixth collection of poems, is available now from Blue Diode Publishing. My current research project, funded by the Foyle Foundation, is Young Poets' Stories: https://youngpoetsstories.com/. This blog is archived by the British Library.
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Anthony, I found the interview very interesting and stimulating, especially your points about the language around cancer and the usefulness of writing through the experience.
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Thank you so much for your kind feedback. I never know whether I make sense or not, so this is very helpful.
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Total and absolute sense!
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What a relief!
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