Well, by tomorrow night, we might be out. Crashed out with no deal or sailing into a bright future presaged … More
Author: Anthony Wilson
Open letter to Alicia Stubbersfield (LentBlog31)
Dear Alicia I can’t believe it is three years since I got to hang out with you at Totleigh … More
Meditation on self-care (LentBlog30)
Like a lot of things I am ashamed to admit discovering late in life -Audre Lorde, James Baldwin, Deborah Levy, … More
Writing prompts (blog post ending with a line by Shawna Lemay) (LentBlog29)
after Shawna Lemay Write a poem about the rain. Or the wind. Write about what you learned at university. … More
Open letter to Ted Hughes (LentBlog27)
Dear Ted Hughes You probably won’t remember me. I wrote to you before, in the summer of 1998. I did … More
Why we need to save the Poetry Business (LentBlog26)
after Mark Halliday Because of the writing days. And because The discovery will not happen on its own, unprompted, … More
My Brexit week off (LentBlog25)
I’ll admit it straight away: I didn’t last the whole week. Sometime on Friday evening I switched the radio … More
Meditation on an envelope (LentBlog24)
Anne Lamott suggests an index card, and I have used these, but they suggest something pre-planned, organised. The envelope, especially … More
Climate change grief: some resources (LentBlog23)
A week and a half ago I wrote here about my ‘climate change conversion’, not from unbelief to belief, but … More
Meditation on a line by Joli Jensen (LentBlog21)
It isn’t often that you read something that you know as soon as you read it has the capacity to … More
Meditation on a line by Sherwood Anderson (LentBlog20)
‘I’m trying again. A man has to begin over and over – to try to think and feel only in … More
Doing a Likely Lads (LentBlog19)
Lying awake last night wondering what had become of Theresa May’s deal in Parliament it suddenly occurred to me that … More
A week off (LentBlog18)
I’m hoping that by the end of the week we may be nearer to a political solution to the national … More
#PutItToThePeopleMarch (LentBlogs17)
I saw: old hippies, new hippies, punks, preppies, grandmothers, babes in arms, parents, wrinklies, men in tweeds, trombonists, anarchists, Star … More
Meditation on a line by Rebecca Goss (LentBlog15)
Towards the end of her Greenbelt Festival poetry reading Q and A with Sasha Dugdale in 2017, Rebecca Goss said … More
The dividend (LentBlog14)
Having left FB a week or two ago and quickly decided before I could persuade myself to do otherwise to … More
My climate change conversion (LentBlog13)
There I was, a normal Saturday, coffee and The Guardian, propped up in bed with the old iPad, flicking through … More
Why I can’t vote Labour at the next election (LentBlog12)
I never wanted to have to say this. I never imagined I would. But I have finally lost the plot … More