covid

Our postdoctoral researcher James Morland writes the second guest post on ‘Solitude in the Time of COVID-19′, focused on poetry as a means of facing solitude and a collective loss…

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…

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’….

Solitude has long been perceived as perilous to mind and body. We explore this history and its relationship to present-day concerns about the health risks of social isolation and…

…the body. Their conversation, filmed during the second COVID-19 lockdown in England, covers emotional mirroring, empathy, and neurodivergent loneliness, and is followed by Akshi’s suggestions for further reading and listening….

…from her Forward-prize nominated collection ‘My Darling From the Lions’. This conversation was filmed during the second COVID-19 lockdown in England and is followed by Akshi’s reflections on Rachel’s poetry….

During the UK’s first period of lockdown, our project began to form an archive of written testimonies about how the pandemic has affected people’s experiences of solitude. We put out…

When we were locked down in the early months of the pandemic, my dancing—a refuge from the daily grind and a welcome distraction from my research—was taken away from me….

The intense silence seemed to slow down one’s far too quick mental time and give one’s soul a chance. To my surprise a regime of daily communion and four services…