Poems and Prose

40 Days and 40 Nights. A Poem per Day to Stay Awake during Lockdown and Beyond

‘Quarantine’ comes from a French word referring to a 40-day period. Governments have issued a kind of quarantine, namely isolation of infected and uninfected citizens.

I have selected a range of 40 much-loved British/Irish poems. This is a small offering to those of you who spend much of the day at home. …

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On the Issue of Mass Vaccinations. Take Heart from the Dylan Thomas poem

There are voices around who engender silence from citizens with regard to our concerns about mass vaccination.

Let us keep questioning regardless of whether we support vaccinations, reject vaccinations or have not made up our mind. …

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God Washes His Hands. A Bat Rules the World. A Poem on the Lockdown. March 2020

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WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THIS WORLD? A Poem written in 2012

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