Congratulations Mark and Ann!
(I'm not massively fond of lockdown poetry tbh, but think Julie's point is a sound one).
I think it's very difficult to write well mid-event, too. I read
Ellen Bryant Voight's Kyrie at the start of the pandemic, on recommendation - it stopped me in my tracks, but I don't think it could have been written during the flu pandemic. It's a book of sonnets that gives a voice to individual and family stories - a testament to the individual and collective devastation of the flu.
Mid-pandemic stories might be different - and of course first-person in this case- and it'll be interesting to find out.
Sarah-Jane