I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but there’s been a global pandemic going on recently. Being a poet, near the start of lockdown I sat down and began to write a series of Plague Poems for Twitter - starting slowly, then ramping up where I’d wake up in them morning and the first thing I’d do was write and post the day’s plague poem (trying to get it up before 11am), and then petering out as the plague became (incredibly) just another feature of every day life.

These poems are now available as part of my collection ‘The Backwater Sermons’ - published by Canterbury Press. You can buy it HERE.

I’ve also posted the series of poems here for you, in date order:

April 7th, 2020:

April 20th, 2020:

April 25th, 2020:

April 29th, 2020:

April 30th, 2020:

May 1st, 2020:

May 2nd, 2020:

May 4th, 2020:

May 5th, 2020:

May 5th, 2020:

May 6th, 2020:

May 7th, 2020:

May 8th, 2020:

May 9th, 2020:

May 11th, 2020:

May 13th, 2020:

May 14th, 2020:

May 15th, 2020:

May 26th, 2020:

May 28th, 2020:

If you want to find these on twitter, the posts are in a thread HERE