How I Wrote Love for Now

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

Why I wrote Love for Now

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

Originally posted on Lifesaving Poems:
In February I wrote a blog post on the anniversary of my diagnosis of Non-Hodgkin’s…

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

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

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

I was sad to read yesterday via Twitter that the leading Dutch poet Rutger Kopland has died, aged 77. He … More

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

As I wrote in my recent post, I chose to call this series Lifesaving Poems because I actually believe … More

‘More Chelsea Than Sunderland’ was prompted by the remark of a doctor of a friend of mine, when asked to … More

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

Here is what happened halfway through my treatment for non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma in April 2006. I went for a midway scan … More

Yesterday was the sixth anniversary of my diagnosis with non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma (NHL), an aggressive cancer of the lymphatic system. … More

Six years ago I began writing the journal which has become my forthcoming memoir of my experience of cancer. It … More

By this time in January, 2006 I was fairly certain that something was very wrong with my health. Like a … More