What you read in 2018

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Here are my most frequently-read blog posts of 2018, according to my WordPress stats.

 

First, from the Lifesaving Poems series:

 

The Dead Woman (La Muerta) -Pablo Neruda

Atlas -UA Fanthorpe

To His Lost Lover -Simon Armitage

The Journey -Mary Oliver

Everything is Going to be All Right -Derek Mahon

The Art of Disappearing – Naomi Shihab Nye

The Half-Finished Heaven -Tomas Tranströmer

Night Drive -Seamus Heaney

Thank You, Lord, Thank You -Michel Quoist

May the Silence Break -Brendan Kennelly

 

And here are the ten most-read new blog posts from 2018:

 

Saying goodbye

Losing my ambition

UCU Strike Notebook

On being chipper

Lifesaving Poems: Carrie Fountain’s Poem Without Sleep

UCU Strike Poems 3 -Calling Him Back From Layoff, by Bob Hicok

On a failure

Lifesaving Poems: Stuart Pickford’s The Curtain Falls

The Year of Living Deeply 17: All I Want, by Joni Mitchell

Brother, genius

 

With deep thanks and a happy Christmas to all of my readers.

I look forward to seeing more of you in 2019.

Anthony

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. 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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  2. At first I thought, oh no, but reading through a few of your blogs – UAFanthorpe, Heaney, listening to Derek Mahon, and saving the rest for a later time – I thank you for bothering to give us your compilation. And I shall probably buy your book for a friend who’s just been given the dreaded diagnosis of NHL, although I hold off out delicacy of not wanting to intrude at such a terrible moment. I know that you’ll understand. With all best wishes, Cathy Nicholls

    Catherine Nicholls Ashbrook, Winsford Somerset TA24 7HN 01643 851430

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    1. Hi Catherine. Would you like me to send you a copy of Love for Now in the new year? Or was it another book you wanted? I am so sorry to hear about your friend. Wishing you a very happy Christmas
      Anthony

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  3. Thank you for all your blog posts through 2018. I’ve read and enjoyed each new post. Shared ‘The Good’ with a good friend as well as introdyced her to your blog. Wishing you a Merry Christmas and peace. đŸ¥‚

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  6. Thank you Anthony for another year of superlative writing.

    In keeping with the season, after reading your words, I am filled with the same sensation I first experienced upon reading A Christmas Carol, a feeling of expansiveness and elevation above the pettiness of the everyday world.

    The connection between beautiful writing and emotion, as in great music, is a miracle.

    Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and your family from the Land of Ice and Snow! Jerry.

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