Plymbridge
Anthony Wilson(Author)
Worple Press
Published on 14. May 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
32 pages
978-1-905208-56-2 (ISBN)
Description
Plymbridge is named after the hidden wooded valley on the northern edge of
Plymouth close to where Anthony Wilson now lives. Rich with wildlife, it is also
marked by its industrial past. The central concerns of Anthony Wilson's previous
collections - memory, the body, the impact of human activity on the natural world -
are again to the fore in poems which ask how we can come to terms with the loss of
these things. Alongside several found poems, there are poems which celebrate,
elegise and 'answer' fellow poets he is in debt to. The memories stored here, from
lockdown to boarding school to life in the empty nest search for a language that
holds the reality of our historical moment in tension with those of everyday wonder
and awe.
Plymouth close to where Anthony Wilson now lives. Rich with wildlife, it is also
marked by its industrial past. The central concerns of Anthony Wilson's previous
collections - memory, the body, the impact of human activity on the natural world -
are again to the fore in poems which ask how we can come to terms with the loss of
these things. Alongside several found poems, there are poems which celebrate,
elegise and 'answer' fellow poets he is in debt to. The memories stored here, from
lockdown to boarding school to life in the empty nest search for a language that
holds the reality of our historical moment in tension with those of everyday wonder
and awe.
Reviews / Votes
One of the great poets of family life - Christopher Reid,Each poem is a small marvel on grave themes, a grand paean to the minutiae of a
life worth cherishing.
Poetry Book Society
When the birdseed imperatives stop, people see things in a different way, and that
sharpness of vision is something we prize... the true gold we sift through poems for.
This book is lit by that vision, and sometimes where you least expect it.
Helena Nelson,
A tone of domestic awareness which never drifts into the mawkish, a quiet register of
the relationship between humans and time. Wilson understands the fact that 'objects
contain absent people'.
Ian Brinton, The Use of English
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Tonbridge
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 135 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-905208-56-2 (9781905208562)
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Person
Anthony Wilson is a poet, writing tutor and lecturer. He works in medical and
teacher education at the University of Exeter.
He has published six collections of poetry, the most recent of which is The Wind and
the Rain (Blue Diode Press, 2023). His memoir of cancer, Love for Now (Impress
Books), was published in 2012. He is also the author of Deck Shoes (Impress Books,
2019), a collection of essays and criticism.
In 2015 he published the anthology Lifesaving Poems with Bloodaxe Books, based
on his blog of the same name.
Anthony is editor of Creativity in Primary Education (Learning Matters, 2015), and
co-editor of Making Poetry Matter (Bloomsbury, 2013) and Making Poetry Happen
(Bloomsbury, 2015). His most recent project, Young Poets' Stories (Foyle
Foundation, 2020-2026), investigates the writing lives of prizewinning young poets.
Becoming a Poet is forthcoming from Bloomsbury.
teacher education at the University of Exeter.
He has published six collections of poetry, the most recent of which is The Wind and
the Rain (Blue Diode Press, 2023). His memoir of cancer, Love for Now (Impress
Books), was published in 2012. He is also the author of Deck Shoes (Impress Books,
2019), a collection of essays and criticism.
In 2015 he published the anthology Lifesaving Poems with Bloodaxe Books, based
on his blog of the same name.
Anthony is editor of Creativity in Primary Education (Learning Matters, 2015), and
co-editor of Making Poetry Matter (Bloomsbury, 2013) and Making Poetry Happen
(Bloomsbury, 2015). His most recent project, Young Poets' Stories (Foyle
Foundation, 2020-2026), investigates the writing lives of prizewinning young poets.
Becoming a Poet is forthcoming from Bloomsbury.
Content
Two River Poems 1
In the Laundrette with Adam Zagajewski 4
Adam ZagajewskiVisits Lvov 5
Burned 6
At First Sight 7
Fresh Air 8
Against Listening 9
Time in a School House 10
Bogs 11
Against Wow Words 12
Clever Boy 13
Boiled 14
Carnage 15
The Singer 16
The Green 17
Biographical Details 18
Blue Morning 19
Some More Strategies for the End of the Age 20
In Reply 21
Red Stationery 23
Moth 24
My Knees at Sixty-Two 25
Class 26
Aria on Hope 27
Acknowledgements 28
In the Laundrette with Adam Zagajewski 4
Adam ZagajewskiVisits Lvov 5
Burned 6
At First Sight 7
Fresh Air 8
Against Listening 9
Time in a School House 10
Bogs 11
Against Wow Words 12
Clever Boy 13
Boiled 14
Carnage 15
The Singer 16
The Green 17
Biographical Details 18
Blue Morning 19
Some More Strategies for the End of the Age 20
In Reply 21
Red Stationery 23
Moth 24
My Knees at Sixty-Two 25
Class 26
Aria on Hope 27
Acknowledgements 28