Many people have bought a pet on-line during lockdown. This has not always worked out as they imagined. My poem ‘A Cautionary Story’ will appear on 11th August 2020 on this website: www.poetryandcovid.com
Two of my poems ‘Six Week Check’ and ‘Repeat Prescription’ were included in the NHS Anthology These are the Hands Fairacre Press that had a very successful virtual launch on 21st May 2020. Sales of the anthology have exceeded all expectations and raised thousands of £££ for NHS Charities all together. Great news!
My review of the anthology for the on-line magazine Corpus appeared on 25th May:
These are the Hands: Poems from the Heart of the NHS
And a separate review of These are the Hands for the RCGP on-line journal on 4th June: https://bjgplife.com/2020/06/04/these-the-hands-poems-from-the-heart-of-the-nhs/
Exciting project collaborating with a composer to write a song for the Leeds Lieder Festival in April 2020. Mark Bowler has turned my haiku sequence Pentaplex into a song – see below.
We discovered we have both been inspired creatively by the wonderful workings of the gut. See Mark’s song: https://soundcloud.com/mbowlercomposer/nothing-but-a-tube-a-darwinist-lullaby
Final product of Pentaplex here:
Pleasing reviews of Heart Murmur.
See: https://londongrip.co.uk/2020/02/london-grip-poetry-review-emma-storr/
http://www.inksweatandtears.co.uk/pages//?s=heart+murmur
Raceme no.8 autumn/winter 2019: Shirley Wright reviewed Heart Murmur and two of the poems from the pamphlet appear in the magazine.
And in the Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners May 2020: https://bjgp.org/content/bjgp/70/694/251.2.full.pdf
My poem Insomnia was Highly Commended in the York Poetry Prize 2020.
Emma Storr 