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 private, memory and forgetting.
ANTHONY WILSON was born in Middlesex in 1964. He has held residencies for The Poetry Society and The Poetry Trust. He is co-editor of The Poetry Book for Primary Schools (Poetry Society, 1998) and he is editor of Creativity in Primary Education (Learning Matters, 2005). He lives and works in Exeter.
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 leads the way with warmth and humour and a gift for discovering real value.
Jean Sprackland
Economical, witty and observant. An habitual and natural delicacy covers the more primitive emotions that thrive beneath the Carver-like surface.
Marita Over, Ambit
Anthony Wilson’s acute and astute observations are witty, humorous and often poignant. He looks at what it means to occupy various roles as son, brother, father, husband, teacher . and the best of these poems create a finely balanced tension, tantalizing, resonant.
Catherine Smith, The Frogmore Papers
