I think I will write you a letter, June day. Dear June Fifth, you’re all green, so many kinds and … More
Author: Anthony Wilson
The Year of Living Deeply 18: Thinking of Nick
This is the time of year when I traditionally think of Nick. Nick lived with us in our house in … More
Book news and events
I am delighted to announce some readings to promote my forthcoming books The Afterlife and Deck Shoes with Worple Press and … More
An interview with Raymond Carver by Kay Bonetti (1983)
‘You knew how to live in those days’ Peter Sansom Sometime in the early Nineties my friend … More
The Year of Living Deeply 14: Which artists do you admire most?
I have been reading Twyla Tharp’s The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It For Life recently. In it she asks … More
The Year of Living Deeply 16: I have carried it with me each day
I have carried it with me each day, that sense of shame about the fact that I write, that it … More
The Year of Living Deeply 15: You don’t have that kind of time
About a month before my friend Pammy died, she said something that may have permanently changed me. We had … More
Grandmaman
A few words about the piece below. I wrote the first draft of it in 1989, a year after the … More
The Year of Living Deeply 19: Open letter _ A week with Mark Hollis
Dear Mark I am sorry it has taken so long to getting round to writing to you, not least because … More
In memory of Les Murray
I was saddened to hear of the death of the Australian poet Les Murray yesterday. In the autumn of 1997, … More
The Year of Living Deeply 11: In the taxi with Twyla Tharp
I have been thinking a lot about habits recently. The unconscious, unthinking ones which, as Sylvia Plath said about words, … More
The Year of Living Deeply 10: A week without –
I have just started reading Twyla Tharp’s The Creative Habit: Learn it and use it for life. Like those other classics … More
Open letter in memory of John Smith (LentBlog39)
Dear John Smith I was deeply saddened to hear that you died earlier this year in March. I am told … More
Weather vs climate (LentBlog38)
The main difference between weather and climate is the timescale that they each refer to. Weather describes the conditions of the … More
On Diane Abbott and Assange -Meditation on a line by Anne Lamott (LentBlog37)
There’s an old Mel Brooks routine where the psychiatrist tells his patient, “Listen to your broccoli, and your broccoli … More
Worship music? (LentBlog36)
Tonight at 9.00 pm Pooka Radio continue to assist me in fulfilling my lifelong ambition to become a DJ by … More
The recess (LentBlog35)
As we get to the business end of Lent, in the week the church still names Holy, I have been … More
Advertisement (LentBlog33)
I wrote the poem below in the summer of 2015. David Cameron had won a slim majority in the … More