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'The COVID-19 pandemic is the biggest story of 2020, causing severe and sudden changes that many people could never have imagined. Our Inside Voices is a collection of creative writing that looks beyond quick journalism or abstract statistics to offer deeper reflection on the cultural and social dimensions of the pandemic.
'Writers reflect on how the disease dramatically shaped our ways of living and dying: the abrupt, sometimes subtle, often challenging, changes brought to cultural, economic, and social aspects of everyday life during a global health emergency. Australians at home and abroad, stunned by a sudden shift in priorities as routine habits and occupations were fundamentally disrupted, faced so many changes that even time seemed inconstant.
'Pandemics are biological events with cultural and social implications. We hope (although, in mid-2020, we don’t yet know) that this virus will soon be managed by curative or preventative technologies, but the disease will have infected and killed millions before it is rendered harmless.
'The voices gathered here are diverse and eloquent, capturing a vivid portrait of the COVID-19 pandemic as it grows towards its initial peak. They also capture various creative ways in which Australians adapt to rapidly changing realities.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
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Epigraph:
'... it was then that fear, and with fear
serious reflection, began.'Albert Camus
La Peste (The Plague) 1947
Translation by Stuart Gilbert
Contents
- Foreword, single work poetry (p. v-vii)
- Foreword, single work poetry (p. viii-ix)
- The Lockdown (A Self-indulgent Facebook Confessional), single work essay (p. 1-7)
- Poltergeists in the Pandemic, single work poetry (p. 8-16)
- The Pandemici"Before they shut the borders, we had time to bury our mothers but", single work poetry (p. 17)
- We Are All Deaf During the Pandemic, single work essay (p. 18-22)
- Dilemma (11/4/20)i"In the media this morning", single work poetry (p. 23)
- Shades of Hope, single work short story (p. 24-30)
- Fragile, single work essay (p. 31-34)
- A Green Thought in a Green Shade, single work essay (p. 35-38)
- Covid Gardeni"I am writing a garden", single work poetry (p. 39-46)
- Button and Bobbie, single work short story (p. 47-52)
- Ha ha You Got Corona!, single work essay (p. 53-58)
- April Has Taught Me ...i"April has taught me the value of time", single work poetry (p. 59-60)
- Forgetting and Remembering During Pandemics, single work essay (p. 61-66)
- Anzac Dawn, single work short story (p. 67)
- Connected, single work essay (p. 68-71)
- Tales from Iso-Land, single work essay (p. 72-75)
- Fear Floatsi"Fear floats like gossamer strands tapping", single work poetry (p. 76-77)
- Time Wasters, single work essay (p. 78-83)