Windows on the world: pandemic poems by Simon Armitage, Hollie McNish, Kae Tempest and more
I’m watching all this through Simon Armitage I was just about the busiest I’d ever been when lockdown arrived, so it was a huge change, and some of that’s been quite good for me. I’ve slowed down, I’ve caught up with a lot of deadlines. But from a creative point of view, everything has just become a little bit overfamiliar. I’ve written three poems about my Velux window. And there’s probably more to come. Photograph: Sarah Lee/The Guardian “The Sky Stretched Thin” is typical of the kind of poem that I’ve been writing. It starts with a look out of the w...
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