Pandemic poems
Subtitle: first wave
By: Olive Senior
Publisher: Olive Senior
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 91
ISBN-13: 9781777452308
Copyright date: 2021
Subjects: Epidemics; Poetry; Canadian poetry; COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-
Description: Early in the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, Olive Senior began posting her series of Pandemic Poems on social media. The project was a way of bearing witness to the strangeness of it all and forging a reassuring connection with readers. Each poem is a riff on a word or phrase trending in the first wave of the pandemic - an A to Z of the lexicon newly coined or quickly repurposed for our historic moment. By presenting these words and phrases in sequence, Senior offers a timeline of the way events unfolded and how the language and preoccupations kept changing in response. In this accessible collection, Senior captures the zeitgeist of 2020.
Notes: Cover illustration: Fridtjof Nansen, Aurora Borealis drawing, University of Illinois Archives Exhibits.