In the Plague Year: Poems

In the Plague Year is a book about living through the Covid-9 pandemic, when a coronavirus and its variants swept around the globe. In a remarkable suite of poems, William New reveals how, from March 2020 to March 2021, people coped with the threat. This is a book about love and death, laughter and loss, the price of isolation, and the cost of staying alive.

This pandemic was no minor unease, and this book is no workaday diary: it's a powerful record of people's lives as a new pandemic vocab...