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Author: 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.

The poetry of Gianluca Vialli

The great Sampdoria, Juventus and Chelsea striker Gianluca Vialli has died, and I am sad. He was 58 and had … More

Cancer, Cancer and war metaphor, Cancer as a battle, Chelsea, Chelsea Football Club, Poetry, Poets, Raymond Carver, Remission, Ted Hughes

James Schuyler: Centenary year celebrations

Open call for guest blog posts celebrating the life and work of James Schuyler This November, we celebrate the centenary … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, James Schuyler, Life Lessons, New York Poets, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Reading Poetry, Writing, Writing Poems

On having allies

I once heard a senior British poet warming to a riff during a reading on the topic of the acknowledgements … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Blogging, Life Lessons, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Writing, Writing Poems

What you read in 2022

Here are the blog posts from 2022 that you read most often Lifesaving Lines: The Death of Fred Clifton, by … More

Being a Writer, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Gwendolyn Brooks, Ian McMillan, James Schuyler, Lucille Clifton, philip larkin, Poems, Poetry, Poets, reading poems, Reading Poetry, Roger Robinson, Simon Armitage, Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Writing

Advent meditation 3

This time last year, I had begun a third period waiting for a response to a new manuscript of poems. … More

Advent, Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Funboy Three, Life Lessons, Poems, Poetry, Poets, putting a collection together, Terry Hall, Waiting, Writing, Writing Poems

Advent meditation 2

One of the things I have learned about myself in the last year or so is that I can sometimes … More

Activism, Advent, Education, Life Lessons, Teaching, Teaching Poetry, Teaching Reading, Teaching Writing

Advent meditation

I like to think of myself as a pretty consistent person. I look askance with a certain smugness at the … More

Advent, Christmas, Joni Mitchell, Life Lessons, Music, politics, The World Cup

The Wind and the Rain – due in June 2023

I’m delighted to announce that The Wind and the Rain, my sixth collection of poems, will be published with Blue … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Blue Diode Publishing, Climate Change Grief, Grief, Poems, Poetry, Poets, The Wind and the Rain, Writing, Writing a book of poems, Writing Poems

UCU Strike: reflections and resources

Thank you to everyone who stopped by and liked or commented on yesterday’s blog post about the UCU strike action … More

Education, Higher Education, Life Lessons, Pension Dispute, Poems, Poetry, Poets, UCU, UCU Strike, USS Strikes

UCU Strike: a list of poems about work

Today was not a normal day of work for me. Instead of teaching my amazing students, I chose to participate … More

Education, Higher Education, Lifesaving Poems, Pension Dispute, Poems, Poems about work, Poetry, Poets, Reading Poetry, UCU, UCU Strike, Work

The Kevin Jackson Award

I was privileged to meet and work with the late writer and critic Kevin Jackson in 2011. We tutored a … More

Arvon, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Kevin Jackson, Peter Carpenter, Teaching Creative Writing, Teaching Writing, Writing, Writing Poems

Not much

What’s been happening? Well, not much. Which is another, deflecting, way of saying quite a lot, actually. So much that … More

Adam Zagajewski, Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Coral Bracho, Ellen Bass, Life Lessons, Max Richter, Paul Hlava Ceballos, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Reading Poetry, Sarah Maguire, Shawna Lemay, Writing, Writing Poems

Lifesaving Lines: Pobble, by Heather Trickey

Heather Trickey was a social research scientist, charity worker, Quaker and poet. In 2020, during the first Covid lockdown, she … More

Cancer, Heather Trickey, Life Lessons, Lifesaving Lines, Poems, Poetry, Poetry about Cancer, Poets, Reading Poetry, Writing Poems

Lifesaving Lines: The Job of Paradise, by Roger Robinson

My personal poetry highlight of the summer was listening to Roger Robinson read and be in conversation with Pádraig Ó … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Benjamin Zander, Bernadine Evaristo, Greenbelt, Kwame Dawes, Lifesaving Lines, Pádraig Ó Tuama, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Reading Poetry, Roger Robinson

Lifesaving Lines: History, by Tomaž Šalamun

The other day I bumped into Tomaž Šalamun. I was enjoying the last few hours of walking around Ljubljana, took … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, History, Lifesaving Lines, Ljubljana, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Reading Poetry, Tomaž Šalamun

A new review of Riddance… from 2013

A huge thank you to Ken Head and Helen Ivory at Ink Sweat & Tears for this review of Riddance … More

Blood Cancer, Cancer, Cancer Poetry, Ink Sweat & Tears, Ken Head, non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma, Poetry, Remission, Remission and Cancer, Reviews, Riddance

A new review of Lifesaving Poems… from 2015

A huge shout out and massive thank you to Maria Taylor and her wonderful Commonplace blog, where yesterday I discovered … More

Being a Poet, Bloodaxe Books, Bloodaxe Lifesaving Poems, Lifesaving Poems, Maria Taylor, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Reading Poetry

Lifesaving Lines: “Still Do I Keep My Look, My Identity…”, by Gwendolyn Brooks

It was the dying of the light of my time on Twitter. Days when I miss it, I think of … More

Being a Poet, Gwendolyn Brooks, Lifesaving Lines, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Reading Poetry, Still Do I Keep My Looks

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