‘I think I’m going to be going away for a bit,’ the book says. ‘Give you some space. Let you work in peace.’
‘What brought this on?’
‘Nothing you’ve said, it’s fine.’
‘I didn’t think I had.’
‘Well fine then.’
‘Fine. So why are you going? Anywhere I know?’
‘Nowhere you know, no.’
‘Because?’
‘I need to.’
‘Says who?’
‘Just a decision I’ve made. I can’t work with all this noise, all this, all this chatter the whole time.’
‘I see.’
‘I can’t work with you any more I mean.’
‘I see.’
‘Is that all you have to say, ‘I see’?’
‘You still haven’t told me why you’re going.’
‘Do you really want to know?’
‘Nothing but the truth,’ I say.
‘I can’t stand the sight of you, if you want to know. You make me sick. Sick. I’m sorry, but there it is. It’s over.’
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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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There is excellent and effective counseling available.
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I’ll look into it
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i’d tell that book it best watch its big gob or it will end up meeting a zippo lighter.
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