Abstract
This is a sequence of 19 experimental odes, offering a documentation of 2020 through multi-perspectival, disjunctive 'public voice' poems. The sequence explores the experience of lockdown through the evocation of a series of enclosed spaces - a bunker, a submarine, a space-station, a colony on Mars - suggesting parallels between these and our daily domestic spaces, while also registering the necessarily mediated experiences produced by lockdown and the corresponding reliance on technologies of video-conferencing, emails, social media. The book is accompanied by a CD, which includes a reading of the entire sequence punctuated by Joanna Levy's ;Suite 1 for Solo Cello'.
| Original language | English |
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| Place of Publication | St Leonard's-on-Sea |
| Publisher | Artery Editions |
| Number of pages | 124 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-1-871671070 |
| Publication status | Published - 6 Dec 2021 |
Keywords
- COVID-19
- public voice
- poetry sequence
- ode
- Mars exploration
- bunkers
- supermarkets
- nightclubs
- low-paid workers
- lockdown
- culture industry
- public health
- government policy
- Brexit
- social media
- mediation
- visual arts
