Here’s another international poem. The poet Sue Dymoke lives in Nottingham, UK and is an Associate Professor at Nottingham Trent University where she leads Young Poets’ Stories, a research project exploring young people’s poetry writing development. Her third full collection, What They Left Behind, was published by Shoestring Press in 2018.
Sue’s poem ‘Out of time’ counts the days of the COVID pandemic with all its surreal twists and turns.
You can also access this poem in this accessible MS Word document: Out of time by Sue Dymoke.
How this poem captures lockdown and the feeling of isolation