"An intensely personal reflection on an experience that’s shaped us all."
In the final poem in this intensely personal collection, entitled Post-Pandemic, are the lines, ‘Things are supposed to be normal now. / We are supposed to be normal now.’ They’re striking in their simplicity and the way they underline the abnormality of the pandemic and its continuing impact on every one of us.
Nyanda Foday’s experience of those years of lockdown and isolation was particularly hard; alone at university, separated from her family, struggling with her mental health. Her poetry captures the anguish, fear and loneliness of her situation, her struggles to keep in control.
There’s a power to the poems driven by their raw honesty; a potent emphasis on physicality in poems such as Self-Soothing and Body. The poems will affect readers too because we all went through this, and though our experiences were maybe easier, this chance to reflect, consider and process what happened is important and weighted with meaning.
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