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The Poetics of a Plague: A Haiku Diary

A$29.95

Sandy Jeffs

The 2020-2021 Covid-19 Pandemic

What was it like to live in Melbourne during the 2020-2021 lockdowns? Capturing the day-to-day struggles of lockdown, the daily news, Dan Andrews’ 11am morning press conferences, the tensions between Victorians and the rest of Australia, Trump’s chaotic America, the conspiracy theories that circulated and battling her own mental health, Sandy Jeffs takes us through the whirlwind of events in imaginative haiku poems. These became her sanity while the world spiralled into madness.

First wave fear is back.
Before an end was in sight
now there is no end.

Trying to make sense
of an unravelling world
that is downright mad.

This is not only a book about the pandemic but also about political wins and political failures. From Dan Andrews to Donald Trump. Each day brings news that creates despair or joy: the pandemic numbers and the voting numbers side by side. And as the world is in the grip of COVID madness, sanity is found in poetry.

NOVEMBER 2021 | ISBN 9781925950366 | Paperback | 191 x 235 mm | 300 pp

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Sandy Jeffs

The 2020-2021 Covid-19 Pandemic

What was it like to live in Melbourne during the 2020-2021 lockdowns? Capturing the day-to-day struggles of lockdown, the daily news, Dan Andrews’ 11am morning press conferences, the tensions between Victorians and the rest of Australia, Trump’s chaotic America, the conspiracy theories that circulated and battling her own mental health, Sandy Jeffs takes us through the whirlwind of events in imaginative haiku poems. These became her sanity while the world spiralled into madness.

First wave fear is back.
Before an end was in sight
now there is no end.

Trying to make sense
of an unravelling world
that is downright mad.

This is not only a book about the pandemic but also about political wins and political failures. From Dan Andrews to Donald Trump. Each day brings news that creates despair or joy: the pandemic numbers and the voting numbers side by side. And as the world is in the grip of COVID madness, sanity is found in poetry.

NOVEMBER 2021 | ISBN 9781925950366 | Paperback | 191 x 235 mm | 300 pp

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The Mad Poet's Tea Party
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Sandy Jeffs

The 2020-2021 Covid-19 Pandemic

What was it like to live in Melbourne during the 2020-2021 lockdowns? Capturing the day-to-day struggles of lockdown, the daily news, Dan Andrews’ 11am morning press conferences, the tensions between Victorians and the rest of Australia, Trump’s chaotic America, the conspiracy theories that circulated and battling her own mental health, Sandy Jeffs takes us through the whirlwind of events in imaginative haiku poems. These became her sanity while the world spiralled into madness.

First wave fear is back.
Before an end was in sight
now there is no end.

Trying to make sense
of an unravelling world
that is downright mad.

This is not only a book about the pandemic but also about political wins and political failures. From Dan Andrews to Donald Trump. Each day brings news that creates despair or joy: the pandemic numbers and the voting numbers side by side. And as the world is in the grip of COVID madness, sanity is found in poetry.

NOVEMBER 2021 | ISBN 9781925950366 | Paperback | 191 x 235 mm | 300 pp

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