Anthony Wilson

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 new pamphlet of poems, Plymbridge, has just been published by Worple Press.

Anthony’s 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.