New Poems
On Twitter is published at Ink Sweat & Tears
The Gift of Tongues and Against Wow Words are published at Nutshells and Nuggets
Blue Morning is published at The Clearing in Four Ways of Looking at the Coast
Piano Music is published at Stride
Awake is published at Stride
Exe is published at Stride
Fresh Air is published at Atrium
At First Sight is published at London Grip
Carnage is published at London Grip
Some More Strategies for the End of the Age is published at PERVERSE
Red Stationery is published at the Creative Toolkit
Balls is published at The Interpreter’s House
Storage is published at London Grip
Poems from The Wind and the Rain
Hymn of Rain is published at Ink Sweat & Tears
In Late Rainy Season is published at Riptide (Climate Matters)
Lone Wolf is published at The Friday Poem
The White Horse is published at Atrium
Now and Not Yet and Found: Rain are published at London Grip
Like Rain is published at Moist Poetry Journal
Unfinished Business and On the Nature of Daylight are published at Stride
Toast is published at The Interpreter’s House
To My Rain and All is Lost (Spoiler Alert) are published at Anthropocene
Poems from The Afterlife
I published The Afterlife with Worple Press in September 2019.
You can read extracts from The Afterlife here.
Teaching Writing Theory and Poem Beginning With a Line by John Ash are published at And Other Poems
Poem is published at Rebecca Goss’ Heart Poems for Children’s Heart Week
To Spring is published at Sarah James’s blog, as part of With You in Mind, an online anthology of poems in support of Mental Health Awareness Week
The Future is published at Ink Sweat & Tears (March 2016 Pick of the Month Shortlist)
Slow Weather is published at London Grip
Trying Not to Think of Seamus Heaney is published at Aerodrome
Poem Beginning With a Line by Eve Merriam and In Oregon are published at And Other Poems
The Four of Us is published at London New Grip Poetry
Poems from Riddance
I published Riddance with Worple Press in September 2012.
You can read a selection of poems from Riddance here:
The Clothes I Bought During Cancer
A selection of poems from Riddance is also available on the Peony Moon blog
Borderline was published at And Other Poems
Helping My Son With His GCSE Poetry Homework was published at Ink Sweat & Tears
Sonia Caporossi has made an Italian translation of The Clothes I Bought During Cancer, which can be found on the Critica Impura blog
Anthologies
My poems have appeared in the following anthologies:
Hard Lines 3: New Poetry and Prose, Faber, 1987, edited by Ian Dury, Tom Paulin and Fanny Dubes
New Christian Poetry, Collins, 1990, edited by Alwyn Marriage
Greek Gifts, Smith/Doorstop, 1992, edited by Duncan Curry and Janet Fisher
Eating Your Cake…and Having It, Fatchance Press, 1997, edited by Ann Gray
The New Exeter Book of Riddles, Enitharmon Press, 1999, edited by Kevin Crossley-Holland and Lawrence Sail
Out of Order: between-age poems, Evans Brothers, 2002, edited by Andrew Fusek-Peters
Contemporary Poetry: Poets and Poetry since 1990, Cambridge University Press, 2009, edited by Ian Brinton
Rhyme and Design, Peninsula Cancer Network, 2010, edited by Harry Guest and Peter and Alice Oswald
Newspaper Taxis: Poetry After The Beatles, Seren, 2013, edited by Phil Bowen, Damian Furniss and David Woolley
Wenlock Poetry Festival 2015, Fair Acre Press, 2015, edited by Nadia Kingsley
Map: Poems After William Smith’s Geological Map of 1815, Worple Press, 2015, edited by Michael McKimm
Hands and Wings: Poems for Freedom from Torture, White Rat Press, 2015, edited by Dorothy McCarthy
The Tree Line, Worple Press, 2017, edited by Michael McKimm
One for the Road, Smith/Doorstop, 2017, edited by Helen Mort and Stuart Maconie
Metamorphic: 21st Century Poets respond to Ovid, Recent Work Press, 2017, edited by Nessa O’Mahony and Paul Munden
Places of Poetry: Mapping the Nation in Verse, Oneworld Publications, 2020, edited by Andrew McRae and Paul Farley
Seeds of Hope: More thoughts and reflections from Amos Trust, Amos Trust, 2020, edited by Harvey Jessop and Chris Rose
Lifesaving Poems 
These poems are so moving, especially because in 2006 I too was diagnosed with cancer – breast cancer – and in ‘Tumour’ you have captured much of what I felt. I have always struggled to write about my experience of the big C. As a writer it should be a mine of feelings to tap into but instead I concentrate on the impact it had on my mental health. Avoidance perhaps. I am in remission thank God and wish us both continuing good health. Thanks for these. Let me know when the book is out.
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Suzie, thank you so much for your honest response to these poems and to my blog. Riddance was indeed a labour of love, not in the painful sense, but in the sense that all poems are difficult to write because you want to be faitfoul to the experience without hitting the reader over the head as it were. I think Yeats called this demonstrating both reality and justice. The book is out very soon indeed, so do keep an eye on the site via twitter for more info. Worple Press are adding a Paypal button to their site so it should be straightforward to get hold of I hope. As ever with thanks, Anthony
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Hi Suzie, Riddance is out now, and is available through the website -the big Paypal button on the front page. You might like to know I am reading in Taunton in November (take a look at the events page here). Yours as ever, Anthony
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I am very grateful to have found your moving and beautiful website. I stumbled across it in randomly exploring poetry blogs while contemplating starting one of my own, but have stopped here for a long time in a feeling of resonance. Peace and best wishes for 2014 to you.
Rachel Blum
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Dear Rachel
Thank you for your kind comment and support.
I’m glad the blog resonated with you.
Wishing you all the best for 2014
Anthony
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I just started my blog here and, while stumbling through other blogs on the site, I came across yours. Rarely am I able to compose poetry with such touching words and outstanding beauty, but you can in every poem you post, and they’re outstanding.
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I start my day with a live program on France Culture about Joy. I take a photo of two magpies: two for joy I am told. The most beautiful poetic encounter of all is the poem Joy, first page I open of a book given to me yesterday: Gillian Allnutt, indwelling. I then search about her on internet, came across Jean’s page ( I know Jean ) http://jeanatkin.com/2016/01/15/seven-ways-of-reading-gillian-allnutt/. Was delighted she loved Gillian Allnutt’ s work. I then find your blog, and on Valentine’s day I discover we both suffered the same cancer ( three years earlier than you ) and your photo is “Today I choose Joy”! Wow!!! I am spoiled by joy!!!
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Bless you for saying so and thank you for your support. Wishing you longevity in life and creativity, Anthony
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I heard you read at Greenbelt by the caravan. I came in half way through a poem that talked about friends divorcing, cancer and being loved: may I ask what its title was please? (And is it published in one of your books?)
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Hello! and thank you for your kind comment – and for coming to my reading at Greenbelt. The poem you mention is Youth and it is available in my collection The Afterlife, published by the Worple Press: https://www.worplepress.com/the-afterlife/ Wishing you all the best and thank you again, Anthony
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