Full Stretch
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Full Stretch: Poems 1996-2006 represents the first ten years of Anthony Wilson’s publications. Always approachable, his work inhabits the borderline territory between laughter and grief, the public and the private, memory and forgetting.
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Full Stretch: Poems 1996-2006 represents the first ten years of Anthony Wilson’s publications. Always approachable, his work inhabits the borderline territory between laughter and grief, the public and the private, memory and forgetting.
From a Saver Return
This is where it ends:
the one-hour wait at Maidenhead;
messages from three days
like two weeks’ worth.
What do we want
as we stare at the countryside?
Sunlight, strong coffee, the paper;
our talk remembered like whisky.
What I miss already
is what we left unsaid:
a barge pulling through lock gates
vanishing as we charge this tunnel.
Published: 2006
ISBN: 9781905208043
Pages: 104
“Anthony Wilson’s poems get to the heart of human relationships: our lives as individuals within families and communities, the way we are alone and together. His honest enquiries sometimes take us into dark places, but he leas the way with warmth and humour and a gift for discovering real value.”
Jean Sprackland
“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
Anthony Wilson is a poet, writing tutor and lecturer at the University of Exeter. His books of poetry are The Afterlife (Worple Press, 2019), Riddance (Worple Press, 2012), Full Stretch: Poems 1996-2006 (Worple Press, 2006), Nowhere Better Than This (Worple Press, 2002) and How Far From Here is Home? (Stride, 1996). He is also the author of a prose memoir, Love for Now (Impress Books, 2012), detailing his experience of cancer.
Anthony has held writing residencies at The Poetry Society, The Times Educational Supplement, The Poetry Trust and Tate Britain, and he works as a tutor for the Arvon Foundation. He is editor of Creativity in Primary Education (Learning Matters, 2009), and co-editor of Making Poetry Matter (Continuum, 2013), and The Poetry Book for Primary Schools (Poetry Society, 1998).
His research is in the field of writing in education. In 2010-12 he was a co-convener of the ESRC Seminar Series Poetry Matters. In 2011 he compiled Creativity, Confidence and Challenge, a research report with Bath Festivals’ The Write Team on the impact of creative writers in schools.
He can be found online at www.anthonywilsonpoetry.com
