Coronavirus Times – by Susan Sciama

Spring PandemicTrapped in this global lockdownI rememberhow poems could fermentmost freelyfrom the shock and joyof being somewhere new.Senses excited in a foreign lightIndia, Morocco, Spain –burned colour into thought.Now, while […]

Living in Lockdown – by Nikki Haydon

After forty-five obsessively structured years in secondary education I approached retirement three years ago with trepidation. Determined to keep active, I became a Beanstalk reading volunteer, helped at the Oldfield […]

Wedding – by Marion Baraitser

Aged three, Vee first encountered lockdown when she crawled into an abandoned lengthy concrete pipe and emerged out of the other end, smiling. After thirty-two years of unmarried bliss and […]