I found this poem in a collection of poems called The Matter of This World in a second hand … 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.
Lifesaving Poems: Julia Darling’s ‘Chemotherapy’ vs ‘Psalm 102’
I was astonished to find in an old diary today that by 8 March 2006, less than one month after … More
Thomas Lux’s ‘The Voice You Hear When You Read Silently’
To celebrate World Book Day last week I read the poem below, by Thomas Lux, to my students. It … More
Creativity, Confidence and Challenge: The Write Team Research Report
‘I’ve learnt to be more confident with my ideas, because sometimes you have an idea that you just sort of … More
7 things I have learned about cancer
Yesterday was the sixth anniversary of my diagnosis with non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma (NHL), an aggressive cancer of the lymphatic system. … More
Miracle Fair -by Wislawa Szymborska
This week saw the death of poet and Nobel Laureate Wislawa Szmborska. She was 88. Her compatriot Czeslaw Milosz described … More
On waiting to be diagnosed with cancer
Six years ago I began writing the journal which has become my forthcoming memoir of my experience of cancer. It … More
Top five regrets of the dying -from The Guardian
There was no mention of more sex or bungee jumps. A palliative nurse who has counselled the dying in their … More
Lifesaving Poems: Marin Sorescu’s ‘With Only One Life’
With Only One Life Hold with both hands The tray of every day And pass in turn Along this … More
Lifesaving Poems: Jackie Kay’s ‘Dusting the Phone’
One of the things I love about my job is that I get to co-construct projects with other people. One of … More
A Few Odds and Sods
By this time in January, 2006 I was fairly certain that something was very wrong with my health. Like a … More
A Twitter addict, I had to detox from modern technology by Jenni Russell
I went to see a play recently, set in the early 20th century, where a man sat in his office … More
Can our family escape the tyranny of the screen? by Stephen Carrick-Davies in the Guardian
Can our family escape the tyranny of the screen? Stephen Carrick-Davies’s son suggested a non-screen day every week. The family … More
Herod
Herod With Wikileaks in the headlines you could say the timing was perfect. Three Iraqi profs in … More
Recent Research on Poetry in Education
Below is a summary of some recent research on progress in pupils’ poetry writing and teachers’ metaphors of poetry writing … More
Lifesaving Poems: John Logan’s ‘The Picnic’
The Picnic It is the picnic with Ruth in the spring. Ruth was third on my list of seven girls … More
In search of the ‘Tyger’: power relationships and poetry in the classroom
When I began teaching the Year 5 class of children whose work would form the basis of my doctoral … More
Lifesaving Poems: Ann Gray’s ‘mercifully ordain that we may become aged together’
Ann Gray and I were chatting the other day. We were trying to decide how long we had known each … More
Lifesaving Poems 