‘Have you thought about acting?’
‘I’m sorry?’
‘Acting. You’re good enough. Bit of training and you’d be away.’
‘What?’
‘Or comedy. You know you’ve always wanted to.’
‘I would rather boil my hands.’
‘You’re just saying that.’
‘Or that T-shirt idea.’
‘Please don’t mention that.’
‘But you could, you know. You know you could. You just have to start.’
‘This is complete balls, even by your standards.’
‘I was just putting forward -‘
‘Do you think you could go now? I’m trying to work.’
‘If you insist.’
‘I do.’
‘OK then.’
‘OK then.’
‘Will you call me?’
‘You know I will.’
‘You won’t.’
‘I will.’
‘That’s what you always say.’
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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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Still enthralled by this story.
This (below) was the next message in my inbox today, sent just two minutes earlier. Coincidence!
I begin to digest my book
for clearer understanding—
a letter for light
a word for spirit
for being other and not
me at all.
It’s from Dave Bonta at Via Negativa http://www.vianegativa.us/2015/03/digest/
Ama
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Great synergies! Thank you for sharing it. And as ever for your support
Anthony
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excuse mistakes…sending from my tablet…
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