- Publisher: Olive Senior; Distributed by Ingram Book Company
- Available in: all major online retailers or your favourite indie bookstore
- ISBN: 978-1-7774523-0-8 (paper); 978-1-7774523-1-5 (ePub)
- Published: February 12, 2021
THE SUMMER OF COVID-19
A book for the future
when we want to look back
A book to read now and
laugh and weep and keep
Generations to come will read these poems and chart the shifts we’ve been making or not making as a global community linked by a singular virus bearing multiple challenges. We’ve needed these poems, and we continue to ever more.”—FAIZAL DEEN, author of The Greatest Films
Olive Senior’s Pandemic Poems invite, seduce and require us to think and feel in new ways about the intersecting crises of this terrible year. I was moved to laughter, to weeping, and to silence by these poems. They are essential reading.”—RACHEL L. MORDECAI, author of Citizenship under Pressure: The 1970s in Jamaican Literature and Culture
In Pandemic Poems, Olive Senior captures the sense of dread that has affected us since the virus has crept into our lives. . . . Senior transforms seemingly mundane events into meditations on mortality. Pandemic Poems offers a much-needed respite from the deluge of data that surrounds us and provides moments to pause and, perhaps, find peace.”—GEOFFREY PHILP, author of Garvey’s Ghost