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.

#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

Meditation on a line by Martin Stannard (LentBlog2)

A line that has really been haunting me recently is ‘Horses turned out into a cold field have it’ from … More

A challenge (LentBlog1)

I am not sure how this is going to turn out. It was something somebody said in response to my … More

The Year of Living Deeply 9: Goodbye Facebook, it’s (not really) been real

Dear Facebook I thought I would write to let you know that after years of thinking (and even talking) … More

Lifesaving Poems: C. P. Cavafy’s ‘Waiting for the Barbarians’

Waiting for the Barbarians What are we waiting for, assembled in the forum? The barbarians are due here today. … More

Lifesaving Poems: Philip Larkin’s ‘Going’

Going There is an evening coming in Across the fields, one never seen before, That lights no lamps. Silken … More

Angry

’Have you seen my coat?’ says the book. ’Nope. You seen mine?’ ’Nope. You look tired. Are you tired?’ ’You … More