If there is one difference I hope to make with Love for Now book it is to challenge the overwhelming … More
Author: Anthony Wilson
Lifesaving Poems: Mark Strand’s ‘A Morning’
A MorningI have carried it with me each day: that morning I tookmy uncle’s boat from the brown water coveand … More
Cancer, I found no poetry in you
I was formally diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a cancer of the lymphatic system, on Valentine’s Day, 2006. I was 42. … More
When Your Friend is Diagnosed with Cancer
If you have a friend who is diagnosed with cancer, the best thing to do in terms of what to … More
How I Wrote Love for Now
There wasn’t a plan. On January 1, 2006 I woke up with a sharp pain on my right side. I … More
Why I wrote Love for Now
I began writing Love for Now, my journal-memoir of diagnosis and treatment for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2006, one week before I … More
Remembering Jörn Cann
To all who knew him, it was a tragedy,one year ago, to lose the life-force that was Jörn Cann. I … More
Lifesaving Poems: CK Williams’s ‘Kin’
Kin“You make me sick!” this, with rancor, vehemence, disgust—again, “You hear me? Sick!”with rancor, vehemence, disgust again, with rage and … More
On Smiths Knoll
Yesterday was a good day and a sad say. A good day because Smiths Knoll, the poetry magazine edited by … More
Lifesaving Poems: Raymond Carver’s ‘Prosser’
ProsserIn winter two kinds of fields on the hillsoutside Prosser: fields of new green wheat, the slipsrising overnight out of … More
Lifesaving Poems: Don Coles’s ‘Photograph in a Stockholm Newspaper for March 13, 1910’
Photograph in a Stockholm Newspaper For March 13, 1910Here is a family so little famoustheir names were not recorded. They … More
The First 50 Lifesaving Poems
I began writing the Lifesaving Poems posts in June 2011, back when I was using Posterous for this blog. … More
Lifesaving Poems: Derek Mahon’s ‘Everything is Going to be All Right’
Everything is Going to be All Right How should I not be glad to contemplatethe clouds clearing beyond the dormer … More
Lifesaving Poems: Naomi Jaffa’s ‘Some of the Usual’
Some of the UsualStanding in the kitchen before breakfast, not including some of the usual —what to buy in Budgens … More
Lifesaving Poems: Peter Carpenter’s ‘Nightwatchman’
Nightwatchmanan elegyMouth set. So far, noughtnot out, having dabbed atthe spinner who’d been giving itsome air. Hands soft – taking … More
On Riddance
Riddance is published today. It is my fourth full-length collection of poems and my third with Worple Press. You can … More
Lifesaving Poems: James Tate’s ‘I am a Finn’
I Am a Finn I am standing in the post office, about to mail a package back to Minnesota, to … More
Lifesaving Poems: Seamus Heaney’s ‘Night Drive’
Night Drive The smells of ordinarinessWere new on the night drive through France;Rain and hay and woods on the airMade … More