I have been doing the proofs to my new books. And I am scared. Scared that I have got it … More
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. 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.
On not tweeting: Open letter to Twitter
And what will I miss? Her cruelty, her unfaithfulness Her fun, her love, her kiss, part company The Go-Betweens, Part … More
Nothing
‘What are you doing?’ says the book. ‘Nothing.’ ‘Doesn’t look like it.’ ‘Listening to the cricket,’ if you must know. … More
The Year of Living Deeply 20: Poems hatch – a found poem by Marge Piercy
Poems hatch Poems hatch from memory, fantasy, the need to communicate with the living, the dead, the unborn. Poems come … More
The Year of Living Deeply 21: Some James Schuyler resources
My James Schuyler obsession continues. (So is my adoration of blogs about pencils, but that is another story.) Below are … More
The Year of Living Deeply 24: Go to poet?
I think I will write you a letter, June day. Dear June Fifth, you’re all green, so many kinds and … More
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
Lifesaving Poems 