Thank you for the opportunity to talk about This Is Lockdown on your blog, Sharon.This Is Lockdown is a compilation/anthology of twenty-nine authors, bloggers and creatives from the UK, US, Australia, Zimbabwe and Italy.
How did it come about?
I’d started writing my COVID diaries and asked fellow authors to answer this question:
How do writers, creatives, artists and bookish souls cope with isolation? Is their capacity to cope different from the rest of the population? It’s an interesting question and one that fascinates me.
I featured many authors on my blog, and these ‘isolation writers,’ contributed their pieces to the anthology.
So, encouraged by this, I kept on writing short stories, flash fiction and poetry. I compiled these pieces of writing and photographs from my walks in This Is Lockdown and included the ‘isolation writers’ and several other pieces and poetry from authors and bloggers.
Here’s one of the excerpts:
It’s a poem from author Adele Marie Park:
World End
Rain falls on parched empty streets,
A child’s face framed by a window, eyes watch,No school today no chance of play either,A frown creases an unlined brow,Not understanding, but sensing echoes of adult fear,Something is very wrong in this new world,The grown ups cry and they shout,She turns away from the grey wet streets,And wishes and wishes for the old world again.
© Adele Marie Park
