On writing and illness

Reading Arthur W. Frank’s astonishing At the Will of the Body recently has given me pause to reflect on the relationship … More

Lifesaving Poems: Jane Kenyon’s ‘Let Evening Come’

Let Evening Come Let the light of late afternoon shine through chinks in the barn, moving up the bales as … More

Deep Third Man(poem for a retired wicket-keeper)That leg-side stumping of yourshangs safe in the memory(if not of the man you … More

Towards the end of my treatment for cancer in 2006 I had one of the most profound conversations of my … More

It was great to hear the BBC’s Deputy Political Editor James Landale’s interview about his experience of treatment for cancer … 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

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

There wasn’t a plan. On January 1, 2006 I woke up with a sharp pain on my right side. I … 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

This week six years ago I began the course of radiotherapy which was to mark the final chapter of my … More