These lines are to commemorate my spectacular failure to win the North Street Book Prize with my 2024 collection “After Spruce: Poems in the Manner of Tom Jenks’ ‘Spruce’ During the Time of the Coronavirus Pandemic”.
Originally published Infection House July 2020
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Masked Normality: Life in Cork One Year After COVID-19
A year after COVID-19 hit Irish shores and people were still being extra careful, even wearing masks outside where there was little risk of infection.
Better to be safe than sorry.
Here we are in 2026, and people are still denying that COVID-19 was a problem, while there’s a screenshot going around of a tweet by an “MD” who predicted that everyone who got the vaccine would be dead by the end of 2025. We’re still around. LOL.
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#2021 #Cork #CorkIreland #covid19 #documentaryPhotography #faceMasks #Ireland #lockdownIreland #March2021 #pandemicPhotography #SamyangAF24mmF28FE #socialDistancing #SonyA7III #StreetPhotography #urbanLifeMasked Normality: Life in Cork One Year After COVID-19
A year after COVID-19 hit Irish shores and people were still being extra careful, even wearing masks outside where there was little risk of infection. Better to be safe tha...
https://inphotos.org/2026/01/04/masked-normality-life-in-cork-one-year-after-covid-19/
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Ein Film, aus einer anderen Zeit. Ist dieser Thriller doch ein fast historisches Dokument, entstanden unter den Covid-Lockdowns und ein Zeugnis darüber, wie der Kulturbetrieb sich doch noch irgendwie am Leben festgehalten hat. Juliette Binoche und Morgan Freeman in einem klassischen Trucker-Film, der alles andere als konventionell produziert wurde. (ZDFneo, Wh)
Zum Blog: https://nexxtpress.de/mediathekperlen/juliette-binoche-morgan-freeman-paradise-highway-2021/It can be tough to figure out how exactly to create more peace in your daily life.
Read the full article: Is social distancing great or awful for your peace of mind?
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Time to get tough on people who stand too close to themselves.
Too Close?
Time to get tough on people who stand too close to themselves.
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