Collected Item: “HIST30060: Lockdown Musings”
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HIST30060: Lockdown Musings
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Poem from "Above Water Anthology"
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This poem was written in May of 2020 during Melbourne's first official lockdown. This poem was written for a University assignment and was published in an anthology in September 2021. I wasn't deliberately trying to write about the pandemic in this piece, however the long days at home spent with housemates, playing board games and watching reality tv, crept into the piece. This medication on the beauty of domestic mundanity reflects how people had to adjust their perspectives on constantly being home. Unless there was a way to find joy and beauty in the everyday it would have been impossible to get through the tough, lengthy restrictions.
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#poem #Melbourne #lockdown #home #domestic #suburbia #boredom #housemates
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Poem: Thea Guiry-Stewart, Artwork: Birdy Carmen
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2021-09-29