Let’s love today

Let’s love today, the what we have now, this day, not today or tomorrow or yesterday, but this passing moment, … More

Influences: ‘The art of Jörn Cann’

I am taking a break from writing brand new blog posts over the summer. Instead of posting new work I … More

This is Jörn Cann. He was my ward doctor at the haematology unit where I was treated for non-Hodgkin’s … More

The ward is a void without him. Football blares in the corner, the monotonous roar of the crowd unleavened by … More

Jörn Cann wasn’t my friend. He was my doctor. He was famous before we even met him as the doctor … More

The room is small, the size of a student bedsit. An enormous grey sofa takes up most of the space. … More

This is the day we go the hospital as usual. We have banter with Jörn and Nadine while they inject … More

Dear Anthony Two cycles down, just six more to go. You are not looking bad, considering. The belligerent doctor who … More

This is Jörn Cann. He was my ward doctor at the haematology unit where I was treated for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma … More

Nine days after I was told that my chemotherapy treatment was not working in April 2006 the doctors discovered the … More

I began writing the Lifesaving Poems series of blog posts in May 2010. The idea was to celebrate the poems … More

I was deeply saddened to hear ten days ago of the death of Jörn Cann, the ward doctor in the … More