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AUSTRALIA - CANADA - CHINA - FRANCE - GERMANY - INDIA - INDONESIA - IRELAND - ITALY - THE NETHERLANDS - NIGERIA - NEW ZEALAND - SINGAPORE - SPAIN - SWITZERLAND - TRINADAD - TURKEY - UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - UKUSA - VIETNAM

 

 

UK 

DECEMBER

Dominic Bond - Sutton, Surrey UK - 14th December 2020 - Surroundings 

JANUARY

Jill Rooney - Bilston UK - 28th January 2020 - Personal Space

MARCH

Thomas Dedola - Cambridge, UK - 3rd March 2020 - Christmas in Boston

Alison Ringrose - Ponteland, Northumberland, UK - 10th March 2020 - Outbreak

Clair Chilvers - Gloucestershire, UK - 17th March 2020 - Equinox epidemic

Heidi Jukes - Maldon, Essex  UK - 20th March 2020 - Tilt 

George Hutton Hunter - Newcastle upon Tyne. UK - 22nd March 2020 - Nature’s response

Heather Walker - New Malden, Surrey, UK - 22nd March 2020 - Mother’s Day

R.G. Jodah - London, UK - 23rd March 2020 - Australia Going Viral

Sheila Lockhart - Muir of Ord, Ross-shire, Scotland - 23rd March 2020 - Fenceless

Rodney Wood -  Farnborough, Hants - 24th  March 2020 - And Sometimes The Night

Al McClimens - Sheffield, UK - 27th March 2020 - The Placebo Effect

David Olsen - Kidlington, UK - 28th March 2020 - Woman Descending Stairs

Robert Rayner  - Newcastle- upon-Tyne, UK - 28th March 2020 -  Wings and a Prayer

John Wilks - London,  UK - 28th March 2020 - I fall in love with a plague doctor

Mike B Jones - Wantage, Oxon, UK - 29th March 2020 - Staying at Home

Rose Drew - York, England - 30th March 2020 - Dichten

Julie Stevens - Cambridge, UK - 30th March 2020 - The Beast Outside

Bruce Barnes - Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK - 31st March 2020 - When each day is another

Fran Egan - London, UK - 31st March 2020 - Tues 31st March 2020

Rebecca Lawrence - Edinburgh, Scotland - 31st  March 2020 - Fear and shopping in 2020

Alwyn Marriage - Guidford, UK - 31st March 2020 - Sleeping with C19

Adrienne Silcock - Whitby, North Yorks, UK - 31st March 2020 - The Humility of Salmon

Maureen Weldon - Pantre Halkyn, N.E. Wales. - 31st March 2020 - After Hours

APRIL

David C. Byrne - Manchester, UK - 1st April 2020 - The woman in the window

Andy Eycott - South East London, UK - 1st April 2020 - Lost Days

Amy B. Moreno - Edinburgh, Scotland - 1st April 2020 - Viewers of Tomorrow

Patrick Evans - Brighton, United Kingdom - 2nd April 2020 - Virus Scrub

Alwyn Marriage - Guidford, UK - 2nd April 2020 - A whiter shade of pale

Elliott James Pettitt -Glasgow, Scotland, UK - 2nd April 2020 - Bird Song

Jim Laing - Edinburgh, Scotland - 3rd April 2020 - An unexpected present

Jeff Kemp - East Lothian, UK- 4th April 2020 - Eyam, 1665

Harriet Booth - Lancing UK - 5th April 2020 - Poem

R.G. Jodah - London UK - 5th April 2020 - Crystal Balls

Alwyn Marriage - Guidford, UK - 5th April 2020 - Two metres distance

Ash Seagrave - York, United Kingdom -  5th April 2020 - Forgotten flowers

Philip Ruthen - East Devon, UK - 5th April 2020 - Rendered from the Tsabouna’s song cycle of the year

TimTaylor - Meltham, West Yorkshire.UK -  6th April 2020 - Russian Doll

Geoffrey Heptonstall - Cambridge, UK - 7th April 2020 - The Moor of Venice

Alwyn Marriage - Guidford, UK - 8th April 2020 - Fearful symmetry

Andy Millican - Glossop, UK - 8th April 2020 -  Touch

Diana Bell - Oxford. UK - 9th April 2020 - Bird Wisdom

JC Milne - Isle of Barra, Scotland - 9th April 2020 - Winging It   

Ian Mullins - Liverpool -  9th April 2020 - The Woman Who Kisses Goodnight

Rip Bulkeley - Oxford, UK - 10th April 2020 - The Other Dead

Jill Penny - Manchester, UK  - 10th April 2020 - To Hold Our Breath

James Andrew  - Nairn, Scotland - 11th April 2020 - Social Distance

Jane Annable - London - 11th April 2020 - Planning my funeral

Carl Griffin - Swansea, Wales - 11th April 2020 - Last Gad from the Herd

Alwyn Marriage - Guidford, UK - 11th April 2020 - Isolation

Trish Harewood - Godmanchester, Cambridgeshire, UK - 12th April 2020 - Yellow Submarine

Alan Summers - Chippenham  UK - 12th April 2020 - Eleven is an Even Number

Damaris West - Ayr, Scotland - 12th April 2020 - Blooming gorse

Adrian Buckner - Allestree, Derby - 13th April 2020 - Elderly couple, walking in Allestree Park

Sue Gerrard - St. Helens - 13th April, 2020 - Where the Wildflowers Grow

Alwyn Marriage - Guidford, UK - 13th April 2020 - Weepy

Will Daunt - Ormskirk, UK -  14th April 2020  - Rusholme M14 5LQ

Anne Dunford - Wigtown, Dumfries & Galloway.UK - 14th April 2020 - Worlds About Us April 2020

Sarah McClelland - Liverpool. UK - 14th April 2020 - Safeguarding

John E Wright - Eastbourne, East Sussex, UK - 14th April 2020 Corona coriolis

Oz Hardwick - York - 15th April 2020 - Inessential

Wendy Klein - West Sussex, UK - 15th April 2020 - Bags

Alwyn Marriage - Guidford, UK - 15th April 2020 - My new friends 

Lynda Turbet - Norfolk, UK - 15th April 2020 - Cockerel 

Andrew C Brown - Dawlish, Devon, England - 16th April 2020 - Historic hindsight will illustrate

Lesley Burt - Christchurch, Dorset, UK - 16th April 2020 - Early morning walk in a plague year

Brian Docherty - St. Leonards, UK - 16th April 2020 - Roots

Alwyn Marriage - Guidford, UK - 16th April 2020 - Apetite

Hannah Stone - Leeds, UK - 16th April 2020 - Our best friends

Paul Beech - Pentre Halkyn, N.E. Wales, UK - 17th April 2020 - floral smock chalky

Peter Branson - Rode Heath, East Cheshire - 17th April 2020 - Coping with Covid 19

John D Robinson - Hastings East Sussex - 17th April 2020 - Italy: Covid 19: Story

Anthony Watts - Taunton, UK - 17th April 2020 - Talkin’ Covid-19 Blues

Adele Cordner - South Wales, UK - 18th April 2020 - 888

Andy N - Manchester, UK - 18th April 2020 - Padlocks in nothing

Heather Cook - Woking UK - 19th April 2020 - Covid Cell

Alexander Frew - Kilmarnock, Ayrshire.- 19th April 2020 - A Song of Taynish

Peter Thabit Jones - Swansea, Wales, UK - 19th May 2020 - The Girl Who Loved Fire

Robin Perry - Leicester, UK - 19th April 2020 -  Ghosts

David M. Smith - Essex, UK - 19th April 2020 - Like an anchorite

Mark Vernon Thomas - Whithorn, Scotland - 19th April 2020 Another sunny April day

Michelle A Weaver - Leeds, UK - 19th April 2020 - Still dancing

Tracy Davidson - Warwickshire, UK - 20th April 2020 - Be careful what you wish for

Martyn Halsall - Santon Bridge, Cumbria - 20th April 2020 - Canvas

Kathleen McPhilemy - Oxford, UK - 20th April, 2020 - Catching our Breath

Alwyn Marriage - Guidford, UK - 20th April 2020 - Cremation in time of lock-down

Greta Ross - Canterbury, UK - 20th April 2020 - Mask

Fiona Sinclair - Boughton, Kent UK - 20th April 2020 - Timeless

Aidan Smith - Norwich, England - 20th April 2020 - The Danse Macabre

Michael Swan - Abingdon, Oxfordshire, UK - 20 April 2020 - A philosophical poem about Plato

Gill Garrett - Wye Valley, South Wales, UK - 21st April 2020 - Potter’s Field, Hart Island

Jan Harris - Kirkby-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire - 21st April 2020 - Shielded, 21st April 2020

Derek Hughes - Kibworth Harcourt, Leicestershire, UK - 21st April 2020 - haiku sequence

Rosalie Alston - Bristol, UK - 22nd April 2020 - Living with the New Normal in Bristol

Martyn Halsall - Santon Bridge, Cumbria, UK - 22nd April 2020 - Coffee with Otters

Philip Howard - Preston, UK - 22nd April 2020.- Index Case

Jeremy Page - Lewes, East Sussex, UK - 22nd April 2020 - Interesting Times

Dorrie Pearton - London, UK - 22nd April 2020 - The Promise

Rachel Spencer - London, UK - 22nd April 2020 - Ascension

Elaine Whybro - Wrexham, North Wales UK - 22nd April 2020 - Covid Alphabet

A C Clarke - Glasgow, UK - 23rd April 2020 - Police dogs

Richard Hawtree - Oxford, UK - 23rd April 2020 - Lilac and Brimstone

Alwyn Marriage - Guidford, UK - 23rd April 2020 -  In at the Shallow End

Kofi Oduro-Amaniampong - Rochester, UK - 23rd April 2020 - Fragility of Life and Love

Jean Watkins - Reading. UK - 23rd April 2020 - April 2020

Siegfried Baber - Poulshot, UK - 24th April 2020 - Saints With Plaster Gazes

Lesley Cooke - Christchurch, UK - 24th April 2020 - Leisure in a time of Lockdown

Jack Cooper - Coventry, UK - 24th April 2020 - Gilgamesh abandons his kingdom

Carolyn Oulton - Kent, UK - 25th April 2020 - Through Windows

Peter Donnelly - York, UK - 26th April 2020 - Seven Species

Dorothy Allan - Seaton Sluice, Northumberland. UK - 27th April 2020 - Garden in April

Philip Burton - Bacup, Lancs, UK - 27th April 2020 - Noticing 

John Quicke - Patrington, Yorkshire, UK - 27th April 2020 -

Anthony Ward - Durham, England - 27th April 2020  -  Screensaver

Eithne Cullen - London, England UK - 28th April 2020 - There be dragons

Brian Docherty - St. Leonards, UK - 28th April 2020 - The Real Work

Brian Docherty - St. Leonards on Sea, UK - 28th April 2020 - Bike

Annest Gwilym - North West Wales, UK - 28th April 2020 - The Learning Tree

Doreen Hinchliffe - Blackheath, SE London - 28th April 2020 - Lockdown, April 2020

Alwyn Marriage - Guidford, UK - 28th April 2020 - One minute

Phil Wood - Wales, UK - 28th April 2020 - A dentist has time to tidy the garden

Lawrence Illsley - Abertillery, Wales UK - 29th April 2020 - The Springtime Battalion

Sheree Mack - Tyne and Wear, UK - 29th April 2020 - Below floors, the black girl dreams of flying home

Kenneth Durham Smith - London, UK - 29th April 2020 - The Random Civil Servant

Cathy Whittaker - Stratford upon Avon  UK - 29th April 2020 -Alchemy

Phil Carradice - St. Athan, UK - 30th April 2020 - Anything to Know

Wendy Constance - St Osyth, Essex, UK - 30th April 2020 - Isolation

Camilla Lambert - Walberton,West Sussex - 30th April 2020 - A grandmother prepares for lockdown

Fiona Sinclair - Boughton, Kent UK - 30th April 2020 - Other People

Susan Utting - Wokingham, Berkshire, UK - 30th April 2020 - The Thin-Skinned

MAY

Jane Annable - London -  1st May 2020 - Let there be candlelight

Jenni Wyn Hyatt - West Hallam, Derbyshire - 1st May 2020   - View from the Top 

Patrick Osada - Warfield, Berkshire, UK - 1st May 2020 - Castaway

Sheila Costello - Oxford, England, UK - 2nd May 2020 - Rainbow Thoughts

Greg Freeman - West Byfleet, Surrey, UK -  3rd May 2020 - Walking The Streets

Karen Dennison - Wivenhoe, England, UK - 4th May 2020 - Now time has stopped

Brian Kelly - Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire UK- 4th May 2020 - Lockdown daydream

Neil Leadbeater - Edinburgh, Scotland, UK - 4th May 2020 - Save the Last Dance for Me

Jenni Wyn Hyatt - West Hallam, Derbyshire, UK - 4th May 2020  - Lockdown Introversion

S J Fowler - London UK - 5th May 2020 - a scale

Derek Healy - Malvern, UK - 5th May 2020 - Plague Sonnet VI Dancing Days

John Ling - Manchester UK - 5th May 2020 - Give or take

Robert Rayner  - Newcastle- upon-Tyne, UK - 5th May 2020 -  Lockdown

Juliet Wilson - Edinburgh, UK -  5th May 2020 - Waiting for Swifts

Jenni Wyn Hyatt - West Hallam, Derbyshire - 6th May 2020  -  Lockdown Introversion

Martin  Rieser - Bristol UK - 6th May 2020 - May Zoom Poetry Cafe Writing

Diana Bell - Oxford. UK - 7th May 2020 - Full Moon Night

John Bradshaw - Guarlford, Works, UK - 7th May 2020 - I’ve Got A Bone To Pick With You...

Ruth Hanchett - Enfield Middlesex UK - 7th May 2020 - 8.0 Blonde

Helen Hill - Shotton, Flintshire, Wales - 7th May 2020 - Last Train

Sara Davis - Tonbridge, Kent UK - 8th May 2020 - Daily Exercise, April 2020

Wendy Klein - Haywards Heath, West Sussex, UK - 8 May 2020 - Strutting through

JC Milne - Isle of Barra, Scotland - 8th May 2020 - Shed  

Julie Sampson - Taunton Somerset UK - 8th May 2020 - Looking back from Lockdown on VE Day...

Tristan Moss - York - 9th May 2020 - Trespasser

Sam Smith - Bridgend, Wales, UK -  9th May 2020 - Future's Footnote

Clair Chilvers - Gloucestershire, UK - 10th May 2020 - Lockdown 2020

Kay Ritchie - Glasgow, UK - 10th May 2020 - Omen  

Gillie Robic - London, UK - 10th May 2020 - Arcadian

Myrna Gray - Canterbury, UK - 11th May 2020 - Alien March

Sheila Lockhart - Muir of Ord, Ross-shire, Scotland - 11th May 2020 - matsukaze

Andy Millican - Glossop, UK - 11th May 2020 -  Zoom  

Robin Perry - Leicester, UK - 11th May 2020 -  Inside the Labyrinth

Helen Dawson - Ponteland, UK - 12th May 2020 - Hope

Pete Pitman - Stapleford, UK - 15tth May 2020 - Poetry Prize Results 2020

Greta Ross - Canterbury, UK - 15th May 2020 - Shooting

TimTaylor - Meltham, West Yorkshire.UK -  15th May 2020 - Reproach

Andy Eycott - South East London, UK - 16th May 2020 - 8 Weeks Later

Jill Thomson - Beauly Highlands, UK - 16th May 2020 - Mourning Service 2020

Keone - London, UK - 17th May 2020 - There will be mangoes

Shiela Roe - Alderley Edge, U.K. - 17th May 2020 - Eye Bath

Julie Stuart - Southport, Merseyside, UK - 17th May 2020 - A Breath

Philip Burton - Bacup, Lancs, UK - 18th May 2020 - Writers Lock

Peter Donnelly - York, UK - 18th May 2020 - May the Seventeenth

Claire Dyer - Reading, Berkshire, UK - 18th May 2020 - The Refusal

Aidan Smith - Norwich, U.K - 18th May 2020 - Isolation

Richard Westcott - South Molton, Devon, England, UK - 18th May 2020 - Outside Sainsbury’s

Margaret Wilmot - Selmeston, East Sussex, UK - 18th May 2020 - Eight Weeks into Lockdown

Anthony Ward - Durham, England - 19th May 2020 -  Silence

Pam Job - Wivenhoe, Essex,  UK - 19th May 2020 - on repeat: Kraftwerk in concert

Audrey McIlvain - Scarborough, England - 19th May 2020 - Ephemerality

Robert Maslen - Bradford, UK - 19th May 2020 - Flatland Surgery Blues

Liz Carew - Cirencester, U.K - 20th May 2020 - The Snood

Maria North - Lincoln, UK - 20th May 2020 - Heart to hurt

Patrick B. Osada - Warfield, Berkshire. UK - 20th May 2020 - Switch

Leela Soma - Milngavie, Glasgow, Scotland, UK - 20th May 2020 - Lipstick

Anne Dunford - Wigtown, Dumfries & Galloway.UK - 21st May 2020 - Wild Garlic

Megan Ilona Harris - Belper, UK - 21st May 2020 - Passing Cloud

Katherine Gallagher - London, UK - 22nd May 2020 - Climates

Lloyd Rees - Swansea, UK- 22th May 2020 - Journal of the New Plague Year

Dorrie Johnson - Christchurch, Dorset, UK - 23rd May 2020 - This time

Helen Openshaw - Penrith, Cumbria - 23rd May 2020 - On Beacon Edge

Michael Roc Thomas - London UK - 23rd March 2020 - The Beard

Pat Sutherland - Glasgow, Scotland, UK - 26th May 2020 - Lesson

Hazel G Teare - Douglas, Isle of Man - 27th May 2020 - Germ Warfare

Marka Rifat - Stonehaven, Scotland - 28th May 2020 - Death/bed

Penny Dopson - Hertford Heath UK - 30th May 2020 - Hot House

JUNE

Martin Rieser - Redland, Bristol, UK - 1st June 2020 - Open

Trish Harewood - Godmanchester, Cambridgeshire, UK - 2nd June 2020 - Going

Michael Hutchinson - Pamber Heath, Hampshire, UK - 2nd June 2020 - Locked Down

Cara L McKee - Largs, Scotland - 2nd June 2020 - The Heron

Maxine Rose Munro - Glasgow, Scotland - 2nd June 2020 - It was

Claire Booker- Brighton, UK - 3rd June 2020 - The Chair

Konstandinos Mahoney - London, UK - 4th June 2020 - Wilding

Phil Wood - Caerphilly, Wales, UK - 4th June 2020 - Casual Labour

David Underdown - Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire UK - 5 June 2020 - This house

Julia Camden - Redhill, UK - 6th June 2020 - A Death Registrar in the time of Covid

Cathy Wilson - Bristol, UK - 6th June 2020 - How would you describe your dry cough?

Rip Bulkeley - Oxford, UK - 9th June 2020 - George Floyd's Future

Stephen Beattie - Burscough, Lancs. UK. - 12th June 2020 - Schools Out

John Lepine - Stockport, UK - 15th June 2020 - Reflection a word, my reflections a stanza or two

Diana Hills - Crowborough East Sussex UK - 16th June 2020 - Thoughts on lock down

Merv Read  - Swansea UK - 17th June, 2020 - A Lyrical-Lockdown Lament

Stephen Fowle - Sandown, the Isle of Wight, UK - 17th June 2020 - The Sparrow

Joan Byrne - London UK - 18th  June 2020 - Noli me tangere

John F Keane - Stockport, United Kingdom - 18th June 2020 - The Sleeping Exhibition

Imogen Forster - Edinburgh, Scotland - 19 June 2020 - (Lock)downtime

Diane Jackman - Tivetshall St. Margaret, Norfolk, UK - 23rd June 2020 - String Quartet

Alanna McIntyre -Saltdean Brighton England - 26th June.2020 - Positive side of lockdown

Marina Sánchez - London UK - 27th June 2020 - A Garden Catalogue of Loss Since Lockdown

Ed Limb - Kings Cross, London - 28th June 2020 - The Window Box

Joan Ellis - Romford, UK - 30th June 2020 - The Day Trip

JULY

Alison Allen - Reigate, UK - 1st July 2020 - 2020

Philip Burton - Bacup, Lancs. UK - 1st July 2020 - A  Lock on the Dying  

Stephen Fowle - Sandown on the Isle of Wight UK - 1st July 2020 - The Naughty Step

Jill Warrener - Bath, UK - 1st July 2020 - Lament

JC Milne - Isle of Barra, Scotland - 13th July 2020 - Lignite

Liz Carew - Cirencester, U.K - 20th July 2020 - In Leicester

AUGUST

Peter W. Keeble - Harrow, London - 3rd August 2020 - Our New Way of Living

Jenni Wyn Hyatt - West Hallam, Ilkeston, Derbyshire - 15th August 2020 - Clapping for the NHS

Jan Harris - Kirkby in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire - 19th August 2020 - Before we take flowers, we eat out to help out

Phil Carradice - St Athan, Vale of Glamorgan - 26th August 2020 - Ballerina Birds

David M. Smith -  Essex, UK - 27th August 2020 - Mostly

Jan Harris - Kirkby in Ashfield, UK -  29th August 2020 - Hunstanton, after lockdown

SEPTEMBER

Maggie Rigg - Bristol UK - 1st September 2020 - Thursday at three~{}

Robert Nisbet - Haverfordwest, Wales - 6th September 2020 - Winter’s Cabin

OCTOBER

Tony Beekman - Airdrie, Scotland - 5th October 2020 - Shock of Ages

Angela Porter - Cinderford, UK - 16th October 2020 - Acer

Stephen Fowle - Isle of Wight UK - 19th October 2020 - A Different Shade Of Autumn

Barry Woods - Birkenhead, UK - 22nd October 2020 - Off The Peninsula

NOVEMBER

Jan Harris - Kirkby in Ashfield, UK -7th November 2020 - November Walk During Lockdown

David Olsen - Kidlington, UK - 9th November 2020 - Lanzarote, 2020

David Underdown - Hebden Bridge, UK - 14th November 2020 - Journal: November 2020

Peter Emery - Ruislip, UK - 18th November 2020 - Lockdown

Philip Burton - Bacup, UK - 19th November 2020 - The Journey Down to Maggy’s for Christmas

Nnorom Azuonye - London, UK - 30th November 2020 - Waiting Room

Sandy Spencer - Bridport, UK - 30th November 2021- Millennium Green

DECEMBER

Clair Chilvers - Cheltenham, UK - 4th December 2020 - A Christmas

Marion New - Oxspring, South Yorkshire - 16th December 2020 - Moonscapes 2020

Tristan Moss - York, UK -  19th December 2020 - Zoom Art

Peter Chua - Glasgow, Scotland, UK-  24th Dec 2020 - Brussel sprouts  

Geoffrey Winch - Felpham, UK - 23rd December 2020 - Exploded View

Catherine Pierre - Nottingham, UK - 29th December 2020 - Ode to Methuselah

 

AUSTRALIA

APRIL

Bill Cotter - Bairnsdale, Victoria, Australia - 22nd April 2020 - An Almost Ordinary Saturday Morning

Jeffrey Harpeng - Brisbane, Australia - 27th April 2020 - In the Time of the Virus

MAY

Michele Fermanis-Winward - Blackheath, NSW, Australia - 17th May 2020 - From Convict to Covid

Bill Cotter - Bairnsdale, Victoria, Australia - 19th May 2020 - Silence

JUNE

Mark Govier - Adelaide, South Australia - 17th June 2020 - You stupid Virus!

Mark Govier - Adelaide, South Australia - 17th June 2020 - Gone all gone!


CANADA


MARCH
Pat Connors - Toronto, ON - 26th March 2020 - Hemispheres

APRIL

David C. Brydges - Cobalt Ontario Canada - 10th April 2020 - We Are All Connected

Anna Yin - Mississauga, Ontario, Canada - 20th April 2020 - Serenity

MAY
Chad Norman - Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada -  25th May 2020 - A Friend Request for Philippe Petit

JUNE

Tamara Best  Madoc ON, Canada  - 20th June 2020 - Broke/n 

CHINA

FEBRUARY

Gary Bradshaw - Beijing, China - 20th Feb 2020 - Virus at the Door

FRANCE

MARCH

John Sannaee - Laurens, France - 29th March 2020 - Wipe-clean Life 

APRIL

Catherine Sloane - St Cezaire sur Siagne, France - 10th April 2020 - A day in the life of Coronavirus

James Bell - Brittany, France - 11th April 2020 - body and sole

John Sannaee  - Laurens France - 15th May 2020 - Dizzy in Sepia Tones

Patrick Williamson - Paris, France - 28th April 2020 -  Before the clapping starts

MAY

Gordon Simms - St. André-sur-Sčvre, France - 2nd May 2020 - Not Done Today

James Bell - Brittany, France - 15th May 2020 - season of the mask

AUGUST

Zoe Karathanasi - Paris, France - 2nd August 2020 - To My Hometown in Lockdown

Anthony Kirk - Villebois Lavalette, France - 15th August 2020 - Supermarket

SEPTEMBER

Anthony Kirk - Villebois Lavalette, France -11th September 2020 - Now

GERMANY

APRIL

Simon Leonard - Cologne, Germany -  2nd April 2020 - No time to wax lyrical

Eva Wal -Ruppichteroth, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany - 21st April 2020 - Unknown

MAY

Frank Joussen - Erkelenz, Germany - 24th May, 2020 - My Little Quarantine

INDIA

MAY

Sudeep Sen - New Delhi, India - 1st May 2020 - Witherstone

JUNE

Emer Davis - New Delhi, India - 24th June 2020 - Like A Dream

AUGUST

Emer Davis - New Delhi, India - 17th August 2020 - Lemongrass and Ginger Tea

Dr Alka Jain - Uttar Pradesh, India - 24th August, 2020 - A Traveller Sans Choice- The Migrant

SEPTEMBER

Pankhuri Sinha - Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India - 10th Sepetmber 2020 - September 2020

OCTOBER

Emer Davis - New Delhi, India - 3rd October 2020 - Taj Mahal

INDONESIA

Novia Rika Perwitasari - Indonesia - 27th April 2020 - Rebirth of Sun

 

IRELAND

APRIL

James Finnegan - Co Donegal Ireland - 7th April 2020 - the simple arithmetic of our lives

Lucy Campos  - Dalkey, County Dublin, Ireland - 28th April 2020 - Window

Cathy Dalton - Kilkenny, Ireland - 30th April 2020 - Measure for Measure

MAY

David P Carroll - County Wicklow, Ireland - 7th May 2020 - Coronavirus Poem

Fiona H - Galway, Ireland - 18th May 2020 -  Lost rainbow

Helen Pinoff - Rossinver, Ireland - 31st May 2020 - Leitrim Priapus

JUNE

Fiona H - Galway, Ireland - 3rd June 2020 -  Lives

Ann Moriarty - Dromkeen, Ireland - 10th June 2020 - Survival

Noel King - Tralee, Ireland - 14th June 2020 - Sr. Mackellatah, a Nun with Glasses

ITALY

APRIL

Gabriel Griffin - Orta San Giulio, Italy - 3rd April 2020 - Lockdown

Paola Tavoletti - Rome, Italy -  21st April 2020 - Our days cracked down

JULY

Michela Zanarella -  Rome, Italy - 20th July 2020 - Celestial infinity

FEBRUARY

Ermanno Dodaro - Rome, Italy - 14th February 2021- Park and Go

THE NETHERLANDS

Fokkina McDonnell - Wassenaar, the Netherlands - 29th March 2020 - Poem

NIGERIA

APRIL

Yewande Adebowale - Lagos, Nigeria - 6th April 2020 - This too shall pass

Oluwakayode Taiwo - Sango Otta, Ogun state, Nigeria - 11th April 2020 - This Too Shall Pass

MAY

Abdulkareem Abdulkareem Oladimeji - Nigeria - 20th May 2020 - The Period of Innocence

NEW ZEALAND

APRIL

Valentina Teclici - Napier, New Zealand - 11th April 2020 - Fying Through Hoops on Fire

Rachel Gomez - Wairarapa, New Zealand - 13th April 2020 - Love In The Time of Covid

Tui Bevin - Dunedin, New Zealand -  15 April 2020 - Living Over

Emily Pattullo - Leigh, Auckland, New Zealand - 21st April 2020 - Isolation

Stephanie Lester - Christchurch, New Zealand - 22nd  April 2020 - If I break

Carolyn Langenhoven - Auckland, New Zealand - 24th April 2020 - Lockdown 2020

Susan Howard - Matakana, New Zealand - 26th April 2020 - Hiatus

Kate O'Gorman - Himatangi, New Zealand - 28th April 2020 - The New Normal

Lucas Gleeson - Hamilton, New Zealand - Written 29th April 2020 - Shattered

MAY

Laetitia Laubscher - Auckland, New Zealand - 2nd May 2020 - Deep Bone Longing

Marjory Woodfield - Christchurch, New Zealand - 5th May 2020 - During Lockdown

Heather Bauchop - Dunedin, New Zealand - 8th May 2020 - Starlings on the power line

Lincoln Jaques - Auckland, New Zealand - 11th May 2020 - The Roommate

Bryony Rogers - Otaki, New Zealand - 14th May 2020 - This Time

Hayden Hyams - Auckland, New Zealand - 15th May 2020 - Yoko Ono

Karen Denby - Gisborne New Zealand - 18 May 2020 - Through the Eyes of an Elderly Gal in Corona Times

Rachel Gomez - Wairarapa, New Zealand - 19th March 2020 - Madre, Sento Tamborini!

Jenna Gilling - Christchurch, New Zealand - 23rd May 2020 - You & I

Cerys Fletcher - Christchurch, New Zealand - 28th May 2020 - Inprecedented Time

SINGAPORE

Ruth Taaffe - Singapore - 9th May 2020 - Staying Put

Ruth Taaffe - Singapore - 25th May 2020 - Uncertain Times

SPAIN

MARCH

Roy Duffield - Barcelona, Spain - 21st March 2020 - Coronation

APRIL

Steve Mearns - Spain -  10th  April 2020 -  Empty

MAY

María Castro Domínguez - Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain - 1st of May 2020 - An Utterance

Catriona McAlister - Barcelona, Spain - 18th May 2020 - Barcelona, muted

SWITZERLAND

Lucilla Trapazzo - Zurich, Switzerland - 7th January 2021 - The Resilience of the Seed 

TRINADAD

S.M.Beckett - Trinadad -  16th January  2020 - 4am Elegies 1:1

 

TURKEY

David R Mellor - Turkey - 17th April 2020 - The Daily Count of Lives

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

Paul A. Freeman - Abu Dhabi, UAE -  28th February 2020 - The Beginning

Paul A. Freeman - Abu Dhabi, UAE - 29th March 2020 -  Covid 19

 

USA

MARCH 

Carmen Firan - Queens, New York, USA - 24th March 2020 - Meeting the Unknown

Michael Estabrook - Acton, MA , USA - 27th March 2020 - Havahart

Dan Cuddy - Towson, Maryland USA - 30th March 2020 - The Plague

APRIL

Lawrence Kessenich - Watertown, Massachusetts, USA -  5th April, 2020 - COVID-19 Death

Frank De Canio - Union City, N J. USA - 8th April 2020 - Corona’s Apocalypse

Stephen Mead -Albany, NY USA - 9th April 2020 - Release Us, Corona,  O Viral Crown of Drops

Kevin Patrick Sullivan - San Luis Obispo, Ca. USA - 10th April 2020 - Balance

Carlos Antonio Pittella - Chicago, IL, USA - 11th April 2020 - Time Triage

Ginna Wilkerson - Tampa, FL -  14th April 2020  -   The Meaning of a Drop

Michael Salcman, M.D. - Baltimore, USA - 15 April 2020 - Listening to Different Trains

Jim Gustafson - Fort Myers, Florida, USA - 18th April 2020 - No Words

Hiram Larew - Maryland, USA- 19th April 2020 - Gathered Gate

Joy Leftow - New York, NY-19th April  2020  - Covid 19, Coronavirus

William Doreski - Peterborough, USA -  20th April 2020 - Arcadia in Plague

Debbie Wiess - Boston, MA USA - 28th April 2020 - This Spring is Different, yet…

Karpagam “Jeeks” Rajagopal - Louisville  Colorado, USA - 30th April 2020 - A new world order

MAY

Meg Smith - Lowell, Mass. USA - 1st May 2020 - The Sea Veil

Polly Giantonio - Tunbridge, Vermont  USA - 7th May 2020 - Lockdown day 35

John Grey - Providence RI USA - 9th May 2020 - Straight to the Obituaries

Anya Stewart - Orlando, Florida, USA - 9th May 2020 - The Taper in Paper

Robert Epstein - El Cerrito, CA, USA - 13th May 2020 - haiku

Robert Epstein - El Cerrito, CA; USA - 17th May 2020 - haiku

Margaret Mitchell - Naples, FL, USA - 26th May 2020 - To the Slash Pines

JUNE

Steven Goldman - Location: Chicago, Illinois, USA -  2nd June 2020 - Poetry Escape

AUGUST

Christopher T. George - Newark, Delaware, USA - 2nd August 2020 - Revisiting Hilbre in My Mind

SEPTEMBER

Carmen Firan - Queens, New York, USA - 11th September 2020 - When this time is over

OCTOBER

Franchesa Kirkpatrick -Nashville, Tennessee, USA - 15th October 2020 - Global Fears Last For Years

FEBRUARY

Paul Michel - Shoreline, WA, USA -16th February 2021 - We Watch Walking Backward Lady in the Snow

VIETNAM

Aaron Lembo - Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam - 1st February 2020 - View From A Hospital Bed, Zhangjiagang