Looking back to the first lockdown ...
Do you still remember the first lockdown? How it felt quite different to this one? Back then we were moving into spring, then summer. There were a whole lot of strange new feelings to inspire us. So much of that is encapsulated in Write Out Loud’s Beyond the Storm competition anthology, which I was re-reading just recently. I wonder if the same number of startling poems that emerged back then will...
8th January 2021
Our document of an uncertain, unsettling, painful, frightening, uplifting time
Poetry in the time of coronavirus. Many copies of Write Out Loud’s Beyond the Storm poetry competition anthology have now been mailed out - and thanks for your enthusaistic reponses to receiving them! We have already publicised the six poems that our judge Andrew McMillan picked out, which became ...
12th November 2020
