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.

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

Staying in touch with my failure rate (LentBlog11)

I always think of myself as working at a rock face. Ninety days out of ninety five, it’s just a … More

The new notebook (LentBlog9)

After Charles Wright Strives for perfection-Thursday Is begun day after votings Old envelope from the hospital) Will … More

The blogs I don’t read (LentBlog8)

When I began blogging almost ten years ago, I felt as though I had been let into the shiny, sugar-scented … More

Portrait (LentBlog7)

I am half way down the path with a recycling bin, a podcast playing on my phone in my pocket, … More

A couple (LentBlog6)

We have all seen them. (Except maybe we do not see them. Maybe what they are doing is so normal … More

Old (LentBlog5)

That isn’t me in the photo, though it could be. A bald man in vaguely sportif clothing trying to take an … More

Interiority (LentBlog3)

‘You good?’ says the book. ‘Yup,’ I say. ‘Good, thanks. All good.’ ‘You’re good. So you’re good,’ the book says. … More