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Tag: Lockdown

Emanance by Ramya Jegatheesan

28th March 202228th March 2022  Ramya Jegatheesan

A young woman slowly unravels during lockdown when compulsively chronicling her own body’s deterioration in Ramya Jegatheesan’s stunning short story, ‘Emanance’.

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Posted in Creative Writing, FictionTagged: Bodies, eating disorders, Fiction, Lockdown, My Body's Bodies Editorial, obsessive compulsive disorder, Pandemic, Ramya Jegatheesan, short fiction

The Café and the Writer by Naima Rashid

15th February 202215th February 2022  Naima Rashid

Naima Rashid reflects on the pleasure and importance of the café space to her writing practise – a room of one’s own away from the demands of home and hearth.

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Posted in Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: café, Lockdown, lockdown writing, Motherhood, Naima Rashid, Pandemic, women writers, writers, writing, Writing Life

The Second Woman by Louise Mey, translated by Louise Rogers Lalaurie

17th January 202217th January 2022  Suzannah Ball

In Louise Mey’s beautifully written psychological thriller, The Second Woman, a grieving ‘crying’ man is not what he seems – and neither is the story of his missing wife.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: #MeToo, Books, Books of 2021, domestic abuse, gender-based violence, Lockdown, Louise Mey, Louise Rogers Lalaurie, Novel, psychological thriller, Pushkin Press, The Second Woman

‘Anchor Ourselves’ by Anna McKelvie

27th April 202128th April 2021  Anna McKelvie

In her poem, actor and poet Anna McKelvie cleverly employs the metaphor of a boat at sea to express the difficulties, uncertainty and camaraderie experienced during the pandemic. Here, friendship triumphs over troubled waters.

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Posted in Creative Writing, PoetryTagged: Corona Pandemic, Disembodied Voices, Disembodied Voices: Friendship During the Pandemic, friendship, Friendship During the Pandemic, Lockdown, Lockdown Living, Pandemic

Disagreements in lockdown by Shamini Sriskandarajah

29th March 202129th March 2021  Shamini Sriskandarajah

In this compelling personal essay, Shamini Sriskandarajah recounts a year of trying to connect with friends over text, email, phone and post; of having to explain racism to one white friend and denounce violent sexism to another.

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Posted in Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: Asian women, Black Lives Matter, BLM, Corona Virus, Disembodied Voices, Disembodied Voices: Friendship During the Pandemic, friendship, Friendship During the Pandemic, Lockdown, Lockdown Living, Pandemic

Surreal Shorts: I’m Afraid That’s All We’ve Got Time For by Jen Calleja

22nd March 202122nd March 2021  Jade French

Following Lispector and Carrington in her pursuit of the surreal, Jen Calleja’s fantastical short story collection promises to leave a lasting impression, writes Jade French.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Clarice Lispector, Fiction, Isabel Waidner, Jen Calleja, Jess Chandler, Leonora Carrington, Lockdown, Prototype, Prototype Books, Short Stories, Surrealism

The Friends You Never Met (2020-2021) by Jess Moody

17th March 2021  Jess Moody

Sharp, witty and poignant, Jess Moody’s short fiction imagines the encounters and relationships that could have been enjoyed and nurtured were it not for lockdown.

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Posted in Creative Writing, Flash FictionTagged: Disembodied Voices, Disembodied Voices: Friendship During the Pandemic, Flash Fiction, friendship, Friendship During the Pandemic, Jess Moody, Lockdown, Lockdown Living

‘We Might Be The Next Toni & Angela’ by Janyce Denise Glasper

11th March 202111th March 2021  Janyce Denise Glasper

In this heartfelt personal essay, artist Janyce Denise Glasper recalls the years of solid friendship she’s shared and enjoyed with writer Asia Aneka Anderson, the Angela Davis to her Toni Morrison.

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Posted in Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: Angela Davis, Artist, Disembodied Voices, Disembodied Voices: Friendship During the Pandemic, friendship, Gail Jones, Lockdown, Lockdown Living, Pandemic, Toni Cade Bambera, Toni Morrison, writing

It All Comes Down at the Barbican

10th March 202110th March 2021  Rochelle Roberts

Bringing together thirteen emerging artists between the ages of 16-25, the Barbican’s latest exhibition, It All Comes Down, explores how young people navigate the world and approach their artistic practise during the pandemic.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Annie Lee, Arabella Turner, art, Barbican, Barbican Centre, Becca Lynes, Dada, Defne Ozdenoren, Film, Jordan Robertson, Lay Stevens, Lockdown, Molly Morphew, Photography, Rebecca Cromwell, Rochelle Roberts, Safiye Grey, Sam Ahern, Sneha Alexander, Surrealism, Vangelis Trichias, Young Visual Arts Group

‘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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