Together we can beat war as a metaphor for cancer

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

Lifesaving Poems: Mark Strand’s ‘A Morning’

I fell in love with the poetry of Mark Strand via the enthusiasm of Rupert Loydell sometime in the late … 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

Now that we in Britain have started to think of ourselves as the greatest cycling nation since dinosaurs roamed the … More

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For the last nine years at the end of the first week in July I have…

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

Six years ago today I was told I wasn’t going to die. Those weren’t the words my consultant used, but … More

There was no mention of more sex or bungee jumps. A palliative nurse who has counselled the dying in their … More

I went to see a play recently, set in the early 20th century, where a man sat in his office … More

Photo: Derek Adams Some writers influence you through the pull of their imagination on your work, opening up new worlds … More

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