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.

Coming home

‘Good Christmas?’ I say. ’Fairytale,’ the book says. ‘Grimm.’ ’Are you here all week?’ ’Unlike some of us.’ ’It was … More

Craving silence

‘So I was thinking,’ the book says. ‘Going anywhere nice for Christmas?’ ’Do you want a lift somewhere?’ I say. … More

What you read in 2018

Here are my most frequently-read blog posts of 2018, according to my WordPress stats. First, from the Lifesaving Poems … More

Blue: What 2018 has taught me

‘What have you learned, do you think?’ the book says. ‘Do you mind, I’m trying to have a bath!’ ‘Now … More

Deck shoes and other enthusiasms

I am delighted to be publishing Deck Shoes, a book of enthusiasms, influences and memoir, with Impress Books, next year. … More

Poems from The Afterlife

After what feels like a very long wait since the publication of Riddance in 2012, I am delighted to be publishing … More

Book news for 2019

Next year is going to be a big year for me. I am going to have two new books out … More

Influence

‘Do you mind if I ask you a question?’ the book says. ‘Why are you wearing my slippers?’ I say. … More

Intimacy

‘You don’t sound very ambitious,’ the book says. ‘And good morning to you, too!’ I say. ‘I mean,’ the book … More

Everyone who matters

‘What do you want?’ says the book. ‘Who’s asking?’ I say. ‘Me,’ says the book. ‘I am asking.’ ‘What do … More

Truly, Madly, Deeply

I am lying on the bed staring at the ceiling, detoxing from the day, as I do. ‘You all right?’ … More

The Year of Living Deeply 6: When One Book Leads to Another Book

I have been writing recently about going deeper, not wider. Listening to music I already possess, reading the books already … More

The Year of Living Deeply 13: Reading the books I already possess

As I was saying the book that I bought and then did not read and which caught my eye recently is Now … More

Tenderness

The book is looking at me from across the room. It is dressed smartly, but not to impress. It looks … More

The Year of Living Deeply 12: Reading the books I already have

So in an effort to live deeply and not widely, amongst other things I have been looking at the shelves … More

The Year of Living Deeply 23: Children on the Hill by Harold Budd

In The Year of Living Deeply I am trying to attend to the things which feed me very much (family; … More

The Year of Living Deeply 5: The cool flash of what serious is

Remember when you got the news of the accident- or the illness- in the life of someone more laced into … More

The Year of Living Deepy 2: Re-reading Tomas Tranströmer

Below Zero We are at a party that doesn’t love us. At last the party lets its mask drop and … More