Next year is going to be a big year for me. I am going to have two new books out … 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.
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
The Year of Living Deeply 17: All I Want by Joni Mitchell
We are in Richard and Andi’s kitchen in their minuscule flat on the Wandsworth Road in the early nineties. Richard … More
The Year of of Living Deeply
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Saying goodbye
It’s a funny feeling, almost new each time I experience it, an anticipation of loss that is somehow fresh and … More
Lifesaving Poems: Stuart Pickford’s ‘The Curtain Falls’
The Curtain Falls Suddenly a life is over – Ends with such serious charades The Dean makes lame quips … More
Towards a model of poetry writing development
As promised last week, here is my presentation of the paper I co-wrote with Sue Dymoke in which we argue on … More
Letter to a younger poet
Listening to the wonderful array of speakers at the Foyle Young Poets symposium on Monday, I tried to think back … More
Lifesaving Poems 