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Tag: Lockdown

‘The Immortal Charlie Parker’ by Michèle Saint-Michel

25th January 202125th January 2021  Michèle Saint-Michel

Artist Michèle Saint-Michel fuses poetry and music with news reportage in her powerful audio piece, The Immortal Charlie Parker. In it, she recounts her experience of reconnecting with a childhood friend during the early stages of the pandemic.

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Posted in Arts, Creative Writing, Film and Media, Music, PoetryTagged: audio, audio poem, Charlie Parker, Consent, Disembodied Voices: Friendship During the Pandemic, friendship, Friendship During the Pandemic, Jazz, Lockdown, Michèle Saint Michel, Pandemic, Poetry, PTSD, Savoy Records, trauma

‘The Language of Grief’ by Alizah Hashmi

20th January 202121st January 2021  Alizah Hashmi

When her friend experienced the loss of a loved one, Alizah Hashmi was unsure how best to console her. In this personal essay, she reflects on how her friend’s loss helped her to realise that grief is unquantifiable, “infinite” and often comes without words.

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Posted in Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: Alizah Hashmi, Covid-19, Disembodied Voices, Disembodied Voices: Friendship During the Pandemic, friendship, grief, Lockdown, Lockdown Living, Pandemic

‘My friend, there are no friends’: on mourning, abandonment and reckonings

12th November 20207th January 2021  Sumaya Kassim

In the first essay of her co-edited and co-conceived series, Disembodied Voices: Friendship during COVID-19, Sumaya Kassim reflects on the breakdown of a friendship, exploring feelings of abandonment, rejection and grief that led her to self-evaluate and cultivate new intimacy and care.

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Posted in Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: abandonment, Aristotle, Aysha Abdulrazak, BLM, BLM 2020, Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Covid-19, Disembodied Voices, Disembodied Voices: Friendship During the Pandemic, friendship, Friendship During the Pandemic, I May Destroy You, Jacques Derrida, Lockdown, Lockdown Living, Pandemic, Sumaya Kassim
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