When I knew I had cancer

Seven years ago today, the date in the photograph above was the day I knew had cancer. By this … More

Lifesaving Poems: Galway Kinnell’s ‘Saint Francis and the Sow’

Saint Francis and the SowThe budstands for all things,even for those things that don’t flower,for everything flowers, from within, of … More

The Next Big Thing I have been been tagged by poet and blogger Abegail Morley to answer set questions relating to my memoir … More

When I was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma nearly seven years ago the aspect of telling people I dreaded most was … More

The chances are, more of us are mortal than have multiple orgasms -Violet Weingarten, Intimations of Mortality When I was diagnosed … More

I have just been asked by Abegail Morley to send her a list of my poetry books of 2012 for … More

If there is one difference I hope to make with Love for Now book it is to challenge the overwhelming … More

A MorningI have carried it with me each day: that morning I tookmy uncle’s boat from the brown water coveand … More

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted … More

I was formally diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a cancer of the lymphatic system, on Valentine’s Day, 2006. I was 42. … More

If you have a friend who is diagnosed with cancer, the best thing to do in terms of what to … More

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

To all who knew him, it was a tragedy,one year ago, to lose the life-force that was Jörn Cann. I … More

Everything is Going to be All Right How should I not be glad to contemplatethe clouds clearing beyond the dormer … More

Riddance is published today. It is my fourth full-length collection of poems and my third with Worple Press. You can … More

BikeYou, who have borne three sonsof mine, still bear my weightroutinely, transporting me.An odd pair: your classic sparelines – elbows, … More

The oddest phase of my experience of cancer six years ago was the period of time after my chemotherapy treatment … More

May the Silence Break Because you do not speakI know the shockof water encountering a rock. Supremacy of silence is … More