The Afterlife
Published on 6. September 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
96 pages
978-1-905208-42-5 (ISBN)
Description
Anthony Wilson's poems explore the borderline territory between
grief and laughter, memory and forgetting, illness and health.
His central subject is the way we live within family and
community, questioning the roles we construct, both alone and
with others. The Afterlife explores central themes: mortality, mental health,
the relation between body and soul, and how to live fully in the
present moment.
grief and laughter, memory and forgetting, illness and health.
His central subject is the way we live within family and
community, questioning the roles we construct, both alone and
with others. The Afterlife explores central themes: mortality, mental health,
the relation between body and soul, and how to live fully in the
present moment.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Tonbridge
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 135 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-905208-42-5 (9781905208425)
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Person
Anthony Wilson works in teacher and medical education at the University of Exeter where he is a member of the Centre for Research in Writing. He is the author of Lifesaving Poems (Bloodaxe,2015) and Love for Now (Impress Books, 2012), a memoir of cancer. The Afterlife is his fifth collection of poems.
Content
Contents
Part One 1
Teaching Writing Theory 3
What I Should be Feeling 4
Slow Weather 5
On Losing the Ability to Sleep 7
To Spring 8
In Oregon 9
British Teeth 10
Mornings in Paradise 11
Balinese Surfers 12
Thinking Outside 13
Poem Beginning With a Line by John Ash 14
The Barchester Chronicles 15
Staffroom, Summer, 2015 16
From a Chalkface 18
Utterance Dusk 19
Three Pieces (Poem Beginning With a Line by
Yehuda Amichai) 20
Part Two 23
The Afterlife 25
The All-Clear 26
The True Story of the Night they Told me I was
Cured 28
There are Days 29
Death Shelf 30
The Last Time I Saw Mary 31
Chicken and Almond Soup 32
Sitting With Your Body 33
Part Three 35
To a Notebook 37
Part Four 53
Bookmark 55
Signals 56
The Escape 57
After Coucou 58
Wildlife 59
Dream Opera 60
Part Five 61
The Names of My Mother 63
Trying Not to Think of Seamus Heaney 64
Becotte's Poem 65
Vinaigrette Variations 66
Insomnia 68
Dear Coffee 69
Driving to England 70
Lament 71
The Four of Us 72
Part Six 75
The Editing Suite 77
Due 78
Smoke 80
My Shyness 81
For My Children 82
The Future 83
Youth 84
Boy, Pirouetting 86
S 87
To a Charlie Irvine Guitar Solo 88
Poem 89
Poem Beginning With a Line by Eve Merriam 90
Everything I Know of What I Want to Say 91
Poem of Leaves 92
Notes 93
Acknowledgements 95
Part One 1
Teaching Writing Theory 3
What I Should be Feeling 4
Slow Weather 5
On Losing the Ability to Sleep 7
To Spring 8
In Oregon 9
British Teeth 10
Mornings in Paradise 11
Balinese Surfers 12
Thinking Outside 13
Poem Beginning With a Line by John Ash 14
The Barchester Chronicles 15
Staffroom, Summer, 2015 16
From a Chalkface 18
Utterance Dusk 19
Three Pieces (Poem Beginning With a Line by
Yehuda Amichai) 20
Part Two 23
The Afterlife 25
The All-Clear 26
The True Story of the Night they Told me I was
Cured 28
There are Days 29
Death Shelf 30
The Last Time I Saw Mary 31
Chicken and Almond Soup 32
Sitting With Your Body 33
Part Three 35
To a Notebook 37
Part Four 53
Bookmark 55
Signals 56
The Escape 57
After Coucou 58
Wildlife 59
Dream Opera 60
Part Five 61
The Names of My Mother 63
Trying Not to Think of Seamus Heaney 64
Becotte's Poem 65
Vinaigrette Variations 66
Insomnia 68
Dear Coffee 69
Driving to England 70
Lament 71
The Four of Us 72
Part Six 75
The Editing Suite 77
Due 78
Smoke 80
My Shyness 81
For My Children 82
The Future 83
Youth 84
Boy, Pirouetting 86
S 87
To a Charlie Irvine Guitar Solo 88
Poem 89
Poem Beginning With a Line by Eve Merriam 90
Everything I Know of What I Want to Say 91
Poem of Leaves 92
Notes 93
Acknowledgements 95