The year of fear: 2020 in review
The year of fear 2020 has been the year of the Great Fear. This Fear has…
Fragments from my diaries – the year in review
Throughout the year I have kept a diary in a an A5 black notebook of 200…
Viral Meltdown – Year in Review
As part of my The Kaeleidoscope of 2020: Year in Review post I have updated with…
The kaleidoscope of 2020: year in review
A tradition that I have embraced on this blog over the last few years has been…
From here to immunity: charting COVID from pandemic to endemic
2020 has proven a testing year for the culture and capacity of governments around the world….
Captain Ahab and Lockdown in Melbourne
Historians (and I am one) will search for cultural archetypes that explain the strange delusions of…
Poem: Breathless
Today I am posting another poem from The Sleep Machine. Breathless Could it be the new…
Poem: Curfew, Melbourne 2020
Curfew, Melbourne 2020 Unimaginable city, locked down in its dark tomb,Its streets masked for an uncommon…
A very modern Charge of the Light Brigade
The Crimean War of 1853 to 1856 is now a forgotten and neglected conflict of the…
Poem: the way out machine
The way out machine I enclose my breath in a maskIn the distance we keep for…