| ISBN |
9780648068785 |
| Title |
Our inside voices : reflections on COVID-19 / editors Caroline Gardam, Louise Martin-Chew, Edwina Shaw, Nathan Shepherdson. |
| Publisher and/or associated date/s |
Brisbane, Qld. : AndAlso Books & Paradigm Print Media, 2020. |
| ©2020. |
| Description |
ix, 235 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Note |
Featuring over 50 Queensland writers including: Andrea Baldwin, Nick Earls, Raymond Evans, Pat Hoffie, Angelina Hurley, Toni Risson, Murad Talukdar, Warren Ward, Samuel Wagan Watson & Jessica White. |
| Summary |
"This collection over fifty short essays, memoirs, poems, and stories is an early creative response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Writers reflect on how the disease dramatically shaped our ways of living and dying: the abrupt, sometimes subtle, often challenging changes brought to cultural, economic, and social aspects of everyday life during a global health emergency. Australians at home and abroad, stunned by a sudden shift in priorities as routine habits and occupations were fundamentally disrupted, faced so many changes that even time seemed inconstant. Pandemics are biological events with cultural and social implications. We hope (although, in mid-2020, we dont yet know) that this virus will soon be managed by curative or preventative technologies, but the disease will have infected and killed millions before it is rendered harmless. The voices gathered here are diverse and eloquent, capturing a vivid portrait of the COVID-19 pandemic as it grows towards its initial peak. They also capture various creative ways in which Australians adapt to rapidly changing realities." -- Back cover. |
| Subjects |
COVID-19 (Disease) |
| Other Authors &/or Associated Persons |
Wengert, Matthew (writer of foreword) |
| Gardam, Caroline (editor) |
| Martin-Chew, Louise (editor) |
| Shaw, Edwina (editor) |
| Shepherdson, Nathan (editor) |
| Aitchison, Benjamin (writer of foreword) |
| Call number |
2020.351 |
