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Video: Seren Stay-at-Home Series

A reading I gave from Way More Than Luck as part of the Seren Stay-at-Home Series, May 2020. Features a few readings of the 'Poems for the Lockdown' I shared during March and April, plus newer work from a forthcoming second collection.

Republic of Yorkshire: a review of For Real

"The epigram from Shadowlands (‘Why love if losing hurts so much?’) and the overtly love-themed poems (‘The Beach’, ‘Rooms’, and ‘Bearing’) aside, it is the direct mode of address, to a ‘you’, that's insistently sought throughout Wilkinson’s work that convinces me ... 'Rooms' represents the B-side of a set of voices that are the traction and torque behind such enviable poems as ‘ The Catch ’. In that poem, which functions as the hook for the book, direct address accelerates the reader through the full-rhymes of a sonnet without you even realising it’s a bloody sonnet at all ... Wilkinson clearly loves to play too, and he's particularly good at the dead-pan, the I'm-writing-a-poem-but-I'm-not-look. It is his dedication to the in-fiction world of poetry, his playing along, that ensures no book of his will disappoint in terms of its reread value." The rest of the review can be read here .

"Don't let it tie you down to the house..." - Kim Moore's Sunday Poem Choice

Kim Moore has shared a poem of mine on her writing blog as the Sunday Poem.  The poem, ' Hound ', which addresses the black dog of depression with - I hope - conviction and defiance, is included in my new pamphlet, For Real . You can read it here , and order the pamphlet from this website, at the link on the right.