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Tag: Cancer

Mandy Coe’s ‘Let’s Celebrate’ (LentBlog16)

This being a Saturday in Lent, I am reposting a favourite blog post from my archives. See you after the … More

Cancer, Lifesaving Poems, Mandy Coe, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Presence, Reading, reading poems, Reading Poetry, Remission

The Year of Living Deeply 8: Doing One Thing

I am really bad at doing one thing. If I am chopping an onion, I am listening to the radio. … More

Brexit, Cancer, Fighting Cancer, Lymphoma, mindfulness, Nick Boles, Nick Robinson, politics, Presence, Remission

Deck shoes and other enthusiasms

I am delighted to be publishing Deck Shoes, a book of enthusiasms, influences and memoir, with Impress Books, next year. … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Cancer, Creativity, Life Lessons, Remission, Stationery, Swimming, Trusting in the Process, Writing, Writing Process

Book news for 2019

Next year is going to be a big year for me. I am going to have two new books out … More

Cancer, Memoir, Mental Health, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Remission, Writing

Lifesaving Poems: Tom Andrews’s ‘Reading Frank O’Hara in the Hospital’

Reading Frank O’Hara in the Hospital   1 The IV drips its slow news. So long, lean and turbulent morning! … More

Blood Cancer, Cancer, Charles Wright, Deryn Rees-Jones, Frank O'Hara, Life Lessons, Lifesaving Poems, Lifesaving Poetry, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Reading, reading poems, Reading Poetry, Remission, Tom Andrews

Losing My Ambition

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

Andy Brown, Anne Lamott, Arvon Foundation, Being a Poet, Cancer, Education, Life Lessons, Peter Carpenter, Poems, Poetry, Poetry Readings, Poets, Raymond Carver, Reading Poetry, Richard Ford, Totleigh Barton, Writing Poetry

On Being Chipper

  There were just a few of us in the room, gathered round a table. I had been invited to … More

Anxiety, Blood Cancer, Cancer, Chemotherapy, Counselling, Depression, Life Lessons, Mental Health, Mental Health at Work, Mental Health Awareness, Remission, Remission and Counselling, Remission and Mental Health

The how of it

  I was having a coffee with a new writer friend the other day. Not having known each other for … More

Anthony Wilson, Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Cancer, Creativity, Deck shoes, Frasier, Notebooks, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Prose, Trusting in the Process, What we talk about when we talk about writing, Writing, Writing Process, Writing Routines

January notebook

Two successes I can claim as a parent: they both love music and football (even if one of them supports … More

Ali Smith, Annie Proulx, Cancer, Chelsea, Henri Nouwen, Jose Gonzalez, Keeping a notebook, New Year's Resolutions, Notebooks, Pauline Boty, Perfume Genius, Poets and notebooks, Poets' Notebooks, Simon Parke, Stationery, Thom Gunn

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