Our recent project colloquium on the theme of voluntary solitude serves as a prompt for this post from psychoanalyst Josh Cohen, who muses on imagination and daydreaming in the poetry of Emily Dickinson.

In the newest guest post on this blog, Jane Shaw muses on experiences - past and present - of community forming and being alone together as part of religious retreats.

Fay Bound Alberti discusses facial difference, loneliness and the challenges raised by the pandemic in the latest post for our series on 'Solitude in the Time of COVID-19'.

This week our blog series on 'Solitude in the Time of COVID-19' features conversations with two undocumented women living through the pandemic in the UK.

The latest post in our series on 'Solitude in the Time of COVID-19' comes from our postdoctoral researcher Charlie Williams, who reflects on his own experiences of solitude and sociality during lockdown.

Gabriel Lawson writes about prisoners-of-war dealing with isolation and its absence in the next post for our series on 'Solitude in the Time of COVID-19'.

The novelist and professor of creative writing Patrick Flanery muses on isolation, pandemics and William Maxwell for the latest post in our series on 'Solitude in the Time of COVID-19'.

The newest post in our series on 'Solitude in the Time of COVID-19' comes from our official project cat Benji Franklin, who offers some meditations on solitude and lockdown from a feline perspective.

Nick Jones offers some escapism with a video essay on science fiction solitude for our blog series on 'Solitude in the Time of COVID-19'.

We look to the past for the latest post in our series on 'Solitude in the Time of COVID-19', with Naomi Pullin offering some insights into how people remained sociable when physical distant from one another.