Pacific Journalism Review (Nov 2020)

REVIEW: Noted: Lockdown sanity and survival in the age of Zoom

  • Tony Clear

DOI
https://doi.org/10.24135/pjr.v26i2.1144
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 26, no. 2

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Lockdown Lawyers: A Collection of COVID-19 Poetry, edited by Emma Trevett and Jon Whitfield, QC. London, UK: Legal Action Group. 2020, 96 pages. 978-1-913648-00-8 I ACCEPTED the invitation from my son-in-law (a barrister in London) to contribute to this anthology, with an antipodean poem I had written reflecting on COVID-19 and ANZAC day 'They shall grow…'. When the anthology, commissioned as a fundraiser for a particularly vulnerable group during the pandemic, came out, I was simultaneously delighted, honoured, enlightened, angered, saddened, and then amused by the whimsy of some of the poems in the collection.

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