Plymbridge
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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.
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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.
Moth
My first of the season,
its legs, tiny head and wings
in permanent suspension
above an exposition
of the Enlightenment.
I wasn’t really thinking,
I just snapped shut
at the right moment
and now have it forever
skipping for sheer joy
ISBN: 978-1-905208-56-2
Pages: 30
“I have the sense that Anthony Wilson takes on the mantle of ‘fool’ in these poems – not as trickster but in his readiness to speak in
disarmingly simple language and allow himself to be candid to the point of sounding childlike.” – Annie Fisher, The Friday Poem
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.
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