It is necessary
to write a book
in which there will be a little less
of the first person
singular, a little less
dramatizing, and fewer resolutions.
Or rather, it is not necessary
to write a book.
Or anything else.
One is free
to keep a notebook.
That is sufficient.
One may write
or not write.
Therefore one may write.
I have always wanted to write
about everything.
That does not mean
to write a book
that covers everything –
which would be impossible.
But a book
into which everything
can go.
A book with a little
of everything
that creates itself
out of everything.
That has its own life.
A faithful book.
I no longer look at it
as a “book.”
Thomas Merton, via the Calm Things blog, curated by Shawna Lemay
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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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something caught in my heart as i read that. thank you.
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Thank you for saying so. Good wishes, Anthony
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