Jennifer Compton to launch a new poetry book from Sandy Jeffs - The Poetics of a Plague: A Haiku Diary

Join us in this free online event to celebrate the release of The Poetics of a Plague. During the pandemic, Melbourne became the most locked down city in the world, restricting five million people largely to the confines of their homes for months on end. Poet and mental health advocate Sandy Jeffs was one of them. This diary, written in haiku form, takes the reader through the daily grind of lockdown, with Sandy’s humorous and sharp insights on local and national politics, as well as international events like the US election, all written from her study, aka haiku central.

As the world is in the grip of COVID madness, sanity is found in poetry.