The echo chamber

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‘It gets harder.’

‘What does?’

‘It. Everything. Teaching. Writing. Listening to you.’

‘I didn’t see that coming.’

‘You never do.’

‘You’d think it would get easier.’

‘That was my line!’

‘You would, though.’

‘But it doesn’t, does it. Every time just like the first. The filling classroom. The blank page. All I have learned is that I have learned nothing. I know nothing. Nothing. The terror never ebbs, it only burgeons, the mind an echo chamber replying to itself in the darkness. I can’t go on like this. I can’t.’

‘But you have to,’ the book says.

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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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  6. Hi Anthony,

    Loving your work – just wanted to say thank you for your musings especially one about cancer

    Cheers

    Matt

    Best,

    Matt

    Matthew Lowe

    Twitter : mattlowe1974 Tel. : 07841 052514

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