I will be taking Robert Hass’s The Apple Trees at Olema. And though it is not poetry my recommendation is Strands by Jean Sprackland because it is fantastic prose, a meditation on nature and ecology and living well. A completely marvellous book from start to finish.

Anthony Wilson is poet and writing tutor, and a lecturer at the Graduate School of Education, University of Exeter. His latest book, Love for Now, is the journal of his experience of diagnosis, treatment and misdiagnosis of relapse from non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.